Facebook Ads – social networking business model

8 11 2007

Facebook has announced its much hyped advertising strategy. As reported by readwriteweb:

Facebook’s ad strategy has three main components:

  • Business pages – Businesses can build profile pages on Facebook that users can interact with. I’m not sure what the benefit is here over the Facebook sponsored groups that businesses have been paying large fees to have for months. 100,000 business pages supposedly launched today, though.
  • Social Ads and Beacon – Ads targeted by user profile data — everything from favorite music to relationship status, and the ability for people to publish product interactions from third-party sites to their news feed .
  • Insight – Marketing and usage metrics for advertisers about who is clicking on their ads and how to better target them.

Missed the occasion to create the new AdSense and what about the use of personal information to target ad? (well, google is already doing it ?). Nothing new in business model. What about giving back someyhing back to content generators? (I.E. users).

Social advertising? What is it exactly? Just advertising on user generated content? or there is something more?

Waiting for next generation online advertising.