NEW Facebook Ads

Is it reasonable to assume the majority of fbook advertisers post here on WF?

If so, anyone interested in some collaboration? We all agree to drop our bids to a set level, force fbook to run ads with the best images the most?

Wait... that never works, nevermind.

How can we leverage our collective power to drive down fbook costs?
 


ImagesAndWords said:
Yeah what's with the severe impression drops? Glad to hear I wasn't the only one.

Started up a bunch of new dating campaigns with dozens of ads the other day. I started my CPC in the middle of the suggested range at $0.55 just to kickstart them. Fairly large demographics, and a $x,xxx budget so it's not like it was a cpc/budget issue.

Result?

Each ad received an average 1600 impressions per hour... Pathetic.
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Yeah.. it's always good to have different sources for traffic.
 
its not even about the traffic anymore. i had ads that were sitting around 13cpc, ctr 0.15% in a HUGEEEEE market. And now..clicks dropped by atleast 900%. fucking facebook is just greeeedy
 
ImagesAndWords said:
Yeah what's with the severe impression drops? Glad to hear I wasn't the only one.

Started up a bunch of new dating campaigns with dozens of ads the other day. I started my CPC in the middle of the suggested range at $0.55 just to kickstart them. Fairly large demographics, and a $x,xxx budget so it's not like it was a cpc/budget issue.

Result?

Each ad received an average 1600 impressions per hour... Pathetic.
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Damn, .55c is high for dating, you must be getting monster payouts or conversions. Or you just drop the bid big time.
 
ImagesAndWords said:
No it was just for the sake of getting the ads started off with some decent impressions and ctr. I would lower it waay down from that. But with almost no impressions, even at really high budgets and cpc's, it's a joke.
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I hear ya. I have an extremely hard time keeping any dating offer up and running after the initial burst.
 
Two weeks ago I got all the traffic I wanted at .16 cpm for my demographic, now I have to pay .23 cpm to get any traffic with the same demo. Hopefully this is just temporary.
 
bowlcutah said:
Two weeks ago I got all the traffic I wanted at .16 cpm for my demographic, now I have to pay .23 cpm to get any traffic with the same demo. Hopefully this is just temporary.
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It's more or less the same here. I wonder if anyone is still getting a ton of impressions.
 
Yep, i've seen a big traffic drop for all my non-us/ca compaing several days ago. And now all the same.

CTR almost the same, little higher, but it could be some fluctuations.
Bids... Don't know...
$0.4 for ctr about 0.8-1% and 0.05 for ctr about 0.8-1% giving almost the same amount of impressions (same targeting).
Conversion the same and even a bit better.

Making bids higher have no effect, so it seems not greed but some changes.
 
New rating systems are real and in effect. Ads with good ratings will run like hell and cost you nothing, ads with bad ratings may not even run at all - even if you bid $10/click. Just got an email from the rep, here's part of it:

[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]"SECTION 18
Subscription Services
[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The advertisement of Subscription Services must comply with the conditions noted below and as determined by Facebook in its sole discretion. "Subscription Services" may include sites that promote downloading ringtones, wallpaper, or text messages for predictions, love life advice, news, personality quizzes, or other entertainment services or any site that induces a user to sign up for recurring billing of a product or service. [/FONT]
  • [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Subscription Services conditions:
    [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The promoted website clearly and accurately displays the pricing of the offer on the landing page of the website as well as on the page where a user opts into the offer. [/FONT]
    2. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If your site requires users to submit personal information, your site must prominently display the price and billing interval (such as per week or once per month) on the page where users first enter personal information (such as a name or phone number). [/FONT]
    3. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If users sign up to your service by transmitting a code by text message, the price and billing interval must be clearly and prominently displayed beside the code. [/FONT]
    4. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If your service is a subscription, you must provide a prominent opt-in checkbox or other clear mechanism indicating that the user knowingly accepts the price and subscription service. This should be on the first page users enter personal data, and the user should not be able to proceed without opting in.
      [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]All of the items above should be located in a prominent place on your webpage and should be easy to find, read, and understand. "[/FONT]
 
Isostar13 said:
New rating systems are real and in effect. Ads with good ratings will run like hell and cost you nothing, ads with bad ratings may not even run at all - even if you bid $10/click. Just got an email from the rep, here's part of it:

[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]"SECTION 18
Subscription Services
[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The advertisement of Subscription Services must comply with the conditions noted below and as determined by Facebook in its sole discretion. "Subscription Services" may include sites that promote downloading ringtones, wallpaper, or text messages for predictions, love life advice, news, personality quizzes, or other entertainment services or any site that induces a user to sign up for recurring billing of a product or service. [/FONT]
  • [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Subscription Services conditions:
    [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The promoted website clearly and accurately displays the pricing of the offer on the landing page of the website as well as on the page where a user opts into the offer. [/FONT]
    2. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If your site requires users to submit personal information, your site must prominently display the price and billing interval (such as per week or once per month) on the page where users first enter personal information (such as a name or phone number). [/FONT]
    3. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If users sign up to your service by transmitting a code by text message, the price and billing interval must be clearly and prominently displayed beside the code. [/FONT]
    4. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If your service is a subscription, you must provide a prominent opt-in checkbox or other clear mechanism indicating that the user knowingly accepts the price and subscription service. This should be on the first page users enter personal data, and the user should not be able to proceed without opting in.
      [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]All of the items above should be located in a prominent place on your webpage and should be easy to find, read, and understand. "[/FONT]
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That reads as if they copied it almost word for word from the G Adwords moible policy. Way to be original.
 
Isostar13 said:
New rating systems are real and in effect. Ads with good ratings will run like hell and cost you nothing, ads with bad ratings may not even run at all - even if you bid $10/click. Just got an email from the rep, here's part of it:

[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]"SECTION 18
Subscription Services
[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The advertisement of Subscription Services must comply with the conditions noted below and as determined by Facebook in its sole discretion. "Subscription Services" may include sites that promote downloading ringtones, wallpaper, or text messages for predictions, love life advice, news, personality quizzes, or other entertainment services or any site that induces a user to sign up for recurring billing of a product or service. [/FONT]
  • [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Subscription Services conditions:
    [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The promoted website clearly and accurately displays the pricing of the offer on the landing page of the website as well as on the page where a user opts into the offer. [/FONT]
    2. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If your site requires users to submit personal information, your site must prominently display the price and billing interval (such as per week or once per month) on the page where users first enter personal information (such as a name or phone number). [/FONT]
    3. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If users sign up to your service by transmitting a code by text message, the price and billing interval must be clearly and prominently displayed beside the code. [/FONT]
    4. [FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]If your service is a subscription, you must provide a prominent opt-in checkbox or other clear mechanism indicating that the user knowingly accepts the price and subscription service. This should be on the first page users enter personal data, and the user should not be able to proceed without opting in.
      [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]All of the items above should be located in a prominent place on your webpage and should be easy to find, read, and understand. "[/FONT]
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They should just say what they mean.
"We'd really like you to run non-commercial ads. Like, won't anyone just pay for traffic and not monetize it?"
Not accepting rebills isn't a big deal to me, but combined with all the other bullshit, it's really getting obnoxious.

Why the hell would I spend time on something when they fuck over stability and change their minds constantly? This isn't brain surgery.
 
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