Facebook Promotes New Deals Service In News Feed

Yesterday Facebook began promoting the company’s new deals service which is expected to compete directly with Groupon and LivingSocial.

As reported by Josh Constine, the promotion came through the news feed which states that a number of your friends have subscribed to deals and then links to the Facebook Deals landing page. It’s a pretty substantial promotion which will probably function similar to deals promotions in the future. It’s clear that the company is doing everything it can to promote the soon-to-be-released service, including promoting that the service will out email promotions, most likely on an opt-in basis.