Advertising

Boosting

Paying to promote an existing post from the app itself. Quick, but deliberately limited: fewer objectives, coarse targeting, usually optimised for engagement rather than sales. Ads Manager can promote the same post with proper objectives and costs no more.


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Ads Manager

The full advertising console for a platform, where you control objectives, audiences, placements, budgets, creative an…

Advantage+

Meta's automated campaign products, where the system chooses audiences, placements and creative combinations with mini…

Attribution window

The period after seeing or clicking an ad within which a conversion is credited to it, such as seven-day click and one…

Bid strategy

How the platform spends your budget in the auction: highest volume, cost per result goal, bid cap or value optimisatio…

Budget pacing

How evenly spend is spread across a day or campaign. Platforms deliberately hold back budget for better opportunities …

Campaign objective

What you tell the platform to optimise for: awareness, traffic, engagement, leads, app promotion or sales. This choice…

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