Facebook announced on Wednesday that it's experimenting with selling ads on other people's mobile apps.
Sriram Krishnan, the Facebook product leader who announced the move via a blog post, even spelled out what he was working on: "This current test is more like a mobile ad network."
As Krishnan notes, this isn't Facebook's first test of selling ads off its own property, or even on other mobile properties.
In 2012, Facebook started a mobile ad test, but called it off shortly after.
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