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facebook-ads-api
dan
dan

Reputation: 136

Non-Facebook-page ads in newsfeed

I'm wondering if there is a possibility to create an off-site ad (creative type 1) and place it in newsfeed? I know this wasn't the case so far and that it's not available via Ad Manager/Power editor, but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it via API.

If not, is there a work-around i.e. ability to create an "ad" with title, image and body that can appear in newsfeed but without any Facebook Page? (Although it seems I'm repeating myself).

By the way, when trying to target type 1 creative to "desktopfeed" I'm getting the following error: {"error":{"type":"Exception","message":"There are no valid formats in which your ad will deliver.","code":1487569}}. This is merely for people who happen to be googling for this error (as I have before posting this). And the call that produced it: https://graph.facebook.com/act_xxxxxxxx/adgroups?method=post&access_token=xxxxx&name=testing newsfeed availability&campaign_id=6013832871175&targeting={"countries":["US"],"age_min":13,"broad_age":1,"page_types":["desktopfeed"]}&bid_type=CPC&bid_info={"CLICKS":2}&adgroup_status=ACTIVE&creative={"type":1,"link_url":"http:\/\/www.xxxxxxx.com","title":"testing newsfeed","body":"testing newsfeed","image_hash":"edacffeeb479e931d11eb062decfee7f"}&redownload=1

Thank you, Dan

Upvotes: 1

Views: 242

Answers (1)

Paul Bain
Paul Bain

Reputation: 4397

All offsite ads in newsfeed need to be related to a Facebook Page, however they do not have to actually be published on the page.

You should create an unpublished page, it's the same as creating a standard page post but just setting published=1 - e.g.:

curl -F 'message=Book your trip to Alaska'\
     -F 'link=http://example.com'\
     -F 'picture=http://imageurl.com/image'\
     -F 'published=0'\
     -F 'access_token=PAGE_TOKEN'\
  https://graph.facebook.com/{page_id}/feed

Then create a adcreative from this:

curl \
-F "name=sample creative" \ 
-F "type=27" \
-F "object_id=ID_OF_POST" \
-F "auto_update=true" \
-F "access_token=_____" \
"https://graph.facebook.com/act_12345678/adcreatives"

See the documentation for unpublished page posts for more details.

Upvotes: 2

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