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FB: How Long Does Your Approval Take? (10)


06-02-2011 10:21 PM #1 ubershawn (Member)
FB: How Long Does Your Approval Take?

Quick question: How long are your Facebook approvals taking lately?

I started submitting campaigns yesterday, and the first took about 9 hours before they started approving them. I submitted two today (about 8 hours ago) and it's still pending.

Is this the normal rate?


06-02-2011 11:02 PM #2 michaelza (Member)

Yeah its random times, for the past 3 days my ads would only get approved at 5AM in the morning here, even if I put up ads at 7am the day before.


06-02-2011 11:18 PM #3 sith005 (Member)

Really seems to depend for me. Oftentimes it's pretty quick if before 5PM pacific. For example, I launched a campaign in France yesterday. Submitted my ads between 8 and 10 PM pacific, and got first round of approvals/disapprovals around 1AM, resubmitted, went to bed and next round was in my inbox around 2:30. Then this morning I was getting approval/disapproval (mostly the latter) within 30 minutes (7am-10am Pacific).


06-02-2011 11:30 PM #4 grindhard (Member)

Facebook ad reviews can take up to a couple of mins, hours, and possibly days.. aged accounts get more attention.


06-02-2011 11:45 PM #5 Nigel (Member)

It's pretty fast for me nowadays. But again, it's all random.


06-02-2011 11:52 PM #6 ubershawn (Member)

I've had this account for about 2 years - but havent used it for advertising for over a year. So maybe it's seen as a new account or something?


06-20-2011 11:24 AM #7 Nigel (Member)

Something I found out recently. Don't know if it just me or anyone else is noticing the same thing. I have had my ads approved within 15 mins for the past week by setting my campaign budget to 500/day (put them on pause while pending approval though) and then change it to 50 or whatever your testing budget is after they're all approved. The fastest record I got my campaign approved is <60secs.

It could be my timezone as well but worth a shot if you're frustrated to get your ads approved within 24 hours.


06-20-2011 11:35 AM #8 Sabon (Member)

Mine are usually approved within 1-3 hours, sometimes even faster. However that's only for a few weeks now, previously it was about 8-24 hours.


06-20-2011 11:42 AM #9 jroes57 (Member)

Mine usually get approved within a few minutes


06-20-2011 11:45 AM #10 Nigel (Member)

I guess FB is stepping up their game and hired more reviewers. Good news but I also had ads being retro-disapproved very frequently nowadays.


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