From my Forbes.com blog The New Persuaders:
One of the biggest uncertainties about Facebook is how well its social ads work. The social network and its partners have trotted out study after study showing that people more often click on Sponsored Stories and related ads that contain a friend’s name, but advertisers and especially investors are not yet universally convinced.
Today at TechCrunch’s Crunchup conference in Silicon Valley, we got the skinny from two people who know as much about Facebook advertising as anyone: Greg Badros, Facebook’s vice president of engineering and products and the guy in charge of advertising engineering; and longtime adman Tom Bedecarre, chairman of digital agency AKQA, now a unit of ad giant WPP. Here’s what they had to say in conversation with TechCrunch’s Josh Constine.
The bottom line: Both men indicated that Facebook is just at the start of the opportunity. But the guy with the checkbook really wants more kinds of ads than Facebook currently provides–and implied that the size of those checks in the future depends on getting them. …
Read the rest of the post at The New Persuaders.
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