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The BEST Facebook Ads Bidding Strategy

Ben Heath · YouTube Free Intermediate

Ben Heath has managed over 300 million dollars of Meta ad spend and shows the bidding decision live inside Ads Manager, useful if you learn better watching a real account than reading theory.

  • Walks through when lowest cost bidding beats manual bid controls for most founders starting out
  • Demonstrates how a change in bid strategy shows up in delivery and cost per result in real time
  • Free, visual alternative to reading Meta's text heavy documentation

The question it answers

  1. How do Meta (Facebook & Instagram) ads actually work?

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