This document discusses how going viral is unpredictable and how focusing on Facebook ads can be a more effective strategy. It details how one organization used Facebook ads to assess over 80,000 women's cancer risks with less than 1% of their annual budget. They found success by testing over 120 ad variations, fine-tuning the highest performing ads and focusing 75% of their budget on these top ads. This approach allowed them to dramatically increase campaign efficiency and achieve their goals in a massively scalable way through the use of targeted and measurable Facebook ads.
5. CAUSE CAMPAIGNS ARE
IN AN ARMS RACE
FOR ATTENTION
AVG ATTENTION SPAN (SEC)
Down by 33% from 2000
Source: Time
UNIQUE PIECES OF CONTENT
Vying for our attention everyday
Source: AdWeek
AVG ORGANIC POST REACH
For organizations on Facebook
Source: Contently
:08
285
2.5%
6. A FIELD GUIDE TO COLLEGE FASHION
CAMPAIGN
PREDICTABILITY
7. A FIELD GUIDE TO COLLEGE FASHION
NON-PROFIT
ACCOUNTABILITY
9. EDUCATION IS A LIFESAVER
Simply put,
The good news: When caught early, the
five-year survival rate for breast and
ovarian cancer can be greater than 92%
Will develop ovarian cancer;
2/3 will die from their disease
Women will develop breast
cancer in their lifetime1 8
1 67
10. In just five minutes, it looks at a woman’s individual health history, her family
health history and lifestyle factors to determine personalized baseline risk
for breast and ovarian cancer, along with tangible actions that can lower risk
SO WE CREATED...
13. WE FOUND SUCCESS BY GIVING UP
ON “GOING VIRAL,” AND LEARNING
TO LOVE FACEBOOK ADS
14. WHY FACEBOOK ADS?
THEY’RE RELEVANT
As our audience’s attention is
concentrated in social and mobile
feeds, that’s where we need to be
THEY’RE ADAPTIVE
We can rapidly test ideas, and, if
we fail, we do so “fast and cheap”
THEY’RE MEASUREABLE
We can measure in real-time
how every dollar of our ad
spend is performing against our
ultimate goal - quiz completion
15. OVER 122 VARIATIONS
OF TARGETING AND CREATIVE,
FOR MASSIVE ACTION, AT SCALE
FINE-TUNING A FORMULA
16. THE RESULT:
Young women assessed
their risk in 2015 from
Facebook Ads alone
80,313
EIGHT
This was accomplished
with less than 1% of Bright
Pink's annual revenue
And in just weeks
$23,327
18. NOT JUST QUANTITY, BUT QUALITY
Facebook ads weren’t just about volume or efficiency.
Ad traffic was higher quality - by more than 2x!
Facebook Ads
Direct
Press / Influencer
Search
Email
85%
42%
35%
21%
36%
20. EAT IT TOO
Facebook ads and “going viral”
aren’t mutually exclusive
Prime your campaign for viral
success; couple it with Facebook
Ads to accelerate your path and
ensure success in any scenario
24. 97% MOBILE
It’s no longer enough to be
“mobile-responsive”
We took a mobile-first approach
to design, and it paid off
Design not simply for mobile, but
for the Facebook mobile browser,
which has its own nuances
26. While most ads are virtually set in
stone before they’re ever even seen -
either through high production costs,
high minimum media spends, or both -
FACEBOOK ADS ARE
INFINITELY FLEXIBLE
30. HALF THE MONEY I
SPEND ON
ADVERTISING IS
WASTED; THE
TROUBLE IS I DON'T
KNOW WHICH HALF
Old ad dude (with surprisingly durable insight)
31. REWRITING OLD RULES
WK1
AVERAGE COST PER COMPLETION
QUIZ COMPLETIONS
WK2 WK3 WK4 WK5 WK6 WK7 WK8
By starting small and testing, we were able to focus 75% of our
budget on top-performing ads, dramatically increasing overall
campaign efficiency.
33. “GOING VIRAL” IS A TRAP
A DATA-DRIVEN, AD-SUPPORTED IMPACT MODEL
CAN BE YOUR SECRET WEAPON IN MISSION DELIVERY
TO ACHIEVE HYPER EFFICIENT, MASSIVELY SCALABLE, AND
MISSION ALIGNED OUTCOMES THROUGH FACEBOOK ADS: