Comments on: Facebook admits it doesn’t know how mobile works

By: Biztag

Biztag — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:09:56 +0000

I disagree with your post! all of it, mostly! Mobile is the future and the future is now! Advertise properly with mobile or die!

By: Biztag

Biztag — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:06:51 +0000

Good Point – You really have to look at things from a global perspective these days…

By: Biztag

Biztag — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:05:27 +0000

From Daniel -Linked Post “if they had even a little advertising from the start the precedent would be set and they could do whatever they wanted without too much backlash” Sounds simple, but I have to agree with Daniel! Strike while the iron is hot!

By: James Power

James Power — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:57:07 +0000

lol Google doesn’t understand mobile? Eric Jackson must be on crack

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:41:29 +0000

A modern gadget maybe can handle and support the mobile ads. But how about old gadget? 35% facebook users is in Asian and many people in asian is in low standard living. People will leave facebook cause everytime they try to access facebook, the ads systems make the mobile gadget hang/freeze. Can’t do nothing if the gadget freeze.

If facebook really implements this ads to mobile, then this is the wrong strategy for making money.

By: Daleks

Daleks — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:18:32 +0000

Maybe this explains why Facebook’s mobile app is so bloody awful.

By: Shawn kirby

Shawn kirby — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:36:28 +0000

Facebook should tailor its mobile platform towards location base offers. If anyone feel the same or different spill it!

By: keninca

keninca — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:05:22 +0000

At some point, mobile will stop displacing desktop and just supplement it. If people have a choice to use a big display or a phone, they will use the big display. They will use the phone only when there is no big display available. I dont’ see why the big display will vanish, unless everybody starts working in cars and trains and busses.

And while tablets may be mobile devices, they are large enough to carry the ads that generate revenue for sites like FB. They just need to optimize their apps or sites for tablets, and stop treating iPads like they are iphones.

All that being said, the biggest threat to ad revenue for google and facebook is not the growing popularity of mobile devices, but the seemingly infinite supply of places to advertise. With billions of dollars each year being invested in new dot-whatevers, there will be a lot more places to advertise. That will lower the cost of ads,although Google will be less susceptible than companies like Facebook to the price pressure those sites will bring, as Google lets you target people who are actually looking for something related to what you are selling. Almost everything else is the web equivalent of junk mail, and gets ignored.

By: Southern Sweethearts

Southern Sweethearts — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:58:34 +0000

I find it laughable that they are so concerned with the advertising aspect of their mobile applications/websites when truly, they should first be concerned about the FUNCTIONALITY of these services. I often have trouble even just loading my News Feed, and this is not the first phone I have had such trouble with Facebook on.

By: Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:19 +0000

Mobile revenues will come and they will be significant. They have to be with so many users, That’s the cherry that creates the investor upside. Savvy marketeers already know that mobile converts faster and better than online but it takes big advertisers longer to respond and shift spending but they will.