Forum › White Hat SEO › PPC › What an absolute joke Facebook advertising has turned into. From the ads app, business manager all the way to engagement. What an absolute disappointment..
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October 1, 2021 at 8:46 pm #26579
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KeymasterI have been advertising on Facebook for almost 5 years. Ive spent hundreds of thousands…3 years ago I could run an LA conversion ad and get 5 orders to the dollar… I could run video view ads to a certain target and get a ton of engagement.. I could communicate on the ad with comments, invite them to like my page, see when the comments was made, etc.. I could duplicate and scale…
On business manager I could answer messages, get notifications, invite and update my page. Its all buggy now and works like shit.
I have all new creative and it doesnt do shit.
Just an absolute joke it has turned into..
October 1, 2021 at 8:49 pm #26583MCRustyWiener
Yeah it’s terrible
October 1, 2021 at 8:55 pm #26580rocky1510
Absolutely correct, Facebook is Surely going backwards, sheer pain sometimes.
October 1, 2021 at 9:05 pm #26588cmsciguy
I agree 100%. What a shit show it’s turned into
October 1, 2021 at 9:09 pm #26582iminbiamimitch
Please don’t scare me. I just launched a huge campaign yesterday.
October 1, 2021 at 9:15 pm #26590Gr69n
I’m doing fine
October 1, 2021 at 9:54 pm #26593carpdoctor
All in the name of ‘privacy’ from apple.
edit: this doesn’t diminish FB completely shitting the bed with all of ui and systems
October 1, 2021 at 10:11 pm #26587Ok_Understanding267
12 years of facebook advertising, it’s now as bad as 10 years ago.
However, it’s really bad as an advertiser but the fact that they were tracking us too much created a lot of privacy issues as a user. The capitalist in me wants them to be successful again though:)October 1, 2021 at 10:58 pm #26581Critical_Challenge53
Moved our spend to google. 13-17k day and more than half is going to google now. Used to be 10% goog
October 2, 2021 at 5:28 am #26584hammertown87
The ads / business managed interface is enough to drive anyone insane. Why the fuck is it so hard to even find simple shit. I swear every week something changes in their UI
October 2, 2021 at 6:31 am #26585ctyldsley
It really is. It’s certainly still powerful but the data that comes back now is just absolutely awful that it leads to such inconsistent performance too.
One of my campaigns at the moment is a message campaign that’s lead to a bunch of messenger enquiries directly for the client within the past week. On Facebook’s end though… 0 conversation starts. It’s just so useless even for goals that exist on Facebook itself.
I’m seeing performance that’s all over the place for clients.
October 2, 2021 at 9:49 am #26591chauffage
I think you need to realize that 5 years is a long time, and Facebook Advertising kept growing.
You’re competing with way more people than 5 years ago, so you’re bidding against more people, to a more saturated audience with little to no novelty factor to stand out.
Every major tech company is facing customer support issues – Facebook, Amazon, Youtube, because the number of users using their services is humanly impossible to manage, so they rely on AI (which is many years away from providing minimal quality support.
So I think the trend will continue to be higher costs, worst results, to the point it will become prohibitive for some businesses to access. Remember Facebook doesn’t have unlimited inventory.
October 2, 2021 at 11:28 am #26586nextlevelpeter
They are rolling out a lot of changes soon. Just be patient and keep testing. People’s been saying what you’re saying every year even back when it was ‘easy’. If it’s draining your budget, I suggest you pause your campaigns for a month or two if you can.
October 2, 2021 at 12:10 pm #26589thejabriel
We’ve move the vast majority of spend to Google and Programmatic now. We maintain a presence on paid FB, but it has become crap.
October 2, 2021 at 1:00 pm #26594bramm90
We’ve invested a lot of time in feeding the algorithm with proper data through the CAPI, and recently most of our campaigns started outperforming the ones we ran before iOS 14.5. Probably because most other advertisers are settling for incomplete data.
That’s the whole thing with FBA – you don’t need a perfect campaign (structure), you just need to do things slightly better than most other advertisers.
Online consumer spend is the highest it’s ever been. If they’re not spending it on you, they’re just spending it somewhere else.
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