Marin Social supports the creation of Facebook Video Ads at scale in a highly intuitive and incredibly powerful way. You can create video ads through the Bulk Creator in three different ways using three different ad types, as follows:
Page Post Ads
Bulk Page Post Creator
Carousel Ads
Video can also be used in Collections Ads, but the creation process happens on the Facebook side.
In this article, we'll go into detail about exactly how to create Facebook Video Ads in Marin Social.
Once your campaign has been built out, simply follow the instructions below to create Page Post video ads.
Another way to create your video page post ads is by selecting the ad type Bulk Page Post Ads. When selecting the Bulk Page Post Ads ad type, you will see a media library which contains both image and video types. Select the Video tab within the media library to view all the videos that you have uploaded into the platform and from Facebook already.
Within the Video tab you will see all of the videos listed in a grid format. Within the grid format you can see certain attributes of the video:
Thumbnail: The image that will be first viewable to the user before the video is played
Name: Name of the video
Actions: When the edit icon is selected, a popup will show to edit the name of the video as well as the thumbnail image
Upload: Upload a video from your local file system. Video formats that are supported are .MOV or .MP4
To upload a new video or GIF:
Search video by name: Search for your video by the name
You can also select as many videos as you desire to create your video page post ads through the Bulk Creator. All you need to do is check the checkboxes of the videos you want. You will see the videos you selected in the results bar below the grid. When you hover over the image, you will see a video icon to show that it is a video type. The reason we do this is because through the media library, you can select both images and videos.
When you want to preview your video or even select a new thumbnail, click on the edit icon in the Actions column. Once you do that, you will see a popup like the one above. Here, you can do the following actions:
Preview your video: You can hover over the video and play it to see if this is the video you want shown in the ad.
Edit the name of the video: Change the name of the video in the text-box below the video.
Choose a thumbnail or upload: On the right hand side of the popup, you will see thumbnail images that you can select from. We automatically create these thumbnail images for you to select. If you don’t see one you like, you can always upload your own thumbnail image by clicking on the Upload Image button.
After you have selected all your videos, you can specify the assets of your ad in the Ads accordion.
You can also create Video Carousel Ads through the Bulk Creator. The workflow of creating video carousel ads is very similar to the workflow mentioned in the Bulk Page Post Creator section.
The only difference is that when you select one or more videos through the media library, you will see a card for each video appear in the Ads section. You can then specify the assets for each card to your liking.
For the bulk creation of Facebook Video Ads, we support the following objectives:
Website Clicks
Website Conversions
Video Views
Lead Generation
Mobile App Install
Mobile App Engagement
Desktop App Install
Desktop App Engagement
Here is a list of all video metrics that can be selected in the build dashboard and as a main KPI (Key Performance Indicator):
Video Play
Video View (3s)
Video View 10s
Video View 15s
Video View 30s
Video View Avg S
Video Complete
25% Watched
50% Watched
75% Watched
95% Watched
100% Watched
Avg % Watched
Video ad remarketing provides support for advertisers to target certain custom audiences from paid videos on both Facebook and Instagram. You can use this feature to move people from awareness to deeper funnel objectives such as affinity and consideration.
You can string together videos to create an audience based on various videos and actions. For example, an audience could contain 3 second views from video A, and completes from video B and C.
In order to create a Video Remarketing Custom Audience, navigate to Audience > Custom audiences > New custom audience > Video Engagement.
In the Rules section, you can select one ore more engagement type, and add videos that match that engagement type to capture the audiences that fit the criteria. To select the videos, click on the Select button.
Select a page to select the videos that belong to that page. You can also see useful statistics of the video like how many people viewed at least 3 seconds or 95%. The videos that show in this grid are both paid & organic videos.
You can see the videos showing up for that particular engagement type. You can also keep adding rules and videos per engagement type to capture the right audience.
