In 2017 it is expected that Facebook would come up with more
ways in which brands can reach users that they intend to target. Monetised bots
are going to be at the forefront of this revolution. Mark Zuckerberg has
recently stated in a post that till the time a product has a billion users it
has not done meaningful business.
In the same post he had also stated that
Facebook was not going to make any effort to monetise its bots till the time
the social networking site had a billion users. Facebook Messenger has recently
hit the mark. Zuckerberg has stated that Messenger would follow a process of
monetisation that is similar to that of Facebook itself.
Facebook has however not plastered the site with ads and
banners. It has instead asked brands to build pages that would have content and
thus drive interaction that would be organic in nature. After the idea is
embedded Facebook would reduce organic growth and change brands so that it can
appear in the news feed of the user. It is expected that the bots would be
popular thus being an important part of Facebook AdWords. In the initial stages
Facebook would like to make sure that a lot of brands, as well as users, adopt
these bots.
It is only after that monetisation would be introduced.
Facebook has also announced of late that it would permit various brands to buy
Newsfeed ads so that they are able to target their bots at
certain groups that are more likely to do business with them. This will all be
part of the major push of Facebook to popularise its bots among brands and
users and ensure their greater adoption.
Monetised live videos
It has been recently reported in Digiday that Facebook Live
is going to be monetised. The website also says that Facebook will place ads in
live stream. In fact, this has already started with ads being
placed in videos that are expected to be popular among users. These ads are
also going to run as display ads as well as during breaks of
the live events that are being covered by Facebook. The priorities of Facebook
are however on videos. As per its newest earnings call it has been revealed
that 500 million people normally watch 100 million hours’ worth of videos on a
daily basis. Facebook has given a big push to live videos of late and it seems
it is only a matter of time before it starts making profit from this
enterprise.
Call to action buttons for pages of local
businesses
Of late Facebook has started to use updated call to action
buttons for pages of local businesses. The basic idea here is to make sure that
customers have a better experience on the Facebook page of the concerned
establishment itself. This means that from now on you can order food from your
local takeaway just by visiting its Facebook page. Facebook is of the opinion that
this would increase the quality of user experience considering how local
businesses are known to have bad mobile pages.
By Rahul Ranjan Singh - Article Source: EzineArticles.com/9690489
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