Meta ads (Instagram and Facebook), dumbed down

Notes on Meta ads

  • Paying to be seen

    Meta’s brand formats: Super Burst, First Impression, Reels Trending

    Meta’s Brand Summit (15 Oct) pushed Ads Super Burst, First Impression Ads (US test), and broader Reels Trending Ads. Today (28 Oct) product browsing turns on in existing ads unless you opted out. Here’s the plain-words tour with a doodle for each format.

    · 10 min read

  • Paying to be seen

    Meta wants to crawl your website. The date just moved to 20 November.

    Meta's new business terms let it crawl websites tied to your business, even if you don't buy ads. It dropped the word 'train' from the clause, and moved the start date from 30 October to 20 November. Review the terms and your robots.txt.

    · 3 min read

  • Paying to be seen

    Instagram ads or Google ads?

    Google ads catch people who are already searching for what you sell. Instagram ads show your stuff to people who weren’t looking but might want it. If people search for your thing, start with Google. If they need to see it first, start with Instagram.

    · 4 min read

  • Paying to be seen

    Meta’s AI can now edit your ads. If it gets something wrong, it’s on you.

    Meta’s new terms make advertisers solely responsible for whatever its AI tools change in their ads. Due 30 October, now 20 November. From 28 October it plans to switch on product browsing in existing ads unless you opt out. Check your AI settings now.

    · 4 min read

Words you’ll hear

Fancy terms. Simple ideas.

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Meta’s automated ads, where Meta picks the audience, placements and sometimes edits the ad itself.