Facebook To Sunset Sponsored Stories April 9

Facebook’s sponsored stories have seen their highs and lows, with the lowest low occurring when the ad unit became the subject of a class-action lawsuit, but sponsored stories will be history after April 9, according to a list of breaking changes to Facebook’s ads application-programming interface published on the social network’s platform roadmap.

SponsoredStoriesGraphic650Facebook’s sponsored stories have seen their highs and lows, with the lowest low occurring when the ad unit became the subject of a class-action lawsuit, but sponsored stories will be history after April 9, according to a list of breaking changes to Facebook’s ads application-programming interface published on the social network’s platform roadmap.

Facebook said of sponsored stories in its Ads API Breaking Changes post:

Facebook will sunset the creation of sponsored stories.

Page post and page like ads already automatically have the best social context (likes and comments) added.

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