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Hidden Advantages of Custom Events to Meta Advertisers

Jon Loomer

I’ve used custom events for years now, and it’s always felt like a secret underworld of Meta advertising. It’s as if custom events are seen as being too complicated to even bother, if advertisers know about them at all. Embedded YouTube Video Play. Start Embedded Audio Player. Custom Events.

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Create a Custom Facebook Event for a Watched YouTube Video in Google Tag Manager

Jon Loomer

Imagine you have an important YouTube video embedded on a page of your website. Select “YouTube Video” under User Engagement trigger types. Then go to an embedded YouTube video on a page of your website. Have you experimented with custom events for people who watched your embedded YouTube videos?

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What Do You Want People to Do?

Jon Loomer

When you analyze Meta advertising results, look beyond the core metrics in Ads Manager. If you were to look over someone’s shoulder while they visited your website, what are the things you’d want them to do? In some cases, there may be Meta ads metrics and standard events for these actions.

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How to use YouTube Analytics to optimize your video performance

Sprout Social

Building a must-see YouTube channel starts with understanding your audience. And there’s no better place to gather actionable insights than your YouTube Analytics. But while YouTube’s native analytics platform is a treasure trove of data, its depth can be overwhelming for total beginners. Engagement Reports.

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Differences Between Custom Events and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

Meta advertisers have plenty to get confused about. So many advertisers either think I’m discussing custom conversions or use the two terms interchangeably. Since Meta supports these specific events that all advertisers can use, Meta has access to global data about the people who perform those actions.

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Custom Events vs. Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

Custom events and custom conversions confuse too many advertisers. Watched an embedded YouTube video Beyond using these actions for optimization and reporting, you can also create website custom audiences based on this activity. Do you know the difference? But the similarities stop there. Amount of time spent on a page 2.

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When Broad Targeting Fails

Jon Loomer

We’re moving into a new era of Meta advertising. This is why most experienced advertisers would tell you it’s almost always a waste of money to optimize for link clicks or landing page views. Because of that, the YouTube video is embedded at the top of the post and there’s a short blog post below it.

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