Microsoft Already Lost Facebook's Ad Business

While Facebook’s communications department may not be confirming the removal of Microsoft’s ads altogether, a number of people on Facebook’s ad team seem pretty convinced that they’ll be gone shortly. A Business Week article from today quoted a Microsoft employee who said that they might be “adjusting or changing” (losing) their ad inventory, however it’s pretty clear that the decision has already been made as far as we’re concerned.

People that we’ve been speaking to for weeks have been stating that Facebook’s own ad team have been telling them that banner ads will be phased out completely.