02/12/2022
Have you heard of the brand new Facebook’s feature that can make your media buying efforts so much more effective?🤩 I'm talking about ASC.
Advantage+ Shopping Campaign or ASC is a campaign type that starts to appear on more and more ad accounts.
To create an ASC campaign you should choose a campaign objective “Sales”. Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns are available as an alternative to manual setup.
The only audience customization function available in ASC is existing customer budget cap. It can be interpreted as a % of campaign budget that you want this campaign to spend on retargeting. (As a whole, not only customers)
☝️In ASC campaign you should use your best ads from prospecting and retargeting.
ASC campaigns benefits:
- Lower CPM/CPC (at the moment)
- Easier setup
- Better conversion rate
And here are some tips from AAMFunnel team on setting up ASC campaigns:
✅You can try to run it without Existing Customers Budget Cap, it works. Though, based on our tests results, a campaign’s performance can start to fade after a few months. Right now, the settings of our ASC campaign allow it to spend only 10-20% of ad budget on existing customers, so it’s mostly used as a cold audience campaign.
✅Just because you don’t have an audience selection, doesn’t mean it’s a broad audience. Based on CMPs and customer behaviour comparison, it looks more like a high % LAL audience but obviously with much more potential reach.
✅Don’t rely only on ASC campaign's performance. During the Black Friday week, manual campaigns were outperforming ASC during the whole week. It seems like Facebook is still updating the algorithm on these campaigns so we see sudden performance drops every now and then.
✅Scale ASC campaigns carefully. This type of campaign doesn’t scale very well at the moment, so adding $100-200 daily is the best strategy we’ve found by far.
✅If your business is in the US, and your ad account is updated to Website+Shop objective, try it with ASC. This campaign + objective combination got us CPMs 1/3 cheaper than the regular price with the same ads.
We'd be happy to learn about your experience with ASC campaigns, feel free to share in the comments below!