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MSD 2023 Marketing Guide
MSD 2023 Marketing Guide
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Peak season,
peak performance.
Maximize your performance this holiday and
mega sales day season.
This holiday and mega sales day season, the
economy looks different.
People are still buying what’s most important to them, but are becoming more
thoughtful in how they spend.
Shoppers are:
76% care about discount offers 72% are open to switching brands or 75% holiday shoppers enjoy
when making trying new ones to get the best discovering relevant items not
purchase decision.1 value.1 actively looked for. 1
Sources:
1 "Meta Seasonal Holidays Study" by YouGov (Meta-commissioned online study of 1,006 holiday shoppers aged 18+ in Bangladesh), published July 2023.
The highest level of conversions of 2022 during cyber week in Q4 last year1
The best platform The top online platform for The place to find relevant brands
to discover deals. holiday discovery, and the and products.
only one where discovery is
86%
growing.
75%
of holiday shoppers
discovered shopping ideas 86% agree that brands and
products discovered on
on Meta Technologies this discovered brands and Facebook or Instagram
past season, more than any products on Meta during the during the holiday season
other online channel holiday season.3 are more relevant than those
globally. 3 discovered on other
platforms. 3
Sources:
1. Meta, Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcripts
2. Meta Q1 ‘23 Earnings Call Transcripts
3. "Meta Seasonal Holidays Study" by YouGov (Meta-commissioned online study of 1,006 holiday shoppers aged 18+ in Bangladesh), published July 2023.
1 2 3 4 5
Dog walker
Health
enthusiast
Fashion
trendsetters
Sneaker
collectors
Runners
19%
lower CPA for ad sets that
successfully exited the learning Look for additional
phase
consolidation opportunities.
delivery
• Combine regions and languages using dynamic
EXPECTED
language optimization.
Campaign Ad set
Ad
Source: "Analysis excludes smaller tail-end advertisers who are not eligible to see spend in learning details, and uses only purchase optimized activity from October 2022"
• Decision levers
BUDGET
CREATIVE
AUDIENCE
PLACEMENT
DESTINATION
End-to-end automation
Budget
• Creative
• • Audience automation • Placement automation • Destination automation
automation automation Advantage detailed targeting Advantage+ placements Advantage destination:
Advantage campaign budget Advantage+ catalog ads Advantage lookalike Website, Shop*, App
Advantage+ creative Advantage custom audience
End-to-end automation
steps as possible.
17% 32%
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Input diverse creatives and high-performing audiences to drive holiday results.
CREATIVE AUDIENCES
Upload a mix of lifestyle and product imagery. Upload existing customers through custom
audiences to inform the delivery system.
Create upward of 150 creatives.
Specify the percentage of budget allocated toward
Import high-performing ads from existing customers vs. acquiring
previous campaigns. new customers.
Connect with a Meta Business Partner Define custom URL tags to track
to help you generate diversified more detailed performance between
holidays creative at scale. audience types.
Success story
YSL beauty wanted to increase the impact of their Black Friday campaign and maximize sales. They tested
Advantage+ shopping campaigns and found success by leaning into AI to learn from customer behaviors. This
achieved 1.2X higher purchase volume, 48% lower cost per purchase in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and 17% lower
cost per purchase in the United Arab Emirates.2
Source: 1. Meta internal study on 31 advertisers from NA, APAC, EMEA, and LATAM from July-Sept 2022. 2. Meta case study, Jan 2023. All results are self-reported and not identically repeatable. Generally expected individual results will differ.
End-to-end automation
26%
improvement in average cost
per acquisition when using
Advantage+ app campaigns.1
RECOMMENDATIONS
Use the same mix of Select the lowest cost bid Upload a large number of
optimization goals as those type and avoid adding a creative assets or combine
you use with your manual bid cap for best results. with a product catalog to avoid
app campaigns. creative fatigue.
Success story
The largest fast-food chain in the Philippines, Jollibee, experienced a dip in mobile app downloads. They wanted to
find a way to reach more people and increase the number of app installs. To understand the effectiveness of
automated app ads, Jollibee ran a split test comparing them to
its business-as-usual campaign of mobile app install ads. The campaign delivered 1.2X more app installs, 1.2X higher
reach, 18% lower cost per reach and 9% lower cost per app install.2
Source: 1. Meta internal study on 31 advertisers from NA, APAC, EMEA, and LATAM from July-Sept 2022. 2. Meta case study, Dec 2021. All results are self-reported and not identically repeatable. Generally expected individual results will differ.
Creative automation
SOLUTION
SOLUTION
RECOMMENDATIONS
Increase catalog match rate Regularly review catalog Test Advantage+ creative for
by ensuring a high percentage products for policy violations. catalog that shows people your
of products from your website Edit or appeal the decision to products in different formats
are also in your Meta catalog. ensure items show up in your and/or with additional details
ads. based on what they’re most likely
to respond to.
Success story
Adidas Taiwan wanted to acquire new customers and boost sales during the 618 shopping festival.
A strategy combining acquisition and remarketing enabled Adidas to reach people who had expressed interest in their
products or other similar products, driving a 9.5% lift in purchases and 60% increase in purchase conversion value.
Source: Meta case study, Feb 2022. All results are self-reported and not identically repeatable. Generally expected individual results will differ.
Audience automation
34%
3.2K Shop now
RECOMMENDATIONS
NARROW AD TARGETING BROAD AD TARGETING
Target the broadest AND AUDIENCE AUTOMATION AND AUDIENCE AUTOMATION
Paris, 18-30, likes fashion and travel France, 18-40
possible audience to
enable the system
to find the best holiday
shoppers for your business.
Source: Meta global budget-controlled experiment of 589 campaigns randomized at the user level and conducted in April 2022. For both Product Catalog Sales and App Installs, a statistical simulation framework gave a 99.9% statistical confidence
that Advantage custom audience outperformed custom audience for driving cost-effective conversions. Given the scale of this study, outlier data points will occur and were retained and accounted for through rule-based methods and by using the
median to describe results.
Placement automation
With the Advantage+ placements solution, marketers can use any existing creative across multiple
placements, including Instagram Stories, Instagram Feed, Messenger and Audience Network.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Provide holiday assets in multiple formats and dimensions to optimize creative per placement.
In order to create engaging ad experiences, placement asset customization displays the right holiday image or video depending on where
those ads appear.
Use different assets. For Use different crops. Use edited videos. Use different text,
example, you could upload a We recommend For example, you can headlines and links.
product image or video to different aspect upload a shorter For example, Instagram
Facebook and a brand ratios for different video to fit the Stories work well with short
image or video to placements. For Stories video copy.
Instagram. example, use a vertical requirements
aspect ratio for ads in (1-15 seconds).
Stories.
Audience
Network
diversification
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Same product,
different motivations.
Different people have different reasons to buy the same product during the holidays.
Our studies show that there are at least 16 reasons that people say influence their holiday purchase
decisions. Factors include price (81%), product quality (85%), product authenticity (80%) and familiarity
with the store or site (74%). 1
Today, businesses are realizing the potential effect of delivering personalized messaging
at scale. Marketers that bring diversified creative to their holiday campaigns enable AI to deliver the right
ad to the relevant person.
1
"Meta Seasonal Holidays Study" by YouGov (Meta-commissioned online study of 1,006 holiday shoppers aged 18+ in Bangladesh), published July 2023.
FROM
One message for
all audiences
TO
Creative diversity
that appeals to different
audiences
RECOMMENDATIONS
MOTIVATOR/BARRIER MOTIVATOR/BARRIER
Identify top motivators and “I have really specific taste, "I love to accessorize with the
I know what I like.” outfits I wear."
barriers for your product.
Differentiate creative
routes visually.
51%
median improvement in
19%
reduced cost per acquisition
cost per incremental conversions when adding partnership ads to
for lower-funnel conversion business-as-usual.2
events.1
RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMENDATIONS
Success story
To boost sales and convert new customers before, during and after the 11.11 Singles' Day sales event,
beauty brand Jealousness ran a multi-phase campaign using video ads in partnership with creators. They
achieved 10.8% lift in purchase conversion and 4.5-point lift in purchase intent.3
Source: 1. Meta-analysis of conversion lift tests with 11 global advertisers across 9 verticals, conducted in November 2022. These results are inclusive of both Instagram and Facebook Reels. We define lower funnel conversion events as those that happen at
the end of the marketing funnel, such as purchasing an item or signing up for a service. 2. Results from meta-analysis of a series of AB tests run by the Sales teams, Marketing Science Partner team and the Data Science team within GBG Marketing Science
in the ECommerce Enterprise, ECommerce-Scaled, Disruptors, Retail, CPG, Scaled-Tech, Travel and Travel verticals from June 2021 to January 2022 across the NA and APAC regions. Partnership ads were previously known as branded content ads. 3. Meta
case study, Jun 2022. All results are self-reported and not identically repeatable. Generally expected individual results will differ.
Today, people seamlessly shop across stores, mobile apps and social in no particular order, making their
shopping journeys unique and varied. Shopping behavior is likely to vary even
more during the holidays when people may be buying for others or shopping on a timeline.
13%
cost per result improvement1
RECOMMENDATIONS
Maximize data quality to find relevant
holiday shoppers.
Conversions API optimizes performance by
creating a direct connection between your cross- Combine Conversions API with the
channel marketing data and Meta.
Meta Pixel to enhance the
Event match quality helps you track how likely it information available to optimize
is that your events match a Meta account, your ad.
increasing conversions and improving acquisition
costs. Ensure information sent from your
server is matching to Meta accounts
by maintaining an event match
quality of "good" or "great."
Source: 1. Based on 28 global A/B experiments of direct, partner or Conversions API Gateway integrations between May to August 2022. 2. Meta case study, Nov 2022.
The right measurement approach helps answer these questions and more:
Incrementality is a way of determining the measurable value of your ads, by comparing people who’ve been
impacted by the strategy to those who haven’t. In this setup, one group of people will see your ad and the
other will not. The system compares the conversions in the test-and-control group to calculate the
incremental impact of your ad.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Use conversion lift results to adjust other measurement models prior to big sales moments.
Use your test results to calibrate internal models, like multitouch attribution or marketing
mix modeling, by dividing the incremental conversions observed in your test by the
attributed conversions reported by your model.
SAMPLE RESULTS
Observed conversions
400
from test cell Incremental conversions
300
Observed conversions
=
TEST
No media
from control cell
100 Attributed conversions
200
Incremental
400 - 100 = 300
conversions
Attributed conversions
1.5X adjustment
factor
200
from client’s internal model
CONTROL
Media
Success story
Lumē used conversion lift studies to calibrate their attribution and marketing mix models.
By validating its approach through lift studies, Lumē was able to confidently shift budgets
to more efficient channels and reported an increase in conversions by 2X.
Source: Meta case study, Aug 2022. All results are self-reported and not identically repeatable. Generally expected individual results will differ.
4–8 WEEKS BEFORE THE MOMENT 1–4 WEEKS BEFORE THE MOMENT AFTER THE MOMENT
FOUNDATIONS 4–8 WEEKS BEFORE THE MOMENT 1–4 WEEKS BEFORE THE MOMENT AFTER THE MOMENT
Data
Start planning
post-season
campaigns to
reach lapsed or
late shoppers. Minimize changes
to
avoid resetting Reach valuable audiences
Adopt the simplest account with less setup time and
structure possible. the learning
phase. greater efficiency
with Advantage+ shopping
campaigns.
Align bid strategy with Consider optimizing for Help match your products Market to lapsed or late
campaign goals around higher funnel metrics to people with Advantage+ shoppers with
volume, cost or ROI. (add to cart, link clicks, catalog ads. Advantage+ shopping
landing page view) to campaigns and
increase reach. Advantage+ catalog ads.
Media
FOUNDATIONS 4–8 WEEKS BEFORE THE MOMENT 1–4 WEEKS BEFORE THE MOMENT AFTER THE MOMENT
Find the
relevant Meta
Business Partner
to help grow
your business.
Additional resources
Please refer to the table below to access additional resources related to the recommendations and solutions
outlined in the planner.
Recommendation Solution
Align bid strategy with campaign goals around volume, cost or ROI. Bid strategy
Build seasonal creative that is diversified across concepts and formats. Creative diversification
Create a learning plan to identify, test and answer key business questions. Learning agenda
Determine which strategies drive best results with split testing. A/B Testing
Drive people in store for last-minute purchases after shipping cutoff Custom audiences from
dates with custom audiences. offline events
Ensure good product catalog health and match rate. Catalog match rate
Find the relevant Meta Business Partner to help grow your business. Meta Business Partners
Help match your products to people with Advantage+ catalog ads. Advantage+ catalog ads
Help people discover and buy your product by collaborating with creators. Creators, Partnership ads
HOLIDAY AND MEGA SALE DAYS PLANNER | 2023
Additional resources
Please refer to the table below to access additional resources related to the recommendations and solutions
outlined in the planner.
Recommendation Solution
Highlight seasonal messaging by adding visual overlays onto your catalog. Advantage+ catalog ads creative customization
Market to lapsed or late shoppers with Advantage+ shopping campaigns and Advantage+ Advantage+ shopping campaigns, Advantage+
catalog ads for retargeting. catalog ads
Measure performance across channels with marketing mix modeling. Marketing mix modeling
Measure the incremental impact of your marketing with lift testing. Lift testing
Optimize for longer conversion cycles with post-conversion optimization. Post-conversion optimization
Reach more people through a retailers' catalog with Collaborative Ads. Collaborative Ads
Reach people in international locations with cross-border business solutions. Cross-border business
Reach valuable audiences with less setup time and greater efficiency with Advantage+
Advantage+ shopping campaigns
shopping campaigns.
Select the objective and optimization that align with your business goals. Objectives and optimization
Set up a reliable connection between your server and the delivery system
Conversions API
with the Conversions API.
Set up reliable data sources from web, mobile and in-store. Pixel, SDK, Conversions API
Start planning post-season campaigns to reach lapsed or late shoppers. Post-holiday recommendations
Tap into culture and reach valuable audiences by testing Reels. Reels, Reels ads