Facebook / Instagram Ads Flashcards
FB Ad “Promote Your Page” - Business Goal & Success Metric:
Business Goal: More likes for your FB business page AND thereby to increase people’s awareness of your business.
Evaluation Metric (to see if your ad is performing well): See how many people engage with your ad, and see if your follower count is going up
FB Ad “Boost a Post” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: To show your ad to as many people as possible within your target audience.
Success Metric: Look at the post engagement number; what is the total number of actions that people have taken on your ad?
FB Ad “Promote Your Business Locally” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: Increase local traffic, awareness, even if you are a primarily online business. you can geotarget and even refine by interests and demographics.
Success Metric: Look at how many people you reached in your audience.
FB Ad “Get more Website Visitors” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: Send people from your ad to your website.
Success Metric: two things:
- look at the number of clicks on the ad link to your website, and
- look at the traffic stats on your website
FB Ad “Promote Your App” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: Get more people to download your business’s app.
Success Metric: Look at the number of app downloads from your ad.
FB Ad “Get More Leads” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: Collect information from people who might be interested in your business.
Won’t necessarily drive traffic to your website from the ad, but it will allow you to capture data like names and email addresses using a “sign up” call to action.
Lead Ads also allow you to identify potential customers or get more subscribers to newsletters.
Success Metric: Look at the number of leads collected (rather than the Reach for this).
FB Ad “Promote Your Send Message Button” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: Communite with existing or potential customers and encourage interest in your business.
Success Metric: Look at the number of clicks on your “send Message” button.
FB Ad “Get More Website Purchases” - Business Goal and Success Metric:
Business Goal: Encourage people to take a specific action on your business website.
Success Metric: Look at the number of website purchases that came in through your ad.
When to use “Promote your Page”?
To increase brand awareness. People will see your page and become aware of what you do and possible like/follow so that you come up in their feed more often.
When to use “Boost a Post”?
Can increase online visibility for your business with your target audience. Boosting a post can help get more engagement, likes, comments, reactions, and shares to a post, and help your post reach more of your target audience.
Hint: Select a pre-existing post that has performed well among your target audience or that represents your business well.
How does Facebook optimize for the “Website Purchases” ads?
Facebook will optimize your ad by using data to identify audiences who are most likely to buy your product or service. It will help determine the best path to generate a sale based on your website traffic and other factors. If Facebook is unable to determine who is making purchases yet due to a lack of data, it will show your ad to people who have looked at your products or have placed items in their cart. Once there is enough data collected for your business, FB will be able to optimize your ad for purchases.
Benefits of Instagram Story Ads:
Fun, creative, REAL-TIME, playful, INTERACTIVE (polls, questions), personal, take up full vertical screen.
How are Story Ads different than regular Stories?
- Run longer than 24 hours (run as long as you set the campaign to run)
- Can include a CTA (call to action)
How long can Instagram Story Ads be?
- 15 seconds of video
- 5 seconds of static image
Two ways to create an Instagram Story Ad?
- Right from an active story, click the hamburger (three lines) and click “Promote” option.
- From Facebook Ads Manager (to be explained in further lessons)
5 Creative Tips for Story Ads:
- MOVE FAST: Keep attention with speed!
- Enhance your story with sound (but also makes sure works without sound).
- Begin with your brand (logo, product image to increase recall)
- Design with your marketing objective in mind. (Top of Funnel?: Then focus on people. Bottom of funnel?: Then focus on product features.
- Split story into scenes. Experiment with multiple scenes instead of one longer shot. This creates a faster pace, and more dynamic story.
Creating an ad for TOFU (Top of Funnel), focus on what?
Focus on people to grow their awareness of your brand, who they are, and what they WANT.
Creating an ad for BOFU (Bottom of Funnel), focus on what?
Focus on showing product features, because you’re showing it to people who are already interested.
What 2 Tools are there to create ads on Facebook?
- Create right an ad from your page by “Promoting” it.
2. Using Ads Manager (app version or web version)
Which Facebook tool has the most robust Ad-creating capabilities?
The WEB version of Facebook Ads Manager.
4 Step Process of Creating an Ad from your Facebook Business Page:
- Click “Promote” button
- Choose a “Goal” that aligns with your objective for this ad.
- Provide ad material (creative, copy, CTA button, URL link etc).
- Specify Ad BUDGET and DURATION for your promotion
How is the web version of FB Ads Manager different & more comprehensive?
- advanced audience targeting
- ad placement options
- different creative options
- creating and using FB pixel
- saving an ad as a draft
Ad “Feed Placement” locations (7):
- Facebook newsfeed
- Instagram feed
- FB Marketplace
- Facebook video
- Facebook right column (only on computers)
- Instagram “explore”
- Messenger Inbox (btw conversations)
Facebook’s Major Ad Placement Types (7):
- Newsfeed
- Stories
- In-Stream (video on demand / livestream)
- Search (appear to people searching for similar items)
- Messages (appear to people who have existing conversation with you in FB messenger)
- In-Article (appear in some articles on FB mobile app)
- Apps (displays ad in some apps in External Network)
4 Types of Ad Placements (??in audience network ad placement?)
- Native Ad Placement (fit into the app experience)
- Banner Ad Placement (top of app experience)
- Interstitial Ad Placement (full screen ad at natural transition points)
- Rewarded Video Ad Placement (most often in mobile games, players can choose to watch a video in exchange for rewards)
In simplest terms, what is the Facebook Ad Auction?
It’s how Facebook decides how much to charge for an ad.
The Facebook Ad Auction is designed to achieve TWO goals: (2)
- Create value for advertisers (helping them reach people in their target audience)
- Provide a positive and relevant user experience.
What is the goal of the Facebook Ad Auction?
to make the right ad to the right person at the right time.
An Ad’s Total Value is based on what 3 things?
- the advertiser bid
- the estimated action rate
- the ad quality
What is “The advertiser bid” part of an Ad’s Total Value?
- How much an advertiser is willing to bid to achieve their desired outcome (like a website visit or a newsletter sign up).
- You can choose this amount or let FB determine what your bid should be.
- The more money you bid, the higher your advertiser bid will be.
What is “the estimated action rate” of an Ad’s Total Value?
The Estimated Action Rate measures the likelihood that a certain ad shown to a certain person will lead to the desired outcome.
What is the “Ad Quality” of an Ad’s Total Value?
Ad Quality is determined by many sources including feedback from people who view or hide your ad, as well as finding of low quality attributes, such as sensationalized language, engagement bait, and more.
3 Ways Facebook charges for Ads:
- Per 1,000 impressions (CPM = Cost Per Thousand)
- Per link click
- Per action
What is CPM?
- Cost Per 1,000 impressions (cost of your ad being displayed 1000 times)
FORMULA: (total amount spend/impressions x 1000)
(Also important is to know your CTR (click through rate) on your CPM. If 10 people click on your CPM then you have a CTR of 1%. If $5 is your CPM and your CTR is 10, then your CPC (cost per click) is $0.50.
Why is CPM important in online advertising?
It’s used by marketers to measure the cost-effectiveness of an Ad Campaign.
It can be used to compare performance amongst different ad publishers and campaigns.
What is a “Facebook Ad Budget”?
The total amount you want to spend DAILY OR over the LIFE of your Ad Campaign.
How will you pay for Facebook Ads (generally 2 ways?
- Automatic payments (FB will automatically charge you when you reach a billing threshold and again on your monthly billing date if there are leftover charges.
- Manual Payments (preload money to your account before your ads run). Facebook will deduct from that amount up to once a day as your ads run.
CPC?
CPC is “Cost per click” associated with Impressions Ads.
CTR?
CTR is “Click Through Rate” associated with Impressions Ads or CPM of impressions ads. You can find out your CPC if you know your CPM and your CTR. If your CPM is $5 for 1000 ad displays, and 10 people click through (CTR = 10), then you know your CPC (Cost per click) is $0.50 per click, because 10 people clicked out of 1000 displays that you spent $5 for and got 10 clicks.
How are CPM, CTR, and CPC related?
Important stats to know to understand the success of your Impressions Ads.
CPM: Cost per thousand ad displays.
CTR: Click Through Rate: what percentage of people saw the ad and actually clicked through per 1000?
CPC: What was the cost then of each of those clicks?
CPM = $X spent per 1000 ad displays CTR = % of 1000 actually clicked CPC = CTR (%) x CPM ($X)
Real example:
CPM = $5 ($5 spent to show ad 1000 times)
CTR = 1% (so 10 people clicked out of 1000 times ad was shown)
CPC = (clicks x $5) = $0.50 spent to get 10 clicks total.
Ad Levels
1: Campaign Level: Choose an objective for the ad (aka what you want to accomplish)
2. Ad Set Level: Choose your audience, your ad schedule, where your ads appear, and how much you’ll pay.
3. Ad Level: Define your creative (media, links, buttons, CTA)
What do you choose at the Campaign Level?
(1st level of ad campaign creation) This is where you choose an objective for the ad (aka what you want your ad to accomplish)
What do you choose at the Ad Set Level? (4 things)
(2nd level of ad campaign creation) Choose:
- your audience,
- your ad schedule,
- where your ads appear, and
- how much you’ll pay.
What do you choose at the Ad Level?
(3rd level of ad campaign creation) Define your creative (media, links, buttons, CTA)
What is “Ad Placement”?
Where your ads will appear
What is a “campaign”?
A series of ad sets and ads that have the same objective such as generating leads or acquiring a certain number f website visits or app downloads.
What is Campaign Budget Optimization?
Set one central campaign budget to optimize and continuously distribute to the top performing ad sets in real time. CBO (a la Exod.ai)
What is the objective “Consideration”?
Objectives that encourage people to learn more about what your business has to offer.
What is the objective “conversion”?
Objectives that encourage people who are interested in your business to purchase or use your product or service.
What does the CPR (Cost Per Result) reveal?
Indicates how cost efficiently you achieved the objectives you set in your ad campaign. It is the ratio of total amount spent to number of results.
What is a “Custom Audience”?
This option lets you find people on Facebook who are already aware of your business and lets you show ads to these people. Maybe they are on your list, have purchased before, or have interacted with posts on your FB page.
What is a “Custom Conversion”?
A way for advertisers to define a custom conversion event for the purpose of tracking and optimization. This means you can track and optimize very specific conversions (ie: a URL-based custom conversion helps you track and optimize for people who have visited a certain website page). Most common is a URL-based custom conversion.
Difference between “Daily Reach” and “Potential Reach”?
- Daily Reach* is what FB anticipates you’ll reach based on your bid and budget. The higher your budget, the higher your potential Daily Reach.
- Potential Reach* is the audience size that FB estimates you could reach based on factors such as audience and placement.
What is the “Daily results Estimate”?
This estimate is based on your campaign objective.
If there is enough data, FB will make estimations about how many people you can reach and how many results you can get per day if you spend your full budget.
For example, if your campaign objective is Conversions, , FB will estimate the number of conversions you can achieve based on your campaign performance and Estimated Daily Reach.
You’ll also see conversions listed below reach.
What is “Hashing”?
Information shared with Facebook that is turned into short fingerprints that are impossible to reverse.
When you share your customer list, it’s hashed locally in your browser before it’s uploaded to FB. In addition to information you provide, FB can also hash pixel, SDK, CRM, or transaction activity to match against a potential audience in their system.
What are “impressions”?
The number of times your ad was shown on screen.