Hard Times for Facebook Page Owners?
Remember all that money your organization, campaign or company spent on Facebook Ads designed to build a following for your Facebook Page? Well, that real estate is steadily losing its value:
With the introduction of the “subscribe” feature, Facebook’s news feed has begun favoring posts and activity from subscriptions over posts from fan pages. This means it has become even more difficult to get content from your fan page seen in your followers’ news feeds. So what now?
M&R’s Amy Peyro has some specific suggestions in her article for boosting the performance of your Facebook posts, but really, this entire situation is pretty damn frustrating for online communicators. Facebook is happy to take our money, but after cashing the checks they’re equally happy to change the rules to significantly cut the value of that investment: if the fans we paid to reach don’t see our content as often, each click on an ad is functionally worth less.
Yet another illustration of the danger of relying on a third-party platform for advocacy! If you don’t own the list, you don’t own the list — and the company that DOES own it can do what it wants with something you spent time and.or money building. Zuckerberg wants vendor-neutral channels like email to fade away in favor of means of communication he owns? Hey buddy, I know what’s in it for YOU, but why should WE go along?
– cpd
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