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31 st Jan 2013

Facebook ad revenues are up - challenge is in how it can increase monetisable engagement between users and advertisers

Facebook has shown strong performance in Q4 with revenues up 40%. Its mobile ad sales have more than doubled on the previous quarter to total $306m, and now account for 23% of the Social Network’s overall ad revenues. The challenge now is in how it can increase monetisable engagement between users and advertisers whilst maintaining quality in terms of both targeting and also user experience. Graph Search is capable of doing this at the local business level, but getting increasingly more from big brands is the big challenge.

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31 st Jan 2013

Facebook ad revenues are up - but is the trajectory sustainable?

Facebook has confounded critics who thought it would be incapable of making money from the rapid growth of mobile device usage. Not only has it revealed a strong performance in Q4 with revenues up 40%, its mobile ad sales have more than doubled on the previous quarter to total $306m, to account for 23% of the Social Network’s overall ad revenues. However, according to Andreas Pouros, COO at Greenlight, there are indicators Facebook has achieved this growth by being as aggressive as it can be in pushing advertising to the masses within the confines it currently works in. Research* from the agency also suggests consumer apathy could pose a significant threat to future growth.

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24 th Jan 2013

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Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple's Siri http://tcrn.ch/YpGFKp

Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple’s Siri | TechCrunch
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24 th Jan 2013

Greenlight on Google+

Twitter beefs up embedded tweets, short Vine videos could come soon http://bit.ly/WhFJVo

Twitter Blog: Vine: A new way to share video
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17 th Jan 2013

Greenlight on Google+

Facebook’s Graph Search – A story of ‘Three’ Halves: Comment from @GreenlightMKTG COO @AndreasPouros http://bit.ly/X3iL0k

Facebook’s Graph Search – A story of ‘Three’ Halves
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14 th Jan 2013

Greenlight on Google+

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15 th Jan 2013

Facebook’s Graph Search – A story of ‘Three’ Halves

Further to speculation that has been building up over week, Facebook has today announced an addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called ‘‘Graph Search ’. It will allow people using Facebook to more quickly find answers to questions about friends in their Social Graph. Andreas Pouros, COO at Greenlight, says today’s announcement is a story of ‘three’ halves.

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15 th Jan 2013

Facebook Mystery: Search and Mobile Ad Revenue – prime indicators of what’s to follow

Ahead of Facebook’s ’'Come see what we're building” mystery press conference taking place at its Californian headquarters today, speculation is rife as to exactly what the social network will be unveiling. According to Andreas Pouros, chief operating officer at Greenlight, two things are poignantly clear and are likely to be the key indicators as to what Facebook will be revealing.

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