Dynamic Creative

Dynamic Creative allows you to automatically deliver different combinations of an ad's creative to your users. It helps you find the best creative combination per impression and learns from the asset's performance across audiences.

This solution also improves your ability to explore a variety of creative asset combinations and audiences, so you can show the best images, titles, descriptions and other assets to your users.

You should use Dynamic Creative to:

Automate the workflow used to test creative
Use different audiences to learn how to pick the most effective combination of creative assets

Use this API for new and ongoing campaigns, as well as campaigns that run longer than five days. You should perform split testing with your existing campaigns to find the best approach for your needs.

Get Started

Step 1: Create Campaign and Ad Set
Step 2: Provide the ad creative with asset_feed_spec
Step 3: Create your ad
Optional Step 4: Check your ad's review status.
Get insights and analyze your results

Step 1: Create Campaign and Ad Set

You can create a standard ad campaign for Dynamic Creative, but there are two limitations:

Your objective must be one of the following: CONVERSIONS, APP_INSTALLS, LINK_CLICKS, BRAND_AWARENESS, LEAD_GENERATION, REACH, or VIDEO_VIEWS.
buying_type must be the default, which is AUCTION, or left blank.

For example, to create an ad campaign with the objective of CONVERSIONS:

curl \
  -F 'name=Dynamic Creative Sample Campaign'
  -F 'objective=CONVERSIONS'
  -F 'status=PAUSED'
  -F access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
  https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/campaigns

Once you have your campaign, create an ad set by using the standard ad set endpoint.

You can use all optimization_goals, billing_events, targeting, and promoted_objects, as long as they are compatible with the parent ad campaign's objective. Then set is_dynamic_creative to true.

To create an ad set in a campaign with optimization_goal set to conversions:

curl \
  -F 'status=PAUSED'
  -F 'name=Dynamic Creative Ad Set'
  -F 'campaign_id=<CAMPAIGN_ID>'
  -F 'optimization_goal=OFFSITE_CONVERSIONS'
  -F 'is_dynamic_creative=true'
  -F 'lifetime_budget=1000'
  -F 'promoted_object={"pixel_id": "<PIXEL_ID>", "custom_event_type": "PURCHASE"}'
  -F 'billing_event=IMPRESSIONS'
  -F 'bid_strategy=LOWEST_COST_WITHOUT_CAP'
  -F 'targeting={"geo_locations": {"countries": ["US"]}}'
  -F 'start_time=2019-04-02'
  -F 'end_time=2019-04-09'
  -F access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
  https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/adsets

This returns a new ad set ID:

{"id":"23842500259260001"}

If you use asset_feed_spec with an ad set optimized for APP_INSTALLS, you should specify link_url, such as http://www.abc.com. The link_url should be the same as object_store_url in promoted_object. You should provide only one link_url parameter in asset_feed_spec.

curl 
-F "name=Dynamic Creative AdSet"
-F "campaign_id=CAMPAIGN_ID"
-F "optimization_goal=APP_INSTALLS"
-F 'is_dynamic_creative=true'
-F "billing_event=IMPRESSIONS"
-F "is_autobid=true"
-F "promoted_object={'object_store_url':'https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215','application_id':ADVERTISED_APP_ID}"  // object_store_url must match what is provided in asset feed's link_urls 
-F "lifetime_budget=20000"
-F "end_time=1461974400"
-F "targeting={
     'geo_locations':{'countries':['US']},
     'age_min':18,
     'age_max':24,
     'publisher_platforms':['facebook', 'audience_network'],
     'user_os':['ios']
   }"
-F "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN" 
https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_AD_ACCOUNT_ID/adsets

Step 2: Provide Ad Creative with `asset_feed_spec`

Provide your creative through the asset_feed_spec field, also known as Asset Feed. In this field, you can specify multiple creative assets for each asset type. Some examples of asset types are images, videos, headlines and link descriptions. See the following:

Note you may also need to set page_id and instagram_actor_id.

asset_feed_id is only supported in Marketing API v3.1 and earlier. You should use asset_feed_spec instead.

Image Cropping

Dynamic creative supports image cropping. Specify the image cropping parameter in your image spec. You can provide only one crop per image. We apply your crops to all placements of your image. See Marketing API, Image Cropping.

Step 3: Create Your Ad

At this point, your ad set must be empty. When you create your ad, provide a reference to the creative ID. You can only create one ad per ad set. However, you can create additional Dynamic Creative ads in other, new ad sets.

curl 
  -F 'name=Dynamic Creative Ad' 
  -F 'adset_id=<ADSET_ID>' 
  -F 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' 
  -F 'creative={
      "creative_id": <CREATIVE_ID>,
   }' 
https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/ads

After you create your ad:

Your campaign appears in Ads Manager.
Facebook reviews your ad and checks if it meets our Advertising Policies.

Once you create an ad for Dynamic Creative, you cannot delete or archive it. Instead, you should delete or archive the parent ad set.

Dynamic Creative supports all placements except sponsored_messages on Messenger.

Carousel Ads

Dynamic Creative delivers the best combination of assets in carousel ad format. If your feed has less than 10 images, the number of carousel cards is the same as the number of images. If you are using more than 10 images, we display a carousel with 10 cards. We recommend square sizes for images.

If you are using carousel with Dynamic Creative, you cannot use these features from carousel ads:

BODY_LABEL
CALL_TO_ACTION_TYPE_LABEL
LINK_URL_LABEL
CAPTION_LABEL
AD_FORMAT_LABEL

In the asset insights breakdown, we aggregate impression based metrics for in-card assets for all cards to the assets in the first card. In-card assets include images, title, and description

For background information, see Carousel ads.

Optional Step 4: Check Review Status

After you create your campaign, ad set, and ad, check ad review status:

curl -G 
-d "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" 
-d 'fields=review_feedback' 
https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/<ADSET_ID>

The result includes ad review feedback. An empty array means that your ad passed review:

{
  "review_feedback":"[]",
  "id":"<ADSET_ID>"
}

If your ad does not pass review, you see:

{
  "review_feedback": {
    {"id":23842500258220001,"text":"Body 1","reason":["ALCOHOL"]},
    {"id":23842500258160001,"text":"Title 1","reason":["ALCOHOL"]},
    {"id":23842500258170001,"text":"Title 2","reason":["ALCOHOL"]}
  }",
  "id": "<AD_ID>"  
}