Facebook Moments Shutdown: Just The Facts

January 29, 2019 Victoria Pallien

Facebook announced last week that Moments, first launched in March 2015, will be shut down. If you’re wondering what Facebook Moments is and how the shutdown will impact your digital marketing, you’ve come to the right place.

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What Is Facebook Moments?

Facebook Moments is an app, separate from the Facebook app, which allows users to privately share both photos and videos.

When Will Facebook Moments Be Shut Down?

As of February 25, Facebook Moments will no longer be available for users. Users will get a notification of the app’s dismissal and options to export their content: they can create a private photo album on their Facebook accounts or download their photos to their devices. Users can export photos until May 2019.

Why Will Facebook Moments Be Shut Down?

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Facebook is discontinuing support for the Moments app because Facebook users weren’t commonly using the external service.

Facebook’s Director of Product Management Rushabh Doshi said, “We’re ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photos. We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app.”

What Does The Facebook Moments Shutdown Mean For Marketers?

The removal of this app from the app store shouldn’t affect your digital marketing strategy at all. Because the app was far removed from other Facebook channels and wasn’t very popular, most people won’t miss it, so marketers are not likely to either.

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About the Author

Victoria Pallien is a Marketing Communications Writer at Digital Media Solutions (DMS), the fastest-growing independent digital performance marketing company. DMS helps its clients accelerate growth by deploying diversified and data-driven customer acquisition solutions that deliver scalable, sustainable and measurable marketing results. DMS performance marketing solutions connect the right consumers with the right offers at the right time to achieve the marketing objectives of our clients. DMS is continually innovating to provide new and emerging media and technology solutions that minimize waste and maximize results across the most competitive industries. Since its inception, DMS has demonstrated incredible year-over-year growth which has earned recognition on the Inc. 5000 list in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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