In order to soothe the hassled nerves of advertisers
who are claiming that they are not getting effective results from adverts on Facebook
Inc(NASDAQ:FB), the social networking site is ready to provide detailed data to
the brand advertisers, in order to convince them of the opposite. The site has
been saying that the “click” does not provide complete knowledge of
effectiveness of the adverts, and more detailed data would be necessary before
judgments are passed. The site said that big-brands should stop looking for
results through clicks, and they should, instead, concentrate their energies of
effective techniques of advertising.
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Facebook has been going through a particularly rough
time, what with General Motors pulling out of advertising on the site just a
few days before the Initial Public Offering of Facebook in May. She shares have
also gone down, and advertisers, which are the main source of income for the
site, are questioning the effectiveness of adverts on the site.
In order to prove their theory that less than one
percent of actual sales can be judged on the basis of clicks, which is tied to
brand advertising, Facebook is going to tie up with Datalogix to prove to the
advertisers, that just the “click” should not be the basis of judgment.
Datalogix is a firm which deals with data mining, specializing in real world
retail sales.
The findings will be presented at one of the biggest
symposiums for advertising agencies, by Brad Smallwood, in New York on Monday.
Smallwood, who is the head of measurement and insights in Facebook, said that
it is unfortunate that the click has become the be-all and end-all of the
parameter of advertising success. He added, however, that for brand
advertisers, the click was not an adequate means of judging how successful the
ad campaigns really are.
Datalogix will use the information provided by
Facebook, about its users, so that the company can co-relate that information
with actual sales, and come up with more relevant and insightful results.
However, this has raised privacy concerns, and many people have been demanding
that the site should take permission from the users before giving their
personal data to Datalogix.
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