# How to Amplify Your Facebook Ads Strategy with Custom Product Pages (CPPs)

- Link: https://phiture.com/mobilegrowthstack/how-to-amplify-facebook-ads-strategy-with-cpps/
- Published: 2022-09-27T10:59:55+01:00
- Author: Haitham Boulaich

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One of the biggest pieces of in-app marketing news last year was the emergence of
Custom Product Pages. Custom Product Pages (CPPs for short) are unique landing pages
in the App Store intended for user acquisition; they enable you to show different
facets of the app while maintaining consistent messaging and a seamless experience
throughout the user acquisition journey; from the performance marketing channels
to the App Store experience. CPPs entailed the end of single App Store pages per
storefront. Since mid-August 2022, Facebook Ads also offers the possibility to direct
traffic to a specific Custom Product Page. From the tests we’ve run so far, we noticed
a substantially higher Install Per Mille by using this functionality – 103% higher!
Install Per Mille in this instance is defined as the conversion rate between impressions
and installs.

 This article will explain how to drive traffic to Custom Product Pages with Facebook
Ads, the benefits of using them in this acquisition channel (including results from
our recent tests), considerations for their setup, as well as our own setup recommendations.
To inform yourself about the general guidelines to set up Custom Product Pages in
the App Store and integrate them in Apple Search Ads, please check our other article
on the topic: [Custom Product Pages with Apple Search Ads, How and Why to Use Them.](https://phiture.com/mobilegrowthstack/custom-product-pages-with-apple-search-ads/)

 

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Examples of Custom Product Pages. Source: [Apple](https://developer.apple.com/app-store/custom-product-pages/)

 

### **Results and use cases**

Each Custom Product Page has a unique URL which can be integrated into Facebook 
Ads and used to direct traffic from a particular ad to a specific CPP. Please note
that CPPs are not accessible to the users when they search organically, only through
the unique URL that can be embedded in your performance marketing campaigns, or 
in the App Store editorially curated selections on the ‘Today’, ‘Games’, and ‘Apps’
tabs.

CPPs enable you to direct traffic from an ad targeted by audience, interest or theme
to a Custom Product Page with creatives that are consistent with that targeting.
This maximizes the alignment of audience + creative + app store experience; the 
audience will find the landing page more relevant. Consequently, CPPs offer a consistent
and seamless experience from start to finish in the user acquisition journey, resulting
in higher conversion rates. From the initial tests that we’ve run, we observed drastically
higher IPMs (conversion rate between impressions and installs) with CPPs in Facebook
Ads, up to 103%!

The higher conversion rate doesn’t come as a surprise as the user finds each step
of the funnel, from impression to install, more relevant.

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These results could be replicated with several use cases of Custom Product Pages:

 * Showcasing different features of the app (e.g., yoga vs. HIIT workout on a fitness
   app + target yoga and HIIT workout audience interests respectively +  aligning
   the ad creatives respectively ).
 * Targeting a specific demographic (e.g., a clothing app showing a different CPP
   for women vs. men + aligning the adset demographic targeting and ad creatives
   respectively) 
 * Leveraging seasonal campaigns (e.g., a Black Friday Custom Product Page + specific
   scheduling on the adset level + ad creative).
 * Directing returning users to a Custom Product Page with a focus on new app features.
 * Directing traffic to a CPP that is geographically more relevant to specific users(
   e.g., a delivery app operating in Berlin could direct traffic from Berlin to 
   a CPP with creatives that showcase Berlin).

 

### **Where to find the CPP functionality in Facebook Ads**

In Facebook Ads the integration with the Custom Product Pages happens at the ad 
level; there, under ‘Destination’, you can put the URL of your Custom Product Page
and direct traffic to it instead of the Default Product Page. For the record, if
you input there another URL that doesn’t correspond to a CPP, the user will be directed
to the Default Product Page. 
  The setup to make the most out of the Custom Product
Pages starts at the adset level. There you can choose to target the specific audiences
you would like to leverage, in order to give them a seamless experience from start
to finish through the conversion funnel. Furthermore, we recommend setting OS targeting
in the adset level to iOS +15, as CPPs are only available for devices using iOS 
15 and higher.

![](https://phiture.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image2-4-300x214.png)

On the ad level under ‘Destination’ you can put the link to the Custom Product Page
and choose to direct traffic there instead of the default App Store product page.
Source: Facebook Ads Console.

 

### **Set up structure: considerations and recommendations**

Regarding the best campaign structure to drive traffic to CPPs in Facebook Ads, 
there are several things to consider:

 * For iOS campaigns in Facebook Ads you will be using Apple’s SKAdNetwork API for
   attribution. The SKAdNetwork is a set of software and protocols created by Apple
   that allow marketers to get deterministic but aggregated attribution of mobile
   app marketing campaigns while protecting the user’s privacy.
 * With SKAN you are not able to see post-install conversions on an adset and ad
   level, only on a campaign level. Moreover, you need a certain volume of installs
   per day on the campaign level to pass the privacy thresholds. In Facebook Ads
   you need 88 app installs per campaign per day to be able to view  the conversions
   coming from that traffic.
 * You have to consider how many campaigns you need as the number of iOS campaigns
   you can run on Facebook is limited. Facebook stipulates “you can run up to 9 
   iOS 14+ app campaigns across up to nine ad accounts per app ID. The total number
   of app campaigns across ad accounts is limited to nine app campaigns. For example,
   if an advertiser wants to run iOS 14+ campaigns from nine ad accounts, they can
   only have one campaign per ad account.” ([Source: Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1046915376075187))
 * Another thing to consider is App Tracking Transparency (ATT). ATT is a change
   to Apple’s privacy and data collection policy that requires mobile marketers 
   to ask consent from users in order to track them. Marketers can choose to show
   an in-app pop-up that asks users to give or deny access to their device identifier(
   the IDFA) as part of an opt-in mechanism. This is a way of sidestepping SKAN 
   privacy challenges. Please take into account that ATT has to be consented in 
   both the app and the ad network (Facebook Ads in this case) for the advertiser
   to get the IDFA. Furthermore, the ATT prompt may disrupt the user experience 
   and may lead to higher drop-off rates.
 * Facebook gives a shot at calculating post-install conversion on the adset and
   ad level using statistical modeling and displays conversions directly in the 
   console, more information about that [here](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/311705270326952).

 

Taking the previous points and your marketing objectives into account you can make
an informed decision on which compromise you can afford to take,  and choose the
right  campaign structure for your needs :

 * For example, if you choose to have your CPP adset in a campaign with other adsets,
   you will not be able to access post-install data of this adset. This is because
   SKAN doesn’t show post-install data on adset level. However, you will be able
   to find statistically modeled post-install data for this adset built by Facebook
   in the console itself.
 * If you choose to have your CPP adset in a single adset campaign to have more 
   accurate post-install data, you’ll run into the challenge of that single adset
   needing to acquire 88+ installs per day or you will not have conversion visibility
   of that traffic. Furthermore, the number of iOS campaigns you can run on Facebook
   will be limited.
 * If you choose to show the ATT prompt to sidestep SKAN privacy challenges you 
   may disrupt the user experience,  leading to potentially higher drop-off rates.
   Moreover, users will need to opt-in in both the app itself and in the ad network
   for you to get the IDFA.

 

### **Deciding on your structure**

All the different options come with their own pros and cons. It is up to you to 
make the decision based on the specific trade-off that you want to have. Our recommendation
would be to run the CPP adset in a single adset campaign, if you are not limited
by the number of campaigns you would like to run and have enough budget to pass 
the 88 installs per day threshold.

Most apps struggle with the efficiency of Facebook Ads due to the outbound marketing
nature of the channel. Custom Product Pages will enable you to better contextualize
the user journey of the audiences you target. As a result users will find the initial
steps of the funnel (from impression to install) more relevant. This will consequently
improve conversion rates. For the record, Custom Product Pages can be leveraged 
to direct traffic from other advertising channels, such as Apple Search Ads, not
only from Facebook Ads.

In conclusion, engaging and experimenting with Custom Product Pages enables you 
to properly contextualize the full user journey and can be an extremely valuable
tool. Not embracing CPPs amounts to a lost opportunity from your side, and instead
an opportunity that your competitors may very well take advantage of to improve 
their own user acquisition.

 

### **Before You Go**

 * If you need specific advice on CPPs, [you can reach out to us here ](https://phiture.com/work-together/)
   and one of the Phiture team will be in touch!
 * Check out our original blog article detailing the launch of [CPPs and the App Store. ](https://phiture.com/mobilegrowthstack/custom-product-pages-with-apple-search-ads/)
 * Please [make use of our Mobile Growth Stack Slack community](https://phiture.com/mobile-growth-stack-slack-community/)
   to ask us any other questions and we’d love to answer them where we can.
