You can create a new Google Ads account right from your manager account without an additional email address or password. This option is available only when you're signed in to a Google Ads manager account. You won't be able to create an account using Google Ads Editor. This article shows you how to create new accounts from your manager account. You can also
learn more about linking existing accounts. This Google Ads account will have no users on it, and there will be no way for a user to directly access the account unless you invite them as users to the account. After you create the account, you won't be able to unlink this account from your manager account
without first inviting at least one user to that account with administrative access. Creating this account doesn’t give your manager account more control over the day-to-day management of the account. However, it will mean that the manager account is automatically an administrative owner of the account. This means that the manager account will be able to invite users to the account, accept user invitations,
terminate another manager, accept an invite for another manager, or reject another manager. Keep in mind, as with regular individual accounts, accounts you create from your manager account will be canceled if they’ve been inactive for over 15 months. Critical account alerts for accounts created by manager accounts are sent to the email address associated with the manager
account. However, the manager account won’t receive other notifications for the client account by default. Notification settings can be changed as necessary. Tip: You can always create multiple Google Ads accounts at the same time using bulk upload.
Note: Selecting a Smart Campaign account will create a Google Ads account with Smart Campaigns in Smart Mode. If this is selected, you can change to Expert Mode at any time, where other Google Ads campaigns can be created. Related links
Was this helpful? How can we improve it? Do you want to start promoting your brand on Facebook? Excellent choice! Facebook is nowadays undoubtedly the most popular social media platform and one of the biggest advertising platforms out there. Feel like you don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered! We’re going to provide you with a comprehensive guide that includes all you need to know to set up your Facebook advertising account, launch your first advertising campaign, and even troubleshoot any issues you may encounter. But before we start talking about an ad account, you need to set up a Facebook Business Manager account, and we’ll tell you why. What is Facebook Business Manager?Facebook Business Manager is a free tool used to manage all your Facebook business assets: ad accounts, business pages, Instagram account, and Meta pixel. If you have a team working on your Facebook assets together, you can manage everyone’s permissions using your own Business Manager. There are two kinds of permissions you can grant in the Business Manager: admin access and employee access. Employees can only view settings for the business and be assigned to assets. However, admins can also add and remove employees and partners, change settings for the business, and add assets. Moreover, if you hire an agency or a media buyer to manage your Facebook ads, you can grant them access to your Business Manager account so they can have all the permissions they need. If you wish to learn more about all the various capabilities of the Facebook Business Manager, you can read our article. Note that to create a Facebook Business Manager account you must have a personal profile on Facebook. How to create a Business Manager account?
Now, if you want to start running ad campaigns on Facebook, which is what we’re here for, you need to connect your Facebook page to the Business Manager. How to add Facebook pages to Business Manager
That wasn’t too hard, right? And here we are at the part you wanted to reach - creating and setting up your Facebook ad account! How to create a new ad account on Facebook Business Manager
Congratulations! You have a brand new Facebook advertising account! Before you can launch your first Facebook campaign, you need to set up your ad account, which includes adding a payment method. However, you only need to do it once, unless you want to change it or create a new account. Let’s learn how to do this and what else you can do to set up your advertising account in the most convenient way for you. #1 How to add a new payment method to your Facebook ad account
Pro Tip: Add at least one secondary payment method!Why? If you only have one payment method set up in your account and it fails for some reason - credit card blocked, expired, reached the monthly limit, etc. - all your campaigns will automatically stop running until you settle your balance. This can be a very big issue if you’re running multiple campaigns with high spending or promoting a big sale, such as a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale for instance. Moreover, this will harm the learning done on your campaigns and might hinder their performance even after you restart them. However, if you have at least one valid secondary payment method in your account, Facebook will automatically start billing it in case your primary method fails. This way, you can maintain your Facebook advertising activity. #2 How to edit payment methodsOnce you’ve set up your payment methods, you can edit your payment options and select which one will be your primary method. Note that you can not delete your primary method. Hence, you must make another payment option your primary one before deleting a primary method. #3 What is the billing threshold?Facebook will bill your account every time you reach your billing threshold and at the end of your monthly billing period for any leftover costs. Your billing threshold is usually automatically set to $25 in the beginning. Then, it will be automatically raised to $50, $250, $500, and finally, $750 as you keep spending and your payments are correctly processed. The billing threshold does not affect your Facebook ad campaigns, of course. It just determines when you will be charged. The higher your threshold, the fewer invoices you’ll need to deal with. You can also manage your billing threshold from the Facebook Ads Manager. #4 How to set Facebook ads spending limitFacebook allows you to avoid overspending by setting an account spending limit. Once you reach this limit, all your ads will automatically pause and you won’t be charged anymore until you increase or remove the limit. This is especially useful if you have an agency or a media buyer who manages your account for you and you’ve given them a limited budget. However, you don’t want to set this limit too low, or you’d need to update it very often. Furthermore, every time you hit the limit, your ads will be paused for at least 15 minutes. This may be especially disadvantageous if you’re promoting a big sale or a time-sensitive offer. To set your account spending limit, just go to "Payment Settings" and click “Set Your Account Spending Limit” (In the section below “Payment Methods”). Then, enter the desired amount and click “Set Limit”. Note: Facebook ad account limitsIt’s important to know Facebook’s limits that are related to your ad account, even though you won’t reach any of them at first.
But, if you’ve reached any of these limits, all you have to do is delete some of your old campaigns and you’ll be able to relaunch new ones. Your deleted assets will be archived, and you’re allowed to archive up to 100,000 assets.If you have a big business and you spend a lot on Facebook ads, you can request to have an assigned Facebook Account Manager. In this case, your limits will be much higher. #5 Notification settingsAs a Facebook advertiser, you want to be notified of everything that’s going on in your account, right? Nevertheless, you don’t want to flood your email with Facebook notifications. So, you better set your Facebook ad account email notification frequency to fit your needs. How to set your Facebook ad account notifications
#6 Add people and set permissionsThe last thing we’re going to discuss before launching your first campaigns is adding people to your ad account and granting them the necessary permissions. This is very useful if you have other team members working on your ad account. It allows you to grant every team member the access they need for effective collaboration. In the past, Facebook has defined three possible ad account roles: admin, advertiser, or analyst. Analysts could only see ad account reports. Advertisers could also create and edit ads. Admins were able to manage Facebook ad account settings, payment methods, and account spending limits, add people and assign ad account roles. However, nowadays you can set specific permissions for each user added to your account. How to set permissions to users in your Facebook ad account
That’s it - you’re ready to launch your first Facebook ad campaign! How to create Facebook adsThe tool which will help you launch and manage your ads is the Facebook Ads Manager. It allows you to create Facebook ad campaigns, manage your bids, select target audiences, optimize your campaigns, monitor performance, and A/B test your campaigns. You can easily access your Facebook Ad Manager from the Business Manager using the left-side menu. Now let's learn how to set up Facebook ads in the Ads Manager. 1. Create a new Facebook ad campaignIn the Facebook Ads Manager, go to the “Campaigns” tab, and click on the green “Create” button. 2. Select your campaign objectiveYou should select your campaign objective according to your business goals. The available objectives are Brand Awareness, Reach, Traffic, Engagement, App Installs, Video Views, Lead Generation, Messages, Conversions, Catalog Sales, and Store Traffic. This selection will affect your available ad formats and bidding options. For now, as you have no data and no Meta pixel on your website yet, we can start with “Brand Awareness” or “Reach”. However, after you gather enough data, we recommend selecting “Conversions” as your campaign objective. 3. Name your campaignNext, you should select a name for your campaign. It is very important to give it an indicative name for efficient reporting, especially if you plan on launching multiple campaigns in the future. Your campaign name can include your target audience and location, your creative type, the date range in which it will be running, etc. If you advertise for a client, it’s also important to include their name there, of course. Having a well-defined method for campaign naming is crucial and will save you time and effort later on. 4. Set up your budget and biddingFacebook lets you select between two different methods to define your campaign budget:
For a start, it’s best to define a daily budget and run your campaign continuously without an end date so you can have more control over it. Furthermore, instead of setting your budget at the campaign level and selecting campaign budget optimization (CBO), you can also set up your budget on the ad-set level (ABO) if you want. Automatic vs. manual biddingRegarding bidding, it is recommended to start with automatic, which is the default option. This tells Facebook to make sure you spend all your budget and find the bids with the lowest cost per conversion. It's best to stick to automatic bidding until you understand the benchmarks for your objective costs. Afterward, and especially if you want to scale your account, you can optimize your bids manually. By setting Cost Control using cost or bid cap, you can tell Facebook exactly how much you're willing to spend per bid. This can drive more conversions compared to automatic bidding, but the costs might be higher as well. The difference between cost and bid cap is the flexibility. A cost cap sets a flexible limit on your bids, which means that Facebook is allowed to slightly exceed the limit you set in order to get you more conversions, as long as your average bid value remains around your cost cap. However, a bid cap is much more strict, and Facebook may not exceed it at all. An efficient manually bidding strategy may drive better overall results than automatic bidding, so you should try it once you accumulate enough data. Madgicx's Bid Optimization tool can help you set up the perfect bid testing experiment and find the best bids for your top-performing ad sets. How much will your ads cost? Now you can easily calculate the cost of your next campaign with the FREE Facebook Ad Cost Calculator! 5. Schedule your Facebook ad setAfter you've set up your budget and bidding method, you'll need to select your Facebook ads start date. This is done at the ad-set level and may differ between ad sets within the same campaign. If you have a time-sensitive offer, like a Black Friday sale, you can even set an end date. Facebook even allows you to set the exact time on which your Facebook ad set will start and finish. The default Facebook ads start date is immediate. So, don't forget to change it if your offer is not yet relevant or if you have any other reason to start it later. For instance, if you are managing a client's account, you may need to wait for their approval before you launch the ad set. Alternatively, if your target audience is in a different time zone than you, you may want to adjust the start date and time. This leads me to the next point - launch time optimization. After you gather some experience and figure out the best days and times for you to run your ads, you can set automated rules that will turn your ad sets on and off according to your average ROAS at specific times. This is something you can easily do using Madgicx's Custom Automation Tactics. Our platform shows you exactly which times are your most profitable. It can be based on ROAS or another key metric. For example, you can pause your ads during weekends and turn them on again at the beginning of the week. This would save you money and help you squeeze more revenue out of the same advertising budget. 6. Choose your ad placementThe placements available are dictated by your campaign objective. You can select them manually, or let Facebook select the optimal placements for you, using the default “Automatic Placements”.Facebook placements:
Instagram placements:
Messenger placements:
Audience Network placements:
If you are launching your first campaign and have no data to rely on yet, we definitely recommend using automatic placements. However, if you already have some data, you should check your ad performance on every placement and target your most profitable ones. At Madgicx, we use our Smart Filters to analyze ad performance based on different parameters, including platforms and placements. 7. Select your target audienceIt’s no secret that selecting the right target audience is one of the most important factors in a campaign’s success. You can either select one of your saved audiences or create a new one when launching a new campaign. Facebook offers you various targeting possibilities, such as interests, behaviors, demographics, locations, and even targeting your page fans. In addition, if you have already installed the Meta pixel on your website, you can create custom audiences based on visitor activity on your website and lookalike audiences based on them. Other useful custom audiences can be created using a customer list, targeting people who engaged with your videos, and more. At this stage, Facebook will also inform you of your estimated daily reach and overall potential reach and let you know whether your audience is too specific, too broad, or just about the right size. 8. Last step: Set up your adsWe’ve reached the final stage of your campaign creation - the ads themselves. Here you can select between creating new ads and using an existing Facebook page post. Based on your placement selection, you can select the ad format you wish to use. It could be Carousel, Single Image or Video, etc. Then, you’ll need to upload your ad creative. Open the “Add Media” drop-down menu and select whether you wish to add an image or a video. Note that every placement and format has different specs and sizes. Pro Tip: If you don’t have enough resources to create videos yourself, you can utilize Facebook’s Video Creation Kit to turn your images into a video. Another thing we’d recommend is setting up the URL parameters in a way that will help you track your ad attribution efficiently. Now you can write your ad copy, check out your ad’s preview, and launch your first campaign! Use the Meta pixel for better tracking and targetingIf you plan to reach your audience with products and services based on their preferences, you must implement a Meta pixel on your website. The Meta pixel is a snippet of tracking code you generate from your Facebook advertising account and implement on the header section of your website. It captures specific actions visitors perform on your site. This provides you with data and insights to help you refine your Facebook and Instagram advertising campaigns to maximize performance. You can then use the data your Meta pixel records to show your ads to different audience segments based on their actions on your site. After creating custom audiences based on your data, you can use them to create lookalike audiences to acquire new customers. To utilize this optimization solution to its full potential, the first thing you need to do is create a Meta pixel and install it on your website. Then, you need to set up the events you want your pixel to track. Lastly, you can start using your pixel data for audience targeting. Facebook ad account troubleshootingThere are a few common errors that may occur when you try to create a new ad account or work with your existing one in the Facebook Ad Manager. The first one is reaching your ad account maximum. As we’ve already mentioned, every business has a limited number of Facebook ad accounts it can create. If you’ve reached your limit and you wish to create more accounts, contact Facebook, or ideally your Facebook representative, and ask them for help. But the issue we’ll focus on is the second and most common one - Account Disabled. This issue shouldn’t scare you either and we’re going to discuss it thoroughly. Facebook ad account disabledIt can happen even to the best Facebook advertisers, so don’t feel so bad. The most important thing is - don’t panic! Why was your Facebook ad account disabled? When you launch an ad, Facebook reviews it and considers all of its characteristics. It reviews your content (copy and creative), targeting settings, positioning, and the webpage (or webpages) it links to. All of your ads must comply with Facebook’s Advertising Policies and Community Standards. Hence, you should read them carefully to check whether you’ve violated any of Facebook’s rules. Another reason might be users’ reports about your business page, ads, or any other type of content you’ve posted. How do I reactivate a Facebook ad account that has been disabled?Go to the Facebook Business Help Center and select one of two methods: chat with a Facebook representative or fill in a form.Live chat with a representative
Fill in a form There are two available forms you can fill in to restore your disabled account:
After your account will be reviewed by Facebook, you will receive a message to your Help Center support inbox. Billing Option Not AvailableSome Facebook users have reported having encountered the following notification: "Billing option not available: ad accounts owned by businesses new to Facebook products can choose this option to pay for ads after several weeks of following our policies. (#2446404)." But why does this happen and how to solve it? This issue is usually caused when a user asks to be charged by anything other than impressions. This selection is done at the ad set level (under "Optimization & Delivery"). The default option is charging by impressions, and Facebook requires that new ad accounts will spend at least $10 getting charged by impressions before they change the way they are charged. Once you fulfill this condition, you may be charged by link clicks (on Traffic and App Installs campaigns) or ThruPlay (on Video Views campaigns), for example. Summing upYou’ve learned how to create a Business Manager account, how to connect your Facebook page, and how to create a new ad account. Moreover, now you know everything about setting up your ad account. Also, you've launched your first ad campaign from the Facebook Ad Manager. Well done! In addition, we also gave you some helpful information in case your ad account is disabled. We hope this guide was helpful and wish you happy and successful Facebook advertising. How do I create multiple ad accounts?Add an ad account in Business Manager. Go to Business settings.. Click Accounts from the menu on the left-hand side. ... . Click the blue Add drop-down menu.. Choose one of the three options: Add an ad account, Request access to an ad account or Create a new ad account.. Can you have multiple ad accounts?Link Multiple Ad Accounts to a Social Media Profile
Previously, you were only allowed to link one ad account per social profile. However, you can now connect and select multiple ad accounts at the same time.
How many ad accounts can you create?If you're not signed in already, sign in using the email you'd like to use to manage your new manager account. You can use the same email address for up to 20 Google Ads accounts (including manager accounts).
Why can't I add more ad accounts on Facebook?You can't create more ad accounts if: You've reached your ad account limit. All advertisers start with an ad account limit of one until they make a confirmed payment.
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