Newest Ad Specs for Top ad Platforms 2024

Here in one place is all the ad specs, enjoy!:

Ad Specs:

  • Facebook / IG:  

    • Image Ads:  

      • File Type: JPG or PNG

      • Ratio: 1.91:1 to 1:1

      • Resolution: At least 1080 x 1080 pixels

      • Maximum File Size: 30MB

      • Minimum Width: 600 pixels

      • Minimum Height: 600 pixels 

    • Video ads including GIFs:

      • File Type: MP4, MOV or GIF

      • Ratio: 1:1 (for desktop or mobile) or 4:5 (for mobile only)

      • Video Settings: H.264 compression, square pixels, fixed frame rate, progressive scan and stereo AAC audio compression at 128kbps+

      • Resolution: At least 1080 x 1080 pixels 

    • Carousel Ads:

      • Image File Type: JPG or PNG

      • Video File Type: MP4, MOV or GIF

      • Ratio: 1:1 or 4:5

      • Resolution: At least 1080 x 1080 pixels

      • Number of Carousel Cards: 2 to 10

      • Image Maximum File Size: 30MB

      • Video Maximum File Size: 4GB

      • Video Duration: 1 second to 240 minutes 

  • Google Display:  Two main types of ads direct uploaded ads and responsive display ads:

  1. Direct uploaded non-animated and animated (GIF) ads, see link here under the heading animated & non animated image ads.   Notes:

    1. Max file size must be less than 150 kb.  

    2. Of all of the 20+ sizes, the top 10 sizes are:

    • Square: 250×250

    • Half Page: 300×600

    • Large Rectangle: 336×280

    • Leaderboard: 728 × 90

    • Small Square: 200 × 200

    • Banner: 468 × 60

    • Inline Rectangle: 300 × 250

    • Skyscraper: 120 × 600

    • Wide Skyscraper: 160 × 600

    • Large Leaderboard: 970 × 90

  1. Responsive display ads Responsive display ads allow reaching all ad sizes using just two image sizes, rectangle and square plus a logo.  Google will rearrange the ad to fit all sizes.  Specs: 

  • Landscape

  • 1.91:1 1200 x 628 pixels

  • (min 600 x 314 pixels) 1-15 images

  • Recommended: 5 ✓

  • Logo

  • 1:1 1200 x 1200 pixels

  • (min 128 x 128 pixels) 1-5 images

  • Recommended: 1 ✓

  • Logo

  • 4:1 1200 x 300 pixels

  • (min 512 x 128 pixels) 1-5 images

  • Recommended: 1 ✕

  • Square

  • 1:1 600 x 600 pixels

  • (min 300 x 300 pixels) 1-15 images

  • Recommended: 5 

  • Responsive display ads:  

  • YouTube:

    • Skippable ads:  

    • Recommended video dimensions: 426 x 240 (240p), 640 x 360 (360p), 854 x 480 (480p),1280 x 720 (720p), 1920 x 1080 (1080p), 2560 x 1440 (1440p) and 3840 x 2160 (2160p)

    • Minimum dimensions: 426 x 240

    • Maximum dimensions: 3840 x 2160

    • Aspect ratio: 16:9

    • Maximum file size: 128GB or 12 hours, whichever is less

    • Accepted video formats: .MOV, .MPEG4, MP4, .AVI, .WMV, .FLV, 3GPP, and WebM

    • The skippable video length max is 6 minutes (skippable after 5 seconds)

    • Nonskippable ads:

    • Same as above but less than 15 seconds.  

    • Bumper ads:   6 seconds or shorter, playing before, during, or after another video.
      As an advertiser, you can choose when these videos appear. Plus, viewers don't have the option to skip the ad.
      Remember: A 300 x 60 image will run with your video ad. Make sure your creative team delivers both your video and image assets.

    • Recommended video dimensions: 426 x 240 (240p), 640 x 360 (360p), 854 x 480 (480p),1280 x 720 (720p), 1920 x 1080 (1080p), 2560 x 1440 (1440p) and 3840 x 2160 (2160p)

    • Minimum dimensions: 426 x 240, Maximum dimensions: 3840 x 2160

    • Aspect ratio: 16:9
      Maximum file size: 128GB or 12 hours, whichever is less

    • Accepted video formats: .MOV, .MPEG4, MP4, .AVI, .WMV, .FLV, 3GPP, and WebM

    • The skippable video length max is 6 minutes (skippable after 5 seconds)

  • Tiktok

    • The recommended aspect ratio is 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9.

    • Resolution options include 720 x 1280 px,  640 x 640 px, and 1280 x 720 px.

    • You can use MP4, MPEG, MOV, or AVI files in your ads.

    • Video duration should be between 9 and 15 seconds.

    • The video file size should be less than 500 MB. 

Geofencing With Google Ads?

I had a client ask about Geofencing for ads.


Traditional Geofenced ads are sometimes thought of when you enter a very small area, like entering a restaurant, park, stadium etc. Once you enter into that area, you get very specific ads targeted at you. Usually this is when you download an app for that business and maybe enter their store, they know you’re a customer since you have the app. Or you have the Ticketmaster app on your phone and enter a concert arena or sports stadium. In other words the potential customer needs to both have the app on their phone and agree to be tracked, which many people decline.

This can work fine if you have that targeted a customer. But often advertisers don’t want to target just people download their app and enter their store, they are leaving out alot of other potential customers who didn’t do either of these. So can Google or Facebook Ads be used with very targeted geographic parameters? Yes!

In doing a few tests, with Google Ads you can geotarget as small as 1 mile around any location. This actually can work fine for most locations, unless its a super concentrated area like New York City. This way you can target not just people who have your app but anyone who goes into that 1 mile radius. And if it is a more populated area, you can also layer demographic and audiences to shrink the people who see the ad. For example, you could target 1 mile around a football stadium and also show the ads to only people interested in the NFL to promote home games or apparel, etc. Or only people of a certain age and gender.

Pro Tip: In testing in Google Ads, I wondered is 1 mile the smallest radius you can target. No, you can also switch the targeting to kilometers (km) and target instead of 1 mile, 1 km around the location. Please see the image to compare. So you can target that even more targeted area.

Notes: Please keep in mind that in many cases this is such a small area your ads may not get any traffic, especially if you add additional targeting, age, gender interests. But its worth trying out. Let me know what you think!

For Facebook Ads the minimum targeting is 1 mile, but you can shrink that down by adding additional targeting. You can get very creative, for example targeting people who have recently been in a location. Perhaps a sports stadium with tickets, or a resort in the Caribbean with vacation ads, etc.

PS- If you’re thinking this is all pretty cool but complicated, you’re right. If you’re not experienced with this you’ll spend all your money and have nothing to show for it. Always better to hire a pro who knows what they’re doing.

Control Facebook Ads Costs

How to set up Facebook Ads for cost per link click and not impressions.

No doubt you want to reach your ideal audience on Facebook with Ads, yet control the cost.

The issue is, if you’re using Facebook Ads Manager all the default settings can lead you to spending alot of money, or a least more than you would like if you just use these defaults. This is because in most cases Facebook defaults to charging you by impression, aka if someone only saw your ads, not if they clicked on them.

Compare this vs. Google who in most cases charges you only when someone clicks on your ad (pay per click). So you can imagine if thousands of people on Facebook only saw your ad but didn’t click, you could rack up alot of charges. We really in most cases only want to pay when someone is actually interested enough to click on the ad, right?

And, since Facebook makes it very difficult to set things up to control your costs, unless you set it up all just right, it can be a frustration to just get some ads fast going and control your costs. So, how do you set things up?

We’re here to help you take back control!

We’ll make it brief: If you want to control your actual bids AND only pay when someone clicks on your ads, the current setup is below. Now you can control both the fact that you only get charged when someone clicks on your ad plus you can control your actual bid.

Please leave a comment if this helped you out, thanks!

Facebook Ads Settings:

Campaign Settings:

  • Objective: Traffic

  • Bid Strategy: Bid Cap

Screenshots:

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Ad group Settings:

  • Optimization for ad delivery: Link Clicks

  • Bid Control: Set your bid

  • When You Get Charged: Link Clicks

Screenshots:

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Best Articles to Understand GPDR in Plain Language

The deadline to comply with GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation is coming up fast- on 5/25/18.  What is it, where can you go to learn about it and make sure you comply?  As your Charlotte North Carolina PPC and Google Analytics pros, we've saved you time, pulling together links to the best articles below.  (Disclaimer:  We are not lawyers and do not offer legal advice.  You must consult with your legal counsel on this matter).

What is GDPR?  Its how EU member states say data controllers and processors handle user data (Businesses- you are the data controller, and Google, for example, is the data processor, see this article for great definition).  Its basically a much higher standard of how data is stored and handled.  And for non compliant companies, the EU can levy very heavy fines.  And its on you or your business to let your customers and website visitors know what data you use, how you use it and allow them to agree in a straightforward way to this.  

What if we are a non-EU based business (for example, located in U.S., Asia, India, Australia, Africa, etc.)?  Doesn't matter - if you have anyone who visits your site from the EU (you probably do), you need to comply, or block all EU visitors from coming to your site.  

Really, how will this be enforced if you're not an EU based company?  We really don't know yet.  Once a non EU-based company is found non-compliant, we'll find out.  

What if we are a small company?  GDPR applies to all sized companies from large to the smallest.

Best Links for GDPR:  

Awesome guide here- worth dropping in your email to get it.  

Great article here that puts GDPR in easily understandable language.  

Did you receive an email on data rentention and Google Analytics, good article on that here.  

Huge database of the latest on GDPR here.  

Let us know what you think of GDPR!

Privacy Policy

Echo Internet Marketing (owned by Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.) Privacy Policy
We believe in giving you the power to stay in control of the ads you see.

Stay in control of the ads you see

Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. believes in giving you the power to stay in control of how we use your information. Therefore, we give you the ability to choose whether to have your data collected from this device for the purpose of receiving Retargeted or other online ads from Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..

Our commitment to protecting your privacy is outlined in the policy below. This privacy policy describes the overall company Privacy Policy of Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. Inc. (referred to as "Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.", "Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..com", "we", "us", "our") and the services offered on the Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..com websites (referred to as "Services", "Service").

Our privacy policy explains:

What information we collect
How we use that information
What information we share with our partners
The choices we offer

Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.Privacy Policy is broken out into two sections. Section I explains Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.privacy policies regarding the collection, use, and sharing of data from visitors to our website and the online advertising Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. displays across various websites. Section II covers Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. privacy policies with regard to customer accounts.

Section I – Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. Advertising Services

The benefits of interest based advertising:

Save Money: Relevant ads can offer you deals and discounts that will interest you and save you money.
Free Your Inbox: Brands can market to you without clogging your email inbox with messages.
Keep Content Free: Free online content is made possible by effective online advertising, like retargeting.

What information does Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. collect and how do we use that information?

Information We Collect and How We Use It

Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. collects data about your activities that does not personally or directly identify you when you visit our website, the website of entities for which we serve advertisements (our “Advertisers”), or the websites and online services where we display advertisements (“Publishers”). This information may include the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information associated with your IP address. We use the information we collect to serve you more relevant advertisements (referred to as Retargeting, Pay Per Click Advertising, PPC, Display Advertising, Remarketing, Dynamic Ads, Google Adwords Ads, Similar Audience Ads, Bing Ads, Yahoo!, Demand Side Platform (DSPs), Real Time Bidding Platforms and similar online advertising platforms). We collect information about where you saw the ads we serve you and what ads you clicked on.

We do not target ads to you based on sensitive personal data, such as information related to race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature, trade union membership, physical or mental health or condition or sexual life. Where permitted by law, we do work with health and fitness companies and may show you more relevant ads based on your perceived interest in these topics.

Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. may target ads based on data provided by Advertisers or partners alone or in combination with the data we collect ourselves. Any data used to serve targeted advertisements is de-identified and is not used to personally or directly identify you. We require third parties, including Publishers, to provide notice and obtain appropriate consent, where required by applicable law.

Third Parties on our Website and Our Advertisers’ Websites

In order to allow Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. and our Advertisers to reach the best inventory online, we work with third party advertising companies (our “Advertising Partners”) to help us recognize you and serve relevant advertisements to you when you visit a website or online service in their network. We also work with Advertising Partners who help us recognize you across different devices in order to show you relevant advertisements. Our Advertising Partners may collect information about your activities on our website, our Advertisers’ websites, and other websites or online services in their networks. We also work with third party companies to assist us with website analytics such as evaluating the use and operation of our website so that we can continue to enhance the website and our services.

Technologies We and Our Third Party Advertising Partners Use

Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. uses technologies such as cookies and pixels to keep track of your activities on our website and our Advertiser’s websites, and to serve you more relevant advertisements. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device for record-keeping purposes. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for an extended period of time. We and our third party partners use session cookies and persistent cookies to make it easier for you to navigate and enhance the experience of our site, and to monitor and evaluate our website’s operation and use.

We use persistent cookies to keep track of your activities when you visit our website or our Advertisers’ websites, and to serve you relevant advertisements. Our Advertising Partners also place persistent cookies on your device when you visit our website or our Advertisers’ websites in order to help us recognize you and serve relevant advertisements to you when you visit their website or online service or websites in their networks. Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.policy is that our Advertising Partners only collect information that does not personally or directly identify you via these cookies and we will cease working with partners found violating this policy. You can remove cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. You may also decline our cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may interfere with your use of our website.

Your choices regarding relevant advertisements

We believe in giving you control over which ads you see. You may opt out of having your data collected from this device for the purpose of receiving Retargeted ads from Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. (whether served by us or on our behalf). You may also opt out of receiving relevant ads from some of our Advertising Partners. If you delete your cookies you will need to opt out again. Further, if you use multiple browsers or devices, you will need to execute this opt out on each browser or device.

Where required by applicable law, we obtain individuals’ consent for storing and receiving information collected via technologies such as cookies and pixels to keep track of your activities on our website and our Advertiser’s websites, and to serve you more relevant advertisements.

How we share your information

We may share your information with:

Service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations, such as fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, and technology services. We may share your information with service providers who assist us with serving relevant ads to you. We require by contract that our service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit.
We share data derived from or relating to cookies, tracking pixels and other similar technologies with third parties that use Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.services so such businesses can target you with ads which they think you might be interested in based on your browsing behavior.
We may share aggregated non-identifiable information with Publishers or our Advertisers, such as the number of users who visit a Publisher website or the number of users who clicked on a particular advertisement. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the website publishers that you visit to learn about their data collection practices. We do not provide information to our Advertisers about your activities. However, when you view or interact with a Retargeted ad, the Advertiser may infer that you engaged in the activities on its site that qualified you to receive the ad.
Companies that Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. merges with or that acquire Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..
Other third parties with your consent or direction to do so.
We may share information about you if necessary to comply with laws or regulations or in response to a valid subpoena, order, or government request, or to protect the rights of Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. or others.

Section II – Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. Customers

Account information we collect

If you open an account, we collect the following types of personal information from you:

Contact information - your name, address, email, and other similar information.
Financial information - credit card numbers or PayPal account information that you link to your Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..com account.
Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..com account login information.
Where allowed by applicable law, we also collect your Social Security Number and/or Tax ID if you sign up to receive referral payments by referring customers to Apex Unlimited NC, Inc..

We may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, we may collect information related to your contact with our customer support team or store results when you respond to a survey.

Some categories of personal information may be marked as mandatory in our online and offline forms. We may not be able to provide you with the product or service requested if you decide not to provide the personal information marked as mandatory.

We do not link the non-personally identifiable information we store using cookies (described above) to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

How we share personal information with other parties

We may share your personal information with:

Service providers under contract who assist us with our business operations, such as fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing, and technology services. Our service providers are only authorized to use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit.
Credit bureaus to report outstanding negative balance accounts, as allowed by law.
Companies that Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. merges with or that acquire Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.. In this event, we will notify you before your information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Other third parties with your consent or direction to do so.
We may share information about you if necessary to comply with laws or regulations or in response to a valid subpoena, order, or government request, or to protect the rights of Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. or others.

How you can access or change your personal information

If you are located in the European Economic Area, you may have the right to request access to and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information and have the information blocked or deleted, as appropriate. The right to access personal information may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements. You also have the right to opt out, free of charge, from the processing of your personal information for marketing purposes. All requests for access, rectification, blocking and opting-out must be made in writing, signed, dated and accompanied by a copy of your ID card.

Other Site Policies That Apply To Both Section I & II

How we protect personal information

We employ reasonable and appropriate security measures such as maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable security requirements, including US federal and state regulations. We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption; we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files; and we authorize access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities. All credit card information is encrypted with 128-bit SSL encryption before it is transmitted across the network. However, no security system is foolproof and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Data Transfers

If you are located in the European Economic Area, or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use, we comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information. We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected for the purposes of storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Service. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

By providing any information, including personal information, on or to the Service, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

Unsupervised Children

Children 18 and under are not eligible to use Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. services without participation and supervision of a legal parent or guardian. Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. is not a site meant for children, and we do not provide privacy measures designed to protect children when using the Internet unsupervised. Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. also does not knowingly target children under the age of 13 and makes reasonable efforts to ensure that this does not occur across any campaigns it runs on behalf of advertisers or for its own marketing.

Other Sites’ Policies

Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. has no control over, nor does it bear any of the responsibility for the privacy policies and/or content of any sites or advertisers linked to or on Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.website, or the cookies these sites might set in your browser. Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. requires that Advertisers that have elected to use Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. provide a descriptive privacy policy linked to from their website describing their practices regarding Online Behavioral Advertising.

Specific Privacy Policy Requirements

Google Adwords:

This website uses Google AdWords

This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Apex Unlimited NC, Inc. websites. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

· Opting Out: Google's Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can point your visitors to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Using DoubleClick's remarketing pixels
If you're using DoubleClick's remarketing pixels, your privacy policy can instead tell people to opt out of DoubleClick's use of cookies by visiting the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.


AdRoll:
As you browse Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.websites advertising cookies will be placed on your computer so that we can understand what you are interested in. Our display advertising partner, AdRoll, then enables us to present you with retargeting advertising on other sites based on your previous interaction with Apex Unlimited NC, Inc.websites. The techniques our partners employ do not collect personal information such as your name, email address, postal address, or telephone number. You can visit this page to opt out of AdRoll’s and their partners’ targeted advertising.

Opting Out:
Click here to adjust your advertising preferences

AdRoll is an approved member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). If you prefer, you may use the NAI opt out tool. We also comply with the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising as managed by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). You may opt out via the DAA website at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
We provide opt-out mechanisms through the tools linked above and do not currently respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

How you can contact us about privacy questions or complaints

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact business@apexunlimitedinc.com or write to us at the address below.

If you wish to make a complaint about our practices related to online behavioral advertising, you can contact business@apexunlimitedinc.com or write to us at the address below.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, Apex Unlimited NC, Inc., Inc. is the entity responsible for the processing of your personal information. To exercise your rights of access, rectification, blocking, or deletion or to object to the processing of your personal information, contact business@apexunlimitedinc.com or write to us at:

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