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Facebook Mobile Advertising

January 19th, 2016

Facebook Mobile Advertising
David Bell

by David Bell

CEO at Gummicube, Inc.

The more specific advertisers can get in targeting their advertisements to audiences, the better they can deliver, test and optimize the ads and their target audience. No one provides better targeting options at scale than Facebook. With Facebook, advertisers can reach specific audiences based on where the live, their age, gender, what they read and share, what they like and about 1,000 other data points in a medium where they spend more time than watching TV. Facebook mobile advertising is big for Facebook, accounting for 74% of total Facebook revenues in 2015. Infographic: Facebook's Growth Is Entirely Fueled by Mobile Ads | Statista Advertisers can use Facebook to reach their target audience in two ways:

  • natively in the Facebook user's news feed (mobile and desktop),
  • in mobile apps using Facebook’s Audience Network

Facebook mobile market

Advertising to Facebook’s mobile app news feed provides brands a significant opportunity to reach target users where they spend the most time. Facebook's mobile app is by far the biggest single app in terms of time spent on both iOS and Android, with "mobile-only" users almost 50% of total Facebook users. facebook-mobile-app A company like Macy’s that might run Facebook ads to reach an audience in the desktop news feed can now reach the majority of Facebook users - mobile users. Advertisers who want to reach their target market outside of Facebook, but still have access to all the amazing targeting Facebook provides can use the Audience Network. With the Audience Network, a click of a button in a campaign allows Macy's to reach hundreds of millions of users in other mobile apps.

Facebook mobile advertising strategy

The Audience Network is Facebook's mobile ad network - helping app publishers monetize their apps with native, banner and video ads while providing existing Facebook advertisers much greater reach. This is great news for app publishers selling ad inventory as the value of their inventory increases with new and more mobile advertisers. App publishers driving installs through CPI campaigns are seeing costs per install increase as they compete with non-mobile brands for mobile ad inventory. The Audience Network was introduced October, 2014.

Fisku-CPI-Index-Nov-2015(https://www.fiksu.com/resources/fiksu-indexes)

Instead of a casino app serving ads for Candy Crush and other games relevant to the app, an ad space could be used by Facebook to serve an ad relevant to the user of the Casino app - which could be shoes at Macy's or a course on Udemy. Facebook's Audience Network moves mobile advertising from targeting relevant apps to targeting relevant users whichever app they are using.

Ads on mobile phones

The ad formats for Facebook mobile advertising are banner, interstitial and native. Facebook-mobile-ads For more, check out Facebook's case studies of both mobile publishers and advertisers.

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