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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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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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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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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. An example is in order.

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How Competition Impacts Facebook Ads Costs

Jon Loomer

It’s important to understand that your Facebook ads costs aren’t determined in a vacuum. It won’t always cost the same amount to get that click or conversion. In fact, the rate at which people act on your ads could remain constant while your costs could fluctuate wildly. The role of competition.

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Will Facebook Ads CPM Costs Increase This Holiday Season?

Jon Loomer

In particular, will Facebook ads CPM costs increase? There is good reason to hope, based on current trends, that any seasonal cost increases may be subtle. CPM (Cost Per 1,000 Impressions) is essentially the cost to show your ads. The cost of advertising is clearly falling, and that drop is increasing with each quarter.

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Social media management costs for businesses in 2022

Sprout Social

While that sounds great to executives and stakeholders, they may not understand how the costs associated with social media translate to business objectives. If you need help getting buy-in for your social strategy and building your budget, this social media management costs guide will help you get started. First, we need to be clear.