Create a Meta product catalog and launch an Advantage+ catalog ad campaign via the Marketing API
domain: advertising · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Create the catalog with POST /{business_id}/owned_product_catalogs (or product_catalogs) specifying name and vertical (e.g. commerce)
Populate it by pushing items directly to /{catalog_id}/products, or by registering a scheduled feed via /{catalog_id}/product_feeds pointing at a hosted feed URL
Create the campaign with objective OUTCOME_SALES, since Advantage+ catalog ads run through a catalog-linked ad set rather than a distinct legacy objective value
Create the ad set referencing the catalog_id and a product_set_id, letting Meta's automation choose which products to show to which users
Create the ad using a dynamic creative template that pulls image, price, and title from the linked catalog at serve time
Monitor catalog diagnostics for item-level disapprovals, since bad feed data (missing GTIN, broken image URL) silently excludes individual products from serving
Known gotchas
Advantage+ catalog automates audience-to-product matching — the API does not expose the granular manual targeting that classic dynamic ads once allowed
Feed ingestion is asynchronous and can take hours; newly added products won't appear in ads immediately after an upload call returns success
Creating a catalog under the wrong vertical (e.g. commerce vs hotels/vehicles) restricts which objectives and dynamic templates can use it, and the vertical is not easily changed later
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