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Ad scheduling on FB, set up but not delivering, advice welcome (11)

02-27-2018 08:15 AM #1 media assassin (Member)
Ad scheduling on FB, set up but not delivering, advice welcome

Hello Stm-ers,

Can someone help me out, I'm trying to run a campaign on a lifetime budget and schedule it to run between 18:00 - 00:00, FB tells me its scheduled and will go during those times but I seem to get no traffic. Budget is 120 euros it was set to start 26th - end 1st. The account is running traffic now, so its not an account issue.

https://prntscr.com/ikbf3d

Let me know who has any tips. Cheers!

02-27-2018 08:22 AM #2 stickupkid (Senior Moderator)

Only logical thing I can think of is your bid is too low, but I guess you put it on automatic bidding right?

02-27-2018 08:28 AM #3 media assassin (Member)

Its on Automatic bidding yes mate.

02-27-2018 08:38 AM #4 AdGenius_Jason (Member)

Correct time zone selected for target audience?

02-27-2018 08:40 AM #5 AdGenius_Jason (Member)

Your image shows end date 1st of March - try removing the schedule for Friday, Saturday and Sunday

02-27-2018 08:45 AM #6 media assassin (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jasonkkt View Post
Your image shows end date 1st of March - try removing the schedule for Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Time zone is fine yes. Ah thats not a bad call, Ill try that one!

02-28-2018 07:42 AM #7 media assassin (Member)

Guys still no luck on that.......... let me know if there's any wise old FB-ers that can help me out!

02-28-2018 01:03 PM #8 AdGenius_Jason (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by media assassin View Post
Guys still no luck on that.......... let me know if there's any wise old FB-ers that can help me out!
Are you running any other adsets that overlap the same audience?

Try removing all of the current schedule you set and just set for a 4 hour period to run today in 1 hours time to see if it kicks in.

If this works I would remove the Midnight to 1am slot.

It could be that FB is struggling to pace the budget across the time frame because you start from Midnight to 1am then stop until 6pm.

02-28-2018 01:17 PM #9 mihalis09 (Member)

Alright, this is maybe a long shot but when experimenting with an ad account's features esp in the beginning of its life or if it gets deactivated and then reactivated again, your page that you use to promote gets automatically and without any notice unpublished. Go to your page->settings and make sure status is as "published". If not, then turn it on and impressions should start flowing in within couple hours

02-28-2018 02:02 PM #10 media assassin (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mihalis09 View Post
Alright, this is maybe a long shot but when experimenting with an ad account's features esp in the beginning of its life or if it gets deactivated and then reactivated again, your page that you use to promote gets automatically and without any notice unpublished. Go to your page->settings and make sure status is as "published". If not, then turn it on and impressions should start flowing in within couple hours
Will try and update here tomorrow, thanks!!!

03-01-2018 08:38 AM #11 media assassin (Member)

Just a heads up all my traffic stopped yesterday so they was obviously in the process of killing the account.

Ill post my results of the evening/night time ad scheduling tests. Basically my ad copy is pushing people to do something before midnight, so it will be interesting to see if the time window has an affect.

Cheers for the input anyways.

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