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6 Targeting Mistakes Advertisers Make

Jon Loomer

Meta advertising has changed rapidly the past few years, and that leads to several common targeting mistakes. I admit that I miss the old days of Facebook advertising — before it was Meta advertising. It’s a step that’s often missed by beginner advertisers. Nonexistent or incomplete use of exclusions.

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Promote Facebook Groups with Ads in Meta Ads Manager

Jon Loomer

Meta advertisers have long asked for the ability to promote Facebook groups with ads. Instead, advertisers found workarounds to accomplish the same thing. Meta is rolling out built-in solutions for promoting Facebook groups within Ads Manager. Your primary goal may be to drive more group signups. That is changing.

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Civil Rights Groups Call on Advertisers to Pause Facebook Ad Spend in July

Social Media Today

Civil rights groups have called on advertisers to stop their Facebook ad spend in July in protest against the company's inaction over racist and divisive content.

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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. Each group has a different level of usefulness. There is no need to prioritize any metric over this group. Be careful.

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Keep Meta Advertising Simple for Optimal Success

Jon Loomer

When it comes to Meta advertising, less is more. But even in the cases of big budgets, there are examples of advertisers who are hurting their results by trying to do too much. When you pick that group of interests, Meta turns on Advantage Detailed Targeting and can expand beyond that group as well. Keep it simple.

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What an Ad-Free Facebook and Instagram Subscription Could Mean to Advertising

Jon Loomer

Such a move could be enormously disruptive to Meta’s advertising business, which has been by far its biggest revenue driver to date. It would also disrupt advertisers. This law aims to give users more control over their data, which could further restrict Meta from collecting it for advertising and other purposes.

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iOS 14 Resources for Facebook Advertisers

Jon Loomer

If you’re like most Facebook advertisers, you have lots of questions related to iOS 14 and the related changes impacting Facebook ads. What changes should I expect to advertising tools related to mobile app ads as a result of iOS 14? Facebook Advertising Audiences and iOS 14. The margin for error is small.