Author: Jason Gan

If Meta asks you to verify your identity before you can keep running ads, that's not a punishment and not necessarily a sign anything went wrong — it's becoming a standard part of running ads on the platform. Identity verification, typically a government-issued ID like...

Yes — for most businesses, Meta advertising is still worth it in 2026, and the reason has less to do with the platform being trendy and more to do with the audience already being there, ready to buy. New platforms come and go in the...

For products people genuinely need to restock — not just repurchase occasionally, but run out of and need again — a single, event-triggered win-back campaign isn't quite the right structure. A rolling win-back campaign, built from staggered purchase-recency cohorts running continuously, fits this kind of...

Advantage+ works best when Meta already has data to work from — a genuinely new ecommerce store doesn't have that yet, which makes manual targeting the stronger starting point in many cases, not Advantage+ by default. This is a related but distinct decision from whether to...

In markets where Facebook and Instagram Shop checkout exists, the conversion location setting on a Meta ads campaign offers a choice between Website only and Website + Shop. It's worth thinking carefully before selecting the combined option — it can route some sales through Shop...

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