{"id":184729,"date":"2017-07-12T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=184729"},"modified":"2017-07-12T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:51:26","slug":"facebook-messenger-adverts-are-going-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/184729\/facebook-messenger-adverts-are-going-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger adverts are going global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook says it plans to start rolling out Messenger ads globally over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messenger ads are going global. After promising tests in Australia and Thailand, we&#8217;re expanding the beta further. We&#8217;ll now offer businesses around the world a way to use Facebook targeting to extend their reach to people in Messenger,&#8221; the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The adverts will be shown in the main inbox tab between chat threads.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook noted that more than 1.2 billion people use Messenger every month, &#8220;which gives marketers an opportunity to expand the reach of their campaigns and drive more results,&#8221; the social network said as it looks to create more revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it will start rolling out ads slowly, with a small percentage of people around the world starting to see Messenger ads in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/184161\/facebook-twitter-eye-world-cup-clips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook, Twitter eye World Cup clips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook says it plans to start rolling out Messenger ads globally over the next few weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,45],"class_list":["post-184729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184731,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184729\/revisions\/184731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}