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 ...

As Facebook (NASDAQ: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early this year, Facebook announced that it had reached over 800 million active users for its Facebook Messenger platform. Until now, Facebook hasn’t attempted to monetize this user base, but it seems ...

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 ...

With over 1.2 billion daily active users, Facebook’s Messenger app was bound to be monetized. Last year, Facebook began to insert ads from early adopters into Messenger. Earlier this year, it was ...

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 ...

NEW YORK—Are you ready to embrace ads inside Facebook Messenger? That prospect just got a bit closer with the social network's announcement in a blog post aimed at advertisers Tuesday that indicated ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated Facebook's third-quarter results. SAN FRANCISCO — Ads are coming to Facebook Messenger as Facebook looks to wring sales from ...

For years, investors and analysts have been closely watching Facebook ’s plans to monetize its massive messaging services, Messenger and WhatsApp. Now, Facebook’s monetization plans for Messenger -- ...

Messaging is the center of mobile, and Facebook wants ads in front of all those eyes. After seeing “promising results from Australia and Thailand,” Facebook Messenger is expanding its display ad beta ...