Businesses that need leads
How do you lower your cost per lead on Meta?
If your offer already works and you’re spending serious money on Meta, the biggest lever you’ve got left is your ads. You need a steady supply of new ones that are actually different, tested without hurting what already works.
Why the ads decide your cost per lead
Meta chooses who sees which ad. In its own words, it shows each person “the ad that’s most likely to achieve the lowest cost per optimization event.” So when one of your ads gets cheaper leads, Meta moves the money to it.
How many ads should you run since Andromeda?
Andromeda is Meta’s newer system for picking the right ad for each person. Meta says that “as businesses upload more and more creatives,” Andromeda helps it “pick the right creative to deliver more personalized ads.”
Meta doesn’t give a number. It says to make ads that are “truly different in look, feel, storyline, and message,” and it warns that “too many ads can result in worse performance,” because each one gets shown less often. An ad set holds up to 50.
So what works is a steady supply: new, truly different ads every week, for as long as you’re spending.
Why your winners stop working
Every ad wears out. Meta’s fix for a tired ad is a new one that’s “materially different from the original creative,” and it adds: “Keeping your original ad active instead of pausing or turning it off may maximize results.” So keep the winner on and put something new next to it.
How to test new ads without hurting what works
Meta counts adding a new ad to an ad set as a “significant edit,” the kind that sends it back into learning. So give new ads their own campaign with a cost per result goal, like $150 a lead, and your best ad set keeps running untouched.
Meta aims “to keep your weekly average cost near your goal,” and it “may spend less than your full budget” to stay there. It works best when the ad set gets “at least 50-100 weekly conversions,” Meta says.
Ads we’ve made for businesses that need leads
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Where we come in
Making that many good ads every week is a whole job. You’d need writers, editors, creators, the whole thing. We do all of it, up to 50 ads a week, and we only get paid 7% of what Meta spends on ours. How we get paid.
Meta’s pages quoted here: About ad delivery · AI innovation in Meta’s ads ranking · Demystifying creative diversification · About managing ad volume · Ad set limits · Creative fatigue recommendations · Significant edits and learning phase · About cost per result goal.