2. Editing Columns: Introduction

In the last lesson, you were given a general overview of Facebook ad reports. You saw some of the amazing things you can do. Now you’re going to learn more about what makes ad reports so great: Edit columns!

Ready? Let’s go!

What You Are Going to Learn Today

Today’s lesson is Editing Columns: Introduction. We’re going to focus on the following:

  • What “Edit Columns” is
  • Why it’s Important
  • The Types of Data Available

The Lesson

This could be one of the most important features you use. Let’s master it!

What “Edit Columns” is
It is pretty much what it sounds like. You are given complete control over what appears in your reports. And the reason for that is that you can edit the columns (stats) that appear.

On the left hand side, click on the “Edit Columns” button.

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Why it’s Important
You are no longer at Facebook’s mercy when it comes to reporting. You don’t have to focus on Clicks, CPM, CPC, and Click Through Percentage. You can focus on the stats that matter to you, to that particular campaign.

And the added beauty is that the stats you use in your report don’t need to be directly related to that ad’s initial purpose.

For example, maybe you created an ad with the purpose of driving link clicks. It’s a promoted post. But you want to see how it did in terms of increasing Page Likes.

You can do that. And a whole lot more.

The Types of Data Available
There are limitless variations of ways you can craft your reports. You can feature a lot of data or very little of it.

The types of information that you can place in those columns are broken down into Data Aggregation, Data Breakdowns (we’ll discuss this tomorrow), Delivery & Spend, Clicks, Actions and Cost Per Action.

Within Data Aggregation, you can determine which pool of campaigns or ads you want to focus on:

  • Account
  • Campaign
  • Ad
  • Account ID
  • Campaign ID
  • Ad ID

Here are the Delivery & Spend stats:

  • Reach
  • Frequency
  • Impressions
  • Social Impressions
  • Cost Per 1,000 Impressions (CPM)
  • Cost Per 1,000 People Reached
  • Spend

Following are the Clicks stats:

  • Clicks
  • Unique Clicks
  • Social Clicks
  • Click-Through Rate (CTR)
  • Unique Click-Through Rate (uCTR)
  • Cost Per Click
  • Cost Per Unique Click

There are more than 40 Actions stats, so I won’t list them all here. But following are some examples:

  • Page Likes
  • Page Engagement
  • Post Engagement
  • Post Shares
  • Link Clicks
  • Website Conversions
  • App Installs
  • App Engagement
  • Mobile App Installs
  • Event Responses

And the Cost Per Action stats simply find the cost per any of those actions.

Your Assignment

Action Items:

  1. Create an Ad Report
  2. Edit Columns based on what you’d want to see for gaining Page Likes
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