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What value does Facebook provide as a company? Do ads create value?

• deleted 8y ago
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• jedberg 8y ago
  As a company they provide value to their customers, who are advertisers, by delivering them prequalified leads.
  • vinchuco 8y ago
    So they help people part with their money. Then, if I was an advertiser, I'd put my money elsewhere: > For example, while Google users click on the first advertisement for search results an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks for every one million searches), Facebook's users click on advertisements an average of 0.04% of the time (400 clicks for every one million pages). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
    • Sujan 8y ago
      So? Advertisers pay per click or even sale, so they don't care the least how many people "saw" their ad before that. Some agencies even sell this as a "branding" side effect.
• djohnston 8y ago
  senator, we sell ads