What is an audience overlap?

What is an audience overlap?

Simply put, audience overlap is marketing to the same audience with different ad sets. The larger the overlap, the worse your campaigns will perform. Don’t waste your time and money paying for two (or more) ad sets that fight for the same audience’s attention.

How do you find the audience overlap?

You can check if two audiences you’re using are overlapping with our tool:

  1. Go to your Audiences.
  2. Check the boxes next to the audiences you want to compare (up to 5)
  3. Click Actions > Show Audience Overlap.

How do you know if auction overlap?

There are multiple ways to see if ad set performance is affected by auction overlap: Use the auction overlap module in the inspect tool: The inspect tool lets you track an active ad set’s auction overlap over time.

Is audience overlap bad?

How audience overlap can be harmful. The negative side to audience overlap is paying for the same users twice and ad fatigue. If you are advertising with that 1% lookalike and that 2% lookalike on two separate ad sets, then people in your 1% lookalike may be seeing your messaging twice.

How do you overlap the audience?

Audience Overlap is easy to use. Select the check boxes of the audiences you want to compare and then choose Show Audiences Overlap from the Actions drop-down menu. Whichever audience you select first will be the “main” audience for comparison.

What is a high auction overlap rate?

The Auction Overlap Rate is the rate at which your ad set was in the same auction as another ad set in the same account. When two ads in the same ad set compete internally, the audience is removed from the auction. This causes your ads to be less likely to reach your target.

What is a high auction overlap?

When you create ad sets with overlapping audiences, it’s possible that multiple ads from your Page could enter the same ad auction. We call this auction overlap.

How do you target the same audience on Facebook?

4. Target people similar to existing customers with Lookalike Audiences

  1. Go to Audiences within your Ads Manager.
  2. Click Create a Lookalike Audience.
  3. Choose your source audience.
  4. Select the regions to target.
  5. Select your audience size.
  6. Click Create Audience.

Can you exclude a saved audience in Facebook?

How To Exclude Audiences In Your Facebook Campaigns. Excluding audiences is quite straightforward. Just create a campaign the way you usually do and in the audience section exclude the desired custom audience, or an audience based on demographic, interests or behaviour information.