Face Book Ad disapproved (2 posts)

  • In Facebook Success Summit 2012 several speakers talked about adding a picture with the Text and a link to get more value when doing a promoted post.  I have tried adding a YouTube video to the promoted post.  The add keeps getting disapproved with the following statement,  ” Ads and sponsored stories in News Feed may not include images comprised of more than 20% text. Before resubmitting your ad, please visit our Help Center at the link below:”

    Has anyone else had issues with promoting a post with a YouTube video?

    FYI, Help Center not so helpful….
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  • @marion-hutchison Yes, this is a new guideline that just went into effect last week.  The photos now attached with the ad can’t have more than 20% of the area as text in them.  http://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php
    So that means that even sponsored stories that has a picture in the post are subject to the rule. 

    Now that is really interesting that the YouTube video is disapproved – does it have text on a the still thumbnail?  Strange!


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