Launch campaigns

Placements and enhancements

Where your ads can appear and which automatic enhancements you can turn on.

Placements decide where your ads can show: feeds, stories, reels and more. Enhancements are switches that let Meta adjust or place your ads for you. Both are in the settings drawer.

Placements

Placements sit in the Placements section of the campaign and ad set settings.

SettingWhat it does
Advantage+ Placements ONEvery placement stays on, and the ad platform decides where each ad performs best.
Advantage+ Placements OFFYour ads only show where you choose, in Manual Placements.

Manual Placements

With Advantage+ Placements off, you get three more settings:

SettingWhat it does
Device TypeAll, Mobile or Desktop. Desktop only has fewer placements.
WiFi OnlyWith Mobile, shows ads only when people are on WiFi.
Manual PlacementsA grid of platforms and positions. Tick the ones you want.

The positions in the grid:

PlatformPositions
FacebookNews Feed, Right Column, Marketplace, Stories, Search Results, In-stream Videos, Facebook Reels, Facebook Reels Overlay, Profile Feed, Business Explore, Notifications
InstagramFeed, Stories, Explore, Explore Home, Reels, Profile Feed, Search Results, Profile Reels
Audience NetworkClassic, Rewarded Video, In-stream Videos
MessengerMessenger Home, Stories
ThreadsThreads Feed

Some positions need another one ticked too:

  • Instagram Explore Home needs Explore, Profile Feed needs Feed, and Profile Reels needs Reels.
  • Facebook Marketplace and Facebook Profile Feed need News Feed.
  • Facebook Stories and Messenger Stories need either Facebook News Feed or Instagram Stories.
  • Threads Feed needs Instagram Feed.
  • Audience Network can't be used on its own.

Whop Whop takes Advantage+ Placements and Manual Placements, except Messenger Home and Audience Network in-stream video. Device Type and WiFi Only aren't available on Whop.

Enhancements

Meta

These switches sit at the bottom of the campaign settings drawer. They're off by default. Meta decides what happens once they're on, so results vary.

SwitchWhat it does
Advantage+ EnhancementsLets Meta automatically enhance your creatives to improve performance.
Make Creatives UniqueRemoves metadata and slightly changes the file so Meta treats each upload as a unique creative.
Multi-Advertiser AdsYour ads may show alongside ads from other businesses in Multi-Advertiser ad units, to help people discover you. Many advertisers keep it off.

The fourth switch, Multi Account Launch, is covered in Launch into several ad accounts at once.

Choose which Advantage+ enhancements to use

You can pick the individual Advantage+ creative enhancements for an ad account in Settings, Facebook, under Advantage+ enhancements (Manage Settings). Turn on Enable Advantage+ Enhancements, then choose from:

GroupEnhancements
Visual & AnimationAdd overlays, Visual touch-ups, Image animation
Text & ContentText improvements, Enhance CTA
Media & ProductsShow products, Music

Turning the main switch on for the first time turns all seven on. Switch off the ones you don't want.

On Whop, these enhancements and Multi-Advertiser Ads aren't available.

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