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 Survey: What Advertisers Really Think About Facebook (AdAge)
AdAge conducted a survey to find out what 1,200 advertisers really think about Facebook, and it turns out that they are more bullish than in years past.
Approximately 74% of respondents said their Facebook budgets now include paid media on the platform. That is an increase from 62% in January 2012 and 54% in June 2012. What's more, RBC's Mark Mahaney said that "marketers also observe that their ROI on Facebook has improved over the last six months, which may be a sign that the increase in advertising stability is sustainable." Mahaney is referring to Facebook's second quarter, in which it posted all-time high advertising revenue. Read > Twitter Helps Heavy Users Manage Their Feeds More Efficiently (TheNextWeb)
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- Twitter has also built a reputation as the go-to platform for TV-linked social media campaigns.
- MoPub has everything Twitter needed to complement and rev up its mobile ad business: the right talent, connections with demand-side players in mobile advertising, and the automated ad trading technology that will allow Twitter to become a force in two key areas, cross-device retargeting and real-time bidding.
- Twitter's pre-MoPub ad business, centered around promoted tweets and other native in-stream advertising, is also healthy.
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