Facebook’s Latest Blunder and the Elephant in the Living Room
Maybe the problem is not with ad measurement, it is with the ad format itself.
The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that Facebook has been inflating a key performance metric relating to its mobile video ads.
With all the chatter about how many seconds (or milliseconds) consumers actually watch Facebook video ads, aren’t the experts missing the point? The point is: Regardless of what Facebook reports, these interruptive ad formats simply don’t work. Maybe the problem is not with ad measurement, it is with the ad format itself.
In order to perform, mobile ads must be welcomed by consumers and highly relevant.
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