Facebook Makes Ads Manager, Power Editor Easier to Use

Facebook Thursday announced significant updates to its Ads Manager and Power Editor tools to create and manage ads on the social network. The changes are aimed at enabling advertisers to more easily buy, optimize and manage ad campaigns on Facebook, and updated versions of both Ads Manager and Power Editor will begin rolling out Thursday to “a small percentage of advertisers,” with a wider rollout “in the coming months.” The social network outlined the changes to both tools in a Facebook for Business post, saying of Ads Manager: Ads Manager continues to be the single destination for advertisers to create, edit and analyze Facebook ads, and now it features a streamlined layout that brings performance metrics to the forefront of the tool. That means advertisers can quickly reference how their ads are performing in the same environment where they create and edit them. The Manage Ads section is the Ads Manager homepage and shows the ad account's spend over the last week. When you click into a campaign, ad set or ad, the graph at the center of the page shows performance, audience and placement results. Advertisers can adjust the date range and filter performance data by ad objective, metric, delivery status and other custom options. Plus, they can automatically save and send reports at set intervals, so they don't have to manually run and distribute reports. Within the same environment, advertisers can create and edit multiple ads at once, speeding up the creation and editing process. Bulk editing makes it easy to change the targeting or budget of multiple ads at the same time, and the “create similar” tool helps advertisers quickly duplicate an ad, ad set or campaign. As for Power Editor: Power Editor is designed for large businesses that need to create and track many ads at once. The new version of the tool offers a larger and more functional layout for creating ads and improvements to advanced search and bulk editing, so advertisers can easily find and edit existing ads and create new ones. Power Editor's new layout has an edit pane that gives advertisers more working space for editing ads and viewing campaign information. Plus, multiple ad selection helps advertisers edit ads, ad sets and campaigns faster. Advertisers can find ads, ad sets or campaigns faster by searching by name or ID or by filtering by delivery status or objective. There are also new “recently edited” and “recently uploaded” filter options, so recent work is easy to find. Facebook director of ads product marketing Matthew Idema said in a statement emailed to SocialTimes: We've been working closely with marketers and agencies of all sizes to understand what they need to improve the process of buying, optimizing and managing their ad campaigns. These significant upgrades to Ads Manager and Power Editor reflect our commitment to drive measurable business objectives. Advertisers: What are your early impressions of the updates to Ads Manager and Power Editor?

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Facebook Makes Ads Manager, Power Editor Easier to Use

Facebook Thursday announced significant updates to its Ads Manager and Power Editor tools to create and manage ads on the social network.

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