Facebook Messenger starts showing video ads
Facebook Messenger is one of the most popular services at the moment. Zuckerberg's company knows this and does not stop devising ways to get the most out of it. The last one is related to automatic video playback with . Thus, From now on Messenger users will see video ads within their conversations The goal is for them to be played alongside messages from family and friends without even clicking on them.
Of course, the controversy is served.There are many who begin to complain about considering this new measure as intrusive. And it is that it should not be comfortable at all to be having a conversation and that we see an advertising video calling our attention. Although Facebook has been showing ads in Messenger for more than a year, the truth is that it is static, much less annoying than now. What we will see from now on will be moving videos that will be played, even with audio,without our permission.
It must be taken into account that the social network achieves more than 90 percent of its profits through . His way of surviving and taking advantage of his services has caused him to run out of space to increase the presence of ads, so he has to think of new formulas like thisHowever, the company is aware of the inconvenience it can cause to its followers.The director of Messenger himself, Stefanos Loukakos, assured that from Facebook they will control the behavior of users to determine if these ads cause less interest in the tool.
With the surprise of this news, now all eyes are on WhatsApp. Will Facebook use a similar tactic to get more out of its flagship communication service? At the moment, they have not commented on anything and we do not know what will happen, but for some time the company has communicated its intention to get more out of this platform. The new Facebook Messenger video will gradually begin to spread to the accounts of all members of the social network. It seems, therefore, that no one will get rid of it.