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Customer Acquisition: Exclude Customers

Jon Loomer

A new feature spotted in Ads Manager… When creating a manual Sales campaign, you may see a section for Customer Acquisition in the ad set. Here’s how Meta describes it: Show your ads to new customers only. You define your existing customers in your Ad Account Settings. Let me know if you think this will be useful!

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A Guide to Standard Events, Custom Events, and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

This is possible with the help of standard events, custom events, and custom conversions. In this post, we’ll focus on the following: Definitions of standard events, custom events, and custom conversions Examples of each one Explanations of how they are used General tips on how they are created When should you use each?

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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. So many advertisers either think I’m discussing custom conversions or use the two terms interchangeably.

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Custom Events vs. Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

Custom events and custom conversions confuse too many advertisers. Custom events require code and allow you to freely define actions beyond standard events using custom triggers. Custom events require code and allow you to freely define actions beyond standard events using custom triggers.

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Custom Events Can Break Custom Metrics

Jon Loomer

I love to use custom events , but this issue stumped me forever… I’ll add a custom event to a custom metric formula, and it’ll use a weird string of characters instead. If I go back to the formula, it breaks the custom event name into separate metrics by space. It also calculates fine.

Metrics 113
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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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300 Custom Audience Limit

Jon Loomer

A 300 custom audience limit? Recently I saw this error on my Audiences page: “Too many custom audiences. To regain access to audience sizes for your custom audiences, you must have 300 or fewer custom audiences.” Meta’s own documentation says that you can create up to 500 custom audiences per ad account.

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