Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Custom events and custom conversions confuse too many advertisers. Both require the pixel or conversions API and help you define conversions that are used for reporting and optimization. Custom events require code and allow you to freely define actions beyond standard events using custom triggers.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the primary reasons for bad reporting in Meta Ads Manager is conversion events that were set up improperly. This includes standard events, custom events, and custom conversions. You should test your events before relying on them in your Ads Manager reporting. Is the wrong event reported?

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 20, 2023

You should use Meta events to track important actions that happen on your website. While there are standard events for your typical transactions (purchase, lead, contact), I also use nine custom events that fire when important engagement occurs. These events benefit Meta advertising. Create a separate event.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 8, 2024

What does this development mean for Meta advertisers? But I decided to immerse myself in as much of this cookie news as possible to help understand — both for my advertising efforts and yours — whether this is something to worry about. These cookies are important for advertisers and publishers, after all.

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Jon Loomer

JULY 26, 2021

One of the biggest Facebook advertiser complaints related to iOS 14 changes and Aggregated Event Measurement is the limitation to eight events per website for optimization purposes. Let’s take a closer look at what the limitation meant, what happens with the change, and how this will impact your advertising.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 25, 2022

One of the biggest complaints during the past year since Facebook implemented changes related to iOS 14 updates is a drop in reporting. While it may not be accurately represented, Facebook is reporting fewer conversions. I have a simple tip for you that may help, and it’s related to the Facebook ads reporting window.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 12, 2021

We were first warned about iOS 14 and how it would impact Facebook advertising in 2020. Let’s run through what you need to know… Optimization for Eight Events Only. If you want to create a conversions campaign, you can only optimize for one of your eight configured events. Delayed Access to New Configured Events.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Custom events are one of my favorite tools for Meta advertising. Custom events are conversion events that occur on your website and fall outside of the predefined standard events. When people perform these events, you can use them for optimization, reporting, and targeting.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 23, 2023

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. I have a saved report I call “The Good Stuff” that includes columns for everything I care about: Standard events, custom events, custom conversions, custom metrics, engagement, delivery, and everything in between. Be careful.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 13, 2022

I wrote recently about the role of custom conversions in your Facebook advertising. It’s important to know that custom conversions should not be used in place of standard and custom events; they should be used in addition to them. Custom conversions provide granularity for both reporting and optimization. Quick Refresh.

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the middle of 2020, Facebook began to raise the alarm on iOS updates and its impact on Facebook advertising. After the policy rollout, advertisers will only be able to optimize and report on up to eight (8) events per domain. How Reporting and Attribution Will Be Effected.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 9, 2023

There’s a troubleshooting tool that can help diagnose and solve a lot of your problems related to conversion events. You can easily view where Facebook conversion events are firing by domain and URL. Let’s take a closer look at where this information is found and examples of how it’s so useful… Event Breakdown.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 14, 2021

As advertisers configure their Facebook web events in preparation for iOS 14, we’ve been hearing from many experiencing hidden Facebook events. As you can see in the example above, hidden events are grayed out and won’t allow you to see or configure them. Let me explain… Why this Happens.

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 30, 2021

Thanks to a recent update, advertisers can now optimize for and track Facebook custom events — without needing to first create a custom conversion. If this doesn’t make sense to you, allow me to explain… What are Custom Events? There are two kinds of events: 1. But custom events needed another step.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 5, 2022

The process of adding standard events can be confusing and overwhelming for some publishers. Automatic Events can help. Let’s explain what Automatic Events are and how you can turn them on. What Are Automatic Events? Facebook detects these events through contextual activity happening on your website.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how to create a custom event that fires when someone views a page of your website for 60 seconds. Now let’s create an event based on scroll depth. You can use this for reporting, optimization, and targeting. You’ll do this — and create your events — by creating a new tag.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook pixel events and custom conversions are important tools that can amplify your marketing and advertising efforts. First, if you haven’t read my guides on how Facebook pixel events and custom conversions work, I encourage you to do so: Facebook Pixel Events: An Introduction. Conversion optimization.

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Jon Loomer

JULY 17, 2023

The person watching the video also needs to convert on your advertising objective within 24 hours. If it doesn’t, it is bound to create confusion among advertisers who are trying to determine the impact of their video ads. Make sure to select your pixel and conversion event, too. Let’s simplify this.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That’s why custom pixel events are so important. What I’m going to describe is done with custom events and Google Tag Manager. Once you create such an event, you can use this for reporting, optimization, and targeting. I wrote about these custom events nearly three years ago.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

There’s a lot of chatter in the world of Facebook advertising right now. You’re likely more confused and frustrated about the state of advertising than you’ve been in some time. Even if you assume worst-case scenarios once the iOS 14 prompt goes live, advertisers are going to be just fine. Look, I get it.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights. How do you ensure your social media reporting is contextual to your organization’s overall objectives? Click Next.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 1, 2024

I love these real-life examples… When advertisers complain about over-reporting in Ads Manager , there’s usually a good reason. It could be pixel, API, or event issues. I noticed that my CRM was reporting 38 registrations from this form, but Ads Manager reported 42. Real-Life Example Here’s an example.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But I have a solution for you: A custom event that combines time spent and scroll depth. I also assume that you’ve already created tags for both the 60-second view and 70% scroll events. The easy solution is to create a custom conversion that maps to that custom event. Quality traffic with Facebook ads is the Holy Grail.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 16, 2023

In short, Aggregated Event Measurement is Meta’s protocol for reporting web and app events from people who opted out of tracking from iOS 14.5 Meta says that “it will continue to evolve,” but many of the advertiser requirements related to iOS 14.5 It was also how you accessed Event Configuration.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As Meta advertisers, we’re constantly on a quest for good results. But there’s a situation we’ve all encountered that will make any great advertiser uneasy. Over Reporting: This tends to be because you set up something wrong that leads to double or over counting. It’s a common problem. Really good.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 24, 2019

A few days ago, I wrote about Facebook’s new Event Setup Tool that simplifies adding pixel events to your website. This is a huge development because Facebook pixel events aren’t fully utilized by marketers as they should be. Why do you need to use pixel events? How can events benefit your marketing?

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Jon Loomer

JUNE 9, 2020

During the past couple of weeks, I’ve walked you through how to create custom Facebook pixel events that allow you to track, optimize for, and target visits based on time spent on a page and scroll depth. We want Facebook to fire an event as a visitor progresses on a page related to scroll depth. The reason for this is simple.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can create a custom Facebook event to track, optimize, and retarget them with Facebook ads. One of the reasons I do that is because of the ease of creating custom events like this one. For more on using Google Tag Manager for creating custom events, check out the following blog posts: Create Facebook Pixel Events for Scroll Depth.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 15, 2018

I first heard of Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) very early in my agency career, way back in the 90s. The report explains: “Earned Media Value is the equivalent cost of advertising that would garner the same amount of exposure as postings mentioning a brand campaign, based on followers and a US$5 CPM (cost-per-mille).”.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Facebook pixel events and custom conversions are important tools that can amplify your marketing and advertising efforts. First, if you haven’t read my guides on how Facebook pixel events and custom conversions work, I encourage you to do so: Facebook Pixel Events: An Introduction. Conversion optimization.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is some of the best news advertisers have received in a while. At the moment, though, I haven’t seen anything official from Meta on the reasoning behind it, the quality of that reporting, or what it means for the future of optimization and reporting. It’s been an eventful week or so. And it makes sense.

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Jon Loomer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

In this post, I’m going to provide a few examples of some powerful Facebook Analytics reports and how it all comes back to the Facebook pixel and Events. Ultimately, I’ll help you understand how to get those Events set up so that you can start getting the most out of Facebook Analytics today. Set Up Facebook Events.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 6, 2022

Do you understand how custom conversions are used for Facebook advertising and how they’re different from standard and custom events ? The confusing part for many advertisers is that standard events, custom events, and custom conversions can all be used for both reporting and optimization. Optimization.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Facebook advertisers have been vocal about the negative impact of iOS 14+ during the past year. It may actually be an indirect cause that impacts all advertisers, not just those with a high volume of iOS users. It may actually be an indirect cause that impacts all advertisers, not just those with a high volume of iOS users.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 24, 2024

When you set your performance goal and (if necessary) conversion event, the algorithm’s primary focus is getting you that thing. Not only can you optimize for number of purchase events, but you can optimize for the value of those purchases. Yes, the advertiser wants that initial action. It all goes downhill from there.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re a Facebook advertiser, one of the most underutilized features that you may not even know about is the Custom Metric. I wrote about it two years ago , and it’s an option that largely escapes advertisers. You can create custom metrics in either your custom ad reports or within Ads Manager itself.

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Jon Loomer

JUNE 12, 2023

Not only is it variable (you can change how attribution is defined), it controls more than just reporting. Typically, this might be for a purchase or lead, but it can be for any conversion defined with a standard event , custom event , or custom conversion. As a result, you must understand the Meta ads Attribution Setting.

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