Facebook Premature Budget Cap (10)
Anyone else around 6PM-7PM (EST) of this evening have Facebook instead of evenly spending your budget cap just blow it all and cap off between those hours? I took a break around 5:30 PM EST and came back around 7 to see all of my daily budgets had been capped off. Naturally I was extremely disgruntled to see CPC's rising 20 cents and my budgets capped off 6 hours early (spent $1,200+ in that hour I was gone!)
This has never happened before and I have never experienced such an odd thing on this platform in my 2yrs of running with them. Hoping this doesn't become a regular occurrence with them because this was straight up highway robbery.
-dub
Yeah we were talking about this in another thread. Not $1200 (ouch), but I've paid $100+ today in straight up phantom clicks. It's been two hours since I've paused the campaign and they're still charging me for "traffic". Robbery indeed.
Facebook has had MAJOR issues today. Wild swings in traffic, and inaccurate CTR's that were apparently reset late this afternoon. Not sure what's going on over there today, but I'm pausing all my campaigns for the night.
Originally Posted by boomswitch
I've been noticing similar things lately. SOmetimes I'll be getting 1-2 cent CPC's yet my budget will be depeted by 7 PM. Makes no sense, especially with campaigns that are more than 1-2 days old. Facebook has been wildy inconsistent lately, especially with my CPC costs. It's driving me bonkers (yet I continue to advertise and spend money with them).
Wow, I've been dealing with the same thing today.. FB blasted through about 50% of my budgets by 1 AM!! slow all day, and then blasted through almost all my budgets again between 6-8pm.. Both times with cpc's of 5-10x what I usually get...
Perhaps things are screwy with the new newsfeed roll-out?
If you guys want to join the skype group discussion about this issue, add me on skype: jerzydawg101
This way, we all unite together to stay on top of these issues and the best thing to do and what others are doing.
Looks like they're still having issues. No more phantom clicks at least, but like jeffm, they blasted through half my budget in about 10 minutes at about 8x suggested bid... did not back out.
yeah shit sbeen all fucked lately
Still having the same issues today, except I was able to catch when they were charging me for clicks they weren't sending/and most of the clicks they did send on other campaigns didn't convert at all.
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