If you are advertising on Facebook, you know Facebook has a various targeting option which you can use.
Sometimes, choosing a perfect strategy might be difficult for you as you don’t know how to reach the correct audience.
Let’s take an example: Suppose you want to sell a product which is related to the iPhone. Showing ads to all the users who are not having an iPhone is a waste of money. For this scenario, you can target an audience who owns an iPhone (or specific devices). You have full control over your ads and who is seeing your Facebook ads.
In this article, you will see how you can target specific mobile devices on Facebook and Instagram
Strategy 1: Targeting Device via Placement
This is the easiest way to target specific devices using placements which is available in the ad-set level. All you have to do is to change the Automatic Placement to Manual Placement.
When you scroll down little bit you will see options “Show more options”
In the Specific Mobile Devices & Operating System, you will see ALL the device are selected. Click on the edit option.
Once you click on edit option, a drop-down selector will open. Here you will see the other two option available for you first “Android Devices Only” and “iOS Devices Only“.
Once you selected the device option, you can specify the device model also on Facebook. Like in the below image you can see I am targeting Apple iPhone 11 users. Also, Read this How to Create a Facebook Event Custom Audience
You can select multiple devices in the option. Below is the OS Version you can set (Min and Max Version of OS)
In the same way, you can exclude specific device. Below the Include option, there is an option to exclude devices.
Strategy 2: Targeting Device Owners through Behaviour Targeting
There may be a situation when you want to target a specific device owner but regardless they are using it right now or not.
For this, you can use Behaviour Targeting. When you type “apple” it show owns iPhone 7.
This option is available under the “Detailed Targeting” section within the ad-set option.
Strategy 3: Targeting Device through Interest Targeting
There is another option available in “Detailed Targeting“, this option is not related to the ownership of the devices but it is related to interest.
An audience who has interacted with the post, brands or liked content related to that device will be in the interest but maybe they don’t own that device.
Comparing Interests with Behavior Targeting
I was curious about how many audiences are overlapping with Interests and Behavior Targeting.
So I have created both the audiences on Facebook. I have compared it with the Audience Overlap feature.
It is important to differentiate between these two audiences, people who have shown “Interest” in devices or who “Owns” the devices.
As you can see iPhone 7 Behaviour audience is having a potential reach about 6,50,0000 people whereas the iPhone 7 Interest potential reach is 1,10,000 people.
In Facebook Audiences I have selected both the saved audiences I have created and choose to show Audience Overlap.
This is comparison metric which you will see of these two audience.
As you can see in the images the overlapping is just 1% of the total audience and I was surprised to see this result.
Means very few owners of the device have shown the interest in the device maybe because they are having the devices.
Final Words
Testing device-specific audience is great when you know your potential customers which are going to buy your products.
Are you going to utilise device targeting? Let us know your thoughts through the comment
