Mikkayla

Normalize thinking for yourself vs feeding everything to AI.

Objectively there has been more bugs on Meta in the last calendar year (starting in Feb 2024) than any one year prior to this since I've started working with the company more than 15 years ago. At last year's Meta Performance Summit they acknowledged as much and said it would be a year of more stable platform performance. It has not been. It's our job as advertisers to push these companies to do better. It was after all US the advertisers who got Meta to build the outage monitor that so many people screenshot and check. Collectively when we come together we move massive amounts of funds on Meta, enough where Meta NEEDS to listen. The fact that you probably won't see a refund from Meta's "bug" yesterday is just another reason we must band together. The fact you most likely didn't even know about a delivery bug unless you check socials... This can't happen, this shouldn't happen. And I'm frankly dumbstruck that Meta continues to treat us the way they do on these matters. I don't want to complain, I hate it. I'm a pretty chill dude that just wants to build cool marketing activations online. But I can't. I can't because for the most part Meta's tools are now more buggy than ever before, more cumbersome and labor intensive than ever before, and I'm at a point now where I'm absolutely convinced they just stopped caring about anything UI related. It's an insult to advertisers what is here and been injected into ads manager over the last year. It's too many things now. I want to meet and speak with Meta's executives at Meta's Performance Summit this year. I don't want to watch another panel on "power 5" or "how to leverage Reels". I want to hear from the executives on what exactly they intend to do to prevent the amount of bugs and delivery problems that's plagued this ad platform. I want them to watch us set-up a campaign and see what we have to deal with. I'm almost 40 and I still love working hand to keyboard, I've been doing this since my early 20s. But I can tell you my patience is wearing thin these days... No other ad platform has the level of bugs Meta has, and that should be a problem they should work to fix. This is a plea to Meta, simplify your systems to prevent these bugs from being a weekly occurrence. We're tired.

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