Facebook Leaks Documents Revealing New Premium Ad Format

Leaked documents about Facebook’s new Premium Ads, which are set to be released February 29, surfaced on tech news site GigoOm yesterday afternoon, and the company is boasting some fairly ambitious claims about the reach and impact of the new advertisement package. Peter Corbett, CEO of iStrategyLabs, posted the documents in the format in which […]

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The End of Facebook Commerce?

According to a recent Bloomberg article, GameStop, Gap Inc., J.C. Penney and Nordstrom have all closed their Facebook storefronts over the past year. This shouldn’t be a surprise. While Facebook may be the most visited website, with 845 million members, consumers go there to hang out, not shop. Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst at Forrester Research, […]

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Ad Agency BBH Moves Into Social Gaming, Seeks Developers Who Like Lollipops

Screen shot 2012-02-20 at 06.59.37Bartle Bogle Hegarty today became the latest company to make the leap into social gaming, and it is on the lookout to give seed funding to social gaming developers who want to make the jump with them.

The ad agency’s Asian division, BBH Asia Pacific, has opened a new venture, Chuck Studios, which will be run in partnership with one of its longtime clients, the confectionery giant Perfetti Van Melle — makers of Chupa Chups lollipops. Together, the two will invest in social games promoting the brand, in exchange for a share of whatever revenue is made from the content.

The first product of the venture, Chupa Chucker, made in partnership with studio Atommica, goes live today on Facebook. Future games will also run on iOS, Android, and HTML5, BBH tells us. “The only requirement is that the numbers have to check out.”

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Ad Agency BBH Moves Into Social Gaming, Seeks Developers Who Like Lollipops

Screen shot 2012-02-20 at 06.59.37Bartle Bogle Hegarty today became the latest company to make the leap into social gaming, and it is on the lookout to give seed funding to social gaming developers who want to make the jump with them.

The ad agency’s Asian division, BBH Asia Pacific, has opened a new venture, Chuck Studios, which will be run in partnership with one of its longtime clients, the confectionery giant Perfetti Van Melle — makers of Chupa Chups lollipops. Together, the two will invest in social games promoting the brand, in exchange for a share of whatever revenue is made from the content.

The first product of the venture, Chupa Chucker, made in partnership with studio Atommica, goes live today on Facebook. Future games will also run on iOS, Android, and HTML5, BBH tells us. “The only requirement is that the numbers have to check out.”

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Timelines for Pages are Coming: What the Change Means for Third-Party Platforms and the Businesses that Use Them

Since Facebook converted personal profiles to Timelines, the rumor mill has been fired up with the speculation that Pages will soon follow suit. On February 15, Facebook executives confirmed these rumors and announced in AdAge their plans to add Timeline for Pages this month.  Although no one is exactly sure what this means for brands […]

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