Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Custom events and custom conversions confuse too many advertisers. Both require the pixel or conversions API and help you define conversions that are used for reporting and optimization. Custom events require code and allow you to freely define actions beyond standard events using custom triggers. You should use both.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 25, 2022

One of the biggest complaints during the past year since Facebook implemented changes related to iOS 14 updates is a drop in reporting. While it may not be accurately represented, Facebook is reporting fewer conversions. I have a simple tip for you that may help, and it’s related to the Facebook ads reporting window.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 20, 2023

You should use Meta events to track important actions that happen on your website. While there are standard events for your typical transactions (purchase, lead, contact), I also use nine custom events that fire when important engagement occurs. These events benefit Meta advertising. Create a separate event.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 9, 2023

There’s a troubleshooting tool that can help diagnose and solve a lot of your problems related to conversion events. You can easily view where Facebook conversion events are firing by domain and URL. Let’s take a closer look at where this information is found and examples of how it’s so useful… Event Breakdown.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here’s a third-party reporting update for Shops… In your Ad Account Settings, you may see this section: “Connect your shop to track Meta purchases.” Select your Commerce Account and Third-Party Reporting Tool (Google Analytics 4 or Adobe Experience Cloud) and enter your unique measurement ID for GA4.

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Jon Loomer

JULY 26, 2021

One of the biggest Facebook advertiser complaints related to iOS 14 changes and Aggregated Event Measurement is the limitation to eight events per website for optimization purposes. The 8-Event Limit. Only these eight events would be allowed for optimization. Problems Related to 8-Event Limit.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Custom events are one of my favorite tools for Meta advertising. Custom events are conversion events that occur on your website and fall outside of the predefined standard events. When people perform these events, you can use them for optimization, reporting, and targeting.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 5, 2022

The process of adding standard events can be confusing and overwhelming for some publishers. Automatic Events can help. Let’s explain what Automatic Events are and how you can turn them on. What Are Automatic Events? Facebook detects these events through contextual activity happening on your website.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how to create a custom event that fires when someone views a page of your website for 60 seconds. Now let’s create an event based on scroll depth. You can use this for reporting, optimization, and targeting. You’ll do this — and create your events — by creating a new tag.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That’s why custom pixel events are so important. What I’m going to describe is done with custom events and Google Tag Manager. Once you create such an event, you can use this for reporting, optimization, and targeting. I wrote about these custom events nearly three years ago.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 13, 2022

It’s important to know that custom conversions should not be used in place of standard and custom events; they should be used in addition to them. Custom conversions provide granularity for both reporting and optimization. Standard and custom events require additional coding. For Custom Events. Either one works.

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 30, 2021

Thanks to a recent update, advertisers can now optimize for and track Facebook custom events — without needing to first create a custom conversion. If this doesn’t make sense to you, allow me to explain… What are Custom Events? There are two kinds of events: 1. But custom events needed another step.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 14, 2021

As advertisers configure their Facebook web events in preparation for iOS 14, we’ve been hearing from many experiencing hidden Facebook events. As you can see in the example above, hidden events are grayed out and won’t allow you to see or configure them. And they may have configured specific events for each pixel.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights. How do you ensure your social media reporting is contextual to your organization’s overall objectives? Click Next.

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Check it out, Meta has a report for that… Go to your Ad Reports and then Personalized Insights. There you should see highlights of a benchmark report. Click “See Report.” This report even charts performance for both your ad set and your peers over time. How do you find performance benchmarks ?

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But I have a solution for you: A custom event that combines time spent and scroll depth. I also assume that you’ve already created tags for both the 60-second view and 70% scroll events. The easy solution is to create a custom conversion that maps to that custom event. Quality traffic with Facebook ads is the Holy Grail.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook pixel events and custom conversions are important tools that can amplify your marketing and advertising efforts. First, if you haven’t read my guides on how Facebook pixel events and custom conversions work, I encourage you to do so: Facebook Pixel Events: An Introduction. Conversion optimization. Dynamic ads.

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Forbes Social Media

MARCH 29, 2021

More than 50% of nonprofits moved their fundraising events to a virtual format in 2020 — but there is significantly less consensus about event plans for 2021, according to a new report from QGiv.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can create a custom Facebook event to track, optimize, and retarget them with Facebook ads. One of the reasons I do that is because of the ease of creating custom events like this one. For more on using Google Tag Manager for creating custom events, check out the following blog posts: Create Facebook Pixel Events for Scroll Depth.

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Social Media Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What life events are people more likely to post about on IG and TikTok?

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 24, 2019

A few days ago, I wrote about Facebook’s new Event Setup Tool that simplifies adding pixel events to your website. This is a huge development because Facebook pixel events aren’t fully utilized by marketers as they should be. Why do you need to use pixel events? How can events benefit your marketing?

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Jon Loomer

JUNE 9, 2020

During the past couple of weeks, I’ve walked you through how to create custom Facebook pixel events that allow you to track, optimize for, and target visits based on time spent on a page and scroll depth. We want Facebook to fire an event as a visitor progresses on a page related to scroll depth. The reason for this is simple.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Facebook pixel events and custom conversions are important tools that can amplify your marketing and advertising efforts. First, if you haven’t read my guides on how Facebook pixel events and custom conversions work, I encourage you to do so: Facebook Pixel Events: An Introduction. Conversion optimization. Dynamic ads.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Over Reporting: This tends to be because you set up something wrong that leads to double or over counting. If Ads Manager is reporting more results than happened, regardless of the source, that’s a problem. There is a long list of reasons why Ads Manager can report results and other sources won’t credit your ads.

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Meltwater

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Event marketing is on the rise.A recent report by event software company Bizzabo says 85 percent of marketers cite event production as “essential” to their marketing strategies, while 41 percent… Read More >>>.

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Jon Loomer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

In this post, I’m going to provide a few examples of some powerful Facebook Analytics reports and how it all comes back to the Facebook pixel and Events. Ultimately, I’ll help you understand how to get those Events set up so that you can start getting the most out of Facebook Analytics today. Set Up Facebook Events.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 7, 2024

Here’s the situation… You have a purchase event that fires on page load. Will Ads Manager report four conversions because the page was loaded four times? Meta’s Documentation From Meta’s documentation about deduplication , there’s a table with the question, “Are events deduplicated or not?”

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agora pulse

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Then you’ll need to find a way to do reporting and keep your sanity. If you run Facebook Ads, you must get a handle on reporting. But if you can’t make sense of Facebook Ads reports or if you don’t check metrics regularly, you can easily waste time, money, and resources. All of which can quickly frustrate your clients.).

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Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 15, 2018

That’s why I was surprised to see the concept resurrected in a recent report from InfluencerDB , an influencer marketing software company, which uses Earned Media Value (EMV), the cash value of attention a brand gets on social media. Click To Tweet The report doesn’t give a rationale for the $5 CPM. They still don’t.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 1, 2024

I love these real-life examples… When advertisers complain about over-reporting in Ads Manager , there’s usually a good reason. It could be pixel, API, or event issues. I noticed that my CRM was reporting 38 registrations from this form, but Ads Manager reported 42. The same number that was reported by my CRM.

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Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Facebook Automatic Events. Facebook is making it easier to track actions like add to cart, initiate checkout, and purchase on your website with Automatic Events. Here’s what you need to know about Automatic Events. Here’s what you need to know about Automatic Events. How Automatic Events Work.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 16, 2023

In short, Aggregated Event Measurement is Meta’s protocol for reporting web and app events from people who opted out of tracking from iOS 14.5 Prioritized events were treated differently than non-prioritized events. You could reach them when optimizing for prioritized events. Now it’s official.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 24, 2021

B2B event marketing has been proven to be as good as gold for this goal. . of its marketing budget for events. Looking at these numbers, it’s safe to say that businesses see a lot of potential and opportunities in these events. . Given that, in this post, we’ll talk about: What B2B event marketing is. Why it’s important.

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Social Media Today

APRIL 18, 2024

The report looks at how Canadian users engage around key events in the app.

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Jon Loomer

JUNE 12, 2023

Not only is it variable (you can change how attribution is defined), it controls more than just reporting. Typically, this might be for a purchase or lead, but it can be for any conversion defined with a standard event , custom event , or custom conversion. As a result, you must understand the Meta ads Attribution Setting.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 6, 2022

Do you understand how custom conversions are used for Facebook advertising and how they’re different from standard and custom events ? The confusing part for many advertisers is that standard events, custom events, and custom conversions can all be used for both reporting and optimization. Optimization.

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