Nine ad types on Facebook, that is.
Used to be 29 last summer and cut down to just 15 in January.
A definitive guide by Dennis Yu on how to use these 15 ad types is here on SocialFresh.
But now that sponsored stories as standalone ad units are getting cut on April 9th, 2014, less than two months out, we are left with just 9 ad types (not counting premium ads).
Here they are:
Ad 1:
Ad 2:
Ad 3:
Ad 4:
Ad 5:
Ad 6:
Ad 7:
Ad 8:
Ad 9:
Can you see that Facebook is moving towards amplification of organic content, driven by targeting options, as opposed to placements?
This means that:
- Bid management is going away, for the PPC software vendors.
- Ad optimization techniques are going away, for the technical PPC agencies making a buck doing this.
- Analytics vendors are going away since Facebook is building robust free tools (you can’t beat free), while Google Analytics is getting better. Rock and a hard place, folks.
- Content marketers win– organic content is vital since Facebook will handle the technical details.
Readers, feel free to share in the comments below what you think is going on with the Facebook ecosystem.
Dennis Yu
Dennis Yu is co-author of the #1 best selling book on Amazon in social media, The Definitive Guide to TikTok Ads. He has spent a billion dollars on Facebook ads across his agencies and agencies he advises. Mr. Yu is the "million jobs" guy-- on a mission to create one million jobs via hands-on social media training, partnering with universities and professional organizations.
You can find him quoted in major publications and on television such as CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and LA Times. Clients have included Nike, Red Bull, the Golden State Warriors, Ashley Furniture, Quiznos-- down to local service businesses like real estate agents and dentists. He's spoken at over 750 conferences in 20 countries, having flown over 6 million miles in the last 30 years to train up young adults and business owners. He speaks for free as long as the organization believes in the job-creation mission and covers business class travel.
You can find him hiking tall mountains, eating chicken wings, and taking Kaqun oxygen baths-- likely in a city near you.