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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

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. If your CPC sucks, but you get a great Cost Per Desired Action, who cares about that CPC?

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Most Social Media Ads Reach Only 5% Of Their Target Audience

The Realtime Report

In the research, Sotrender’s analysts wanted to find out: whether higher audience saturation translates into changes in CPC or CPM costs. The Drop in CPM & CPC Only for Post Engagement Campaigns. The main difference is that the cost of these ads (CPC and CPM) is decreasing along with increasing audience saturation.

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How Meta Could Leverage Outbound Clicks

Jon Loomer

There are a couple of groups of advertisers who could benefit from an expansion of Outbound Clicks. If you can’t use your pixel, you aren’t able to track results, optimize for a conversion, or target those who clicked on your ad. This also applies to CPC (All) and CTR (All). The Problem. Everything.

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The Facebook Ads Metrics That Matter

Jon Loomer

To make it easier, let’s group the metrics I use by category… Metrics: Campaign Basics. CPC (Cost Per Link Click). Purchase Conversion Value. Feel free to track custom conversions , too, if they matter to your business. It’s a lot, I guess, but everything I need is there. Link Clicks. Outbound Clicks.

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Buzzwords Decoded: 32 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained

Ignite Social Media

What does CPC mean? CPC stands for Cost Per Click. Capturing everyone in a group selfie can be challenging. This is an attribution model that track conversions within a 7-day window after a viewer sees or clicks on your ad. Crediting the last interaction (like a click or view) for a conversion. What does CPM mean?

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Social Media Marketing During COVID-19: March 23 Update

Ignite Social Media

Here are just a few examples: Client A saw a 37% decrease in CPM; Client B saw a 58% decrease in CPM, a 36% decrease in CPC and a 38% decrease in CPLPV (cost per landing page view) Client C saw a 21% decrease in CPM, a 36% decrease in CPC and a 38% decrease in CPLPV. Turn off your media buys if you’re not sure.

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3 Facebook Trends to Consider in 2020 Planning

Ignite Social Media

While we’ve seen this move rewarded with media efficiencies in CPC or CPM, we have noticed engagement can suffer, as some placements (like Marketplace ads or right-hand rail placements) are not as conducive to engagement as the newsfeed. Facebook’s Ad Offering is Less Focused on Engagement, More Focused on Conversion.

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