What is Meta Ads Manager?
Ads Manager is your starting point for running ads on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger or Audience Network. It’s an all-in-one tool for creating ads, managing when and where they’ll run, and tracking how well your campaigns are performing towards your marketing goals. With the Ads Manager app for iOS and Android, you can keep an eye on your campaign while you’re on the go.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+77 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Meta Ads Manager?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
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Advertisement Content Curation
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Meta Ads Manager Reviews
Phil P.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2022
Best social advertising platform by default
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Meta Ads Manager from other similar products?
What differentiates Facebook and Instagram advertising is the size of its audience and data collected on its users. Despite Meta's best attempt to provide ZERO customer service and to continue stripping away affinity targeting segments, its simply a platform you have to advertise on to reach and convert customers if you are a DTC brand.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The amount of ad formats and retargeting campaign performance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Meta provides zero customer service. It's incredibly frustrating.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Put in the time necessary to develop compelling creative and your audience targeting strategy on FB/IG.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Less Effective Service
- Less Fair
- Vendor's Interest First
Vsevolod Z.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Facebook ads is a complex and feature-rich tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Meta Ads Manager from other similar products?
To put it bluntly Facebook Ads is the only possible way to put ads in Meta product suite: FaceBook, Instagram, Messenger.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It constantly evolves and improves, has a lot of different "modes" that allows to set advertising campaign specifically to the needs of your business.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of transparency on reporting side make it difficult to make educated decisions, as a lot of campaign management is automated by design.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Test different features on small budgets, to see the results, and decide which approach works best for you.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Security Protects
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
- Less Friendly Negotiation
Gianluca L.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2022
Necessary to acquire new prospects
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Meta Ads Manager from other similar products?
The network
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the results it gets you
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost, lack of good internal reporting
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
it helps finding your prospects mostly in B2C
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Cons
- Less Efficient Service
- Less Effective Service
- Less Caring