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Meta has announced a heap of recent ad updates, primarily focused on retailers and those using its automated Advantage+ campaigns.
And there are loads of area of interest use cases inside these recent updates, which could apply to your small business.
The first update is “Advantage+ creative optimizations”, which can mechanically optimize your video ads for viewing on Reels, or the mobile Facebook and Instagram apps with 9:16 ratio.
That will help more brands tap into the recognition of the assorted Meta video formats, with Reels being the important thing focus.
As per Meta:
“Reels and video on our apps continues to grow as day by day watch times across all video types grew over 25% year-over-year in Q4. In fact people now reshare Reels 3.5 billion times each day.”
The recent process can even enable advertisers to dynamically create multiple variations of an ad, so the system then has more options to display to users, depending on what they respond best to.
Meta’s also updating its Advantage+ catalog ads, with the added capability to import and use branded videos or customer demonstration videos, as an alternative of just static images.
Advantage catalog ads, which Meta first launched in beta testing last 12 months, provide personalized recommendations to users, based on what Meta’s system detects that every will likely be most thinking about, and this recent process will provide more capability to showcase relevant products inside the display.
Meta’s can even now enable brands to upload a “hero” image in the middle of their catalog ads, which Meta’s AI will then use to show people the very best products from their catalog to drive performance.
Meta’s also adding more eCommerce ad options, with users of Magento and Salesforce Commerce Cloud now able to create Shops ads inside their management systems. Meta’s also integrating its Shops ads and branded content ads (now called “Partnership ads”), which can enable direct purchasing from collaborative campaigns.
And there’s also recent elements in Reminder Ads on Instagram:
“Now, advertisers can include external links to a recent product or sale of their Reminder ads to help turn an individual’s interest into a purchase order. This summer, we’ll also give advertisers ways to notify people when an event starts and before it ends.”
Meta’s also looking to expand Reminder ads to Reels in the approaching months.
There’s also recent Promo Codes promotions on Facebook and Instagram, in addition to ads with product tags:
“In March, we’ll bring ads with product tags to Facebook Feed (currently Instagram only), and in April, we’ll launch the worldwide availability of ads with product tags to all businesses, whether or not they maintain a Shop.”
Meta’s also updating its Collaborative ads offering, to provide more analytics on performance, while it’s also testing the flexibility for advertisers to use Collaborative ads with Advantage+ shopping campaigns.
Finally, Meta’s also working on Advantage+ Catalog ads with omnichannel brand and product level reporting as a recent managed service solution “to help RMNs prove that ads on Meta platforms drove sales online and in-store”.
So yeah, a heap of updates, all with various levels of applicability and use. And while there might not be some huge, headline change that may get essentially the most attention, there’s loads of value for specific brands inside these changes.
You can read more about Meta’s latest ad updates here.
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