Early this year, Facebook announced that it had reached over 800 million active users for its Facebook Messenger platform. Until now, Facebook hasn’t attempted to monetize this user base, but it seems ...

It looks like days of an ad-free Facebook Messenger are well and truly over. Messenger has had static ads for around a year and a half now, but now it’s experimenting with a new, more intrusive type ...

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Facebook is about to get even more annoying, with the promise of autoplaying video adverts inserted into Facebook Messenger. The commercials are the latest attempt by the social network to squeeze ad ...

Somehow, Facebook is still finding ways to make Facebook Messenger more annoying. Now, the company plans to bring autoplaying video ads to users Messenger inboxes as soon as Monday, according to a ...

Facebook has started placing autoplay video ads in its standalone Messenger app. The company first rolled out ads inside Messenger 18 months ago. Until now, Messenger has only supported static ad ...

Want to spend less for more, get engagement, and follow-up contact info? Then use Facebook click-to-Messenger ads. Learn how to create one here. There’s this one weird trick you can do to totally ...

Facebook says it will start placing video ads inside the social media giant's standalone Messaging service next week, an outgrowth of the company saying it's run out of how many ad units it can ...

The problem with becoming a massively successful company that’s publicly traded is that you have to keep growing. Facebook is running out of new places to force its ads and it’s now going to start ...

A newly published Facebook patent describes ways in which Facebook could insert targeted ads into private conversations. Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you've ever felt like ...

Facebook previously admitted that it's running out of places for ads in the News Feed, which doesn't sound good for a company making billions of dollars from them. To solve that issue, the social ...