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lwb | 4 years ago

> FB revenue is going to be up in Q3, not down, would bet $10k on that.

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bquest2|4 years ago

Because they are still serving an ad in that spot, just one that costs the advertiser more as the now have to bid in a larger pool.

FB actually ends up profiting pretty well from this change (at the cost of losing some of the small business advertising that was priced out)

edmundsauto|4 years ago

Targeting larger pools should reduce per impression costs, because FB has more options for where and when to place your ad. Smaller groups have fewer opportunities, so if you want to show your ad to them specifically, you have to pay more.

smachiz|4 years ago

No, this isn't right - because FB can no longer tell you as much information about the ad they're about to display, they're going to collect less money for it.

They can't correlate that ad to an action, which means they can't make you a happy chart that says the ROI is there. So you're going to pay less for it.

This isn't going to harm small businesses no matter what FB says.

sydthrowaway|4 years ago

Instagram is AWS of FB at this point. It's a money printing machine.