In Facebook advertising, an ad or a group of ads (ad set) may not perform as well the following day as they did the previous one. One of the main goals of automation is to spot poor performance as early as possible, switching off poor performing ads while leaving better performing ads running.
This strategy is called Funnel Strategy due to the strong connection with a conversion funnel, for example:
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Before you go ahead and change any settings for ad optimisation, you should spend time analysing your historical data to understand conditions (Spend/Cost per Click/CPM/CPA/CPI), if the information is available.
Let’s assume we accept these values:
- CPC = $2
- CPA = $70.
1. If a running creative doesn’t bring conversions, shut it down:
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