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The Art of Online Business

Meta Took Away Your Ad Placement Controls — Here's What to Do Now

The Art of Online Business

Kwadwo [QUĀY.jo] Sampany-Kessie

Team Building, Online Business, Outsourcing, Marketing, Facebook Ads, Business Scaling, Business, Online Marketing, Productivity, Evergreen Sales Funnels, Podcasting, Youtube, Entrepreneurship, Social Media

4.8828 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Meta just quietly removed your ability to choose which ad graphic shows up in which placement — and if you're still running ads the old way, the algorithm is already making decisions for you that could be killing your conversions. Get the 48-Hour Ad Fix Audit I break down exactly what changed in Meta's ad creative setup after the Andromeda update, why you still need to create both your 3x4 feed graphic and your 9x16 story graphic, and what happens to your ads if you only show up with...

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0:00.0

If you've logged into Meta Ad Manager recently and noticed that something looks different about how you set up your ad creative, you're not imagining it.

0:08.4

Meta's quietly rolling out a change across ad accounts that changes how you're able to choose which graphic format shows up in which placement.

0:16.9

Feed, stories, reels, that control is changing and if you don't know about it, you could be letting meta decide how to automatically resize your format, and that will hurt conversions.

0:28.7

In this episode, I'm going to show you exactly what changed, and why it actually matters for your lead generation ads, your launch registration ads, your webinar registration

0:39.4

ads, and your low ticket offer, self-liquidating offer ads for your online course business.

0:44.2

And what you need to do with your ad creative to make sure meta's algorithm and what you need

0:49.9

to do with your ad creative to make sure meta's algorithm is working for you, not against you.

0:56.4

Let's get into it. I want you to see an important change that's happening inside of some of my

1:01.9

client accounts so that you know how to better set up your account in the future and how to

1:08.5

approach this change in meta's algorithm and their direction

1:13.6

that they're heading in post-Andromeda update. This will help you create ad creative

1:19.6

that is shown in the right way and in the right varieties so that you can get better

1:25.6

conversions for your online course business now if

1:29.0

you're listening on an audio first platform like Apple Podcasts or Spotify

1:32.8

you're going to want to go down to the show notes and click the YouTube

1:38.0

video so you can watch this this is super important and I highly recommend that

1:43.2

you head over to YouTube and see what I'm looking at.

1:46.2

Okay, first question, do you notice any difference between these two account screens?

1:54.2

And you should be able to see that possibly in your account,

1:57.7

the current way that we can display graphics allows us to choose between feeds and stories and even that right column, Facebook feed result that really nobody uses or creates graphics in the specific format for.

2:15.1

Being able to create graphics in different formats

2:18.6

specific for different placements for the longest

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