Facebook Session:
– Over 150,000 pages and 85,000,000 fan connections
– you have to bring the most compelling content to where they are
– currently have over 24,000 Facebook applications over 1 million installs
– developers creating applications that can extend their brand or product experience
– News feed generates an automatic referral
Advertising and Social Media
Facebook Ads – ad units will evolve beyond "banner-like" stuff and stay true to the social graph
Accelerate activity
Precise Targeting – take info from public profiles and target specifically
What is a social ad?
– relevant apps, relevant ads
Insights & Management
look at the social environment as keyword of information to further target your audience
App examples:
iThink – use news feeds, create an ad relevant to their service and tied to some specific action you want users to take, able to receive 20% monthly growth in page views and installs but now have 30,000 daily active users, part of their success was keeping it very organic
What about driving bizness to off-site:
Example: Ben & Jerrys Free cone day etc…
Social action experiment on facebook "thumbs up & down" still trying to get a feel about its value