Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The History of Advertising on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

As Facebook has grown from a collegiate social network to a site that gets action from 7.3% of the world’s population, it has also evolved into a marketing tool. One report estimated that advertisers will spend $4 billion on Facebook advertising this year.

Facebook didn’t come out of the gate as a marketing-friendly product in 2004, and it has conducted a fair share of failed experiments in its efforts to become one. We’ve chronicled its evolution in the infographic below.

Read and view this fantastic graph here
http://mashable.com/2011/06/28/facebook-advertising-infographic