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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+86 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Reliable
- Helps Innovate
- Security Protects
- Performance Enhancing
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Meta Ads Manager Reviews
Adam F.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2023
Still one of the most powerful ad platforms around
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Meta Ads Manager from other similar products?
Meta Ads Manager empowers marketers to promote content efficiently and effectively on major Meta-owned social networks including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger along with the wider Audience Network. This means you can target an enormous audience. While some targeting capabilities have been adjusted in the last twelve months due to various legal and privacy changes, it is still an invaluable tool for high-performance advertising.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to upload first-party customer data into the platform to show them new offers or to use the look-a-like feature which essentially tells Facebook to find users who have similar attributes to those who have already used your services or purchased from you. I also like the ability to split-test creative to gain deeper insights into the messaging, copy, and visuals that resonate with our prospective customers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
You need to spend a significant amount of money to gain access to a Customer Success Manager. If your budgets aren't competitive with some of the biggest companies, you'll need to rely on their Facebook Support teams - and it's pot-luck whether they have the knowledge to solve your issues. There is A LOT of data in the platform (which is great) but there are hardly any reports or tools to help you visualise those performance figures.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure you don't leave the creation of your paid campaigns until the last minute. It doesn't happen often but Meta does warn that it can take several days to moderate. Take a look at Facebook's personal attributes policies to help avoid any unexpected delays. There are some strict rules on what you can and can't put in your creatives. If you want to maximise value from the platform, take the Facebook Blueprint course. Make time to explore the Meta Ads Manager platform. Although it looks complex, creating campaigns can be done relatively quickly once you know what you're doing.
Pros
- Unique Features
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Cons
- Less Efficient Service
- Vendor Friendly Policies
- Charges for Enhancements
Adam M.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
Powerful End-To-End Social Media Management tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Meta Ads Manager from other similar products?
This was a major game-changer when I converted to it from another paid service because it has helped me to optimize the material and ensure that I am posting the most interesting, pertinent, and high-quality stuff for my clients’ followers. My clients’ traffic has increased and climbed by a whopping 100% more performance than with the prior solution, and I have witnessed engagement rise like never before. I appreciate how quickly new features are being added to Meta for business tools, and I’m looking forward to what the future holds for it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The most effective tool and one that is most helpful to me as a social media management company, in addition to the advantages of Meta for Business and what I do enjoy about their business solutions, is the potent Creator Studio. The Facebook Creator Studio completely changed the way I handle the Facebook and Instagram pages of my clients. It allows my staff complete control over the information I share, and the insights it offers are quite useful.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Even though I like how quickly this platform is developing, my staff and clients don’t enjoy how Meta interacts with them anytime a service, product, or capacity is updated.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I like how Meta for Business makes it simpler for companies, in particular SMM agencies like us, to manage over 40 accounts at once, produce content, schedule, and publish, and have complete authority over everything while keeping it simple with a user-friendly, easy-to-use UI and UX, as usually, they are. Meta for Business not only has an extensive list of options to make it easier for organizations to make ads and to motivate them to run more ads on their platform.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
Arturo Z.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
A tool with greater precision in campaigns
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Meta Ads Manager from other similar products?
It is an accessible tool, which compared to others is easier to adapt and manage, which makes it much more public and flexible, something that the public of independent workers likes a lot, but for professionals in companies it is also quite functional. from the point of view of the advantages that are available
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like is its ability to measure the scope of advertising, it is a tool that allows you to program when the publications will come out and to know if it was really a satisfactory campaign, taking into account that it is part of the inclusions of a large social network, which strategically It would bring many more business benefits than others, being one of the most implemented in organizations.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I do not consider that this tool has faults, in the way in which it executes the campaigns and how it serves both the clients and the professional
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Allows ads and advertisements to reach even more specific audiences with greater precision and reach
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity