Author: Jason Gan

If you're running Meta ads for a shop on Shopee, Lazada, or Tokopedia through CPAS (catalog ads synced from your marketplace shop), there's one setting that quietly undermines conversions more than almost anything else in the campaign: choosing Website as the destination instead of App. 📺...

 A frequency slightly above the typical benchmark isn't automatically a problem — the same way a rising CPM or a below-benchmark CTR isn't automatically one either. If frequency ticks up a bit but CTR, CPM, and the conversion steps further down the funnel are all...

There is a literal, direct way to cap Meta ads frequency — and for most advertisers, it's not worth using. The real answer to "can I control frequency" is both yes and no: yes, through a specific objective most businesses shouldn't run, and yes in...

The Meta ads learning phase is the period where the delivery system is testing different audiences and placements to figure out who's actually likely to take the action you're optimizing for. It applies to every objective — sales, leads, engagement — not just new accounts...

Excluding converted customers and leads from your prospecting campaigns is one of the most basic hygiene rules in Meta advertising — but how long that exclusion should last isn't universal. A default of 30 days is a reasonable starting point for most accounts, but the...

If you're running a low-traffic or niche ecommerce account and your website-visitor retargeting campaign isn't spending, the audience itself may simply be too small — and it's often smaller than you'd expect, even after accounting for tracking improvements. This is a specific, common problem for...

If you're running Meta ads for an ecommerce store and don't have a dedicated cart abandonment retargeting campaign, that's a near-instant sale being left on the table. People who added something to their cart have already made the decision that they want the product —...

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