Facebook Puts Nine Ads On Users' Homepages

And then there were nine -- ads, that is, on one user's Facebook homepage at the same time; that's one way to offset reported slowness in ad revenue during the first quarter of this year.

And then there were nine — ads, that is, on one user’s Facebook homepage at the same time.

BlitzLocal Chief Executive Officer Dennis Yu, who brought Facebook’s addition of a sixth ad on some users’ screens in December, passed along the screen shots below.

In Yu’s screen captures, two of the first three news feed stories are ads, and duplicates at that, and they joined the seven ads on the right-hand side of the homepage.

Between the increased ad totals and the introduction of other elements including boosted page posts and rejiggered premium ads (likely to be introduced February 29), it appears that Facebook is attempting to boost its potential revenue sources from advertising prior to its upcoming initial public offering.

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