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Agenda
4 Q&A
Wisdom of friends
People are discovering
content in a new way on
Facebook…
…and news sites
500M+ 250M+
130
50%
Friends return daily
How can social design apply to
news?
Photos:
3B/month
Agenda
4 Q&A
Delivering results for
publishers
From #5 referral
source to #1 referral
source
9x increase in
referral traffic
Traffic
qImplement “Like”
•When a user clicks Like, it (1) publishes a story to their friends, (2)
adds to their profile, and (3) is discoverable through search
Traffic
qOptimize “Like”
•Optimize placement and show friends
faces (3-5x increase in CTR)*
100%
- Place Like near visually engaging content increase
* Based on internal analysis of plugin performance across 100 top media and content domains
Traffic
qPublish: focus on content and status updates to increase
engagement
Stories that get more engagement
22% 8
more pages more minutes
viewed spent
85% 90 %
more
85%
more time articles more videos
spent read watched
Facebook is #1 source of traffic because:
65% 18%
increase in increase in
FB reshares comments
Engagement
qImplement activity and recommendations plugin
•Implement on article
pages where readers
are already engaging
with your content
Engagement
qUse Live Stream for live events
•Add the Like button to acquire connections
•
Engagement
Comment Box
Let users comment on any piece of content
on your site
4 Q&A
Facebook & journalism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/metro/facebook-story-mothers-joy-familys-sorrow.html
Reporting
Use your Page to solicit commentary, opinions, public
opinion and content from your readers
Getting started
3 things you can do today: