Facebook: 1M Active Advertisers Over Past 28 Days

Facebook Director of Small Business Dan Levy announced a milestone of sorts during a small business roundtable in New York: 1 million advertisers have been active on the social network in the past 28 days.

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Michael Kors Digital Campaign Taps Instagram, Twitter

Luxury accessories designer Michael Kors launched its “What’s in Your Kors” digital-media campaign Tuesday, focusing its efforts on Facebook-owned photo-sharing network Instagram, as well as Twitter.

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REPORT: Launch Of Facebook Video Ads Delayed

The video ads Facebook originally planned to launch this month or in July are now on hold until at least mid-October, Ad Age reported, with sources telling the magazine more development is needed on new features the social network plains to release simultaneously with its video ads.

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Facebook Execs On Cannes Panel: Advertisers Have Much Work To Do

Facebook Head of Global Creative Solutions Mark D’Arcy and Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth both stressed that advertisers on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet have a lot of work to do during a panel Tuesday at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, “Cannes Seminar: Creativity at Scale.”

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Would You Trade Your Location Information For Free Wi-Fi From Facebook?

Would you trade information on your location in exchange for free Wi-Fi access? Facebook is betting that the answer is yes.

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Amazon Friends & Family Gifting Adds Ability To Send Group Birthday Gift Cards To Facebook Friends

Internet commerce giant Amazon integrated its Friends & Family Gifting feature with Facebook last December, and it added a new twist Tuesday in the ability to create and send group gift cards to Facebook friends.

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Facebook Apps Draining Your Batteries? Try Uninstalling And Using Its Mobile Site

Reports continue to circulate that Facebook’s mobile applications are draining the batteries of users’ devices, so Kevin Purdy, who writes the Mobilize! blog for IT World, reminded readers of an old solution — using Facebook’s mobile site as an alternative to its apps.

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Developer Tom Waddington Finds Evidence Of Video In Instagram Code

Amid all of the intrigue about the new product Facebook will introduce Thursday, developer Tom Waddington has now found evidence to support both of the popular theories, following up his discovery of mentions of RSS in Facebook’s code last week, which potentially signifies some sort of news reader, with his unearthing of mentions of video in Instagram’s code, which could signal Facebook’s introduction of a video-sharing feature for its photo-sharing network.

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Seoul Man: Mark Zuckerberg Meets With South Korean President Park Geun Hye, Samsung

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Seoul Tuesday, first meeting with South Korean President Park Geun Hye, and then with executives from Samsung, according to reports.

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House Speaker John Boehner, Others In Congress Like Facebook Hashtags

Not every brand has access to Facebook hashtags yet, but one group that does — members of Congress — has taken a liking to the social network’s newest feature. Don Seymour, digital strategist for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), talked up his use of Facebook hashtags in two posts promoting an event honoring Frederick Douglass Wednesday. continued…

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Dreamstime’s Noelle Federico On How She Uses Facebook As Part Of The Hiring Process

Posts containing advice on what to do and what not to do on Facebook when looking for jobs have been abundant, but rather than relying on generalities, AllFacebook spoke with Dreamstime Chief Financial Officer Noelle Federico to get her take on exactly what she looks for.

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POLL: What ‘New Product’ Will Facebook Introduce Thursday?

Facebook will introduce a new product Thursday, but what will it be? Early speculation has focused on two completely unrelated products, both of which have been bandied about recently: a video-sharing service for Instagram, or a reader for RSS feeds.

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Open Compute Project Establishes Taiwan Chapter

The Open Compute Project, which was started by Facebook in an effort to devise more efficient methods of data storage, announced the opening of its second international chapter, in Taiwan, joining the OCP chapter in Japan.

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Facebook Revamps Page Post Link Ads

Facebook Monday announced several updates to its page post link ads, including the ability for brands to customize images, the ability to create these units directly via the social network’s self-serve ad-creation tool, and the ability to choose between right-hand-side domain ads and unpublished page post link ads (dark posts) in the News Feed.

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STUDY: News Feed Page Post Ads Deliver 26X More ROI, 20X Greater CTR Than Facebook Right-Hand-Side Ads

Page post ads in Facebook’s News Feed are becoming the ad unit of choice for marketers on the social network, mainly due to their return on investment performance, according to a study released Monday by Facebook advertising platform Nanigans.

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