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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. Simplify the key metrics that are most important. While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. There is no need to prioritize any metric over this group. Be careful.

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Example: How to Use Custom Metrics in Facebook Ads Manager

Jon Loomer

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. I want to take a second look at custom metrics today and provide two specific examples of how I use them.

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Success Metrics for Facebook Instant Experience Ads

Jon Loomer

Facebook has added metrics that may prove helpful. In this post, I’ll help you find those metrics and understand what they all mean. Let’s go… Access the Metrics. ” You’ll see seven metrics… What the Metrics Mean. .” ” (This metric is in development). .”

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The Facebook Ads Metrics That Matter

Jon Loomer

How did your advertising campaign perform? Part of the battle is knowing which Facebook ads metrics actually matter. Facebook does a good job of surfacing metrics that are relevant to your objective, but that’s not good enough for me. I currently have 30 metrics in this setup. Metrics: Clicks. The staples.

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12 Facebook video metrics brands need to benchmark right now

Sprout Social

Ever wondered if people loved watching your Facebook videos? How many of them skipped your Story videos? These are all great questions to ask when you’re using videos for your Facebook marketing strategy. And your Facebook video metrics can give you the answers you need. How to find Facebook video metrics.

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Meta Ads Metric Update: Accounts Center Account

Jon Loomer

Meta has rolled out an update to ads metrics that you may have spotted in Ads Manager: Accounts Center Account. ” Wherever you’d see “people” — in a metric name or metric definition — you will now see Accounts Center Account. No new metrics. It looks like a typo, but it’s a thing.

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Should Meta Advertisers Ever Use the Audience Network Placement?

Jon Loomer

If you’re an experienced Meta advertiser, you probably know full well that Audience Network is a problematic placement. In this post, we’ll explore the issues with the Audience Network placement and provide some clarity around when Meta advertisers should and shouldn’t use it. What is Audience Network?