Hello everyone,
We are on a mission to automate, optimize, and unify your digital advertising campaigns with incredible software. Automate Ads is the first fully automated cross-channel ad campaign manager. It eliminates the need for manual day-to-day campaign management by using technology and data science to automate daily tasks such as A/B testing, performance monitoring, ad rotation, pausing poor performing ads, bid optimization, and reporting.
Today we are excited to announce our new feature, Automate Reports, which you can see in action with live data from one of our active campaigns here: http://bit.ly/1Mi0rjd With this tool advertisers will be able to create a completely custom performance report for their entire ads account or an individual campaign. They can then save that report for future use, or create a shareable interactive link like the one above to send to their team, boss, or clients.
We also recently launched Automation Tasks, which allow advertisers to add our automations systems to their existing campaigns that have been created in native ads managers.
Happy to answer any questions about the product or digital advertising in general!
PS: Product Hunters get 30% off their first month of our premium service with this code: auto30
@torbahax Congrats on the launch Andrew (& team)! We've had a similar idea ourselves on this front so your product makes total sense to me. A lot of the advertising legwork can be automated so I'll be intrigued to see how this is received. As a designer I like the look of what you've done, all the best with this!
@fredrivett Thanks Fred! That's great to hear, one of the first things many advertisers say to me is "where were you guys for the past two years?!" Appreciate the design compliment, @formerceo leads our design and branding efforts. :)
@torbahax Congrats on the launch. The service sounds like something we will test out soon and I love the "Steps" format of the product page. Can you share more info on your "neural network" and what the reference to the "$300M ad spend data" is from?
@davedri Thanks! Maybe @cjsysadm will jump in, but here's a high level overview:
We have built a programmatic intelligence platform that works on top of the non programmatic Facebook Ads and Google Adwords APIs (meaning not FBx or the Google/DoubleClick Exchanges.)
Our platform is constructed of a self-contained deep learning neural network that, for a single campaign, polls the platform API's frequently throughout the day to collect stats on specific creative, targeting, keyword, bid, and budget of the campaign. The neural network then uses this data to match calculated performance data from historical ad spend as well as website/mobile app tracking data.
By creating the intelligence system at the campaign level, it allows for us to include true bulk/power user options to mass create cross-channel campaigns that manage themselves.
I've been using this for the last 6 months or so (under its previous version and now it's new interface/name.)
It's a much easier way of generating multiple variants within the Facebook ad environment. It's much better than the FB native ad management platforms (both normal and Power Editor.)
The "optimisation" tech isn't super clear in the app itself so I'd love to see future updates with more clarity. Currently it appears to simply rotates ads, however if there's more to it then I'd love to see that reflected/documented in the platform.
Overall I'd recommend using this product if you run ads on Facebook (and especially if you're tired of using Facebook's own ad platform.)
@parrymalm
Thanks Parry,
Really appreciate your support and feedback!
I think you'll find with this build we've given much more control over our automation and optimization systems to advertisers. We've broken it up into separate sections: budget management, creative A/B testing, ad rotation, and bid optimization.
In the sections you have control over what each automation system does. Soon you'll be able to add these automation systems on top of already existing campaigns to pick and choose which systems you want applied.
Outside of this we are working on better ways for advertisers to understand what each automation system is doing, when, and why as well.
Thanks again!
@torbahax@parrymalm would love to see in a future incarnation links with major ESPs to automate updating of custom audiences. Right now it's an annoying manual task with CSV files direct in FB. Anyways free advice haha 😎
Love the idea of automating Facebook and Google AdWords campaigns. Quick question: how much does one need to spend on either channel to get real value here?
@dankaplan So our campaigns will work for budgets as low as $3 a day, but realistically you should at least be somewhat familiar with digital advertising and spending at least $20+ a day for our system to provide the most value. :)
Unbelievable support. I have tried emailing them but have not heard back from them. This app charges me twice even after I have cancelled my account. I am not the only one, check out their twitter and facebook pages. https://twitter.com/search?q=%40...https://www.facebook.com/Automat...
I was literally discussing this exact problem in the Maker slack about 2 hours ago, as I'm looking to do a product launch tonight and am considering how best to track analytics across the different platforms I want to advertise on.
I will be checking this out :)
@axelk Currently we support Facebook and Google Adwords accounts. We are working on Twitter ads and display network integrations as we speak, but our mission going forward is to automate every channel on the web. For now you need to create the campaigns from our dashboard in order for them to be automated, but soon you'll be able to add our automation systems on top of existing campaigns created in native ads tools as well. :)
Interesting. May give a try. Facebook ads work but adwords seems super hard these days, very expensive. Does anyone make money from adwords these days apart from Google?
This platform is AWESOME! I've been playing around with it and it's really great. I work at a marketing agency that has had to juggle the many different advertising dashes at the same time. This platform really simplifies the whole process and is really beautiful and well-designed. Awesome job with this!
Facebook ads take a looong time to do well...it requires significant tweaking and monitoring in addition to reading and networking with other advertisers to stay up to date on new fb ad's features and algorithm changes. I love that automate ads can take care of this for us, yet we still can have very high performing ads...
Really unhappy with the support here. Asked a simple Q several times (even on Twitter) about getting an error when connecting Google account and no reply. Just cancelled my account :-(
I was so excited about this product, thought all my miseries are finally over. I just come here every morning, check what's going on and relax for the product will take care of it all.
It didn't do anything but just send me bills every month. Been trying to contact them on Facebook, support chats, nothing worked. Finally changing my credit card itself- don't wish to spend $19 for nothing.
I'm so excited about this product. I spend most of my day in business.facebook.com dealing with ads, and this looks like it is going to save me a ton of time. The automated segmenting and testing for customer targeting is the most appealing to me. More automation = more time for me to focus on higher level tasks! woo!
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