I'm Outing 11,701 of Your Facebook Ads

Is outing ads ever OK?

  • Yes, you should post more stuff like this

    Votes: 52 47.7%

  • No, ban machinecontrol for outing

    Votes: 57 52.3%
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So I was looking at a few Facebook ads images recently for inspiration and thought I would give back to the community and share some of the images I've found.

I've got 11,701 unique images from actual Facebook ads targeting English speaking countries from late Sept-early Oct 2010. If you've been running on Facebook recently, chances are at least a couple of your images are in there.

Most of these images aren't very good, but there are a few absolute gems in there.

Please don't just rip these and throw them into your own campaigns. Not only will you run into nasty copyright issues, but these images are already in use and saturated on FB. Look through them, get a sense for what works, and apply the same techniques to your own ads.

Download here:
11,701 Effective Facebook Ads Images « insight.io blog

Full disclosure: Yes, that is my new blog. I would direct link to the download from here but I figure just in case shit goes down and C&D's start coming, it would be better for me to take responsibility through my blog and not risk getting WF in trouble.
 
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machinecontrol said:
Please don't just rip these and throw them into your own campaigns. Not only will you run into nasty copyright issues, but these images are already in use and saturated on FB. Look through them, get a sense for what works, and apply the same techniques to your own ads.
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This is dumb. I guarantee that people are gonna steal these images. Outing ads FTL
 
Don't out me bro.

And, for a lot of images:

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davidne said:
This is dumb. I guarantee that people are gonna steal these images. Outing ads FTL
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This.

Amazes me how much time people spend gathering others' shit, or trying to figure out what people are up to.. Where's the creativity in this industry? Spend some time building things yourself, and see how much easier it is to get things profitable when you're a first mover (not necessarily with a vertical -- but even with your take on creatives, pre-sell pages or traffic sources for popular verticals)..

Glad I haven't ran on FB for a while now, but I hope this doesn't carry over to media buys as well. Found my banners, jacked them? Meh, such is life. Leaked them to everyone, even if for "inspiration"? Man I'd be pissed.
 
Note to Facebook: I didn’t scrape these from Facebook myself, or touch Facebook’s servers in any way to get these, so please don’t be mad at me. To the best of my knowledge, I’m fully within my rights to link to this image archive.

Interesting disclaimer there on your blog. I believe you as well because I know where you did scrape them from.
 
2nd just for being dumb enough to post this on here of all places and expect more people to read your blog
 
I never really got why affiliates who been in the game for awhile decide to create a blog. Money must be low these days.

If you were a big affiliate, you wouldn't have time to write retarded posts on how to increase your facebook CTR by 16.7% or some shit.

Make money and keep your mouth shut while you do it.
 
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machinecontrol said:
Full disclosure: Yes, that is my new blog. I would direct link to the download from here but I figure just in case shit goes down and C&D's start coming, it would be better for me to take responsibility through my blog and not risk getting WF in trouble.
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What a selfless act of generosity kind sir.

Temp ban or something for self promotion and outing 11,701 ads for a few useless opt-ins.
 
Random images are not going to do the average n00b much good.

If enough respected members bitch and moan, I have no problem with someone deleting the thread.

Right now the poll is kind of even :D
 
Albus Finch said:
Note to Facebook: I didn’t scrape these from Facebook myself, or touch Facebook’s servers in any way to get these, so please don’t be mad at me. To the best of my knowledge, I’m fully within my rights to link to this image archive.

Interesting disclaimer there on your blog. I believe you as well because I know where you did scrape them from.
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The only intelligent comment in this thread.

For all of you bitching about outing ads, I want you to think about this statement carefully. If your images are in this archive, then, my friend, the cat's out of the bag regardless. Your ads, targeting, destination urls, are right now being monitored by people you actually have to worry about- not a bunch of noobs downloading random images, but your actual competitors who have money to spend.

Pandora doesn't go back in the box.

All I'm doing is posting information that's publicly available, simply an easy, organized list of ads that have already been outed by others elsewhere.

Here's the thing- I'm not interested in a handful of your shitty opt-ins, I'm not going to monetize you in any way regardless.

The blog is an experiment, and it's going to be written primarily for startup people, not for you. The traffic from WF is minimal and not really useful anyway.


Oh, and if you guys are pissed off at this little insignificant thing...well, I'll probably be pissing you off a lot more soon. Sorry :)
 
its not that it could do damage if they are just images and not full ads.(anybody with a scraper could swipe my images if they wanted to and it happens) But if he actually showed some and gave some insightful analysis into the what and why with advice on how you can view current ads and use them as a baseline to begin your own campaigns and tests I'd support it.

But it seems to be a clear attempt at link bait and causing a stir while not delivering any useful content...
 
Barman: If you want to lock/ban for outing ads that's cool, I respect that, although the rules on that are a little..murky at the moment. As I understand it as an affiliate, outing landing pages is where we draw the line (unlike the source of these, by the way).

I think posting the same recycled images you can easily see anyway is basically OK.

If you want to ban for self-promotion however, well:
http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/45251-ppc-bz-exclusive-we-major.html
Hypocritical much?
 
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