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Facebook Messenger boss hints that more ads are coming to the service

on Apr 12, 2017 | 0 comments

By Rebecca Stewart

Facebook Messenger users can expect to see more adds popping up in their inbox. David Marcus, the company’s vice-president of messaging products has said advertising, not payments, will be the service’s primary revenue driver.

Speaking to Recode, the boss asserted: “We’re not going to take cuts of payments. One thing we traditionally do, and is a decent business for us, is advertising. So we’ll continue focusing on that.”

Facebook tapped Marcus in 2014 from Paypal, leading some to assume Messenger’s monetization plans would revolve around social commerce, but it appears the giant will stick to what it knows Read full story ›

Source: The Drum