Earlier this week Facebook formally announced that developers would soon have to select from a pre-selected advertising vendor list when running ads within their applications. While the change doesn’t go into effect immediately, Liz Gannes pointed out that the list currently excludes Google. This “glaring” omission theoretically means that developers who generate their ad revenue from Google could wind up in a difficult position in a few weeks.
Facebook however has alluded to the fact that it’s still too early to draw any conclusions, stating that “We are continuing to work with various ad providers and will add them to the list as they sign the terms.” While we don’t know what those terms entail, we’d assume it has something to do with the general Platform policy. After coming under fire for the whole Rapleaf scandal, Facebook is making sure that they have all of their policies in place and that the company has a firm grip on that activities of Platform developers.
While these changes were only expected, Facebook has been implementing many changes in recent months in an effort to crack down on any questionable practices, in addition to increasing the company’s control of money flowing through the app ecosystem. As for whether or not developers will no longer be able to run Google Ads, we’d expect Facebook to add the company to the advertiser list in the coming weeks, despite the continued tension between the two companies.
Source: All Facebook
Saturday, February 12, 2011