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MarTech » Performance Marketing » Facebook rolls out software tool to make AMP, Apple News pages more like Instant Articles

Facebook rolls out software tool to make AMP, Apple News pages more like Instant Articles

Facebook’s tool will automatically convert Instant Articles to Google’s AMP and Apple’s Apple News formats.

Tim Peterson on May 25, 2017 at 1:42 pm | Reading time: 2 minutes

Ever since Facebook officially opened up Instant Articles to all websites last year, publishers, brands and other site owners have had to wrestle with how to make sure their sites’ regular pages could be converted to Facebook’s proprietary format, which becomes even more of a headache if those sites also support Google’s and Apple’s proprietary article formats. But now Facebook is making it easier for a site owner to manage all three formats — and making it more likely that, if sites use the tool, AMP pages and Apple News links will look more like Instant Articles.

On Thursday, Facebook rolled out a software tool for developers that will automatically convert an Instant Articles page to Google’s AMP format, and eventually, to Apple’s Apple News format.

If site developers adopt the tool, then Facebook’s, Google’s and Apple’s proprietary page formats may start looking more homogeneous, since developers will need to create the Instant Articles page first to be translated into an AMP and/or Apple News page. As a result, Facebook’s format could become more influential on its rivals’ versions.

A Facebook Instant Article (left) converted to Google’s AMP format (right). Source: Facebook.

For example, Facebook could introduce a content option that AMP and Apple News don’t yet support or vice versa, which could limit adoption by publishers that are automatically converting Instant Articles to the other two formats. Or Facebook could add rules dictating how many ads can appear on an Instant Articles page or where they may appear that conflicts with the rules for AMP and Apple News pages.

But for now, Facebook’s tool appears to play nicely with Google’s and Apple’s formats. Publishers can include code in an Instant Articles page that will override automatic conversions that Facebook would make to page elements like ads or analytics tags, according to the tool’s official documentation. And publishers will be able to export the style details of the pages they create using its Instant Articles Style Editor to AMP and Apple News.

“For example the custom formats, like fonts, colors and captions, that publishers have designed in the Style Editor, will be closely mirrored in the other formats,” according to a Facebook blog post announcing the tool.


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About The Author

Tim Peterson
Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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