Good ideas deserve to be found

Personalised ads help small businesses like yours get found.

Find the people destined to love your business with personalised ads.

What's a personalised ad and what do they do for businesses?

Personalised ads are the ads that you run on Facebook and Instagram. They match a business's message with relevant people, based on preferences, interests and behaviours that people opt to share online.

Reach interested customers.

Personalised ads put your business in front of interested customers out of the millions of people who already connect on Facebook and Instagram every day.

Get discovered by more customers.

Meta technologies show your ad to those who are most likely to respond to your business message from the audience that you've selected, while protecting their personal information and their privacy choices.

Scale with your marketing budget.

You can set the right budget at any time, so you control how much you want to spend – with the ability to help grow and scale whenever you're ready.

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Businesses like yours use personalised ads to reach their goals.

Learn why over 10 million businesses use personalised ad tools from Meta.

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Find new customers

76%

of small businesses using personalised ads reported that they were effective in finding new customers for their business.1

Higher return on spending

69%

of small businesses stated that personalised ads were important in achieving a high return on marketing expenditure when compared with other marketing tools.2

Reduce advertising costs

62%

of small businesses said that personalised ads were important to reducing overall advertising costs.3

Learn how simple creating personalised ads can be and see how Edoughble created theirs.

Define your business goal.

Knowing your business goals will help your personalised ads be more successful. Edoughble, "the world's first edible cookie dough" and brainchild of chef Rana Lustyan, wanted to expand their customer base beyond local devotees. So ask yourself things like this: Is your goal to acquire new customers or re-engage previous ones? Do you want more web or foot traffic?
Edoughble example of personalised ads based on location and interest of lookalike audiences to reach audience and increase sales.

Choose your audience.

You can target your ideal demographic in a number of ways so that your ad gets in front of just the right audience. Rana and her team used lookalike audiences to find people nationally who would be most into their novel product. When they entered new markets, they sought the same type of people with targeted ads.
Edoughble example of personalised ads to reach target audience by defining business goals to achieve marketing success.

Help your creative stand out.

The right visuals and copy can really elevate your ads. Edoughble repurposes their most successful organic social posts for their ad campaigns. The videos often take viewers behind the scenes of the cookie dough being made and packaged. Learning a few simple, inexpensive techniques that capture your brand's identity can really make a difference.
Edouble example of personalised ad helping your creative stand out by using the right visuals and copy for a successful ad campaign.

Set the right budget.

Think about how much you can spend to get your ad seen. Consider what's right for your bottom line and what will be competitive in our ad auction. Edoughble allotted USD 5 to USD 100 to their personalised ad budget every day for three months. This proved competitive in the auction, where their ads went up against other ads aimed at the same audience.
Edoughble example of setting the right budget for their personalised ad campaign to reach their audience and achieve their goals.
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Frequently asked questions

Personalised ads are digital ad experiences that match a business's message with relevant people based on the preferences, interests and behaviours that they've chosen to share online. They give people a better online experience by showing them ads relevant to their expressed interests while still respecting their privacy.

There are five components to creating a strong personalised ad: 1) Choosing the right objective that supports your business goal; 2) Selecting an audience that is more likely to be interested in your business; 3) Giving your ad a budget that will help you be competitive; 4) Running your ad long enough for our system to learn who is more likely to engage with your ad; 5) Using compelling images and videos that will grab people's attention. By focusing on these five components, you can help your personalised ads perform their best.

When you create an ad, you decide what it looks like and exactly what the ad says. You also set parameters on the audience – the attributes and interests of the people that you'd like your ad to reach. Meta technologies make your ad reach more and more precise over time, because the longer your ads run, the more opportunities Meta has to find the most relevant people to show your ad to, yielding better results from your campaign.

Over 10 million advertisers use personalised ad tools on Meta technologies – the majority are small and medium-sized businesses. You play the most important role in an ad's success by directing and setting its goals, creative messaging, audience, budget and duration. Meta technologies can then show your ad to the people most likely to love what you do.

Think about who you're trying to reach with your ad – things like their location, expressed interests or even similar brands that they might like – then build an audience based on those traits. Ad reach becomes more and more precise over time, because the longer your ads run, the more opportunities Ads Manager has to find the most relevant people to show your ad to, yielding better results from your campaign.

Meta Ads Manager provides minimum budget recommendations for ads. The more budget you provide your ad, the more ability Ads Manager will have to find the relevant people to show your ad to, so you are likely to get more results from your campaign.

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