Facebook Blueprint - Study Guide
Facebook Blueprint - Study Guide
1. Audiences 6
Targeting: Core Audiences 6
Lookalike Audiences 6
Custom Audiences 7
2. Audience Overlap 8
Recommended Audiences 8
Reaching Multicultural Affinity Audience 9
How to find your ideal audience on Facebook, Instagram,
and audience network 10
3. Apps 11
Promoting Successful App: From Install to Sales Webinar 11
App Engagement 11
App Installs 11
4. Instagram 12
Advance Performance Marketing Instagram 12
5. Reporting - Measurement 13
Recommended Targeting Solutions by Objective
13
Audience Outcomes 14
Brand Outcomes 14
Sales Outcomes 15
Facebook ads reporting attribution 15
Facebook Pixel 15
Mobile SDK 15
Offline events 15
Facebook Reporting vs Third Party Reporting 16
History Reporting 16
6. Ads - facebook 17
Acquiring New Customers - Lead Ads 17
Turn Shoppers into Buyers with Dynamic Ads 17
Book more business with dynamic Ads for Travel 18
A/B Testing 18
Ad Policies for Content, Creative and Targeting 19
Audience Network: Extend the reach of your fb campaigns 20
7. Branding 21
Brand Awareness: Earning Reach and Attention 21
Building Brand with Brand Awareness Objective - Webinar 23
Brand Lift 24
Brand Measurement Solutions 25
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) 26
Nielsen Total Ad Ratings (TAR) 26
Facebook Brand Lift 26
8. Direct Response 27
Best Practices 27
9. Video 29
Video Views 29
10. Facebook Marketing Partners 30
Buying Channels 30
11. Ad Auction 31
Ad Auction Options 31
Ad Auction and Delivery Overview 31
Standard versus Accelerated Delivery 34
Reach and frequency buying on FB 34
Reach and frequency Troubleshooting 36
12. Troubleshooting Ads 37
Reach and frequency Webinar 37
Budget, Bidding, Scheduling 39
Plan reach & frequency campaigns with Campaign Planner 39
13. Power Editor (Advanced) 41
14. Facebook and TV 42
15. Engaging your Audience with Interactive Canvas Units 44
16. Additional Resources 46
1. Audiences
There are 3 different type of audiences within Facebook. It's key that you understand
the difference between all of them:
Core Audiences: sometimes also called "saved" audiences are based on the
following variables:
- Intent / Interest
- Geographic
- Lifestyle / life-stage
- Psychographic
- Demographic
- Purchase-based
The larger the audience, the less similar to seed audience will be. 1% - 10%
A) Drive online Traffic from Facebook (will be referred as FB) and Instagram (will
be referred as IG)
Lookalike
Audiences
App Engagement
● Integration with Facebook SDK is needed
● CTA:
a. Use App
b. Open link
c. Shop now
d. Book now
e. Play game
f. Listen now
g. Watch Video
h. Watch More
i. Download
j. Learn More
k. Sign Up
● Further reading:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/best-practices/gaming-casual
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/best-practices/travel-hotel
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/best-practices/ecom-and-retail
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/best-practices
App Installs
● App must report installs
● App account id-app id-mobile store trio must be non-fraudulent before CPA is
permitted
4. Instagram
- Remarketing to existing
X
customers
Driving mobile apps installs and conversions
- Acquiring new mobile app
X X X
users
- Remarketing to existing
X
mobile app users
Audience Outcomes
● Facebook ads reporting (Ads Manager + Power Editor + Ads Insights API)
● Split Testing (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/guides/split-testing/v2.8)
● Audience Insights
● Reach reporting
● Nielsen DAR/TAR
● Viewability and verification partners
Brand Outcomes
Determine if ads generated awareness for brand and shifted perception of brand.
Brand Lift:
● Brand Lift on Facebook
● Nielsen: analyzed data from 173 of their brand effect studies that included digital
ads
● Millward Brown
Sales Outcomes
Determine if customer took desired action: buy a product, sign up for service or
downloaded app.
● Facebook conversion reporting: online and offline conversions
● Facebook conversion lift: determine additional business driven online, offline
and mobile app from people reached by fb ads across devices
● Partner lift: measure lift in sales using partner-based ROI measurement
solutions
● Attribution: rules-based attribution and results-driven multi-touch attribution to
help advertisers how their campaigns drive online, offline and cross-device
conversions
● Multi-touch attribution (MTA) partner: people-based MTA.
● Marketing mix modeling (MMM) partners
Mobile Measurement Partners (MMPs): how fb drives installs and revenue for your
app
Ways to measure it
1. Facebook pixel
○ Allows you to measure the amount of people that visit specific pages or
takes specific actions within your website.
○ All events will be able to be tracked for specific campaigns
○ You can use parameters and events to better track and measure your
campaign performance
2. Mobile SDK
○ Allows you to track performance of your campaigns to mobile app
○ Allows you to create marketing campaign for specific events in your mobile
app
3. Offline events
○ Allows you to compare transactions that occurred offline to the audience of
your campaigns, giving you a complete picture of the customer journey
and performance of digital ads.
○ All data must have an Event Time
○ All entries must have an Event Name:
Lead, Purchase, Other, ViewContent, Search, AddToCart, AddToWishList,
InitiateCheckout, AddPaymentInfo, CompleteRegistration
○ Value and currency
Attribution Window
● Broken up in 1-day, 7-day and 28-day
● https://www.facebook.com/business/help/458681590974355?helpref=faq_content
History Reporting
- Search by user, activity and date.
Product Catalog
● Product Feed: A structured data file that contains information about your product
inventory, including pricing, availability, and descriptions. Each row in the file
contains columns of attributes that define each product. You can also use the
same product feed that you use from other services and import it directly into
Facebook.
● Product Set: A set of products that you want to advertise. For example, summer
dresses and winter coats would be two different product sets.
● Product ID: A unique code that represents an item in your catalog. Each product
has its own product ID.
● Dynamic Ad: A personalized ad delivered to the right person at the right time.
Book more business with dynamic Ads for Travel
● Be relevant
● Show dynamic pricing
● Scale your campaigns
● Deliver ads at the right time
● Enhance ROI
Hotel Catalog
● Hotel Catalog: A collection of your hotel feeds. For example, you may have
multiple feeds for hotels located in different regions.
● Hotel Feed: A structured XML, CSV, or TSV file that contains information about
your hotel inventory, including base prices, fees, availability, and property
descriptions. Each row represents a hotel and the columns represent different
attributes.
● Hotel ID: A unique code that represents each hotel in your feed. Each hotel has
its own code.
● Dynamic Ad: A personalized ad delivered to the right person at the right time.
A/B Testing
● Choose a target audience, split into two groups and post a different version of
an ad to each group.
● FB Ads Manager and Power Editor can see results.
● Variables: titles, copy, images, calls to actions, and targeting options.
Targeting:
● Personal characteristics: Name, race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, physical
or mental disability or medical condition, financial status or perceived
imperfections.
Content:
● Vulgar language
● Deceptive Claims: false, fraudulent or misleading claims
● Following Action Texts:
1. Acceptable:
a. "Click 'Like' to connect with X"
b. "Like our Page to receive updates, news, deals, etc"
c. "Like John's Page to show your support"
2. Unacceptable:
a. "Like our organization's Page to show your support for X."
b. "Click 'Like' if you agree"
c. "Like this ad to see the video"
d. "Like our Page to automatically enter our raffle"
Creative:
● Before and after pictures
● Sexually suggestive
● Shock or scare tactics
Facebook logos:
● As long as you don’t imply a partnership you should be ok
● You can’t use other logos or previous ones
Audience Network: Extend the reach of your fb campaigns
● Eligible ads are converted into native, banner, interstitial or video ads on fb
approved publishers.
There are two ways you can optimize brand awareness campaigns:
● Brand Awareness: combination of reach and attention
○ Find people in target audience who pays attention to ads and then finds
more similar people.
○ Charged for impressions
● Reach optimization: maximize number of people who see ads given a specific
time period
○ You have to set up a budget and bid for reaching your audience
○ Set frequency resets
● Brand Awareness: Total number of people recalling the ad per dollar spent
● Reach: Number of people reached per dollar spent
● Attention: Amount of time people spend looking at ads relative to average ad
● Message Quality: Brand linkage, persuasion, memorability and so on
● Other Factors: Existing brand attributes, priming, product usage, and so on
How do Facebook measurements differs from various ad types:
● Brand Awareness vs Page Post Engagement → Brand Awareness factors time
a person spend on ads. Page post only toward people more likely to interact
with ad.
● Brand Awareness vs Video Views → depends on KPI or objective
● Reach Optimization vs. Unique daily reach → Reach optimization maximizes
specific reach over a period of time. Unique one day, not entire campaign.
● Reach Optimization vs Reach and Frequency → optimize reach beyond daily.
● With brand awareness we can have direct control in reach and attention.
● The longer someone is looking at ad, the best the ad recall it is.
● Most people that are most likely to pay attention
Maximize ad recall and time watching ads, optimized for relative attention:
1. Reach Objective: maximum number of people you want to reach
2. Capture People's Attention: people most likely to pay attention. Cost effective
CPM
3. KPI is engagement: Page post engagement is most powerful
Comparison:
When to Use Drive targeted awareness of your Drive as many video views as possible
video with predictable reach and by delivering your ad to people who are
controlled frequency. most likely to view your videos.
Frequency You select frequency for entire Up to 2 per day; no lifetime frequency
duration of campaign capping. Up to 4 times a day for fans.
Buying Ads Create Tool / Power Editor / API Ads Create Tool / Power Editor / API
Channel
Measurement Impressions, views, completed views, quartile views, shares, link clicks (Page
Insights and Ads Reporting), Brand Effect, Nielsen Total Ad Rating, Nielsen
Digital Ad Rating, Datalogix.
Nielsen and Datalogix only in selected countries.
10. FB Marketing Partners
Buying Channels
You can work with Facebook Marketing Partners in several ways:
- Campaign strategy
- Campaign management
- Measurements and insights
Self-serve:
- Building FB Pages
- Create FB or IG Ads
- Targeting the right audience
- Analyzing your ad campaign
Managed:
- Supporting TV and radio ads with corresponding FB ads
- Building custom apps
- Analyzing current customer data to find similar customers on FB
Insertion Orders: Buy ads directly through a FB Sales Representative. When you
need to guarantee audience delivery.
The Ad Auction: FB uses more than 140 factors to determine which ads are shown
- Bid you input as you’re setting up your ad
- How we predict people in your audience will react to your ad
- How relevant we think they’ll find your ad
You value Clicks Reach Click, reach, social impressions, and actions at
different levels
We optimize Clicks Reach What you value the most; clicks, reach, social
for impressions, or actions such as conversion
11. Ad Auction
Ad Auction Options
Audience Outcomes
● How many people did your ad reach? How frequently?
● Did the ads reach the right people/audience?
● Did the ads reach people cross-device?
Brand Outcomes
● Did the ads breakthrough? Are they memorable?
● Did they generate brand awareness?
● Did the ads change the perception of your brand?
Sales Outcomes
● Did the ads drive your business outcomes? Did they contribute to ROI?
● Did the ads results in sales, leads or app installs?
Ad Auction and Delivery Overview
Buying Types
1. Reach & Frequency: Accurately plan and deliver campaigns with predictable
reach and controlled frequency. Schedule ads during most impactful times.
2. Auction: Reach audiences most likely to react to content. Takes into account:
bid, likelihood of driving desired outcomes, site performance, ad quality and
relevant ad to target audience.
3. TRP: lets advertisers plan and buy video campaigns using Nielsen-verified
TRPs on FB & IG. This allows video campaigns to be planned, bought and
reported like TV and other online video channels
Ad Relevance:
- eCTR: expected click-through rate
- eCVR: expected click-to-conversion rate
- Influenced by ad history, ad set history, campaign history, user characteristics,
page type, and activity on the specific ad.
Optimize for different bid types:
● Impressions (CPM): cost per mille
○ It’s the toughest one, and you may want to stay away from it as you could
spend lots of money without any results
○ Total Bid = eCPM x Ad Relevance factors
Total Bid = (CPM Bid) + Ad Relevance Factors
● Clicks (CPC): the price you pay for every click
○ You are paying for every kind of click on your ad (like, share, clicks, etc.)
○ The better the CTR, the lower your CPC will be.
○ Total Bid = eCPM x Relevance Factors
Total Bid = [(CPC Bid) x (expected CTR or eCTR) *1,000] + Ad Relevance
Factors
● Conversions (oCPM): you want FB to automatically optimize for your campaign
goal (website conversion, post engagement, offer claims, etc.)
○ You are not really bidding but telling FB the desired maximum cost for
goal’s actions. The delivery will be optimized to display ads to those users
most likely to complete the action you want.
○ Website conversions, engagement, website clicks, reach, page likes,
mobile app installs, and so on.
○ You will pay more for overall display of ads, but overall cost of conversion
will be much cheaper.
● Actions (CPA): you are looking for specific actions based on ad type (likes,
leads, etc.) with your Facebook campaigns.
○ You can not use CPA to promote external website conversions.
○ Total Bid = eCPM x Ad Relevance factors
Total Bid = (CPA or oCPM Bid) x (eCTR x Conversion probability, or
eCVR) + Relevance factors
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Standard versus Accelerated Delivery
● Buy ads on FB and IG through Ads Manager, Power Editor and API.
● You must have 200,000 people in audience to use reach and frequency buying
tools.
● Reach and frequency can be a good fit if you want to:
○ Accurately predict the reach, frequency, and cost of your brand campaigns
○ Extend the reach of your TV campaigns onto FB and IG
○ Plan and book your campaigns in advance
○ Tell your brand’s story and deliver your message to people in a sequence
○ Deliver ads across devices
○ Flexibility on targeting and buy size
○ Predictable delivery
○ Efficient pricing for advertisers
○ Controlled delivery to real people
● The reach objective lets to show ads to the maximum number of people in your
audience and maximize the number of impressions people in your audience
see.
● Reach and frequency buying guidelines
○ Cost is always CPM
Some guidelines to keep in mind when planning and buying ads using reach and
frequency:
Delivery
● Reach optimization will show your ads to the maximum number of people
● Impressions optimization will show your ads as many times as possible
○ The same person may see ad several times
● Ad Sets must be 1-90 days in length and can be booked six months in advance
of your launch date
● You must reach a minimum of 200,000 people per Ad Set
● You can deliver ads on FB and IG
● The system delivers to hit the reach and frequency target while also prioritizing
the selected objective. If your primary KPI is action based — conversions or
website clicks — consider the auction for more optimal buying options.
● Frequency planned is a cap, not a guarantee. We will deliver to an average
without going above the set cap.
● You may cancel or make changes any time before your Ad Set starts.
● Audience holdouts can be up to 5%.
● Ads must be uploaded to the Ad Set within six hours after the scheduled start
time. If they are uploaded after that, the Ad Set will be cancelled.
● Supports image, video ads, carousel ads, slideshow ads and canvas ads
● CTA: apply now, book now, contact us, download, learn more, save, sell now,
shop now, sign up, watch more, get directions, call now, message now.
Ad Sets
● Can contain multiple ads. If there are multiple ads within a reach and frequency
Ad Set, delivery will optimize toward the best-performing ads based on the
objective you’ve selected.
● You may choose to manually rotate creative within an Ad Set or use ad
scheduling to set the rotation schedule in advance.
● You may choose to use ad sequencing to have control over the order that the
ads in your Ad Set are seen.
● Each Ad Set has its own Budget, Reach, Frequency, Targeting, and
Placements.
Targeting
● You may target one country per campaign, so if you’re interested in reaching
people in multiple countries, you’ll need to set up separate reach and frequency
Ad Sets.
● It's best to avoid creating too narrow of an audience in order to maximize
results.
● You can use exclusion targeting when retargeting audiences with video.
● Reach and frequency campaigns are compatible with the majority of Facebook’s
targeting capabilities, but the following are exceptions:
○ Website Custom Audiences
○ Fan-exclusion targeting
○ Friends of Connections targeting
○ Operating system specific targeting
Reach and frequency Troubleshooting
Canceling
● You will always need to be running one ad set.
○ If you have one, you won’t be able to delete it. To delete, add a new one
and delete old one.
● To add video and canvas you need to set up at ad set level.
● You can cancel a campaign but not an ad set.
Delivery
● Campaigns will deliver most at start of frequency intervals.
○ For example, if your frequency is 2 impressions every 6 days, most of the
delivery is likely to be in the first 3 days, to increase the chances of
showing the same people a second impression in the last 3 days.
Audiences
● You CAN’T use it with website custom audiences, fan or video
engagement-exclusion targeting, friends of connections or operating
system-specific
● It must be at the country level
12. Troubleshooting Ads
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/223107361182010
Ad Sequencing
● Run ads in order
Use Cases
● Plan brand campaigns in advance
○ Use campaign planning tools
○ Lock in buy/campaigns up to 6 months in advance
○ Plan brand campaign with reach confidence
● Complement TV Buys
○ Build frequency early
○ Use FB + IG during dark periods
● Tell more complex stories with controlled delivery
Use it for:
● Predict reach and frequency of your campaign
● Optimize campaign performance by comparing versions
● Share media plans with others
Intended for Media planners and facebook marketing partners. For media planning
only.
Create a plan and versions of the plan
1. Create a base plan
a. Audience
b. Frequency cap
c. Schedule
d. Placements
e. Objective
f. Creative format for campaigns
2. Create versions of the plan
a. Up to six versions of each plan
b. Tweak: schedule, audience, targeting and more
3. Compare versions
a. Estimated reach delivery
b. Frequency distribution
c. Placement distribution
d. Spend per day
e. Targeting
Split Testing
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14. Facebook and TV
TRP Buying on FB and IG
● Target Rating Points (TRP): measure impressions as a percentage of the target
population for an advertising campaign and are a core aspect of how TV ads are
purchased and measured.
● It includes Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings on each campaign
Advantages
● Predictable delivery: Highly predictable delivery across devices: reach new
audiences, launch a product, or increase online sales or foot traffic. Understand
reach, frequency, and TRP’s of a campaign.
● Measurement: Dedicated reporting interface including day, demo and placement
trends.
● Executional flexibility: Choose placement and videos of different lengths.
Benefits
● Sight, sound and motion
● Massive reach at the center of discovery
● Extend your TV campaigns to accurately reach the people you want to reach
● Website Clicks
● Website Conversions
● Mobile App Installs
● Mobile App Engagement
● Video Views
● Brand Awareness
● Page Post Engagement
Reporting:
● Canvas View Duration – the average time spent in seconds, within a Canvas
experience
● Canvas View Percentage – the average percentage of the Canvas seen. Note:
This only includes components in the initial (root) Canvas and not Linked
Canvases.
● Canvas Component Duration Percentage – the average percentage of time
spent viewing each component of a Canvas experience
● Link Clicks – the total number of clicks on your Canvas ad, which may include
clicks to open Canvas as well as links to offsite content. A full breakdown of Link
Click types is available within Canvas Component-level reporting. This will show
you link clicks by component within Canvas.
Creative Considerations:
● Open Strong
● Make content relevant to people
● Structure your story
● Combine photos, videos or text
● Let people interact at their own pace
● Guide people along
● Use existing assets
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