Soon ads are coming on Facebook Messenger’s screen

The social media giant, Facebook has announced that it is expanding the beta test of Messenger ads globally, after initial testing in Australia and Thailand.

It seems like we may start seeing advertisements on Facebook Messenger soon.

Facebook has announced that it’s expanding the beta test of Messenger ads globally after initially testing it in Australia and Thailand. The company says that over 1.2 billion people use Messenger every month, which gives marketers the chance to expand the reach of their campaigns. “People will see Messenger ads in the home tab of their Messenger mobile app. When they tap on an ad, they will be sent to the destination chosen during ad creation. This can be your website or a Messenger conversation,” the company states in its page. Advertisers will be able to add Messenger to campaigns using the traffic and conversion objectives, with additional options like App Installs objective coming soon.

Back in January, it was reported that Facebook was testing a new mid-roll ad format. This would give video publishers the chance to insert advertisements into their videos after 20 seconds of playback. It was reported that these ads would only appear in videos that run for at least 90 seconds. It was also said that Facebook would sell these advertisements and share the revenue with publishers by giving them 55 percent of all sales.

Facebook also uses WhatsApp to influence the ads people see on Facebook. However, WhatsApp claims that it doesn’t share users' contact data with its parent company, but rather codes. On its end, Facebook is able to to help merchants understand how people interacted with the advertisement, without them knowing any details about the users.

Ads on Facebook messenger are definitely going to hamper the user experience of the service.