Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Facebook looking to cut out the middlemen...


Audience Direct is a new Facebook tool being tested to help media companies sell video advertising on their own websites, apps, and other digital properties. Marketer can log on to the system purchase ad space from specific publishers (self service). This has the potential of cutting out the middleman and streamlining the process.

Additionally, marketers can also specify which type of users they would like to reach, based on Facebook’s data. You can target specific demographics with your ads using this tool.

Video publishers, Hearst, A+E Networks and Scripps Networks Interactive; are currently trialing the system with their advertising clients, according to Facebook. The terms of these agreements are still a work in progress, but it is likely Facebook will take a piece of the action (revenue) from the transactions it helps facilitate. This has the potential to become profitable depending on how many ads it can put in your news feeds.

Facebooks advertising is evolving; it is looking to license sporting rights to feature videos separate from users’ feeds, and it is also introducing mid-roll advertising within video across its platform. The slice Facebook gets from these strategies are TBD, but it was a $10b market last year. These tools come at the same time Facebook is reconciling the questionable content ads sometimes windup beside.

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