The only solution to Facebook ads performance dropping that worked for me (it's not TikTok ads)

The ongoing privacy-related updates by Apple after iOS 14.5 have pretty much killed Facebook ads. This means Facebook’s data and tracking abilities are that much worse.

This is why you see your ROAS is down, CPMs are up, costs are exploding while your CTR is down, Reach is declining, and conversions are decreasing.

So how do you adapt?

By going where the trust is.

Nobody likes to be tracked. It's creepy to get ads about stuff you were searching casually. Your buyers do not trust a Facebook ad anymore.

They trust their brother, sister, friends, acquaintances, experts. This is an evergreen fact and doesn’t “come and go” like Facebook performance.

If you look through all the technicalities and abstract away, there are only three types of marketing channels. Those are:

Owned
Earned
Rented

The natural progression of an ideal marketing plan is to move from rented to earned and owned channels. This very natural progression is simply now incentivised for you by the downfall of Facebook ads. Cherry on the cake, there are tools that enable this transition and make getting started with influencers simple.

Influencer marketing is earned media and that’s where your attention should be moving forward. And guess what the ROAS is, on average? 6x!
That’s $1 in, $6 out.

Leveraging creators with influence is the only long-term and robust solution to Facebook ads performance decline.

The solution is not TikTok ads, as your marketing agency may tell you. Go nowhere near interruptive ads if you want to win in the long term.

What do you think?