Facebook App Links: 1B Created Thus Far, Now Available For Mobile App Ads

Facebook introduced App Links, an open, cross-platform solution for application-to-app linking, at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30, and the social network announced in a developer blog post Tuesday that more than 1 billion unique App Links have been enabled by mobile developers, adding that App Links can now be used in mobile app ads through Preferred Marketing Developers.

AppLinks1B650Facebook introduced App Links, an open, cross-platform solution for application-to-app linking, at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30, and the social network announced in a developer blog post Tuesday that more than 1 billion unique App Links have been enabled by mobile developers, adding that App Links can now be used in mobile app ads through Preferred Marketing Developers.

Facebook said in a developer blog post when App Links was introduced:

Linking is an important part of what makes the Web great, but right now it’s too hard to implement and expose deep links on mobile.

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