Mark Zuckerberg thezuck@prodigy.com
To: sherylsandberg@fbook.com
Subject: potential benefits of Christmas
Sandster, I saw the data on higher
click-thrus 4th quarter. Kind of took me by surprise. The users seem to be paying 30% more attention at the holidays. What gives? Opportunity here? –
Sheryl Sandberg
sherylsandberg@fbook.com
To: thezuck@prodigy.com
Mark, this is just more proof, courtesy of a third-party data analysis, that Facebook is a relevant platform aligned
with the rhythms of our nearly 1 billion users worldwide.
Mark Zuckerberg thezuck@prodigy.com
To: sherylsandberg@fbook.com
Huh?
Sheryl Sandberg sherylsandberg@fbook.com
To: thezuck@prodigy.com
Mark, FB meets people where they live. They visit here. They share here. They bond here. They
perform here. And naturally, they shop here. Increased CTR simply reflect how Facebook is the only advertising platform that meets people where they live life.
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Mark
Zuckerberg thezuck@prodigy.com
To: sherylsandberg@fbook.com
Yo, this is me, not freakin’ GroupM. Shut down your PowerPoint and please explain the Xmas bump.
Is it some sort of holiday-cheer deal? Should I, like, smile more? Should we all be wearing ugly sweaters?
Sheryl Sandberg sherylsandberg@fbook.com
To:
thezuck@prodigy.com
If I may, Mark, let me call your attention to the insights from our partner Nanigans. As you have read in MediaPost, “The firm said click-though rates for
e-commerce campaigns were up 30% from Black Friday to Cyber Monday compared to earlier in November. At the same time, holiday season CPCs are increasing at a similar rate as in prior years, twice as
high on average as in 2010.”
Mark Zuckerberg thezuck@prodigy.com
To: sherylsandberg@fbook.com
Nanigans? Seriously? Isn't that the
bar with all the license plates and old timey baseball jerseys nailed to the wall? Anyway, what I’m asking you, Sheryl, is what this all means. Come on, I've lost $5 billion this year. What are
we doing now that wasn't working for the past 11 1/2 months?
Sheryl Sandberg sherylsandberg@fbook.com
To: thezuck@prodigy.com
Mark, I think you need look
no further than the changes to our offering: the Relationship Pages, the EdgeRank adjustments in the newsfeed, our privacy tweaks, our Promoted Posts program and so on. We have our finger on the pulse
of user behavior, we are ever vigilant about the needs of our marketing partners and we leverage every chance to improve our interface and expand our reach into every aspect of our users' daily lives.
Stay tuned for our Bad Photo feature with the patented “Did I Look Fat in This?” button and the Likely Affair Tracker.
Mark Zuckerberg
thezuck@prodigy.com
To: sherylsandberg@fbook.com
Dude, WTF? Those changes you listed went into effect months ago and nada. Zilch. Bupkes. The lift has been in the last 30 days.
Why? Have we found the formula that makes advertising on FB a real business, versus an unwanted intrusion into the fleeting, bleating lives of a billion pitiful sheep? It's year-end. Thinking
of dumping some stock for a $5 billion paper loss. WHY DID CTRS GO UP?!?!
Sheryl Sandberg sherylsandberg@fbook.com
To: thezuck@prodigy.com
It's
Christmas, Mark. Everybody's CTRs are up.