Social Media Advertising
Social Media Advertising Playlist Introduction
Welcome to our Social Media Advertising playlist! Whether you’re new to ads or looking to refine your strategy, this series covers everything you need to know to get your pub’s ads performing. From setting up your first campaign to measuring success, we’ll walk you through:
- Introduction to Social Media Advertising
- Types of Ads and Tools
- Setting Up for Success
- Audience and Ad Creation
- Budgeting and Scheduling
- Measuring Success
- Best Practices
Start learning how to make your ads work harder for your pub!

Introduction to Social Media Advertising
Facebook and Instagram advertising is a way to promote your pub using paid ads on these platforms. These ads can be made up of images, videos or multiple images called carousels that appear in users' feeds. This allows you to reach a wider audience, to increase your...
Types of Ads and Tools
There are three main types of ads that you can buy on Facebook and Instagram. The first is photo ads. These are perfect for daily specials or showing off the pub's atmosphere. Video ads are great for giving a tour or highlighting events. And carousel ads are ideal for...
Setting Up for Success
A meta pixel is a piece of HTML code that's placed on your website to help optimise your ads and track any conversions, such as bookings or sales. It helps to gather valuable data on user behaviour, such as who's visited your website and allows you to retarget them...
Audience and Ad Creation
The ability to target your ideal customer means your ads can be incredibly relevant and eye catching to social media users. So, have a think about who you're going to be targeting in your social media adverts. You can target based on age, gender, location, interests...
Budgeting and Scheduling
When it comes to choosing your budget and your schedule for your advertising campaign, first of all, try and consider how much you'd like to allocate towards this as a test new that you pay for those, so that you can perhaps reallocate a test budget from something...
Measuring Success
Reviewing ad performance is essential because it tells you how effective your campaign has been at reaching and engaging your target audience. Metrics like reach and clicks give you a good understanding of what's working and what's not, allowing you to make changes...
Best Practices
To create effective ads, use high quality images and videos that showcase your pub. Keep your message clear and direct and test different formats and messages to see what resonates best with your audience. Here's an example of a great ad advertising spending New...