Facebook’s Fight Against the Ad Critics | Fox Business

Facebook (FB) is gearing up for a battle against critics who say its ad platform is hardly as effective as it should be.

Days after chastising Facebook’s naysayers, digital analytics company comScore revealed on Tuesday a detailed report that shows Mark Zuckerberg’s sharing empire helps influence buying behavior much more than people think.

With Facebook, which is a client of comScore, marketers and brands that push out promotions or viral ads on fans, who then share the content with their friends, can generate real returns on investment, comScore [SCOR: 17.00, +0.06, +0.35%] said.

The report comes weeks after the Nasdaq botched Facebook’s highly-anticipated initial public offering and amid growing concerns that the social network’s ad platform is not sustainable.

Some media agencies and brands have publicly said Facebook’s strategy isn’t working and others have demanded proof of their return on investment. General Motors [GM: 21.80, -0.07, -0.32%] last month said it would pull its ads worth $10 million from the social network.

But now, Facebook, which came out of a required quiet period on Tuesday, is finally able to start defending itself.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s head of measurement and insight, Brad Smallwood, said it’s a myth Facebook advertising doesn’t work. He acknowledged advertiser concerns and said the company is in the “early days of helping advertisers” on their journey of feeling out how to score the highest ROI from Facebook.

ComScore last week promised to “shed new light on how Facebook marketing really works” and warned the social networks’ biggest critics to stop bashing the effectiveness of Facebook marketing.

via Facebook’s Fight Against the Ad Critics | Fox Business.

Strange Random Advertising Quote:

“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes…” – Philip Dusenberry

 

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