Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Ad Types Ad Types for Each Objective
Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Ad Types
Ad Types for Each Objective
In Chapter 4 of our Facebook Ads Guide, we’re going to discover all the different Facebook ad types. (And believe us, there are many!)
You’ll find answers to a load of hot questions, including:
What are all the different Facebook ad types
What are the specifications for each ad type
What are some great examples of different Facebook ad types
Why it’s important to use the right ad type
What’s the best Facebook ad type to use
Alright, let’s have a look at all the different ad types and find out which ones match with your desired campaign goals!
Traffic and Leads for Your Website
One of the most common purposes of Facebook Advertising is driving traffic to your website. This can be either to increase your site’s overall reach or to send users to a dedicated landing page and have them potentially buy your product, sign up for a newsletter, or participate in some other kind of lead generation. Here’s a breakdown of Facebook ads that help to drive traffic to your website.
Link Click Ads
Here’s an example of a Link Click Ad for Facebook’s Desktop Newsfeed
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed Audience Network Instagram
If you think about Facebook ads, you’re probably thinking about the Link Click Ads.
This ad type helps to promote your external website and send people to your landing pages or blog posts. You can use Link Click Ads with several placements; this allows you to deliver the same ad across multiple News Feeds and reach a large audience.
These ads perform really well and have the side benefit of generating Likes for your page. Just remember to check the comments and reply to them for an engagement boost!
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Headline: 25 characters
Link Description: 30 characters
Video Ads
Supported placements: Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed Audience Network InstagramFacebook Video Ads are actually another form of the Link Click Ads – just that instead of a still image, your ad’s featuring a video.
Specs:
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Aspect ratios supported: 16:9 to 9:16
File size: up to 4 GB max
Continuous looping available
Video can be as long as 120 min., but most top-performing videos are 15-30 seconds
Read more about Facebook video ads in our dedicated guide.
Boosted Page Posts
Supported placements: Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed Audience Network InstagramEvery time you post something on your Facebook Page, Facebook offers you the chance to amplify the post’s reach with a Boosted Post.
As you click on “Boost Post,” you can set up the target audience and bidding methods and promote your Page post to more people across Facebook’s advertising network.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Ad copy text: unlimited
Headline: 25 characters
Link Description: 30 characters
The Boosted Page Post will look exactly like an ordinary Facebook post, with a “Sponsored” note on top of the ad.
Sales and Leads for Your Product or Service
If you’re running an e-commerce store or have multiple offers you’d like to promote, Facebook allows you to showcase a range of products and services in a single ad.
Facebook has also developed ad types that allow users to submit their email or interact with your brand without leaving the Facebook platform. By not leaving the platform, load times are up to 10X faster! This makes for a great user experience and reduces the time (and often, money) required to acquire new leads.
Multi-Product (Carousel Ads)
Supported placements: Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed Audience Network InstagramThe carousel ad format lets you show up to 10 images and/or videos, headlines and links, or calls to action in a single ad unit.
It is extremely useful for eCommerce advertisers looking to promote multiple products from their store, or for marketers looking to promote different posts and offers to see what works and attracts leads with their audience.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1080 x 1080 or 600 x 600 pixels
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Headline: 25 characters
Link Description: 30 characters
Dynamic Product Ads (DPA)
Supported placements: Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed Right Column Audience Network InstagramFacebook’s dynamic product ads are like re-marketing display ads on steroids. They target users based on past actions (or inactions) on your website or application with a perfectly timed ad.
All you have to do is upload your product catalogue to Facebook and double-check that your Facebook Pixel is installed correctly on your site’s pages. Facebook handles the automation and re-targeting! For more on DPA, read our Beginner’s Guide.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels or 600 x 600 pixels
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Headline: 25 characters
Link Description: 30 characters
Facebook Lead Ads
Supported placements: Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed Audience Network InstagramLead Ads are the perfect way for, you guessed it, getting new leads! This Facebook ad type allows people to download your content or sign up for your offer without leaving Facebook platform.
This makes the Lead Ads a perfect method for quickly getting a potential customers email address! For more on Lead Ads, read this post!
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Headline: 25 characters
Link Description: 30 characters
Context card can be in paragraph format, which has no character limit, or 5-bulletpoint format, which allows for 80 characters per bullet
Context card headline: 60 characters
Context card button: 30 characters
Privacy Policy and website URL links are required
Once a person has filled in the form, their email addresses will be stored on your Facebook ads account.The easiest way to move the new leads from Facebook to your CRM system is to automate the entire process. That’s one more thing you can do when setting up your ad campaigns with AdEspresso.
Simply select the target software where you’d like to import the leads and let AdEspresso do the work for you!
Read more: How To Create Facebook Lead Ads And Sync Them With Your CRM
Canvas Ads
Supported placements: Mobile Newsfeed
Canvas is an interactive ad that lets users engage with your content on Facebook and is currently only available on mobile due to how we interact with mobile devices.
With Canvas, your target audience members can swipe through a carousel of images, tilt the image in different directions, and/or zoom in or zoom out by moving their fingertips. Canvas also loads 10 times faster than standard mobile web applications!
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Headline: 45 characters
Canvas has the following possible components:
Header with logo
Full-screen image
Text block
Button for offsite links
Image carousel
Auto-play video
Full-screen tilt-to-pan image
Product set
Collection Ads
Supported placements: Mobile NewsfeedFacebook Collection Ads let you showcase multiple products that are being sold on your website.
This new format makes it easier for people to discover, browse and purchase products in a visual and immersive way!
Specs:
Image Size: 1,200 x 628 pixels recommended
Image Ratio: 1.9:1
Your image may not include more than 20% text. Check how much text is on your image.
Headline: 25 characters recommended
Likes & Engagement for Your Page
Your choice of Facebook ad type should depend on your campaign objective – what you want to get out of the ad campaign. Two campaign objectives in particular help to increase the number of Likes on your Facebook Page and/or to increase the reach of the content you post on Facebook.
Due to recent Facebook updates, the usual post on your page will only organically reach an average of 2-3% of your fan base. Promoting your posts is a great way to be sure that all your fans see your message.
Page Like Ads
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile NewsfeedPage Like Ads are the go-to ads for increasing your page Likes. They can be displayed on all placements and include a visible call to action for users to immediately Like your page.
When advertising for Likes, remember that it’s not about getting the cheapest Likes, it’s about picking the right audience that’s interested in your page!
Bonus Tip: It’s very important to pick the right image to achieve great performances.
Page Post Photo Ads
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile NewsfeedWant to engage your page fans? This Facebook Ad Type has the most space to show your beautiful pictures!
Pick the right image and you’ll be flooded with comments and Likes.
You could also insert a link in the text description of the post, but don’t expect too much traffic from it.
Page Post Video Ads
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed
Video Advertising drives high audience engagement. It builds a strong connection, and even smaller companies can make simple videos to entertain and connect with their audience.
With the ability to re-target subsets of visitors based on how much of your video they watched, this ad type is perfect for creating stellar custom audiences to re-target with other ad types!
Specs:
Ad copy text: 90 characters
Aspect Ratios Supported: 16:9 (full landscape) to 9:16 (full portrait)
File size: up to 4 GB max
Video can be as long as 120 min, but most top-performing videos are 15-30 seconds
Audio: Stereo AAC audio compression, 128kbps + preferred
Page Post Text
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed
This ad format is focused on page engagement. However, there is very little reason to use it instead of the Page Post Photo ad – pictures simply perform better.
If you can, avoid this type of format as it’ll likely deliver lower engagement.
Mobile and Desktop Apps Install
Since the launch of its mobile application, Facebook has become one of the biggest players in the mobile advertising space. Mobile App Install ads present a unique opportunity to bring in new mobile app users on both Android and iOS.
If you’re trying to promote your mobile app, pay attention to these ad units, they are designed for that specific purpose.
Mobile App
Supported placements: Mobile NewsfeedMobile App Ads are the perfect choice to drive more installs to your mobile app. This ad is displayed only on the Mobile Newsfeed. When users click the “Install” call to action, the App Store will immediately pop up. This delivers a great conversion rate.
When using this Facebook ad format, you’ll have many additional targeting options to fine-tune your audience. For example, you’ll be able to choose which iOS/Android version you want the user to have, or if you only want to target mobile devices or also tablets, and if you want to target only users connected to a WiFi network.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Image ratio: 1.9:1
Ad copy text: Up to 90 characters
Your image may not include more than 20% text. See how much text is on your image
Desktop App
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop NewsfeedThis ad unit allows you to drive users to your Facebook app and make people engage with it.
Since Facebook apps are not supported on mobile, you can only target either the Desktop Newsfeed or the right column.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Image ratio: 1.9:1
Ad copy text: Up to 90 characters
Instagram Mobile App Ads
Supported placements: Instagram
Last but not least (not at all!), you can also advertise your mobile app on Instagram. This makes perfect sense as Instagram users are using the app on mobile, meaning that they might be more interested in downloading additional mobile apps.
You can select both photo and video ads for your Instagram Mobile App Ads.
Specs:
Image ratio: 1:1
Image size: 1080 x 1080 pixels
Minimum resolution: 600 x 315 pixels (1.91:1 landscape) / 600 x 600 pixels (1:1 square) / 600 x 750 pixels (4:5 vertical)
Maximum resolution: 1936 x 1936 pixels
Caption: Text only, 125 characters recommended
Visitors for Your Store or Event
Let’s close our roundup of Facebook Ad Types with two units well suited to drive visitors to your physical event or store. It’s always more complex to measure results for offline promotions, but if used correctly and targeted well, these ads can perform really well.
Event Ads
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed
Facebook Events are a great way for event organizers to attract more visitors. If you want to boost the reach of your event, use this ad unit with the right targeting options.
According to the size and relevance of the event you’re promoting, you may want to limit the geographical reach of the ad to people living in the same city or region as the event.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1920×1080 pixels
Image ratio: 1.9:1
Ad copy text: Up to 90 characters
Headline: 25 characters
Link Description: 30 characters
Offer Claims
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed
This ad type is perfect for brick-&-mortar store owners who want to attract more people to their stores.
Once your offer ad is live, any user who clicks on your ad and redeems the offer will receive an email containing the details and terms of use.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Image ratio: 1.9:1
Offer title: Up to 25 characters
Ad copy text: Up to 90 characters
In order for you to be able to create an offer, your Facebook Page needs to have at least 50 Likes.
Local Awareness Ads
Supported placements: Right Column Desktop Newsfeed Mobile Newsfeed
Another way to draw people’s attention to your store is by using the Local Awareness Ads. This ad type works best with Facebook’s location-based targeting, helping you to reach people who are currently near your store.
You can include different call to actions like “Call Now” and “Send Message” to allow people to contact you more easily.
Specs:
Recommended image size: 1,200 x 628 pixels
Image ratio: 1.9:1
Text: 90 characters
Headline: 25 characters
News Feed description: 30 characters
And Now Let's Get To Work
As you’ve seen, Facebook has a very broad offering of ad types that meet every need of your business. Whenever possible, we suggest you test different ad formats and see which ones perform better for you. This will deliver the best results at the lowest cost.
For a complete overview of all Facebook ad types and specs, see this guide by Facebook.
Now that you have a clear idea of what you can advertise on Facebook, let’s move on to chapter n° 5 and learn how to bring each and every Facebook ad type to life with stunning ad designs and smart ad copy!
Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Ad Types Ad Types for Each Objective
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