Facebook Canvas: Painting a New Creative Ad

You may have already heard that Facebook have released a new type of advertising format – Canvas – that promises advertisers “more space” and “unique” experiences on mobile.

When clicked on through a native Facebook ad in the newsfeed, the ad will take up the whole of a mobile screen and allow people to interact with it by scrolling horizontally, vertically or with the video. This full-page, immersive experience will allow for visually engaging stories using video, still images and text. Load times will be minimised with integrated calls to action, so the user experience will be instantaneous.

Creating the ad will be easy, as advertisers will have access basic self-service tool that requires no software or coding. Also, most of Facebook’s ads objectives, delivery, pricing and auction mechanics that are already in place will apply to the Canvas format

More exciting news; the Canvas format is also going to be released onto Instagram in the second half of this year!

Here at Tug we’ll be interested in testing out Canvas when creating paid social ads, and can’t wait to see what other engaging content is created with the tool!

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