Social media network giant Facebook is now further monetizing Facebook Messenger.
In a post on the company’s Messenger blog site, Facebook announced the global beta expansion of Messenger ads. The post read:
“Messenger is dedicated to building new and creative ways to help businesses and developers connect with the more than 1.2 billion people around the world who use the platform every month. Today we’re pleased to announce the global beta expansion of Messenger ads.”
Facebook further added that Messenger ads would offer developers and businesses a way to use Facebook targeting to reach more people on a global scale.
The Messenger ad suite will include Messenger ads, Click to Messengers ads, and Sponsored Messages.
Messenger ads will be located on the Home tab of Messenger. Once clicked, the ad will automatically redirect the person to a destination which can either be a website or a Messenger conversation.
Click to Messenger ads will have a more personalized touch by driving people to a conversation after interacting with a Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger ad. On the other hand, Sponsored Messages will enable businesses to re-engage with people who have started a conversation with them.
Facebook stated that small percentage of users would start seeing ads in their Messenger Home tabs towards the end of this month. The coverage of the testing will gradually increase in the months to come and as the company builds their ads inventory.
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Click to Message ads were first seen as early as 2015 while Facebook started testing Sponsored Messages ads back in April 2016. According to Tech Crunch, Facebook began testing the Messenger ads integration in January of this year. Back then, the social media platform announced that it would launch a ‘very small test’ in Australia and Thailand.
From its initial horizontal scrolling design in January, Facebook changed the Messenger ads design to a single display design.
In another statement to Tech Crunch, Facebook stated that where the Facebook Messenger ads appear in the inbox will depend on how many threads a user has, the size of their phone’s physical screen and the pixel density of the display.
Below is a video that will give you a glimpse of how Messenger ads will work upon roll out.
While some are seeing this move from Facebook as obtrusive, ads experts like Dennis Yu, CTO of BlitzMetrics, sees this as an opportunity for Facebook to utilize its M artificial intelligence and assist people in making quick purchases through the messaging app. Yu said:
“Expect Facebook to roll these out slowly, as they normally do, but integrate payments and M, which is what makes the Messenger platform special. This is where Facebook and Amazon compete to enable frictionless commerce, so hold onto your horses for a wild ride!”
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