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The Art of Online Business

Will changing Facebook and Instagram ad copy erase my social proof?

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

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder if you can tweak the copy on a Facebook or Instagram ad without killing all the likes and comments? ‍‍ ‍‍ Get the 48-Hour Ad Fix Audit ‍‍ ‍‍ A client asked me this exact question, so I explain what really happens when you change ad copy and why social proof usually resets. I share how to use organic Instagram posts as a workaround and the risks that come with disconnecting and relaunching ads. I also discuss why new ads inside an existing ad set sometimes ...

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A client of mine recently asked me if it's possible to change the ad copy on an already

0:07.4

published ad without losing the social proof, you know, likes and comments and shares and

0:13.2

this sort of thing.

0:14.5

And I think if you have the same question as an online course creator who's running ads to

0:20.5

a low ticket offer,

0:21.6

for example, where you need to update the ad copy. And I think if you're an online course

0:26.1

creator who's running ads to a low ticket offer where you are wanting to update the ad copy

0:31.8

without losing all the juicy good social proof that's driving down your cost per sale, or

0:36.8

update the ad copy on a lead

0:38.7

magnet ad because you've updated the lead magnet slightly and you still want there to be good

0:44.1

congruence between the ad and the lead magnet but still keep all the good social proof you're

0:50.9

going to like what I tell you in this episode or you might not like it

0:55.3

there's two things one you might like it one you might not like it here we go so

0:59.0

unfortunately here's the response that I gave to my client and then there is a

1:04.2

fortunate other way and then it's a lot more difficult to do and what am I even

1:08.2

talking about you're about to find out so I told my client unfortunately changing the ad copy on a meta i.e. Facebook and

1:15.6

Instagram ad does reset the ads social proof or in ads terms it causes the ad to be a new

1:24.6

post which deletes or resets all of the social proof. And there's one more thing.

1:30.1

It potentially restarts the learning phase. And the learning phase is where the algorithm is learning

1:36.9

about who to best show your ad to so you can serve that person with whatever offer you're

1:42.3

promoting or lead magnet you're promoting.

1:44.8

The kind of person within your targetable audience, that would respond best to your ad or have

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