Facebook Passes 1m Advertisers

Facebook has announced that it has passed the milestone of 1m active advertisers on its social network.

In Q1, 2013, mobile accounted for 30 per cent of Facebooks total advertising revenues.

“Businesses big and small are growing on Facebook and this is a very exciting milestone for us,” said Carolyn Everson, Facebook VP global marketing solutions. “Marketers can build personal relationships with their customers on the platform, at a scale which has never before been available.”

To mark the occasion, Facebook also released a handful of stats on its Pages offering:

  • There have been 1.2bn connections between people and local businesses in the EU, 295m of which have come from the UK
  • Local business pages in the EU see an average 270m views, and 8m comments, per week
  • 61 per cent of monthly active users in the EU are connected to a local business page
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