Facebook Ad Network Would Face Privacy Hurdle With Ad Agencies
Posted in: UncategorizedFacebook may have put its mobile-ad-network test on hold, but marketers continue to relish the thought of a Facebook ad network of some kind. The promise of reaching Facebook users on sites across the web is very appealing, yet one big obstacle stands between a Facebook network and brand advertising budgets: consumer privacy.
The longer Facebook eschews the industry’s widely adopted self-regulatory privacy standard in favor of its own internal ad privacy approach, the less confident brand advertisers will be about privacy protections associated with Facebook advertising. The biggest agencies and advertisers have standardized their display ad buys according to their self-regulatory privacy program, administered by the Digital Advertising Alliance.
But Facebook is not a member of the DAA, and while that’s not necessarily a deal-killer, it does mean that it will be more difficult for agencies to allocate big budgets there.