{"id":578,"date":"2015-04-14T03:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T17:52:23","slug":"how-to-spy-facebook-ads-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/how-to-spy-facebook-ads-for-free","title":{"rendered":"How To Spy Facebook Ads For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to know how you can spy on your competitor’s Facebook ads and find out exactly how they are targeting ?<\/p>\n

Here’s a cheap a relatively free way to do it…<\/p>\n

1) In any ad, Desktop or even Mobile, you will see a drop down button on the top right hand corner.<\/p>\n

2) Click on it and it will drop down a list of options for you to choose from:<\/p>\n

3) Select “Why am I seeing this ad”<\/p>\n

4) Facebook will bring out a sample of why this ad is showing.<\/p>\n

Let me show you a sample:<\/p>\n

\"facebook-spy1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"facebook-spy2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The same applies for any right hand side ads.<\/p>\n

You can do the same step if the ads shown are using Facebook’s\u00a0 own ad platform:<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"facebook-spy3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You get my point.<\/p>\n

With this method, sometimes you can dig into what your competitors are thinking and how they re targeting.<\/p>\n

The data isn’t a lot and while it is also said that you need to like a lot of pages to get this to work.. but because most people are using OCPM in their targeting, it seems like Facebook does categorize you into a certain targeting category, thus… sometimes, you may be able to find out new targets or ideas you never thought of before.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’ve personally seen it… and I might be using that targeting to test its effectiveness.<\/p>\n

So.. that’s it, a Free and relatively easy way to spy on the targeting your competitors are doing in Facebook.<\/p>\n

Go test it out and let me know what you think =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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