{"id":102088,"date":"2018-06-21T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=102088"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:23:57","slug":"autoplay-video-ads-facebook-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/autoplay-video-ads-facebook-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out! Autoplay video ads are coming to private conversations on Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t too long ago that Facebook videos started blasting out autoplay ads<\/a>. Now it seems Facebook wants to take that ridiculously annoying reality and crowbar it into your personal conversations on Messenger too. Messenger is the third most popular messaging service in the U.S., so it represents a massive potential future revenue stream for Facebook.<\/p>\n

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Autoplay video ads will now invade your private conversations on Messenger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Messenger is a much cleaner experience than Facebook, users\u2019 private messages have seen ads for over a year. Now, according to a report by Recode<\/a>, autoplay videos have started popping up in people\u2019s private conversations. Seemingly, they started rolling out on Monday.
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Recode reports, Facebook is aware of the new ads and is actively monitoring user response. There is a good chance that autoplay videos could be seen as too annoying if you\u2019re simply trying to have a conversation with a friend or loved one; obnoxious even. At the Cannes Lions advertising festival Stefanos Loukakos, manage or Messenger\u2019s ad business said:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026we don\u2019t know yet [if these will work]. However, signs until now, when we tested basic ads, didn\u2019t show any changes with how people used the platform or how many messages they send\u2026 Video might be a bit different, but we don\u2019t believe so.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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How do you feel about autoplay videos popping up in your private conversations on Messenger?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t too long ago that Facebook videos started blasting out autoplay ads. Now it seems Facebook wants to take that ridiculously annoying reality and crowbar it into your personal conversations on Messenger too. Messenger is the third most popular messaging service in the U.S., so it represents a massive potential future revenue stream for … Continue reading “Look out! Autoplay video ads are coming to private conversations on Messenger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2445,1059,1063,1040,1035],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-102088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook-messenger","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-messaging-apps","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327839,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102088\/revisions\/327839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102088"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=102088"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=102088"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=102088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}