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Facebook Watchbait: Misleading and Sensational Videos Will Be Down-Ranked

Jon Loomer

Facebook has announced that videos using “watchbait” will be penalized and receive less news feed distribution. It’s a way to get people to watch your videos by withholding information, sensationalizing, and misleading the user. Sensationalizing: Video posts can’t exaggerate or use extreme language.

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Video Breakdowns Provide Important Context for Facebook Ads Actions

Jon Loomer

Performance measurement of Facebook video ads is challenging, primarily due to the way video ads work. But, video breakdowns provide important context for the performance of these ads. Let’s talk about the issues with video ads and how you can get a clearer idea of performance thanks to this buried feature.

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How to Create a Video Funnel with Facebook Ads

Jon Loomer

There are many ways that you can do this, but let’s focus on a video funnel. The weakness of video view custom audiences is that the presence of a person in one audience can say only so much about their level of engagement. At most, you know that someone watched a video to completion. Publish Videos Regularly.

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Control Which Websites, Pages, Apps, and Videos Your Facebook Ads Appear On

Jon Loomer

Do a little digging to uncover which websites, Facebook pages, apps, and videos are showing your ads. This includes feeds, stories, Reels, apps, websites, and more. If your video was found within another video or Reel, which one? And here’s Instagram Profile Feed. First, let me explain. Publisher Lists.

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How companies use video content on social media

Visually SM

But how is your video marketing performance? If you haven’t already made substantial investments in video content for social media platforms, then it’s about time to get started. Of course, you can always post the URL to any old video that you already published. What are the best videos for each platform?

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How to Create Facebook Video Engagement Custom Audiences

Jon Loomer

Video is big on Facebook. Not only is video popular and engaging, but Facebook prioritizes it in news feeds. If you’re utilizing videos, you need to create Facebook video engagement custom audiences. Understand that this isn’t just about video ads. How to Create Video Engagement Custom Audiences.

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Facebook News Feed Update: Now What?

Jon Loomer

You’ve undoubtedly heard by now about the big Facebook news feed update that was announced recently. The news feed is sorted and customized based on a ranking system. Recorded videos will not get nearly the weight they once did. Posts that get long, thoughtful replies will get priority in your feed. A ghost town?

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