Facebook Ad Campaigns
Create and manage Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns from your dashboard.
Creating a Campaign
Step 1: Campaign Objective
Choose what you want to achieve:
- Traffic — Drive visitors to your store
- Conversions — Optimize for purchases or sign-ups
- Catalog Sales — Show dynamic product ads to potential buyers
Step 2: Target Audience
Define who sees your ads:
- Location — Countries, states, cities, or radius targeting
- Age & Gender — Demographic filters
- Interests — Facebook interest categories
- Custom Audiences — Upload customer lists or use website visitors
- Lookalike Audiences — Find people similar to your best customers
Step 3: Budget & Schedule
- Daily budget — Maximum spend per day
- Lifetime budget — Total spend over the campaign duration
- Start/end dates — Run dates
- Ad scheduling — Show ads during specific hours
Step 4: Ad Creative
Design your ad:
- Single Image — One image with headline and description
- Carousel — Multiple images/products that users can swipe
- Video — Video content with text overlay
- Collection — Featured image with product grid below
Step 5: Review & Launch
Preview your ad across placements (Feed, Stories, Reels) and launch.
Managing Campaigns
View all campaigns in the Facebook Ads dashboard:
- Active — Currently running
- Paused — Manually paused
- Completed — Past end date
- Draft — Not yet launched
Campaign Analytics
Track performance metrics:
- Reach — People who saw your ad
- Clicks — Link clicks and CTR
- Conversions — Purchases and add-to-carts
- Cost — CPC, CPM, and cost per conversion
- ROAS — Return on ad spend
Tip
Start with a small daily budget ($10-20) and optimize based on results before scaling up.
Next Steps
- Product catalog — dynamic product ads
- Facebook Pixel — conversion tracking