This is for shop owners only that are actively marketing their articles through Facebook Ads, Facebook Shop or Google Shopping campaigns!
WHAT HAPPENED?
Facebook has stopped pulling article data from product feeds that did not contain brand values.
This wasn’t a problem until mid of February but became critical for everyone who is using the
FB Shop feature to advertise spreadshop products.
We then decided to enrich all product feeds with the requested data and did a release.
ONE FEED TO RULE THEM ALL
The applied changes immediately affected the data values for the Google Merchant Center as well.
What was thought as an improvement for the feed quality for Facebook, did now affect the feed quality for the GMC.
WHAT TO DO?
If you are running paid ads on Google
Please check the feed diagnosis of your Merchant Center. Also check the percentage of products that got blocked and decide on your own, if that may conflict your ad spent. (Critical errors are marked with red) If you feel uncertain, we recommend stopping your campaigns. (please read further)
If you are using the FB Shop
If you are using a FB Shop you should not experience any critical errors. If so, feel free to use the Product Feed FB thread in the forum to report us any critical behavior.
WHAT’S NEXT?
We are working on a solution to offer you seperated product feeds for FB and Google. By that we can avoid dependencies between both plattforms. But it will take us some time, as we need to come up with a handsome new interface, too. We will inform you when this feature is released.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
we’ll keep you updated!
Thomas