As Facebook (FB) starts running out of real estate to place ads in its flagship app, it's opening up more in Messenger. The company announced plans to expand its Messenger ads globally after a ...

It looks like days of an ad-free Facebook Messenger are well and truly over. Messenger has had static ads for around a year and a half now, but now it’s experimenting with a new, more intrusive type ...

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Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

Facebook has been aggressively pushing its non-core apps to make money, a decision that caused friction between the mothership and the founders of WhatsApp and Instagram, all of whom have recently ...

Facebook is expanding its beta test of ads in Messenger worldwide after a limited run in Australia and Thailand, according to a company news post. The Messenger ads appear in users' home tab within ...

As Facebook (FB 0.89%) starts running out of real estate to place ads in its flagship app, it's opening up more in Messenger. The company announced plans to expand its Messenger ads globally after a ...

Facebook is on a slow and steady quest to make Messenger as sticky as possible on the road to achieving its mission of becoming the WeChat of the West. “We see Messenger as an app to help people run ...

Here are three words in response to the fear-mongers in the media predicting that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp will soon be crawling with unwelcome ads that disrupt users who are simply trying to ...

As Facebook is looking for more places to push its ads, Messenger is now getting autoplay video ads in private conversations. Just to be clear, Facebook had already introduced ads to Messenger early ...