Understanding Ad Performance Using Facebook Reporting Tools

Ads Manager shows you how your advertising is helping you achieve your business goals across Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network. Use our tools to analyze your campaign results and learn more about your audience, your product sales, your campaign's reach and much more. With this data, you can make more informed decisions when building your campaigns and ultimately improve your results.

• Seeing Results at the Account Level
• Viewing Specific Data
• Creating and Saving Reports

Seeing Results at the Account Level

By viewing your results at the account level, you can get a high-level picture of how all your campaigns are doing. Under the account overview tab, we aggregate all your results - all campaigns, ad sets and ads - and provide a summary of your advertising activity. You can use this information to understand your campaigns' performance over time or identify trends around a specific time of year.

To find the Account Overview section, go to Ads Manager and then click Account Overview.

Once you have selected the date you want to see in your reports, you can:

1. Customize the metrics you want to see. There are four sections with metrics you can adjust (such as reach, impressions, amount spent and link clicks). To change the metric you see in a section, click the icon next to the metric name and choose a metric from the list.
   
2. Compare performance across different date ranges. Click on the date range drop-down menu and select Compare and choose the dates that you want to compare.
   
3. Use charts to analyze your results. Charts can help you understand how your campaigns performed over time and analyze trends. Hover over the charts to see more information on your campaigns.
   

Viewing Specific Data

Once you have an idea of the performance of your entire account, you can also dive into results for each campaign, ad set or ad by selecting the Campaigns, Ad Sets, or Ads tab.

You can also click on the name of the specific campaign, ad set or ad. Once you have selected the ads that your want to view results on, you can:

1. Customize columns to see more of the metrics you care about. For example, if you want to check your ad's success through conversion tracking, you can customize the columns you're seeing to get that data. Click Columns → Customize Columns and select the metrics that you want to view.
   
2. Use suggested columns to see more data about your ads based on your objective, ad creative and more. Click the icon and check the suggested columns that you want to view.
   
3. Use breakdowns to see the age of your audience, where they are viewing your ads, what devices they are using, and much more. You can use this information to understand the best audience for your ad and improve targeting for future campaigns. Click Breakdown and select a breakdown from the three categories: By Delivery, By Action and By Time.
4. Use the insights side pane to see visual representation of your ads performance. Check the box next to the campaign, ad set or ad you want to view and click icon to open the side pane.
   
5. Create and save filters to search for specific ads or campaigns based on objective, delivery and more.

Creating and Saving Reports

Once you've selected a date range and customized the way your results are shown, you can also create and save a report:

• Click , select Save new report and enter your report name.
• To send the report to yourself, click in the Schedule Email box to adjust the delivery and frequency of your reports.
• Select Manage Reports to access and edit your report settings.

You can also share your reports by exporting the data or sharing a link. Learn more about sharing your reports.