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Change Time Zone On FB Ad Account? (14)

03-20-2014 11:45 PM #1 jason a (Senior Member)
Change Time Zone On FB Ad Account?

Does anyone know how to change the time zone on an ad account. Particularly and Agency Account?

Its making me crazy I keep getting these Pacific time zone accounts and I am in Central TimeZone.

Any Help would lead to me sleeping a whole lot more!

03-21-2014 12:38 AM #2 zeno (Administrator)

Not possible after account creation. You select it during account creation... Only remedy is a new account and/or creating several accounts with different timezones if your goal is to avoid the downtime associated with midnight.

03-21-2014 12:57 AM #3 scitox ()

If you want to put campaigns online on midnight, you do know you can schedule a campaign very easily in the Power Editor to go live at midnight, right? If that's not the purpose of your question, ignore this reply ;-).

03-21-2014 02:40 AM #4 jason a (Senior Member)

Not really to Schedule them to start at midnight but I only adjust my spends at the very start of the new day which would be nice if it were 12am. They are at 3am so I wake up at 3am to adjust my spends on the camps I am scaling up.

03-21-2014 03:14 AM #5 zeno (Administrator)

Unfortunately no way around this. You could use some sort of scheduling system/macro to do it but I wouldn't risk automating campaign spend increases like that haha, can see it going wrong.

No gf? Adopt a different sleep cycle http://www.highexistence.com/alternate-sleep-cycles/

03-21-2014 09:19 PM #6 mojstermiha (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
Unfortunately no way around this. You could use some sort of scheduling system/macro to do it but I wouldn't risk automating campaign spend increases like that haha, can see it going wrong.

No gf? Adopt a different sleep cycle http://www.highexistence.com/alternate-sleep-cycles/
I was having a strange sleep cycle for the past 2 years where I would go to bed between around 5 or 6AM and then sleep till 1-2PM.
I recently stopped doing that because I noticed that it gradually hurts my concentration and productivity. So now I am back at 2AM-8AM which is also MUCH better for social life

03-24-2014 08:16 AM #7 zeno (Administrator)

It turns out I'm a filthy liar. At least I will be soon. Facebook appears to be rolling out timezone change functionality, hoorah!

http://allfacebook.com/currency-unit...anager_b130172

03-24-2014 11:20 AM #8 redrummr (Member)

Sounds great, I hope we won't have to re-verify accounts when doing this!

03-27-2014 11:53 AM #9 peterb ()

Yep its been roled out on some new accounts.
You can go to settings and click change currency.
This is how it looks

http://www.screencast.com/t/UescJSpc0O

03-27-2014 12:15 PM #10 zeno (Administrator)

I did just check it and it says when you change currency/time zone that it creates a new account and all old ads get deactivated... so may have some downsides e.g. account history bye bye.

03-27-2014 05:11 PM #11 scitox ()

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
so may have some downsides e.g. account history bye bye.
I also see upsides if account history goes bye bye to be honest ;-).

03-27-2014 11:33 PM #12 zeno (Administrator)

Haha good point ;D

04-09-2014 09:22 AM #13 davidwikes81 (Member)

Not possible dude. Give up.

04-09-2014 09:30 AM #14 mrclifton_ (AMC Alumnus)

I guess the ideal tactic here is to sert the time zone to match your advertising geo?

If your not able to change, is it wise to pause the ads during really low converting times of the day, eg night for b2b. Or will it affect the ad distribution to the extent that it's not worth it? (Given you have a good and optimized cpc or ocpm campaign running for a while.)

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