Facebook Adds Page Ad Widget To News Feed

Through the Pages Manager application and other tools, Facebook page managers have myriad ways to track the performance of their posts and ads. Social media expert Jon Loomer found another one Tuesday: A widget on the top of the news feed, showing how many advertisements and campaigns are active, and how many new page likes have come through in the past day or week.

Through the Pages Manager application and other tools, Facebook page managers have myriad ways to track the performance of their posts and ads. Social media expert Jon Loomer found another one Tuesday: A widget on the top of the news feed, showing how many advertisements and campaigns are active, and how many new page likes have come through in the past day or week.

Loomer discovered a news feed widget, located in the top-right corner above the life events notification area, which showed how many ads and campaigns his pages currently have out right now, as well as how many page likes have been generated in the past day or week.

Loomer described this new feature on his website:

It’s a very simple widget.

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