Facebook Paid Status Promotion Platform Is Official - irvinhaster

Earlier this month, we heard reports that Facebook was gearing up to add a unused paid promotion feature to give your status updates or s increased visibility on users' news feeds. Now it appears that the feature film is ready for prime time.

The last time we heard about the pay-to-promote feature, it was in its testing phase, and the price for a promoted status ran between free and $2. Gorilla vs. Bear, a music blog, tweeted along Wednesday that these sponsored newborn give bumps can cost as much as $100.

Promoting a status update appears to start at $5. We have atomic number 102 official confirmation from Facebook, but it appears the starting price and estimated reach of a paid status placement varies depending on the number of "Likes" a foliate has.

If you're disturbed that your Facebook feed will become a spam– and advertisement-filled e-mail inbox, fearfulness not: These paid promotion updates will lone show up for fan pages that you already "Like." The paid updates will show at the whirligig of your newsfeed marked with a "sponsored" tag, still, to indicate that the fan page owner purchased the location.

As of right now, the Facebook Promotion system appears to atomic number 4 a reasonably harmless–if a trifle expensive–advertising scheme. Hopefully, Facebook keeps its users in brain as it expands its remunerated placement features.

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