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Meta ads agency for ecommerce

Facebook and Instagram ads for stores with orders: events fixed first, catalogue split into real product sets, creative tested in volume.

Meta ads agency for ecommerce: content creator filming skincare product tutorial at home with smartphone on tripod.

Who it's for

  • Stores with steady orders and a product whose point is visible in three seconds
  • Brands that can commission or film new video and photography every month
  • Accounts where retargeting still works but prospecting has stopped finding new buyers
  • Catalogue businesses where dynamic ads can do the merchandising

Meta ads are how most stores reach people who were not looking for them. Facebook and Instagram sell by interruption, so the creative does the targeting and the catalogue does the merchandising. We run Meta for stores that already take orders, because the account needs real purchase events to steer on.

The work splits three ways. Measurement comes first: the pixel and the Conversions API sending the same events with the same event IDs, so Meta learns from all of your sales rather than half of them. The catalogue comes next, complete and split into product sets that match how people move through your store. Then creative gets briefed, made and tested in volume, because an account rises and falls on how many good angles you can put in front of the same broad audience.

It mainly moves the visitors lever, and it asks more of the product page than any search channel does, since nobody arrived with intent. Everything runs in your own Business Manager and ad account, so the pixel history and the audiences stay yours. The free written plan sets the scope, the reporting and the base fee plus growth share.

How we run it

The honest process, in order.

  1. Fix the pixel and the Conversions API before the creative

    Meta optimises on the purchase events you send it, so the first job is making those events accurate and complete. We check the pixel fires once per order, add the Conversions API so events also arrive from your server, and give both the same event ID so Meta deduplicates instead of double counting. Then we look at event match quality, which reflects how much customer information reaches Meta with each event. Poor match quality quietly raises your cost per order. This is unglamorous work, and it is the reason two accounts with identical creative perform differently.

  2. Build product sets that match how people shop

    Dynamic ads pull from your catalogue, and a catalogue with a single product set is a catalogue with a single strategy. We split it by margin, price band, category and stock depth, so products with room to grow get their own set and products you cannot afford to discount are excluded. We also fix the feed fields Meta reads: title, description, image, availability, sale price and product type. A catalogue that mirrors your site's structure lets us follow a category browser with that category rather than with the whole range.

  3. Write the brief before anyone opens the camera

    Weak Meta creative usually fails at the brief, not the edit. We take the words your customers use in reviews and support tickets, pick the two or three objections that stop a purchase, and write a brief per angle: what the video must show in the first two seconds, what it has to prove, and what it must never claim. One angle becomes several executions, a founder to camera, a close-up of the product working, a customer clip, a static with the offer. Production then becomes a shopping list rather than a guess.

  4. Test creative in volume, retire it on evidence

    New creative goes into a consolidated campaign against a broad audience rather than a dozen small tests that never gather enough data to mean anything. Each batch runs beside the current best performer. We let the budget find the winners, watch cost per purchase at the ad level, and switch things off when the number stops moving rather than on a fixed day. Winners get variations of the hook. Losers get logged with a reason, so the same angle is not retried in six weeks by someone who forgot. The record of failures is worth as much as the record of wins.

  5. Judge the account on orders the store actually received

    Meta counts a sale whenever it can attribute one, which is not the same as what your store recorded. Every month we line up three numbers: purchases reported in the ad account, orders in your analytics, and total store revenue against total spend. When budget moves up or down, we watch what happens to total orders rather than to the figures inside the dashboard. Where volume allows, we run a period on and a period off in one region. That is slower than reading a report, and it is the only way to know what the spend is doing.

Worked example, not a result

Example: when two videos out of twelve carry the month

Say a store puts $6,000 into Meta in a month, spread across twelve videos. Ten of them take about $250 each and bring in a handful of orders between them. Two take around $1,750 each and produce most of the month's orders.

The instinct is to brief twelve new videos. The better move is to cut six variations of the two that worked, changing the hook and the opening seconds while keeping the rest of the edit. The following month those six share $4,000 and four genuinely new angles share $2,000 as the test budget.

These are round numbers picked to show how budget follows evidence. They are not a result from any store.

Questions about meta ads agency for ecommerce

Both, usually. We write the briefs and the ad copy, and we can edit from footage you already have. Filming, product photography and creator fees are normally cheaper handled on your side or by a producer you already work with. The plan states which parts we cover and which stay with you, so neither side assumes the other is doing it.

Because they count differently. Meta credits a purchase to an ad someone clicked or saw within its attribution window. Your analytics credits the last source before the order. Neither one is wrong. We use Meta's figures to compare ads against each other and your store's figures to decide whether the channel as a whole is paying for itself.

Enough that the account is never waiting on you. For most stores that means a few genuinely new concepts plus a larger number of variations on whatever is already working. Volume depends on budget, because a bigger spend shows the same video to the same people more often and wears it out faster.

Sometimes, with limits. Meta's advertising standards restrict claims about personal health outcomes, do not allow before and after images, and prohibit content implying a negative view of someone's body. Some categories are also blocked from certain targeting and catalogue features. We check the current policy against your products before creative is briefed, because a restricted account costs more time than a rewritten script.

Yes, but smaller than most accounts assume. Retargeting mainly reaches people who were coming back anyway, which makes it look efficient while adding little. We keep it lean, exclude recent buyers, cap the frequency and put the rest of the budget into reaching people who have never seen you. The plan sets the split from how much traffic your store gets.

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