What are Facebook Ads?

Facebook Ads are paid ads that run across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Meta's wider network, targeted to the right audience and built to drive a specific goal like leads, sales or awareness. Because they reach people while they scroll, the creative and targeting matter enormously. Digital Marketing Adelaide has run Facebook Ads for Adelaide businesses for ten years, and it is our deepest area of expertise.

How much do Facebook Ads cost in Adelaide?

Facebook Ads in Adelaide work to the budget you set, and what matters is the return that budget delivers, not the spend alone. A well-built campaign aimed at quality leads or sales will aim to bring in far more value than it costs. Digital Marketing Adelaide manages your budget, targeting and creative to get you the best possible cost per quality lead or sale.

What makes Digital Marketing Adelaide good at Facebook Ads?

What makes Digital Marketing Adelaide good at Facebook Ads is ten years of doing nothing but this at a high level. Facebook ads are where our agency began, we have managed more than $7.2 million in Meta ad spend, we have our own proven lead framework, and we train other marketers and agencies to do it. That depth of experience is hard to match.

What is Meta Andromeda and does it affect my ads?

Meta Andromeda is Meta's new ad retrieval system, the engine that decides which ads are shown to which people across Facebook and Instagram. It shifted Facebook advertising from audience-first to creative-first, so your creative now does much of the targeting work. It absolutely affects your ads, and Digital Marketing Adelaide adjusted to Andromeda in real time, because relentless creative testing is how we already worked.

Do you do retargeting on Facebook?

Yes, retargeting is a huge part of how Digital Marketing Adelaide runs Facebook ads. Retargeting reconnects with people who have already engaged with your business or visited your website, keeping you in front of warm prospects until they are ready to act. It is one of the most cost-effective parts of any campaign, and we build it into our strategy as standard.

What types of Facebook campaigns can you run?

Digital Marketing Adelaide can run every main type of Facebook campaign, including awareness campaigns, video view campaigns, traffic campaigns, lead campaigns with instant forms, sales and shopping ads, and retargeting campaigns. The right one depends on your goal, and choosing correctly is half the battle. We match the campaign type to what you actually want to achieve.

How soon will I see results from Facebook ads?

Facebook ads can start generating enquiries within days of going live, because they reach people while they scroll rather than waiting for them to search. Your cost per quality lead then improves as the campaign learns and we test the creative. We set clear expectations up front and report your results clearly, so you always know how it is tracking.

Facebook Ads vs Google Ads: which is right for my Adelaide business?

Facebook ads and Google ads do different jobs. Google ads capture people who are already searching for what you sell, while Facebook ads create demand by putting you in front of the right audience before they search. Most Adelaide businesses do best with both working together, and we run Facebook ads and Google Ads, so we can tell you honestly where your budget will work hardest.

Do you follow Meta's automated recommendations?

We follow Meta's automated recommendations only when they are right for your campaign, not by default. Meta pushes its AI recommendations hard, and some help while others do not serve your goals. Digital Marketing Adelaide uses ten years of expertise to decide which to apply and which to override, so your budget is guided by judgement, not just by what Meta is promoting.

Can you generate quality leads, not just low-value clicks?

Yes, generating quality leads rather than low-value clicks is exactly what our Facebook lead framework is built for. Anyone can produce low-intent leads that waste your sales team's time. We focus on the right leads, using a defined avatar, instant forms, tested creative and retargeting, refined over ten years, to bring in enquiries actually worth pursuing.

How do you test Facebook ad creative?

We test Facebook ad creative relentlessly, running multiple variations of the image, headline, call to action and audience, then letting the results decide. We test our assumptions rather than trusting them, which matters more than ever under Meta's Andromeda system, because it rewards creative variety and fast testing. This is core to how Digital Marketing Adelaide works.

Do you run Instagram ads as well as Facebook?

Yes, Digital Marketing Adelaide runs Instagram ads as well as Facebook, because both sit within Meta's advertising network and often work best together. Depending on your audience and goals, we place your ads where they will perform, across Facebook and Instagram. We can talk through the right mix for your business when we speak.

Do you only manage Facebook Ads for Adelaide businesses?

Adelaide is our home, and Facebook Ads Adelaide is a core part of what we do, but no, Digital Marketing Adelaide does not only manage Facebook Ads for Adelaide businesses. We run Facebook campaigns for businesses right across Australia, including national brands, while giving every client the same expert, hands-on service.

What budget do I need for Facebook ads in Adelaide?

There is no fixed minimum. What matters is the return your budget delivers, not the spend alone. We work to the budget you set and focus it on quality leads or sales, and the outdoor building brand in our case study generates 80 to 100 leads a month on a relatively modest budget. We will recommend a sensible starting budget based on your goals when we speak.

Can you take over my existing Facebook ad account?

Yes. We can take over and improve an existing Facebook or Instagram ad account, keeping your history and learnings intact, or build a fresh account if that serves you better. We audit what is there, keep what works and fix what does not, with no lock-in contracts.

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FACEBOOK ADS ADELAIDE

Facebook Ads Adelaide, from the agency that has done this for ten years.

Facebook ads are where Digital Marketing Adelaide began, and a decade on, they are still what we are known for. We turn Facebook and Instagram into a dependable source of quality leads, with a proven framework refined over ten years.

"This is where it all started. We never stopped getting better at it."

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5 Years Running · Top THREE Best Rated in Adelaide

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Ten years ago, Facebook ads were our whole business. They still run through everything we do.

Digital Marketing Adelaide started with Facebook ads. Before the awards, before the team, before we managed millions in ad spend, we were getting Adelaide businesses results from Facebook marketing. A decade later, we still run Facebook and Instagram campaigns every single day, with a depth of experience most agencies cannot match.

Before the awards and the team, there was Facebook. Ten years on, it is still the craft this whole agency was built on.

That matters, because Facebook advertising has changed enormously, and most of what worked five years ago does not work now. We have run campaigns through every shift Meta has thrown at it, and we have managed more than $7.2 million in Meta ad spend doing it. Ten years of doing this, every day, is the difference between guessing and knowing.

We also teach it. Digital Marketing Adelaide trains business owners, in-house marketers and even other marketing agencies on how to run Facebook ads properly. When other agencies come to us to learn, you can be confident your campaigns are in expert hands.

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$7.2M+

In Meta ad spend managed

Lead campaigns

Instant forms built to convert

Retargeting

Staying in front of warm prospects

Meta Partner

Certified by Meta

10 years

Running Facebook ads in Adelaide

"Brilliant onboarding experience, and customer centric service attitude. I have no hesitation in recommending Matt at Digital Marketing Adelaide for their SEO, Google Ads and Facebook Ads expertise."

Paul Tosch, Lincoln College

THE FACEBOOK ADS OPTIONS

Facebook is not one ad. It is the right campaign for the right goal.

Most people think of Facebook ads as a single thing. In reality there are many campaign types, each built for a different goal, and choosing the right one is half the battle. Here are the main ones we run.

Awareness campaigns

Built to get your brand in front of as many of the right people as possible, ideal for raising recognition and warming up an audience before you ask them to act.

Lead campaigns with instant forms

Our speciality. Instant form campaigns let people enquire without leaving Facebook, and our proven lead framework turns them into a dependable flow of quality enquiries.

Video view campaigns

Built to get your video watched by the right audience, perfect for storytelling, building trust and staying memorable in the feed.

Traffic campaigns

Designed to drive the right people to your website, landing page or offer, so your best content gets in front of the people most likely to act on it.

Sales and shopping ads

Built to sell, putting your products in front of buyers and driving purchases, ideal for online stores wanting to turn the feed into revenue.

Retargeting campaigns

A huge part of how we work, reconnecting with people who already engaged with you, so you stay in front of warm prospects until they are ready to act.

THE FACEBOOK AD CRAFT

We test everything. We assume nothing.

Great Facebook advertising is part science, part craft. We never assume we know what will work, we test it, in every variation, until the data tells us. Here is what goes into the Facebook ad creative we test on every campaign we run.

The client avatar

It starts with knowing exactly who we are talking to. We build a clear picture of your ideal customer, so every ad speaks directly to the right person.

The image

The visual stops the scroll, and under Andromeda it matters more than ever. We choose and test images and creative built to grab the right person's attention.

The headline

The words that earn the click. We write and test headlines that connect with your avatar and make them want to know more.

The call to action

Every ad needs a clear next step. We craft and test the call to action that turns interest into an enquiry or a sale.

Relentless split testing

We run multiple variations of every element, image, headline, call to action and audience, and let the results decide. We test our assumptions rather than trusting them, because that is what consistently wins.

THE NEW ERA OF FACEBOOK ADS

Facebook ads changed completely. We changed ahead of the curve.

Meta rebuilt how Facebook ads work with a new system called Andromeda, the engine that now decides which ads get shown to which people. It moved Facebook from audience-first to creative-first, and most advertisers are still catching up. We adjusted our campaigns in real time as it rolled out.

The Old Way Audience-first targeting

WHAT DRIVES IT

You targeted tightly with interests and lookalikes, and the audience did the work.

THE CREATIVE

A few ads, tweaked slowly over time.

THE METHOD

Micro-optimising settings and guarding small audiences.

THE TARGETING

Interests and lookalikes carried the campaign.

THE EDGE

Advertisers still working this way are falling behind.

The Andromeda Way

Creative-first matching

WHAT DRIVES IT

Your creative now does most of the targeting, the system reads the ad itself to find the right people.

THE CREATIVE

Many genuinely different creatives, because the system rewards creative variety.

THE METHOD

Testing velocity, more variations, faster learning, which is exactly how we already worked.

THE TARGETING

Interests matter less, the creative and the signals carry it.

THE EDGE

We adjusted in real time as Andromeda rolled out, for maximum gain.

Andromeda rewards relentless creative testing, which is how Digital Marketing Adelaide has worked for ten years. We were built for this shift.

OUR LEAD FRAMEWORK

For leads, we have a proven framework refined over ten years.

If your goal is leads, this is where a decade of doing nothing but this pays off. Over ten years and millions in managed ad spend, we have developed our own proven framework for generating quality leads on Facebook, and we have refined it on real campaigns until it consistently delivers.

It combines deep avatar research, competitor ad intelligence, funnel mapping through our own proprietary tool, conversion-built landing pages, instant forms, and relentless testing and retargeting, into a system that brings in a steady flow of quality enquiries. It is not theory, it is what we do every day, and it works.

Most of that work happens before a single ad goes live. We would rather spend the time understanding your customer, your competitors and your funnel than burn budget guessing. It is why the leads we generate are the right leads, people worth your sales team's time, not low-intent clicks that go nowhere.

Most agencies cannot show you their process. This is ours, refined over ten years of campaigns.

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10 years Refining this framework

$7.2M+ In managed Meta ad spend

A defined avatar

We research your ideal client and build a clear picture of them before a dollar is spent.

Messaging for each avatar

We develop tailored messaging for every avatar, so each ad speaks to the right person.

Competitor ad intelligence

We study your competitors' live ads to see exactly what they are running.

Funnel mapping

We map competitor funnels using our own proprietary tool, so we learn from the whole market.

Conversion landing pages

We build landing pages optimised to turn clicks into enquiries and sales.

Instant form campaigns

We make enquiring effortless, so more of the right people do.

Testing and retargeting

We test creative relentlessly and retarget warm prospects until they are ready.

CASE STUDY · FACEBOOK ADS IN THE REAL WORLD

A national outdoor builder, 80 to 100 quality leads a month.

Industry

Outdoor building

Reach

Australia-wide, expanding to the US

Approach

Meta retargeting plus dedicated landing pages

The Challenge

Strong brand, not enough leads.

An Australia-wide outdoor building brand, also operating in the US, needed more enquiries. Website conversions were modest and the business leaned heavily on Google Ads.

The First Move

Meta retargeting to warm buyers.

We built a Meta retargeting campaign to their existing website. It performed well, but conversions stayed modest, so we looked deeper.

The Test

A landing page, proven by geography.

We analysed on-site behaviour, built a dedicated landing page, and split-tested it: Western Australia saw the landing page, South Australia the main site. The landing page won clearly.

The Result

Rolled out nationwide, now to the US.

State-by-state landing pages with tailored messaging followed. The same strategy is now rolling out across the US.

3.5%

Ad click-through rate, above average

80 to 100

Leads a month across Australia

US

Same strategy now rolling out

We keep client names private to protect their competitive edge. The results are genuine and measured, alongside leads from Google and organic search.

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WE TEACH THIS

We are trusted to train other marketers, and other agencies.

Here is something most agencies cannot say. Digital Marketing Adelaide does not just run Facebook ads, we teach others how to do it. We train business owners, in-house marketers and even other marketing agencies on how to run Facebook ads properly.

It is one of the strongest signals of expertise there is. When other professionals, including agencies who do this for a living, come to us to learn, you can trust that your campaigns are being run by genuine experts, not people reading the same help articles as everyone else.

Want to learn it yourself?

We also run training for businesses and marketers who want to master Facebook ads in-house.

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HOW WE WORK

How Digital Marketing Adelaide runs your Facebook ads.

Ten years of running Facebook ads has taught us exactly what a campaign needs. Here is the process we follow.

1

Strategy and avatar

We learn your business and goals and define your ideal customer avatar, so every ad is aimed at exactly the right person.

2

Creative and campaign build

We choose the right campaign type and build the creative, images, headlines and calls to action, designed to convert, in multiple variations.

3

Launch and test

We launch and split test relentlessly, running variations to find what works rather than assuming, and feeding the winners more budget.

4

Retarget and optimise

We layer in retargeting to stay in front of warm prospects, and optimise continually, including deciding when to follow Meta's automated recommendations and when to override them.

5

Report and grow

We report your leads and results in plain English, and keep refining the campaign to bring your cost per quality lead down and your volume up.

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Why Adelaide businesses choose Digital Marketing Adelaide for Facebook ads.

THE DIFFERENCE

Facebook ads are not a service we added. They are where we began.

Most agencies bolted Facebook ads on when it got popular. For us, it is the foundation the whole business was built on, ten years ago, and it is still our deepest expertise.

That decade shows. We have run campaigns through every change Meta has made, including its new Andromeda system, which we adjusted to in real time while others scrambled. We have built our own proven framework for generating quality leads. And we are trusted to train other marketers and agencies to do what we do.

We have managed more than $7.2 million in Meta ad spend, and we run your campaigns from Adelaide, with no lock-in contracts. We test everything, we assume nothing, and we make our own expert calls rather than blindly following Meta's automated recommendations.

Ten years on, it is still the work this whole agency is built around.

"Digital Marketing Adelaide are brilliant. They have provided our business with a very sophisticated Facebook marketing campaign that works! We couldn't recommend them enough for their professionalism, hard work and dedication to supporting our business goals."

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5 Years Running · Top THREE Best Rated in Adelaide

Ten years, every day.

Facebook ads are where we started and our deepest expertise. We have run campaigns through every shift Meta has made.

Ahead on Andromeda.

When Meta rebuilt Facebook ads around its Andromeda system, we adjusted our campaigns in real time, because relentless creative testing is how we already worked.

A proven lead framework.

For lead generation we use our own framework, refined over ten years and millions in ad spend, to deliver quality leads, not just volume.

We train the trainers.

We teach business owners, marketers and even other agencies how to run Facebook ads. Your campaigns are run by genuine experts.

We make the smart calls.

Meta pushes its automated recommendations hard. We use our expertise to decide when to follow them and when to override them, in your interest.

NEXT STEP

See if we're the right fit

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What Our Clients Say

Trusted by Adelaide businesses since 2016

These are Google reviews from Adelaide business owners we have worked with on Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads and wider Meta advertising since 2016.

"We have been very happy with their service and the results we have seen from our social media campaigns, not only across the Adelaide Strikers but across our Community Cricket Department. Digital Marketing Adelaide will always work through a solution to service us to the best of their ability."

Lucy Franklin, Adelaide Strikers / SA Cricket Association

"Matt Williamson attended our national Driving Miss Daisy franchise conference. His informative presentation was practical and enabled our franchise network to have examples of how to achieve Google business recommendations. One week later we have seen a surge in Google reviews. Thank you Matt, you are highly recommended."

Alan Branch, Driving Miss Daisy

"I had an amazing session with Matt! He went through all aspects of Meta Ads with me and explained everything clearly and thoroughly. He was incredibly patient, especially with me being fairly new to the field. I came away feeling much more confident and informed. Highly recommend Matt to anyone looking to learn more about digital marketing or improve their ad performance!"

Christine Loprete

"We cannot be more happier than to have dealt with Matt from Digital Marketing. He made our business transition to Facebook a breeze. His expertise and professionalism was unbelievable and always available to answer any questions we have. Thanks Matt and your team."

Nick Boffa

"I've been dealing with Digital Marketing Adelaide for almost two years now and have no hesitation in recommending them to others. They helped with my Google Ads and social media, and provided other marketing advice along the way. Honest, punctual and professional."

Michael Demchenko, Refresh Group

"They have been professional and have heard and acted on our queries and concerns in a timely fashion to continually achieve a desirable result for us. A great team to work with and learn from."

Patrick Carbone, Inertia Health Group

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