It really does feel like media buying before April 26, 2021 was a different world than after April 26, 2021. What happened on April 26?

We know that since iOS14.5 has been released and users are opting out of being tracked on third-party sites, blended data is about to become even more important than ever before.

Many of you reading this run ad agencies, and there’s many things we disagree on, but one that we know for sure; is when results “decline” or times get tough, man do people go looking around for another agency to handle their ads.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal Columnist Chris Mims wrote a piece outlining some of the ways the changes related to iOS14 could hurt small businesses. We were honored they quoted co-founder Gracie Foxwell after we spoke with him about these changes.

Yes, Facebook performance seems to feel a lot like a pendulum always swaying back and forth usually leaving you feeling like your account regularly heading in the opposite direction you want it to go. So, here are a few success stories from across the industry.

Lately I’ve been hearing from people that it’s hard to describe all the changes and state of the paid social advertising landscape to clients. We share this challenge with you. So, to help out, here’s an email I recently wrote to a client giving them a high level state-of-the-state.

If you’ve been following us on Twitter or reading our Foxwell Digital Download biweekly emails, you’re up-to-speed on the new Neighborhood Ad Center, Nextdoor’s self-serve ad platform that might just be the next best thing since, well, Facebook ads.

This is an interview with Molly McCarty, digital marketing program lead at Nextdoor , discussing the Neighborhood Ad Center self-serve ads platform.

Love cost caps? Love to hate cost caps? There are mixed reviews around the ad buying industry about the manual bid, so we asked our friend Alex Afterman to write up his experience with cost caps.

Man, have we been busy auditing accounts lately. We have already audited and looked at easily 40 accounts this year, very deeply, and it’s not even April.

This is a demo of the Nextdoor Ad Center. This content was produced in partnership with Nextdoor.

In this week’s Foxwell Digital Download, we cover: Facebook Advertising FAQ's About iOS14, CAPI, Facebook Sales Channel App, and Apple's ATT App Protocol, What’s performing (and not) right now, Where’s all this headed?, 3 AMAZING job opportunities we think you'll love, and a new way to analyze creatives.

It’s currently mid-February, 2021, and Facebook Ads as we knew them from 2020 and before are now a thing of the past. 2021 has brought us iOS14, mandated domain verification, CAPI … am we missing anything?

Let’s be frank, there is a LOT happening in the Facebook Ad Buying industry as a whole right now. We realize that while many of these changes relate to one another, there are some differences between them and it’s getting a bit confusing. Our aim with this blog is to bring about some clarity and explain how these changes fit together.

I feel like we had the strangest year last year in 2020. Things were hot, (like really hot) then they cooled and a bunch of stuff broke but we still sold a lot for our clients.