News for Developers

Important changes to categorizing campaigns with ads in the Special Ad Category or ads about Social Issues, Elections, or Politics

Beginning today, two important features are available to the special_ad_categories field in Marketing API v7.0 and above. These changes continue Facebook’s efforts to increase ad transparency and election integrity on Facebook and Instagram. They also help simplify the process of managing Special Ad Categories on our platform. Ads about social...

Business Tools Platforms

June 24, 2020

The Value of Personalized Ads to a Thriving App Ecosystem

Over the last year, the industry has come together to engage in crucial conversations about the future of digital advertising. Through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other industry groups, we’ve engaged with publishers, developers, and advertisers to discuss new solutions that strengthen people’s privacy online. One example is Facebook’s ...

Business Tools Publishing

June 18, 2020

Making Apps Easier to Access as Demand Surges

As more people shelter and take to the web, simplifying their login experiences is proving helpful As more people adapt to new public health and safety measures, they’re increasingly turning to apps for communication, connection and community — from text and video chat, to gaming and entertainment, to social good. We’re seeing spikes in usage...

Business Tools Platforms

May 14, 2020

Introducing Graph API v7.0 and Marketing API v7.0

API Updates Provide Developers with Improved App Permissions and Campaign Controls New Requirements Outlined for Mobile Developers and Facebook App Review ...

Business Tools Platforms

May 5, 2020

Deadlines approaching for Special Ad Category

Today, we’re releasing Marketing API v6.0 and Graph API v6.0, and as part of this release, we want to remind developers on upcoming deadlines for Special Ad Categories.We’re also introducing a new feature to read Page data and announcing API deprecations. ...

Business Tools Platforms

February 3, 2020

Instagram Basic Display API: Long-Lived Access Tokens now available

March 30, 2020 Update: We understand these are challenging times for our developer community, so we are postponing disabling the Instagram Legacy API Platform by 90 days to June 29, 2020. Remaining endpoints on the Legacy API will no longer be available after this date and your app’s users may lose functionality. We urge you to migrate to the...

Business Tools Platforms

January 14, 2020

New Facebook Login Feature With Added Controls

Facebook is excited to announce the launch of a new Facebook Login feature, aimed at delivering users even more control over their information.The feature, called “Login Notifications,” alerts a user (via the Facebook app and user’s associated email) when they use Facebook Login to interact with 3rd party apps. The design and content of the Login...

Business Tools 2020

January 14, 2020

Marketing API Advertisers Must Comply with Special Ad Category by March 31

Discrimination has no place on Facebook, and our advertising policies have long prohibited unlawful discrimination. As a result of historic settlement agreements with leading civil rights organizations, we introduced a new process last year for how advertisers based in the U.S., or targeting audiences in the U.S., can create ads that offer housing,...

Business Tools Developer Policy

January 6, 2020

Introducing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0

Today we’re releasing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0, which features a new Ad Volume API that will help advertisers understand how many ads they’re running and prepare for the upcoming ads limitations that will be introduced next year. Ad Limits and the Ad Volume API: ...