Facebook recently announced plans to develop its own app center, as well as intent to allow for paid Facebook apps. Users will soon be able to search for apps from a dashboard featuring detailed descriptions and user ratings, which should be a considerable improvement over Facebook’s current app placement within the same search bar used to search for people and events. In addition, Facebook will start charging for apps in an attempt to increase revenue for app developers, as well as for the social network itself. Mashable reported on these intriguing app happenings.
While the new app dashboard will appear similar to Apple’s App store and Google Play, its functionality will be different since numerous Facebook apps are really iOS or Android apps with Facebook integrations. As a result, the site will direct users to download them at other app stores.
Facebook’s sudden shift toward paid apps will benefit both the developers who profit directly these transactions, as well as Facebook which will receive a 30 percent cut from each sale.
To learn more about the latest trends in social media, contact MDG Advertising today at 561-338-7797 or visit mdgadvertising.com.
Read more at Mashable.com.
Written by Michael Del Gigante
- Social Media is Good Medicine for Healthcare Marketing
- Google Outlines Three Online Advertising Trends
- Print Advertising is Dead? Not So Fast.
- 5 Messaging Strategies of Successful Branding Firms
- Study Shows Organic SEO Significantly Undervalued by Marketers
- In-Store Sales Begin Online
- Dos Equis Gives New Meaning to Mobile Marketing
- Search Marketing Spend Rises Attribution Mobile Analytics Remain Big Concerns
- Facebook Displays New Tools for Developing Audience Network Native Ads
- Old Spice Gives Its Ad Campaign A Fresh Spin
- Surprise! Online Ads Work Like Magazine Ads – Online Advertising
- Twitter Starting to Share New Promoted Video Feature with Brands
- Fifty Shades of Grey Marketing Strategy Positions Novel as Fiction Phenomenon
- Listerine Making News with Refreshing Social Media Strategy for World Cup Sponsorship
- Online Reputation Management 101: What Businesses Need to Know [Infographic]
- Local Search Evolved [Infographic]
- Vacationing the Social Media Way [Infographic]
- The ROI of Social Media [Infographic]
- How Social Media Changed The Ad Game [Infographic]
- Should You Build a Mobile App or Mobile Website? [Infographic]