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Questions tagged [facebook-ads]

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Where should I report getting scammed by a Facebook advertisement?

My girlfriend was scammed by clicking on a Facebook ad for a fake boot shop. The ad linked to a fake site whose domain has been registered a few days before that collected her credit card information. How can I report this to Facebook?
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Retrieve Facebook Ad Library direct post link

Facebook Ad Library will show you all ads running for a particular page, but the problem is that you cannot get the ad direct post link, like this: https://www.facebook.com/pageID/post/postID It does provide the ad unique id which is useless: How…
Yassine Qoraiche
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How is Facebook targeting me with ads for a site that I viewed in Incognito mode?

I visited a site in Chrome, on a desktop computer, in Incognito mode. (I had received an email with spammy content but from an otherwise legitimate-looking source; I visited the source website in Incognito mode to confirm this if it was genuine or…
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Remove "Call now" Call-To-Action button from a boosted (business) post

I made a post with a picture and boosted it (to show as an Ad) with Facebook. I have naively accepted the suggestion to include a "Call Now" button in it. It is terrible because it disables loading the attached picture. By clicking on the picture,…
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How to analyse in detail who clicked the advertisement?

Using Facebook Ads we can segment things like "parents with kids from 6-8 who live in Antarctica and like beaches". However, let's say we don't segment our potential clients (because we don't know who they are). Let's say eight potential clients…
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Estimated website clicks via Facebook Ad Manager

I'm setting up a Facebook ad for website clicks. The campaign shows me estimated reach for Facebook and Instagram, but it doesn't show me the estimated website clicks. Is it possible to get a website click estimate before making the ad live?
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Retrieve Facebook user id of all my friends?

I have a regular Facebook profile page with 800 friends. How can I get the Facebook user id of all 800 friends of mine? The reason for doing this is the following: I have a colleague that has a fanpage for his electronics store, and I think that my…
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Can I create a Facebook ad that targets a particular user's friends?

I'm not sure I phrased it correctly, so I apologize beforehand. Ralph has a Facebook personal account, under the email Ralph@example.com. Ralph created a fanpage (Ralph's Toy Store) using his personal account, so now Ralph has a Facebook personal…
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Use someone else's Facebook Page likes as target audience?

Is it possible to use the likes of a Facebook Page, that you do not own, as the target audience of a Facebook ad?
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Extra locations are targeted while boosting on Meta business suite

I am working with a client, publishing and boosting articles for him. Everything is working fine but there is a problem with setting the target locations. I need to target a single location but when click on save button, there are two or three extra…
Asmat Ali
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Domain verification for user-generated subdomains in Facebook

We run a platform where users get their own subdomain (e.g. customername.example.com). This is similar to github.io, myshopify.com, or any of thousands of other services providing their users with a subdomain that hosts their own content. We have…
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Facebook Ads gets rejected

I have a web shop, for sports wear. I have Facebook Page as well. But, whenever I try to advertise, for example, grid photo of few shoes, and recently just a link to a web site (web shop in Shopify), I get following error: Error message from…
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What are "Facebook App User ID" and "Facebook Page User ID"?

Facebook seems to hide away the meaning of those terms when creating Audiences for ads. I just want to know - do those terms refer to apps/pages' numerical IDs or to users' numerical IDs (like 4 for Mark Zuckerberg)? And if it's the latter, what's…
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How can I test a button on my Facebook Ads?

I have created an ad in Facebook to point to the Google Play Store. Now I would like to test, if when someone clicks on the button, it really works. Is there a way to test the ad? There is a preview mode for ads, but this only shows the layout of…
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Move campaign to other account

I have a Facebook 'manager' account. I created a promoted campaign in a wrong account. Is it possible to change the campaign to the correct account without removing it first? So it will keep that state of 'promoted'?
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