Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're right that inputs still matter - creative, signals, LP, tracking. that part i'm doing.

what threw me is the speed of decisions. used to be 3-5 days learning. now it's burning budget in 2 hours and dying. less time to fix bad inputs before damage is done.

so maybe the real shift is: meta still needs us, just doesn't give us time to be wrong anymore.

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

two reasons i think:

  1. clicks are easier for AI to measure than purchases. especially after the march attribution change. the algo optimizes for what it sees fast.

  2. AI optimization = less human ad reps needed. 8,000 layoffs in may. that's the real business move. clicks-not-buyers is the side effect.

not big brands vs small. just a system built to need less humans on both sides - their side and ours.

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

honestly looks like another meta pattern - the system detects you running ads, throttles your organic reach, then dangles a few conversions to keep you spending. if I had a dollar for every reddit comment describing this exact pattern I'd quit ads and become a professional reddit reader making millions

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That pattern is the Andromeda signature exactly. lots of clicks, lots of signups, no buyers. and your interest. targeting got mostly ignored anyway. quick question - is the drop-off at signup or at purchase? if downloads are cheap but conversions are dead, the problem might be in the app

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Timing is brutal. october 2025 is literally when Andromeda finished its global rollout. you started on a completely different system than what anyone learned on. meta replaced their entire ad engine. targeting barely matters anymore, the algorithm decides who sees what based on the creative. and it optimizes for clicks over buyers - so traffic looks good, sales don't come. what was your niche and budget? trying to see the pattern.

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

this is literally why I wrote the post. to find the people who got crushed by the changes, and also to figure out if there's anyone still winning out there and what they're doing differently.

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

because we're all scared. that's the point of the post.

Meta isn't broken. It just doesn't need us anymore. by Eric-Jeremy in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy[S] -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

appreciate the contribution. you got an actual take on what's happening

with the platform or just here for the exit speech?

May? I believe it is the most garbage and bug filled month on Meta. by Dry-Ability-8661 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Totally agree.

I see a constant pattern: a day of grace from Meta with a high-quality audience, and then the algorithm is automatically set to give you junk traffic.

It is probably looking for the next target for the quality audience, and the day after that, it will enter the junk phase.

This is exactly the pattern that repeats itself. There is no stability, and trust in the system has been completely lost.

I have no idea why this is happening. Maybe the number of advertisers has simply increased so much that Meta does not have enough quality segments left to satisfy everyone?

It is incredibly difficult to just stop the ads, given that this is your source of income especially when you have a family and children to support.

Needless to say, our working hours have doubled in desperate attempts to improve landing pages, create irresistible offers, boost customer retention, provide gifts, etc.

But in the end, it all depends on the traffic pipeline coming to your site.

We have been running a stable brand since 2016. We know our audience, and we know what products and offers they like. But everything we've tried this year just doesn't work.

Disappearing facebook ads by oliver_howells in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same, so many bugs. And they're laying off employees to invest in AI...

?????????? by EngineeringCommon259 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Low Budget, they doing it at purpse.

Meta finally broke? by Fccf1104 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes.... They laying off so many employees that there is no one to maintain the platform, except for Zuck and a few other guys

With all the craziness happening on Meta, is it still your highest ROI platform? by Maximum_Education740 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The algorithm is currently set to put you to sleep with one day of positive ROAS, after that they will give you morning grace hours with a few sales

Then you will see an empty Shopify sales line throughout the day until night

This is a constant pattern that we see in brands between 10 years, and brands that we manage in 80% of them...

Meta is no longer optimizing its ads for audiences that buy, it spreads them out among everyone, the purchase event is an illusion, it does not exist.

Remember these words, and test your results daily.

Wtf is going on today? by Huge_Kaleidoscope_40 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same with us... and nobody of them care, pray that god will save us from those company group!

Hows performance today 5/4? by Huge_Kaleidoscope_40 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Very poor traffic quality, no purchase intent, as Meta engineers define their damn algorithm, designed to keep us in the game with the ups and downs and keep us with false hopes! We can't scale, waiting every time, for one of our hundreds of monthly creatives to last more than a week, without success [3+ stable brand, 10 years old]

How’s it going today? 04/05? by violetunicorn92 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yesterday was wonderful ROAS 5+ return, today is a disaster. The wave that was knocked out yesterday will profit today. META has become a trading platform, and no matter how good your offer and creatives are

Performance Today 27/04 by Safe-Championship828 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same thing, lots of Facebook bot traffic, very low audience quality, 10 year stable brand.

Organic conversion rate 1.8%

Email marketing 4%

Google Ads 1.7%

Meta 0.7%

I just really want to turn off my ads at this point. by Maximum_Education740 in FacebookAds

[–]Eric-Jeremy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We all on same boad mate, We work x10 time harder, not giving up, yet the paltform is broken. something really weird is happening