07/08/2026
Everyone wants to fix their targeting. Wrong age range, wrong interests, wrong location settings.
Here's what most people don't know, Meta stopped caring about your audience settings a while ago. What it's actually doing is reading your creative. The words in your ad, the problem you name, the person you're speaking to. That's what it uses to decide who to show it to.
Vague ad copy finds vague people.
But if your ad opens with something like "if you're a mortgage broker who's had a great year on referrals but you know that pipeline could dry up tomorrow", Meta goes and finds that person. Because you've told it exactly who you're talking to.
Your creative is your targeting now. Fix the words before you touch anything else.