Our friends at AdLand recently posted this story “Nice ad you got. Be a shame if no one saw it.” They detail how social media sites like YouTube and Facebook are becoming more and more aggressive in leveraging their platforms to require payment for engagement.
Bands take note, these platforms are charging you to reach the audience you built for them…
The article is a must read, a small except below.
In 2012, GM stopped advertising on Facebook. It took its 40 million dollars elsewhere. When Facebook started reducing organic reach it became even clearer that social media is not the bargain, or effective juggernaut it was purported to be.
Consider that analog media print for a moment. You spend money to place an ad in GQ, and it goes in GQ’s across the country. There is no guarantee someone will buy the magazine, of course, but if they do, there is a good chance they’d see your ad. If Facebook owned GQ, you’d place an ad in it, and then Facebook would hide 90% of the magazines unless you paid them to put the magazine featuring your ad on the magazine stands.
So we live in the digital age where media channels like Youtube and Facebook seem only effective if you pay for views to inflate your numbers (and likes if you’re even more smarmy). And remember, a vast majority of Youtube videos (ads or otherwise) do not go viral. Then in Facebook’s case you’re dealing with a a quasi-Mafia-style practice of paying them to “boost” your post to an audience you worked hard to cultivate.
PLEASE READ THE FULL STORY AT ADLAND:
http://adland.tv/adnews/nice-ad-you-got-be-shame-if-no-one-saw-it/1541959236
The Trichordist 
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weird. it’s working for us… there is a large graphic that loads, but scroll down…
I am admittedly not a fan of the certain social media platform I call MyFace—because really, nobody cares about what you have to post. But this practice is seriously irritating. We are told we must have a MyFace page and post about our activity but what is the point if MyFace suppresses any content they deem to be “monitizeable” and sending you the annoying reminder that “this content could reach more people if you pay us”. MyFace is worse than useless for performance promotion.