{"id":50081,"date":"2013-09-11T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T22:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=50081"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:10:56","slug":"facebook-to-introduce-bigger-ad-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-to-introduce-bigger-ad-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to introduce bigger ad images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> ads are about to get larger ad images in your <a title=\"News Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/news-feed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News Feed<\/a>. In an attempt to get more users to pay attention to ads instead of ignoring them, ads on Facebook will be getting column-wide images. Even ads in the right side column of Facebook will be getting bigger thumbnail images. A Facebook spokesperson claims the photos are 3.5 times bigger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50083\" title=\"larger facebook ads\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-568x319.jpg\" alt=\"larger facebook ads\" width=\"568\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-568x319.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-256x144.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-664x374.jpg 664w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/Page-post-link-web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to adding larger ad images, Facebook is making ads more click-able by linking the text and image of the ad. Previously, text was not linked.<\/p>\n<p>All this news is great for Facebook, of course, as they can increase the click-through rates of ads to make more money. For users, it can prove frustrating when accidentally clicking on text that links out to the advertiser&#8217;s site. While larger ads may certainly be annoying, they still won&#8217;t be as annoying as <a title=\"Facebook bringing video ads to News Feed for $2.5 million each\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-bringing-video-ads-to-news-feed-for-2-5-million-each\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15 second video ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>RELATED STORIES<\/h3>\n<h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/professional-skills-can-be-added-to-your-facebook-page\">Professional Skills can be added to your Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebooks-proposed-new-data-use-policy-delayed\">Facebook&#8217;s proposed new Data Use policy delayed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/spam-links-make-200-million-a-year-on-facebook\">Spam links make $200 million a year on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>These larger ads will be rolling out to users starting today. Have you started seeing these ads in your News Feed? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<h4>Source: <a title=\"Mashable\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/09\/10\/facebook-ad-bigger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mashable<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook ads are about to get larger ad images in your News Feed. In an attempt to get more users to pay attention to ads instead of ignoring them, ads on Facebook will be getting column-wide images. Even ads in the right side column of Facebook will be getting bigger thumbnail images. A Facebook spokesperson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-to-introduce-bigger-ad-images\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook to introduce bigger ad images&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":50083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-50081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081","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\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332242,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081\/revisions\/332242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50081"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=50081"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=50081"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=50081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}