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Create a Meta Custom Event That Combines Time Spent and Scroll Depth

Jon Loomer

But I have a solution for you: A custom event that combines time spent and scroll depth. While there are likely manual solutions and other tools that help you accomplish something similar, I’m using Google Tag Manager to manage my pixel. I assume that you already have a tag created for the base pixel code.

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How to Test Meta Conversion Events

Jon Loomer

One of the primary reasons for bad reporting in Meta Ads Manager is conversion events that were set up improperly. You should test your events before relying on them in your Ads Manager reporting. Why isn’t Ads Manager reporting your conversions? Is the event firing multiple times? Are parameters set up properly?

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Create a Custom Facebook Event for a Watched YouTube Video in Google Tag Manager

Jon Loomer

First, know that I use Google Tag Manager to manage my Facebook pixel. For more on using Google Tag Manager for creating custom events, check out the following blog posts: Create Facebook Pixel Events for Scroll Depth. Create Facebook Pixel Events for Time Spent. Create a Tag. Create a Video Trigger.

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Create a Meta Pixel Event that Fires After Viewing a Page for 60 Seconds

Jon Loomer

When you run Facebook ads that direct people to your website, you care whether people immediately leave or if they spend more time there. What I’m going to describe is done with custom events and Google Tag Manager. You’ll need to create a tag for the base pixel code that fires separately of any events.

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Meta Ads for Podcasts

Jon Loomer

You can create an event for time spent , but that’s not exactly what you want. Since you can create custom events in Google Tag Manager based on embedded YouTube plays , this provides some interesting possibilities. You can then track these results in Ads Manager (using 1-day click attribution, of course).

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Custom Event for Embedded YouTube Video

Jon Loomer

That event captures: • URL it was on, • Title of the video, • Percentage of the video that was watched • Total time watched in seconds I add a column to my Ads Manager to see how often people are watching these videos from my ads. To set up these events, I’m using Google Tag Manager to manage my pixel.

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Create a Meta Pixel Event that Fires After Scrolling 70% Down a Page

Jon Loomer

Like with the time on page event, I originally wrote about this three years ago but made it way more complicated than it needed to be. Your Base Pixel Code We’re doing this in Google Tag Manager. You’ll do this — and create your events — by creating a new tag. Create a new tag and name it.

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