NEW Facebook Ads

how the fuck can fb want to charge me 0.70+ a click on a demo of 1.4mil and a ctr of 0.8?

fuck. me.
 


^^Its been pretty messed up for me since Monday and have to bid ridiculously high in order to get any imp on ads that have 0.3 CTR. Suggested bid is normal, but have to bid 3X the high end of the suggested to get impressions.
 
^^Its been pretty messed up for me since Monday and have to bid ridiculously high in order to get any imp on ads that have 0.3 CTR. Suggested bid is normal, but have to bid 3X the high end of the suggested to get impressions.

yeh well I just increased my bid to 0.90 and now all of a sudden conversions are coming in. No doubt after this post they will start to drop because fb is a fuck wit.

It's good to know that the last 2 weeks of submitting tons of ads and split testing lps doesn't mean fucking shit because fb are obviously fucking with shit.

I can always take my campaign to pof, and get fucking shit house quality get kicked off the offer or get a massive pay drop. mmmmmm decisions.
 
Is anyone else not able to make Mastercard payments, or is just me? Been trying yesterday and today with no luck.

Mastercard.com is down, but I didn't think this would affect payment processing.
 
Is anyone else not able to make Mastercard payments, or is just me? Been trying yesterday and today with no luck.

Mastercard.com is down, but I didn't think this would affect payment processing.

Worked for me earlier today. And yeh, mastercard.com shouldn't affect it anyway.
 
Is anyone else not able to make Mastercard payments, or is just me? Been trying yesterday and today with no luck.

Mastercard.com is down, but I didn't think this would affect payment processing.

lol 4chan attacked mastercard in defense of wikileaks
 
FB ads seem all screwed up since around the 12/5 or 12/6. Either I get no impressions even bidding over the suggested amount, or i get impressions and no clicks on ads that typically have high CTR.

Let's hope this all clears up soon and all the more reason to not rely on FB as your only traffic source.
 
I am in the same boat, I am bidding 20 cents above suggested bid and still dont get any impressions

I have to bid $1 for ads with 0.2% ctr just to get the ball rolling

some ads are screwed with impression as few as 600 daily and 1% CTR
 
I am paying more 0.20 more than the suggested bid for the ads that were with the high ctr , still the ads do not run...

Problem started when facebook bought in new facebook layout of ads.

No idea , what they are doing now , one of my friend also have the same problem..
CTR : 0.4 % ,
sugggested : 0.18 ,
bidding - 0.55

hardly gets some clicks , probably a glitch or something.
Whats wrong FB??
 
pro tip... they are probably having issues like they seem to have once a month judging from this thread... don't raise bids... just have some patience... if you raise bids... guess what... you just raised the bar for getting traffic b/c you won't be lowering them
 
pro tip... they are probably having issues like they seem to have once a month judging from this thread... don't raise bids... just have some patience... if you raise bids... guess what... you just raised the bar for getting traffic b/c you won't be lowering them

agree. my suggested bid on a 900k demographic is .70 to 1.10 CPC. Bidding $2.51 per click still did not produce any impressions after 2 hours. Just be patient while they fix it i guess. Work on POF campaigns in the meantime.
 
Been a shit show for the last week or two. Last Friday we had a campaign that typically gets ~ .30% ctr that sky rocketed to 1.5% (no shit.) They sent us 14k uniques at .02 cpc in a matter of two hours. Needless to say the glitch worked in our favor ...the very next morning our cpc climbed to .25 cpc and kept climbing beyond .50 when we paused on Monday.

You guys think this chaos is being caused by the new layouts? any other theories?
 
Seems like right before holidays the pricing floor gets artificially inflated. Maybe lots of local advertiser noobs jacking up the bids.. who knows.
 
Been a shit show for the last week or two. Last Friday we had a campaign that typically gets ~ .30% ctr that sky rocketed to 1.5% (no shit.) They sent us 14k uniques at .02 cpc in a matter of two hours. Needless to say the glitch worked in our favor ...the very next morning our cpc climbed to .25 cpc and kept climbing beyond .50 when we paused on Monday.

You guys think this chaos is being caused by the new layouts? any other theories?

Nice! Glad that ended up working out for you.

Sunday was fine for me, then Monday this started happening.
 
I think its because of the new facebook layout or may be untill these holidays -

Untill Monday i was bidding 0.10 , now $0.40 and still the ad does not perform well , no doubt the ctr increases but cpc also increases, as a result a loss for a particular campaign.

I suppose everyone is facing this shit , time to pause now!
 
what ever the reason I sure hope it doesn't hang around long. I'm still profiting but the numbers are all over the place. Gotta love this business we are in. When its good, its fucking fantastic, but when its bad and shit like this happens, its fuckkkkeeeeeed.