As Facebook (FB) starts running out of real estate to place ads in its flagship app, it's opening up more in Messenger. The company announced plans to expand its Messenger ads globally after a ...

Facebook's Businesses on Messenger platform. Source: Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg previously told investors that products don't become interesting as businesses to Facebook until they reach about 1 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Scrolling through an ad-free Instagram is now a distant memory, much like the once ad-free Facebook itself. Soon, users of its Messenger app will begin to see advertisements, too - and ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Messenger app launched an augmented reality feature on Tuesday to allow people to see products they are shopping for as if they already have them, such as ...

Don't be surprised if you start seeing ads in the home tab of the Messenger mobile app. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts covering smart ...

Over the past few years, Facebook has turned Messenger into a really popular app. Sure, it did that mostly by turning off Facebook messaging capabilities for mobile users and thereby forcing them to ...

It looks like days of an ad-free Facebook Messenger are well and truly over. Messenger has had static ads for around a year and a half now, but now it’s experimenting with a new, more intrusive type ...

Facebook is expanding its beta test of ads in Messenger worldwide after a limited run in Australia and Thailand, according to a company news post. The Messenger ads appear in users' home tab within ...

The last thing that I want to see in an app whose sole purpose is texting and sharing with friends and family is advertisements of any sort. But that’s exactly the kind of Facebook Messenger ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

After a successful test, the social media giant is rolling out Messenger ads globally. Messenger and its 1.2 billion monthly active users present a massive opportunity for Facebook to keep growing.

When Facebook removed messages from the main app, I swore then and there that I would never download Messenger. That’s been a pretty easy promise to keep, especially since they introduced the lovely ...