Facebook Marketing: Getting Outside Of The Click Mentality

Up until now, online marketing has been intensely focused on the click. The main goal for ad companies is to get people click on ads, hoping that they can convert that into sales. Brad Smallwood, Facebook's head of measurement and insights, spoke Monday at the IAB MIXX conference, sharing the company's findings from a partnership with Datalogix in an effort to help marketers achieve success through the social network.

Up until now, online marketing has been intensely focused on the click. The main goal for ad companies is to get people click on ads, hoping that they can convert that into sales. Brad Smallwood, Facebook’s head of measurement and insights, spoke Monday at the IAB MIXX conference, sharing the company’s findings from a partnership with Datalogix in an effort to help marketers achieve success through the social network.

Facebook teamed up with Datalogix, a company with a wealth of purchasing data, to find out if people are actually making purchases based on ads on the site.

Smallwood presented the results of the partnership, where the companies studied more than 50 digital campaigns.

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