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Know Thy Facebook Audience

Jun 15, 2015

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Dan Russell

Don't go crazy trying to test every characteristic of your Facebook audience - check this deck out to know how to prioritize and test the most important audience characteristics first.

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Page 1: Know Thy Facebook Audience

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Know Thy Facebook Audience

so you don’t go crazy.

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when it comes to ads...

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2 things to consider

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AudienceMessage

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Audience

Demographics

● Location● Language● Gender● Age● Interests● Buying history● etc etc etc

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Audience

Demographics

● USA● English● Male● 18-24● Blogging, Technology, Computers,

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● Heavy Spender● College Graduate

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which of these is the LEAST specific?

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here’s why I ask...(and where the trick comes in)

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When you run Facebook ads, every campaign you run should be testing something.● Images

● Headlines● Post text● Display URL● Audience

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When you run Facebook ads, every campaign you run should be testing something.● Images

● Headlines● Post text● Display URL● Audience

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When you run Facebook ads, every campaign you run should be testing something.● Images

● Headlines● Post text● Display URL● Audience

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Audience

We have all of these characteristics, so we should be testing them!● USA● English● Male● 18-24● Blogging, Technology, Computers,

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● Heavy Spender● College Graduate

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the question is:what do you test?

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when you’re

testing for messaging, it’s a bit

easier.

Message

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when you’re

testing for messaging, it’s a bit

easier.

● Images● Headlines● Post text● Display URL

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when you’re

testing for messaging, it’s a bit

easier.

● Images● Headlines● Post text● Display URL

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but audience demographics are

more complicated to test.

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Country?State?

Zip Code?Town?

you can test location...

196 Countries

>30,000 towns in US alone!

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it turns into a NIGHTMARE!

when you’re creating an ad set for every test segment...

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it turns into a NIGHTMARE!

when you’re creating an ad set for every test segment...

(if you’re testing every town in the US, you’ll have over 30,000 ad sets! Which isn’t allowed - max is 1000 - but you get my point)

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let’s look at our audience details again.

so what do we do?

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Audience

Demographics

● USA● English● Male● 18-24● Blogging, Technology, Computers,

Internet Marketing

● Heavy Spender● College Graduate

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Demographics

● USA● English● Male● 18-24● Blogging, Technology, Computers,

Internet Marketing

● Heavy Spender● College Graduate

which one here is the LEAST specific?

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Demographics

● USA● English● Male● 18-24● Blogging, Technology, Computers,

Internet Marketing

● Heavy Spender● College Graduate

which one here is the LEAST specific?

BAM!

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Demographics

● USA● English● Male● 18-24● Blogging, Technology, Computers,

Internet Marketing

● Heavy Spender● College Graduate

the location details for this audience have the most possible sub-categories and are thus the MOST general and test-worthy characteristic.

BAM!

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so let’s look at the others for a second to see why they didn’t win.

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English

Pirate, UK, USNOT WORTH IT

Male

?NO SUBCATEGORIES

Blogging, Tech, Computers, IM

Tech Magazines, Individual Blogs, Computer Types/Groups, IM thought leaders

ON DECK

Heavy Spender

?NO SUBCATEGORIES

College Grad

Undergrad Years, Schools

IN THE HOLE

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Blogging, Tech, Computers, IM

Tech Magazines, Individual Blogs, Computer Types/Groups, IM thought leaders

College Grad

Undergrad Years, Schools

IN THE HOLEON DECK

USALet’s look at what testing for location will get us...

Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut…..

ALL 50 STATES

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depending on Facebook’s available testing parameters

the least specific category is often the most testable

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test for every state- keep ads within the sets identical

in this example, we can run a campaign with 50 ad sets

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test for every state- keep ads within the sets identical

(feel free to test them though)

in this example, we can run a campaign with 50 ad sets

Message helloo!

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