A Deep Dive into Advantage+
Meta has been advancing its AI technology, with its commitment prominently on display in its Advantage Suite, providing advertisers with a plethora of advertising automation tools within its self-serve platform. For anyone familiar with Meta’s Ads Manager, you will likely have seen all of the Advantage and Advantage+ features displayed across the Ads Manager suite. These features allow you to enhance specific aspects of your standard campaign. For example, Advantage+ allows you to automate the entirety of the sales objective campaign creation process.
At their core, these offerings depend on Meta's sophisticated algorithm, entrusting its AI to identify ideal customers and seamlessly present relevant ads for improved results. Advantage+ shopping campaigns, along with Meta's broader Advantage suite, signals a strategic change in ad creation, especially for online retailers. Before implementing Advantage+ in your next shopping campaign, it's crucial to weigh several key aspects.
Advantages
- Efficiency
Advantage+ brings a whole new level of efficiency to the ads set-up process. You will need to start by keeping your audience broad to allow the machine learning to find the perfect audience, however, this means that ad setup over time becomes a lot faster, saving you time to focus on other aspects of your campaign. Advantage+ also allows your ad sets to become more streamlined, and by minimising the amount of ad sets per campaign, you will also help Advantage+ in its exit learning. - Creative Testing
A huge advantage of…Advantage+ is its ability for creative testing. Users can load-up a shopping campaign with up to 150 creatives to the Advantage+ platform and utilise the algorithm to identify which of these resonate best with their audience. This approach allows for data-driven decisions that can further-enhance your overall campaign performance. - Improved Return on Ad Spend (ROAS)
Advantage+ aims to boost advertisers’ return on investment by optimising ad campaigns based on real-time data. By using the algorithm’s ability to adapt and refine strategies throughout the lifecycle of a campaign, Advantage+ ultimately helps to contribute a more efficient allocation of resources, improving ROI for advertisers.
Sticking Points
- Trusting Meta’s Creatives
Whilst you can choose to put your complete trust in Meta’s algorithm, it’s best to be mindful of automatic text and creative optimisations. With AI still in its relative infancy, there is still a risk that the text appearing in your ad is not exactly what you or your client wants. - Less Control
With a greater reliance on Meta’s algorithm, you may find that you have less granular control over certain campaign elements. Although Advantage and Advantage+ are great for streamlining processes and ad expenditure, you may still prefer to have more specific targeting for your campaign. - Wider Budget Requirements
As powerful as Advantage+ is for e-commerce campaigns, it is by no means a silver bullet, as certain shopping campaigns may not work for every single business. Due to the broad nature of Advantage+, any campaigns using this tool will need a broad budget to enable the algorithm to test and learn to find the right users for your business.
Conclusion
AI's rise has enabled Meta to provide streamlined ad sets, tailored creative experiences, and automated campaign setups for sales through Advantage+ shopping campaigns. While this presents significant opportunities, businesses must navigate continually evolving updates to the platform. Staying informed and mastering these complexities will be essential for fully capitalising on Meta's Advantage Suite.
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