Facebook Takes All The Fun Out Of Advertising
by TJ
I consider myself a fairly patient person, at least in most cases. However, when I’m excited about a project or something I am doing I like to jump on it and go while the adrenaline is still pumping.
Recently, I have been trying to get back to spending considerable time and resources on affiliate marketing. I learned a lot when I was focused on it, and was making good money in spots. However, big projects came in and my available time decreased and I stopped working on my campaigns.
Yesterday, I started experiementing heavily with Facebook ads. Once I get a number of clicks on an ad, I like to make adjustments and submit another ad. However, my ad approval time is taking 6-10 hours and it’s really taking all the fun out of testing and finding something that works. If my memory serves me correctly, this is about twice what it was taking last year when I was testing facebook previously. Obviously, the moderators are much busier now. It’s just another sign that facebook is exploding as an advertising platform.
It must be the type of ads you’re submitting. It’s only taking me minutes to get an ad approved. Maybe consider what you are marketing.
Carlos,
If it were only the stuff I have been advertising as of late, then I would tend to agree that the materials being advertised might require a harder look than other potential ads as they do skate a firm line on the border of what is acceptable.
However, I have some very legitimate accounts that I also use and I created an ad on it yesterday that took over 4 hours to approve.
Maybe you are just more important than I am
I have noticed approval times have roughly been following this schedule:
5am CST
2pm CST
6pm CST
7pm CST
11pm CST
Not sure if it’s the same for everyone, but think it is
Jay,
That’s a real good observation, because that is approximately when my ads have been approved lately. I had one at around 5am that I submitted just after midnight, then tweaked it and resubmitted it at 11AM. It didn’t get approved until 6PM (so I missed the 2pm one somehow). I had an ad approved at about 12:30 AM this morning.
I just submitted another a 9:30 AM and I’ll see when it gets approved.
FYI, the ad I submitted at 11AM was just approved a 4PM almost exactly. I submitted a very legitimate ad on another account at 1:50PM and it has not yet been approved.