Facebook Announces Messenger For Business, App Analytics, New Comment & Video Plugins

Facebook also adds display ad support to its Live Rail ad serving platform.

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Today at F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference, Facebook shared news about how Facebook Messenger can now integrate with businesses and ecommerce orders. Facebook App Analytics was announced as a free offering. A new comment plug-in that syncs comments on sites to posts on Facebook is coming. A new one-line video plug-in is out now. And the Facebook Advertising Network will support display ads. Is this Facebook AdSense?

Here are some of our breakout stories on these developments:

Below, our live blog of the event.


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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land, MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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