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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 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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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. Let me know in the comments below!

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The Facebook Ads Metrics That Matter

Jon Loomer

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. You can customize your columns in Ads Manager to include the metrics you care about most. I currently have 30 metrics in this setup.

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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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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? If one campaign reports on conversions within 7-day click and 1-day view while another reports based on 1-day click, Facebook will not attempt to add these metrics. You should now see totals for all metrics. Let me know in the comments below!

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Vanity Metrics: Definition & Examples for Marketing

Hootsuite

It’s the perfect “meaty” metaphor for social media vanity metrics. any social metric can turn into a “vanity” metric if you’re bragging about it without any context. Social media metrics are incredibly important for a social media manager and shouldn’t be ignored. Start free 30-day trial What are vanity metrics?

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