FB Ads Manager Version 5 Released Today

Back at it with another release of FB Ads Manager. This time I’ve added the remaining fields:

- Education. Target different education levels.
- Workplaces. Now you can enter in a list of workplaces to target.
- Birthdays. Target users on their birthdays. (Not sure how people would use this?)

I also fixed a bug related to entering keywords.

I’ve noticed that some people were using the custom ages field incorrectly and it was causing the tool to stop. The format of that field is a list of age ranges, not individual ages.

Right: 20-25, 26-30, 31-35, etc
Wrong: 20, 21, 22, 23, etc

In order to target individual ages, use “All ages in range” and set the lower and upper limits accordingly. Now if the custom age field is in a bad format an error message will pop up (rather than just stopping silently).

Next, now that Facebook has beefed up their interface to quickly do actions on multiple ads, I’ve taken out the ‘change bids’ section of the tool, so now it’s completely focused on ad creation.


2 Responses to “FB Ads Manager Version 5 Released Today”

John Martinelli on September 29th, 2009 7:41 pm:

This tool is fantastic.

I noticed in v5 there’s no “Manage” tab. Is there any way to auto-resubmit disapproved ads like in previous versions?

Thanks!
-John


admin on September 30th, 2009 5:26 pm:

Hey John,

Unfortunately Facebook has made it more difficult to resubmit ads so it cannot perform that function anymore. But you can save your script and rerun it anytime, which is virtually the same as resubmitting the same ads. Ads created without the tool would have to be resubmitted by hand.


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