Meta announced that unique metrics will be deprecated from the Ads API. Presumably, this will also be reflected in the main Ads Manager interfaces. This won't affect Link Clicks, Outbound Clicks, or a couple of metrics related to Messaging. You might use First Conversion Reporting as a replacement. They aren't…
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Meta's Q2 earnings are out and the average cost per ad is up 10% year over year. This continues the reversal of a trend where ad costs were falling in recent quarters. What are you seeing?
Are completely AI-automated campaigns the future of Meta advertising? On a recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg suggested that advertisers will one day be able to simply provide an objective and a budget and everything will be created for them -- even the ads. What do you think?
No more Automated Rules Templates. If you've used one of these templates in the past, you'll now find them within Automatic Adjustments. These are found on your Account Overview page.
There's a potential problem with Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns. Advertisers have virtually no impact on targeting, which isn't necessarily a problem in itself. But, you can't exclude people who bought the product that you're promoting. While that may be fine when a product can be bought multiple times, you'd probably want…
Sampled Activities in Events Manager allows you to see the specific URLs where an event fired during the past 24 hours. This feature was not working a few months ago. Just like the Filter by URL (which still isn't working), it was only returning domains. Until that gets working, Sampled…
Here's how to create a custom event in Google Tag Manager that tracks when a Google referral results in a purchase. This is most valuable for isolating view-through conversions that lead to a conversion from this path.
How can you prove the value of a view through conversion? Isolate those that are the result of someone Googling your website after seeing your ad. Here's how to create a custom event to track Google referrals and then see how many of them resulted from a view-through conversion.
Can you prove the value of a view through conversion? One example of a valuable view through conversion is when the view of your ad inspires a Google search and referral later. So, how do we prove that this happened? With a custom event.
Meta is eliminating the ability to exclude detailed targeting. But, does it matter? Based on Meta's tests, conversion costs are lower when not using detailed targeting exclusions. Here are my thoughts...
Remember when some advertisers saw an alert in May saying that Detailed Targeting exclusions would be removed in June, and Meta said that the alert was a bug sent in error? Well, now it's official. Detailed Targeting exclusions are going away, and the rollout to remove them has already begun.
When running Advantage+ Shopping or manual Sales campaigns, advertisers can optimize for events other than Purchase that aren't value-based. This change went into effect earlier this year. But, for some reason Meta decided to apply this to all standard events other than a handful of exceptions. It's not clear why…
If you're using Dynamic Creative or Flexible Ad Format, stop worrying about finding a winning combination of copy and creative. You won't find it. And that's not what this feature is for. The goal is to find the best combination that works for each specific user in the placement they…
I had the 10 event learning phase and then it switched back to 50. I had First Conversion reporting when comparing attribution, and then I didn't. And then I did again. What's the common thread with these two features? Meta hasn't made an official announcement or updated Help Center articles…
Stop wasting your time on things that just don't matter that much. Focus your time where it matters most. The majority of your time should be spent on the ad, offer, and wherever you send people from the ad. Spend less time on all of the levers you're pulling within…
Why can't Meta predefine the Engaged Audience and Existing Customers audience segments for us? They have the data to do this. Advertisers can't utilize Audience Segments -- and see the power they provide -- until these segments are defined. Many advertisers are confused, or completely oblivious, about how to define…
Meta can force you into Data Restrictions Core Setup when you're in certain sensitive industries or you ignore warnings related to passing sensitive information with the pixel. You can also turn it on manually within Events Manager Settings. Here is additional info...
Meta is rolling out Event Coverage to Events Manager. This helps you see whether your number of server events is equal to or higher than your browser events to meet best practices. Here's what it looks like...
Why does Meta limit the availability of so many features by campaign objective? In some cases, it makes sense. In others, it's unnecessary, and it only creates confusion and frustration. Here's an example...
Suggestions are optional when using Advantage+ Audience, otherwise Meta prioritizes pixel data, conversion history, and prior engagement with your ads. It makes sense that an account with less history would benefit from suggestions. But, that's not necessarily the case.
There was a time when I dedicated a majority of my budget on general and micro remarketing. But, that's no longer the case. Now that I've confirmed using audience segments with sales campaigns that remarketing happens anyway when going broad, I don't think that will change.
If you have multiple company goals, it can be challenging to give them all attention at the same time, especially if you have a limited budget. Instead, address them one at a time. Here's what I mean...
You can now use Ad Recall Lift metrics for Engagement campaigns. These metrics have historically been tied to Awareness campaigns, but they could be very useful for adding another layer of metrics for Engagement campaigns -- especially if your results are otherwise padded with low-quality engagement. Here's how I look…