The Pubcast with Jon Loomer
Facebook ads news, strategies, and discussion in a quick 5-10 minute "Shot" format. Started in 2013, full Pubcast was originally an interview format where Jon and his guest discussed business topics over a beer. The format change, but the name has endured. Pop a bottle...
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How Do You Scale Your Meta Ads Budget?
Scaling a Meta ad set sounds simple, just raise the budget on something that's working. But that's why it fails so often, because strong surface results are often propped up by remarketing that can't scale. Jon breaks down how to tell whether an ad set is actually worth scaling, and how to raise budget in a way that protects profitability.
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Oct. 14, 2026
How Do You Scale Your Meta Ads Budget?
Scaling a Meta ad set sounds simple, just raise the budget on something that's working. But that's why it fails so often, because strong surface results are often propped up by remarketing that can't scale. Jon breaks down how to tell whether an ad set is actually worth scaling, and how to raise budget in a way that protects profitability.
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Oct. 7, 2026
A Simple, Volume-Focused Ad Strategy
When ads can't drive enough sales to turn a profit, the instinct is to do more, test more creative, optimize for an earlier action, restrict the targeting that looks wasteful. But those moves almost always make a low-volume problem worse. Jon lays out the stripped-down approach he recommends instead, and the two fallback options if it still isn't enough.
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Sept. 30, 2026
An Ad Solution for Meta's Restriction on Organic Link Sharing
Meta's new link-sharing limits leave businesses scrambling, and plenty of people will pitch organic hacks to get around them. But most just add friction without replacing the lost traffic. Jon lays out a deliberately old-school ad approach that sends a small, controlled budget to your own followers, and why it's a rare exception to everything he usually preaches about staying hands-off.
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Sept. 23, 2026
Meta Wants Businesses to Pay to Share Links
Meta just announced Meta One, and one of its supposed benefits is hard to believe. Jon breaks down why the change makes no sense, and the old-school workaround he's now weighing instead.
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Sept. 16, 2026
I've Never Been More Uncertain About Meta Ads
For years the direction of Meta advertising was clear enough to predict, and most of those predictions held up. But AI has scrambled the picture, and the trend line now runs into a space that's genuinely hard to comprehend. Jon sets the tactics aside for an honest, uneasy look at what it all means.
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Sept. 9, 2026
What Does the Removal of Placement Control Mean?
Meta is removing placement control for sales and leads campaigns, and advertisers are predictably freaking out. Jon explains why the change matters far less than it sounds, and why value rules are the control you should have been reaching for all along.
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