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

Jon Loomer

According to a report from the New York Times , Meta is considering an ad-free subscription option for both Facebook and Instagram in the European Union. 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.

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Meta Conversion Events, Deduplication, and Conflicting Reporting

Jon Loomer

I’m not talking about your event data matching up with Google Analytics or other third-party reporting tools (these things will never match up). Ads Manager conversion reporting These three will almost never match up. This is what most advertisers think of when they hear about event deduplication.

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Enforcement of iOS 14 Changes for Facebook Advertisers Begins

Jon Loomer

We were first warned about iOS 14 and how it would impact Facebook advertising in 2020. Delayed Reporting. However, it will take up to three days for it to show up in your reporting. In other words, you may want to ignore your conversion reporting for the most recent three-day window. Reporting for Non-configured Events.

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How I Use Facebook Custom Conversions for Reporting and Optimization

Jon Loomer

I wrote recently about the role of custom conversions in your Facebook advertising. Custom conversions provide granularity for both reporting and optimization. You can optimize for and get reporting on standard and custom events generally, but all product purchases are lumped under the same Purchases event. Product Groups.

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Don’t Freak Out: How to Approach Facebook Advertising Changes Inspired by iOS 14

Jon Loomer

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.