Facebook Ad Delivery: The Basics


Do you know the difference between 'boosting' a post on Facebook and running a news feed ad? 'Boosting' your post is not the same as a news feed ad on Facebook.

It is a bit confusing understanding how these types of Facebook ads work, so let's look at some primary differences between Facebook news feed ads and boosted Facebook post ads to help you see which is best for meeting your marketing goals.

Ad Formats

First of all, it's important to understand that Facebook offers a variety of ad formats and solutions today, column ads to desktop and mobile news feed ads. There area lot of variations to these ad formats and capabilities depending on how each ad campaign is set up. Now, let's look at Facebook news feed ads and what are often called 'Boosted' or 'Promoted Posts.'

News Feed Ads

Facebook News Feed ads allow you to run a targeted campaign to meet a specific goal with ads that show up in the desktop and/or mobile News Feed of targeted users, depending on your goals. Goals can include:
  • Page Post Engagement
  • Page Likes
  • Website Clicks
  • Website Conversions
  • App Installs
  • Event Responses
  • Video Views
  • And More
Once you choose your goal, you can begin setting up your campaign, which includes selecting advanced targeting options like age, gender, hobbies, location, and more. After setting your audience, you then add your budget, creative and copy -- the image, video text you want people to see. With certain types of campaign you can entice users to take action directly from your ad by including a call to action button. Depending on your goals, there are different call to action buttons to choose from, such as 'Get Directions', 'Book Now', and several more.

Facebook news feed ads can take on many formats depending on the goal and campaign type, but they have in common the fact that these ads show up in the Facebook News Feed and are identified as sponsored content.

'Boosted' Posts

Boosted Facebook posts are a type of Facebook News Feed ad that takes content in the form of a Facebook page post and amplifies it to a specific audience via Facebook’s News Feed advertising platform in order to target or increase visibility and boost post engagement.

Facebook gives you the option to boost status updates, photos, videos, and offers from your business page, so they will appear higher in the News Feed of your target audience, which helps more people see your post until your budget runs out. Boosted posts appear as 'sponsored' posts in the news feed and can appear on Instagram.

Many Facebook page owners are familiar with this type of advertising because they are often prompted to boost well-performing content by Facebook while they are logged in as a user. You can select to boost a post directly from your page on posts that have the blue 'boost' button, and you can also select to boost a post from Facebook's Ad Manager, which offers more detailed targeting and campaign capabilities.

Reaching Your Online Marketing Goals

So, which tactic is better for your online marketing?

Boosting a post is a great way to ensure your posts are shown to more users, and it can be used to effectively grow brand awareness and even to drive page likes, since boosted posts also show your page’s like button to users in their News Feed.

Boosted posts are optimized to drive more engagement (like likes, comments, and shares) on your content, so if that's an important part of your Facebook strategy, they can be a great fit. However, boosted posts don’t offer advanced call to action capabilities such as showing a map of your business or getting a user to fill out a form.

Other types of Facebook news feed ads are a great option if you have specific goals outside of post engagement that you want your advertising to accomplish.

Call AMC (207) 256.4418

More Resources







Comments

Popular Posts