On today’s episode we are going to talk about how to go about structuring your Facebook Ads for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and any other time limited promotions.

I specifically talk about the settings for:

1. Audience Targeting
2. Budget
3. Ads and Placements

Targeting

First principle with targeting is…

Targeting is all about Retargeting

Create AdSets for every engagement audience over the last 365 days (for most events that occur on Facebook) and 180 days (for events that occur on your website).

Here are the audiences you should have set up and placed in separate Adsets:

• All Website Visits (180 days)
• Email Upload List
• CLV Data List (I use an app call Looga)
• ViewContent (180 days)
• Posts and Ad Engagement (180 days)
• 25% Video Watched (180 days)
• IG Page Engagement (180 day)
• An AdSet that Had ALL of the above Audiences
• Budget

Bidding and Budget

Here are three important tips for bid and budget setup:

The next thing to do is work on Bid Cap i.e. manual bidding.
Test a series of bids and stick to the most efficient.
DO NOT use Auto bidding because it will not deliver the most competitive bids.

Also set high budgets to give Facebook a nudge that you are keen on aggressively getting in front of the audiences that you are targeting. I tend to go for $1,000+ budgets per Adset.

Set your delivery Type to ‘accelerated’ and not standard, so that your creative are rapidly served to your audience the moment they get on Facebook or Instagram all through the sales period.

Creative – Placements

• Go for 15 Second Creatives as they tend to work all video placements slots.
• Use more vertical video orientation so that you take up more space on mobile devices – so an aspect ratio of 4:5 or dimensions 1280 x 1600 px.
• Select Automatic Placements so that Facebook figures out where an hour to serve your ads (as this is time limited).
• Drive Variation in Creatives – by setting up to 10 different creative types and then cut or pause non-performers over the course of the day

Timestamp

3:12 Black Friday – Cyber Monday period
8:08 Timing – prime your audience
11:02 How to set up your targetting
16:31 Working on your budget
20:08 Creatives/placement of creatives

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