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Meta Ads
Meta is a fundamentally different job from search. Nobody on Instagram is looking for you. That means creative does most of the work, and the offer has to be strong enough to interrupt someone who was doing something else.
What this fixes
The creative is a resized print advert
Feed-native content outperforms polished collateral repurposed at the wrong ratio. The platform rewards things that look like they belong.
Search tactics applied to social
Meta campaigns judged on last-click attribution against search ads. Different job, different measurement, different expectations.
Creative fatigue
The same three images for six months. Performance decays predictably as your audience sees them repeatedly.
Tracking has degraded
iOS changes and consent requirements broke a lot of measurement. Without server-side tracking and sensible attribution windows, results look worse than they are.
What’s included
- Audience strategy
- Cold, warm and retargeting audiences kept genuinely separate, with budgets reflecting how each behaves.
- Creative production
- Static, video and carousel built for the feed, with enough variants to keep testing without starting over.
- Offer development
- Working out what is compelling enough to interrupt a scroll. Usually the hardest and most valuable part.
- Pixel and conversions API
- Browser and server-side tracking configured together so measurement survives blockers and consent.
- Testing framework
- Structured creative testing so you learn what works rather than accumulating opinions.
- Reporting in context
- Results read alongside overall enquiry volume, because the platform's own attribution is generous to itself.
Questions
- Does Meta work for B2B or trade businesses?
- More often than people expect, though rarely for direct lead capture on a cold audience. It works well for awareness in a defined area and for retargeting people who already visited the site. If your customers are on the platform, you can reach them — the question is what you ask of them.
- We tried boosting posts and it did nothing.
- Boosting is the platform's simplest option and its bluntest. It optimises for engagement rather than enquiries and gives you little control over audience or placement. Properly structured campaigns in Ads Manager are a different proposition.