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How to Use Facebook for Business Advertising in 2022

Facebook advertising is the biggest form of online advertising of this digital era. According to Oberlo , the total social media advertising spend for 2022 in the United States alone is expected to come to $63 billion, which is 16.34% more than 2020. Hence, Facebook is too big of a network to be ignored in your advertising plan.

In the pool of individuals and competitors that use the platform to promote products and services, you need to stay unique and on top of your game with your advertisements. However, in advertising, trends come and go, and it’s a lot harder to differentiate yourself if you keep implementing the same tactics that have been around for several years now.

Even Facebook, as a platform, constantly changes a lot and finds many uses, advertising being one of them. Therefore, to help you stand out from the crowd in 2022, in this guide, we’ll dissect and summarize the most promising ways that can help you use Facebook for business advertising.

Social Media Ad Spend in the US (2020 - 2026)

But First, Why Is Facebook so Good for Advertising?

First of all, it’s been proven before in countless examples that Facebook advertising is effective. In fact over 40% of marketers cited it as the most effective channel for their business in 2021. It works like a charm for B2B and B2C companies that can actually grow their business using the platform.

Which Social Media Channels Have the Best ROI

Outside of being effective, Facebook is simple and practical for business marketing. You don’t have to be a Fortune 500 company to use it, and even with $100, you’re on your way to increasing your sales and growing your company in the process. This is why more than 60 million businesses use Facebook Pages.

Out of the 2.9 billion active monthly users, the average user spends 2 hours and 25 minutes per day on social media.

Daily time spent on social networking by internet users worldwide from 2018 to 2022 (in minutes)

With the constant innovations in ad placements, including videos and instant articles, you can customize different elements of your Facebook ad copy, such as campaign objective, target audience, bidding, as well as optimizing your ad delivery.

Ad Costs Are on the Continuous Rise

Business Expenses of Facebook Ads

It’s true that the costs of Facebook advertising have risen due to the recent newsfeed and algorithmic changes on the platform, as well as the more than evident privacy concerns following the Cambridge Analytica scandals.

There are lots of factors that determine how much an ad on Facebook costs, including your niche, location, and advertisement goals:

  • Industry: An ad for your craft beer company can cost you less than if your company is Budweiser.
  • Timing: When you want to advertise during the holiday season, you can suddenly face lots of competitors, which definitely increases the cost of your ad.
  • Goals: Ad goals matter. For example, luring people into leaving their contact info on your landing page can cost you more than a post engagement.

Since the News Feed changed back in January of 2018, according to AdStage research, the Facebook ads CPM has increased more than 120% year-over-year (YoY) in that month alone. This growing price may also come as a result of the decreased importance of ads and recent algorithmic changes that include fewer news feed articles and ads, that directly results in fewer impressions.

The places where Facebook can put ads on the News Feed are running out. When the maximum ad load is reached, the impressions will even out and as a result, the CPMs are increased if the same ad demand remains.

Now that we have the Ad Costs and the reasons why Facebook Advertising is still relevant in 2022 and beyond, it’s time to teach you what it takes for your Facebook Ads to have a maximum effect!

Don’t Fatigue the Users

Mark Zuckerberg himself admitted that they need to rebuild the trust that users had in their company before the Cambridge Analytica scandal occurred. People’s phone numbers and contact info leaked even with the 2-factor authentication process that should’ve improved the security of the site.

This is why people became smarter about how their data is used and shared, and at this point, as a brand, you need to figure out how to build a trustworthy relationship first before you place the ad with them. Besides security problems, it seems that in general, users are aware that as soon as they click on a website, they’re being followed by an advertisement about the particular page immediately on their News Feed.

Don’t Fatigue the Users

This leads to them ignoring the ads, and this is why you need to be aware of your ad frequency and be careful not to be too forward with your paid marketing. If users see the ad 5,6 times already and you still can’t convert them, chances are, they won’t even if they see it 60 more times in their feed.

This is why in 2022, you need to pause your ad frequency a bit and stop people from getting ad fatigued.

Invest in Instagram

According to HootSuite, the ad spending shift from Facebook to Instagram from 2018 has continued in 2022, too. However, the difference is minute at just 1%. Also, businesses have significantly increased their marketing investments on WhatsApp, Clubhouse and Snapchat, followed by TikTok, Twitter and Pinterest.

maintaining your investment in the following channels in 2022_

While Facebook can be handy for eCommerce and other industries, for example, if you’re in the fashion industry, nothing can beat advertising on Instagram Stories. Popular influencers are an excellent way to push your brand name on the platform. You can collaborate with a fashion shopper or expert that has tens of thousands of followers and get the needed exposure in front of his/her audience.

For example, Chiara Ferragni is an Italian fashion businessperson, frequently collaborating with high-end fashion brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Michael Kors. Her posts receive at least several hundreds of thousands of impressions.

Whether you go all-in on Facebook or Instagram for business advertising, test them both first. In 2022, A/B testing data as well as analytics tools will provide you with the insights on where to invest your ad budget for maximum reach and conversion rate impact.

Have a Segment for Each Piece of Valuable Content

According to marketing mogul Gary Vaynerchuk, it’s much more effective to separate your target audience into 20-100 different segments and have your content ready for each of those segments. For example, not every girl is a fan of Forever 21. But, if Forever 21 targets one of those girls with content that is related to the things she likes, then she’s interested.

An easy way to use Facebook for business advertising and tailor content to different segments of your audience is Facebook Pixel.

The Facebook Pixel is an analytics tool that you add to a website so that you may track how effective your Facebook ad campaigns are by monitoring the activities people undertake on your site.

You can use the Facebook Pixel to track how well your ads are working by measuring the number of people who take specific actions on your website after seeing your ad. For example, you might want to track how many people add items to their shopping cart after viewing a product ad. This means that you need to ditch the one-size-fits-all approach and develop content that caters to different segments.

The expectation of your target users and segmentation effectiveness is just one reason to advertise valuable and personalized content. Here are four more reasons to have multiple pieces of quality content:

  • Engagement Boost: 55% of marketers received higher engagement rates via personalized content, which is critical if you want to achieve better reach on Facebook’s news feed.
  • Better Relevance Score: Personalized posts generate positive feedback and increase your Facebook relevance score as a result. This can effectively decrease the cost-per-click of your ad.
  • More Leads and Conversions: People interact more with individualized content, which increases your chances to convert them into customers. This helps you achieve your marketing goals and improve your social media marketing.
  • Brand Awareness: When people trust the personalized content that you’ve placed on their News Feed, they’ll be fired up to spread the word about it. Word-of-mouth marketing still matters, even if you invest millions in advertisements.

If done correctly, having multiple segments and content for each of them can convert a solid amount of your target audience and help you discover other audiences in the process.

Continue to Retarget the Ones that Engage

Through retargeting and remarketing, you can build a loyal audience and consequently build up your sales numbers. When you have people that open, like, and click on your Facebook ad posts, you can develop a retargeting campaign using them as your target audience.

These are people that are already familiar with your brand and your product, and they’re interested. They only need “an excuse” to buy, such as:

  • A discount or a coupon
  • A carousel ad of items
  • Testimonials
  • Video ads
  • A last chance offer

Continue to Retarget the Ones that Engage

Retargeted ads are one step ahead of regular Facebook ads because in standard cold advertisement, many of the users that you’ll reach will have no interest at all in your content.

Through retargeting, you can follow your “warm” website visitors on their News feeds and reiterate your page or product in front of them. Seeing your ad and remembering your name can influence their buying decision.

In 2022, continue to retarget the following segments of users:

  • Your most frequent website visitors.
  • Users that visited specific pages on your website.
  • People that watched your Facebook videos.
  • People who interacted with your post or ad.
  • People that signed up to your newsletter, downloaded your free ebook or completed another conversion goal.
  • A custom list of users.

To set up your Facebook for retargeting, you need to use Facebook Pixel to track your website visitors.

On your Facebook Business Manager Dashboard, select the “Pixels” option from the “Measure and Report” division.

Facebbook Business Management Dashoard One

Click on the “Set up Pixel” button and follow the video tutorial below to add the pixel on your WordPress site.

Once you install the pixel, you need to start collecting data in order to construct your audience for retargeting. See how your pixel works and what the activity is of your core visitors first.

When you’re all geared up with sufficient data to run your retargeting campaign, head to your “Audiences” section of your Business Manager.

Facebbook Business Management Dashoard Two

To start your retargeting campaign, click on the “Website traffic” option. Here, you can decide what your campaign parameters will be, for example, from everyone that visited your site to users that visited a page that contains a particularly defined word.

Video, Again and Again

Based on a forecast by Cisco, we can see video taking up to 82% of total Internet traffic. When it comes to engagement, beautiful imagery is no longer enough, and if your Facebook advertising strategy doesn’t include videos, you’re way behind your competitors.

The following are the best tactics to upgrade your Facebook video strategy for 2022 and further on:

Grab Attention Fast

Think about how users behave when they see a video in their feeds. If something is boring seconds after it’s being played, they scroll further to find a video that is actually interesting from the start.

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In 2018, Facebook published internal research that shows how quickly people stop watching video advertisements.

How people Consume Video Advertising

This means that when you advertise videos, the percentage of people that watch the ad will drop at an exponential rate. For this reason, you must deliver your message ASAP or people will just ignore it and turn away before realizing what your ad is about.

Be Short

If users can ignore a video that quickly, it means that to deliver your message, your videos shouldn’t be that long in the first place. For an in-stream video advertisement, Facebook advises that videos should not be longer than 15 seconds. These videos have a higher completion percentage, and as a result, you can deliver your message much faster than with longer videos.

Optimize Titles and Descriptions

For every piece of content that you advertise on Facebook, you need an engaging title and description. This tells people what they’re about to see or it tempts them to watch the entire video and learn.

Optimize Titles and Descriptions

Other than that, the ad title and description provide Facebook’s algorithms with data about your video, and you need to ensure that you have your relevant keywords included in your title or description.

There are video ad titles and title formulations that outperform the rest. Therefore, you need to do thorough keyword research to make sure your video has high CTR and engagement.

Sound Off

In 2022, they will be made without sound. Users expect Facebook to autoplay videos as soon as they open their feed with the sound on, and for convenience reasons, they put the sound on mute and continue to scroll the feed.

This is why today, your video ad must have an impact even without a sound. Facebook recommends captioning your videos and using graphic overlays to make sure that you’ll get your message across.

How To Catch Users' Attention With Sound-off Facebook videos

Vertical or Square

On mobile, square videos can take up to 78% of the screen. With over 90% of the users accessing Facebook on mobile devices, the better the size of the video is, the more attention it will grab from the users.

As far as vertical videos are concerned, people use their smartphones in portrait mode 98% of the time, so it definitely makes sense to cater to this habit.

Use Facebook Mobile Ads

Despite the fact that Facebook generates 94% of its advertising via mobile, you will be throwing money out the proverbial window if your company website is not mobile-optimized.

The goal of mobile optimization is to ensure that users have a pleasant viewing experience, regardless of the device they’re using. Mobile ad development is critical in today’s digital world and business advertising. So, double-check your site’s functionality before including Facebook Mobile Ads in your strategy.

There are a few things to bear in mind while optimizing your website for mobile devices. First, keep your design simple and straightforward to use. Second, make sure that your site is fast on all platforms. Finally, be sure that your call-to-actions are visible and accessible.

If you follow these tips, your Facebook mobile ads will be sure to make an impact.

Over to You

With the ever-changing advertising options and trends on the platform, and the various opportunities to place ads, 2022 is shaping up to be another winning year for business advertisement on Facebook. Experiment and split-test early on to find the tactics that work for your brand.

Serve your message in different and interactive ways. If you’ve defined your marketing goals and have the vision for your brand, chances are, Facebook is the platform that can help you achieve them in 2022 and beyond.