Spent a full 8 hours on a Facebook ad setup that should have taken 2

Had a campaign in Atlanta that kept showing to the wrong age group no matter what I did, turns out I had a duplicate audience that was overriding everything. Has anyone else had a platform just silently override your settings like that?

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keithbutler1mo ago

Wait, a duplicate audience was just sitting there silently overriding everything you set? That's brutal, Facebook really likes to hide those landmines.

victor_jones9918d ago

Man honestly that's brutal. I spent two hours once trying to figure out why my air compressor kept tripping the breaker only to find out I had two extension cords daisy chained together that I forgot about. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at your own dumb mistakes and move on.

rubys801mo ago

Totally feel your pain on this one. I had a similar thing happen last year where an old saved audience I forgot about was quietly sitting there and jacking up all my targeting. It took me three days and a support ticket to figure out it was even there because nothing on the setup page was showing the conflict. Facebook really needs to put a warning or something when you have duplicate or overlapping audiences like that. Makes you want to throw your laptop out the window, honestly.