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Should you use Advantage+ Placements or should you manually select the placements that work best? When you create your ad set, Advantage+ Placements is on by default. This makes all placements available for your ads. I know some advertisers will manually turn off placements to focus on those that perform…

Is detailed targeting with Meta advertising dead? We could be heading in that direction... The argument to abandon detailed targeting grows stronger by the day. Meta has removed far more interests and behaviors than they’ve added over the years. And studies have shown that interests are not only incomplete but…

You can pick which Delivery Recommendations Meta can automatically apply. But should you? Here's a walkthrough... If you toggle on "Automatically Apply Delivery Recommendations" in your Account Overview, you'll get the ability to turn this on for specific types of changes. Campaign Structure: This seems to apply to combining campaigns…

It looks like there's a bug related to publishing and scheduling Instagram Reels from Meta Business Suite that is impacting delivery and views. Here are two examples... I scheduled a video a couple of days ago through Meta Business Suite that has received only about 10 views. About four hours…

This is what worries me about AI-powered chatbots... When you create a chatbot, you provide the content to train it on. You can provide files, text, or website URLs. You can have it crawl the entire sitemap of a domain or submit links individually. The potential issue is that you…

You should republish underperforming videos. Here's an example... Recently, I published a video that did surprisingly little on TikTok and Instagram Reels. A normal video has a few hundred views within a few hours. This video had close to 0 views on both platforms. Around four hours later, I republished…

Why does it have to be this way? These two ad sets are part of a leads campaign promoting my Bot Beta Test. The first ad set was approved a couple of days ago. It's been running successfully with no issues. The second ad set is a duplication of the…

Should you automatically apply delivery recommendations? Let's dig in... You may have seen this message in your Account Overview: "Automatically Apply Delivery Recommendations." Meta's documentation says this about Delivery Recommendations: "Delivery recommendations are suggestions in Meta Ads Manager to help improve the performance of your active campaigns. They're based on…

This is the latest iteration of my AI-powered chatbot. I've experimented with seemingly every possible app, but this is likely the direction I'll go. This time, I'm using Chatbase. I've trained this bot on more than 140 pages of my website. My hope is that it will be able to…

This Facebook ads setting is limiting your leads. When you create a Facebook lead form, do not forget to go to the Settings tab. There's an option there that most advertisers don't even know exists. It's "Sharing," and by default it's set to Restricted. This means that "by default, only…

This is what 150 days of videos looks like... Beginning January 1st, I started publishing at least one video every day, with today marking Day 150. These videos mostly covered Facebook ads topics, but also some video creation and entrepreneurship tips sprinkled in. It's a bit surreal seeing all of…

Events Manager has changed recently, so I've been poking around to see if anything important has changed. I spotted this within the Events Manager Settings. First, Extend Attribution Uploads: "Allow attributions on impressions that are 90 days old by extending the number of days your ad can receive credit for…

I've been hearing from people asking if Meta's Event Setup Tool has been removed, and now I see why. If you have the updated Events Manager, the way that many people accessed the Event Setup Tool (myself included) has completely changed. The Add Events dropdown menu now has different options.…

Only the real ones remember Power Editor... The life of Power Editor covered about a six-year span beginning in 2012. At first, it was a Chrome plugin that was originally created for editing your Facebook ads in bulk. You had to DOWNLOAD your ads into Power Editor every time before…

This is what makes Meta's Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns unique... When creating an Advantage+ Shopping Campaign, there's a section for Audience Type Breakdown related to reporting. This is set within your Account Settings. There, you provide various custom audiences to define your current customers. Why? First, once you've been running an…

Did Meta seriously give two products nearly the exact same name? You probably know about Advantage Lookalike and Advantage Custom Audience. But if you add both a lookalike and custom audience to your targeting (while using certain types of optimization), you can turn on Advantage Audience. All this means is…

Recently I spotted the following message when hovering over the header row of the Results column in Ads Manager: "Changes to how conversions are reported: As part of our ongoing efforts to support advertisers through industry and regulatory changes, we are making changes to how conversions are reported, such as…

Only 7.7% of views on Facebook were posts with links. What does that mean? Are links on Facebook doomed? In Meta's Most Viewed Content Report for Q1 of 2023, it was revealed that 92.3% of all views didn't include a link. In Q3 of 2021, the share of views that…

Aggregated Event Measurement is changing, and I have questions... The big news last week is that advertisers will no longer need to configure and rank their eight web events for conversion optimization. Additionally, they'll no longer be required to verify their domains to configure these events. But, Aggregated Event Measurement…

You'd be foolish to ignore Barcelona, Meta's Twitter competitor that is set to launch in June. Here's why... Yes, Meta doesn't have a great track record when it comes to copying competitors. But this feels different. Normally, Meta is trying to copy some hot new app or format. And the…

I'm testing out an AI chatbot that's trained on my website using SiteGPT. Still early, but check it out... I've trained it on 25 links in all that include things like... - About Me - Posts about my advertising philosophy - Ads FAQ - Ads Glossary - Important and relevant…

Ad Text Variations is a great new AI-powered feature for Meta advertisers... Meta announced a series of AI-powered ad tools recently. Ad Text Variations is one of them. After you provide your ad's primary text, Meta will generate a series of variation suggestions. The changes are often minor, but words…

Meta's Aggregated Event Measurement isn't going away. It's changing... You have probably heard about some big changes related to Meta's Aggregated Event Measurement protocol for handling the measurement of app and web events from iOS devices. 1. No longer required to configure and prioritize your eight events 2. No longer…

Here is exactly what Meta's documentation says about the big changes to Aggregated Event Measurement and conversion campaigns. 1. You no longer need to prioritize eight conversion events per domain for web conversion optimization (BIG!). 2. The Aggregated Event Measurement tab in Events Manager has been removed because you no…