Facebook: Instant Articles
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Facebook & Instagram ads granted accreditation by the Media Rating Council
Facebook first opened itself up to audits by the Media Ratings Council in February 2017 after admitting to a series of ad measurement errors....
Facebook now displaying related stories & share info for articles as part of ongoing News Feed test
Facebook's News Feed test, launched last October, expands to give users more context around news headlines....
Facebook gives more than 50 publishers access to ‘Breaking News’ label
The site first rolled out its "Breaking News" indicator in a test run last November that included a small number of local and national...
Facebook will create a section for ‘hard news video’ within Watch
Facebook’s Instant Articles paywall will finally roll out to its iOS apps on March 1, says company’s head of news partnerships Campbell...
Facebook’s ad placement reports were supposed to roll out to all advertisers last year but have not
To address advertisers’ transparency concerns, last year Facebook said it would provide all advertisers with reports of where their ads could...
Facebook refunds advertisers for mobile video ads played out of view
Errors with Facebook’s mobile site and Instant Articles in its Android app led Facebook to play videos, including ads, while out of...
Facebook details Instant Article subscription program as test launch nears
The Economist, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are among the initial 13 publications to put their Instant Articles behind a...
Facebook will tell brands where their ads appeared, ban certain content from carrying ads
Facebook plans to provide advertisers with post-campaign placement reports and has listed nine categories of content ineligible to feature...
Facebook will stop displaying Instant Articles within Messenger
Messenger added support for Instant Articles 14 months ago, but 14 months ago, Facebook’s proprietary format had fewer...
Facebook will rank links to slow-loading pages lower in people’s news feeds
Facebook’s algorithm will estimate how long it takes a page to load from its mobile app and use that information when ranking people’s...
Facebook plans to start testing Instant Article subscriptions as soon as October
Last night, Facebook’s Campbell Brown confirmed the company’s plan to start testing paywalls for Instant Article publishers as soon as...
News media seek to wield antitrust law in negotiations with Google, Facebook
News Media Alliance wants to collectively bargain with the big platforms to secure more ad...
Facebook addresses Audience Network, mid-roll ad transparency problem with publisher lists
Facebook will provide advertisers with lists of publishers on whose sites, apps, Instant Articles and native Facebook videos their ads may...
Report: Facebook’s Instant Articles faster than AMP, both formats boost user engagement
Users spend 35 percent more time with AMP content than mobile web...
Facebook slots ads in Instant Articles’ Related Articles sections
All publishers in Facebook's ad network can now feature ads within "Related Articles" sections at the bottom of their Instant...
Facebook rolls out software tool to make AMP, Apple News pages more like Instant Articles
Facebook’s tool will automatically convert Instant Articles to Google’s AMP and Apple’s Apple News...
FAQ: Everything Facebook has admitted about its measurement errors
We've made a list because Facebook has had to check its math more than...
Facebook adds email signup & Page Like call-to-action buttons to Instant Articles
Facebook has also started testing buttons for people to sign up for a publisher’s digital subscription free trial and to install its...
Facebook will let publishers show more ads in Instant Articles
Facebook is giving more flexibility to publishers within its Instant Articles feature, allowing extra manual and automated monetization methods....
Facebook starts opening its black box to keep advertisers from avoiding Audience Network
Criticized for a lack of transparency, Facebook has started making concessions, including talks about private...
