What are "Targeted Social Ads"?


Social media ads are a proven strategy that boosts brand awareness, and with the right call to action - leads directly to website traffic and sales. With over 3 billion users, navigating social media can be difficult - especially in a B2B marketing plan. However, running your social media ads through us provides a unique opportunity to reach a pre-qualified audience so you’re not wasting money putting your message in front of the wrong people. We can also target social media ads to our website visitors, adding an additional layer of reach to your campaign.

The where, what and how...

By default, targeted ads will be served on both Facebook and Instagram. Clients can submit up to 4 ad units per flights, which will be optimized and run on both desktop and mobile devices.

What are your goals?

Facebook offers 11 objectives for ads, which are split into three categories:

  • Awareness: Objectives that generate interest in your product or service
  • Consideration: Objectives that get people to start thinking about your business and looking for more information about it
  • Conversion: Objectives that encourage people who are interested in your business to purchase or use your product or service

Who are we targeting?

There are three tiers to the HFN social audience that we can tap into. By default, all ads will be served to our direct social audience combining Facebook and Instagram. For campaigns requiring a broader reach, we can layer in our website traffic via an installed Facebook Tracking Pixel, adding in even more unique monthly users. From there - we can expand our reach every further to include relevant look-alike audiences and even targeted consumer traffic.

Facebook: 5,123 likes
Instagram: 1,000 followers
Twitter: 5,547 followers
LinkedIn:  300 followers

Where will the ads be seen?

By default, we will run the targeted ads in as many placements as possible to ensure peak performance. That can include:

  • Desktop/Mobile News Feeds
  • Instant Articles
  • In-Stream Videos
  • Right Column
  • Stories

What are the different ad types?

Facebook offers 5 different ad types to choose from:

  • Single image: Create up to 6 variations of your ad using 1 image
  • Single video: Create an ad with one video
  • Carousel: Create an ad with 2 – 10 scrollable images or videos
  • Slideshow: Create a looping video ad with up to 10 images
  • Instant Experience (Canvas): Tell a more immersive story by combining images and videos into a full-screen, interactive experience