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Custom Events Column Fix

Jon Loomer

Some custom events don’t appear among metrics you can add as columns in Ads Manager. Custom events will only appear among metrics to add as columns if you’ve previously optimized for that event. Custom events will only appear among metrics to add as columns if you’ve previously optimized for that event.

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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. It allows me to easily compare campaigns and ad sets without making changes.

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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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Verify Your Custom Website Events

Jon Loomer

If you use custom events , you need to read this. Go to your Events Manager, and you may see this message to “Verify your custom website event(s).” Let’s discuss… What Are Custom Events? Verify Your Events As I write this, the requirement to verify custom events is rolling out.

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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 want to take a second look at custom metrics today and provide two specific examples of how I use them. What Are Custom Metrics? Where you create the custom metric doesn’t matter.

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Missing Metric Totals in Facebook Ads Manager: What to Do

Jon Loomer

Have you ever noticed that metric totals in Facebook Ads Manager don’t appear? It may appear as a bug… This happens when you utilize multiple attribution settings for different campaigns. It may appear as a bug… This happens when you utilize multiple attribution settings for different campaigns.

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Differences Between Custom Events and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

But one of the most common points of confusion I see is understanding the differences between custom events and custom conversions. This became especially obvious recently as I’ve written more about custom events. Custom Events To understand custom events, we first need to define “standard events.”

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