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Fix Meta Ads publishing errors: session, limits
What Runads shows when a session ends, Meta refuses an object, an answer is lost or a limit is reached, and how to go on without a second campaign.
Guides
Guides
Every step of the builder, with the Meta rules behind it.
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Save a Meta Ads draft to a file and open it again
Keep a Runads draft between sessions: what the draft file holds, how ads find their files again by name, and what to check before you share the file.
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Write Meta ad texts from images with an AI model
How Runads writes ad texts from your images or from the brief: what is sent to the model provider, which models read images and what to check before publishing.
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Validate Meta ads before publishing: Check in Meta
What Check in Meta and the review screen of Runads do: Meta validates the campaigns and creatives of a draft for your ad account. Only the files are uploaded.
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DSA beneficiary and payor for Meta ads in the EU
Meta requires a beneficiary and a payor for ad sets that target the EU. Where Runads takes the two names from, where you type them and what blocks publishing.
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Meta ad settings the builder never chooses for you
Special ad categories, Advantage+ audience and multi-advertiser ads have no default in Runads. What each one means and what the builder checks for it.
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Launch Meta ads from one screen: the simple mode
The simple mode of Runads keeps the connection, the materials, the task and the launch on one screen. What each block does and what only the advanced mode shows.
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Catalog ads for Meta through the Marketing API
Set up Advantage+ catalog ads in Runads: the catalog and the product set, text templates with product fields, the conversion event and what differs from other ads.
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Advantage+ creative (dynamic creative) via API
Give Meta several files and texts in one ad and let it combine them: how Runads builds Advantage+ creative ads with asset_feed_spec and what the checks require.
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Import Meta ads from a CSV table
Build a Meta Ads draft in Runads from a spreadsheet: one row per ad, the columns it reads, what empty cells take from the defaults and which rows are skipped.
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Naming conventions and UTM for Meta Ads
Rename every campaign, ad set and ad of a Runads draft by templates and add UTM parameters to every new ad: tokens, presets and Meta dynamic parameters.
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Bulk create Facebook and Instagram ads
Create dozens of Meta ads in one draft with Runads: every file and text pair, a brief, a table or an existing campaign. Limits per ad set and campaign.
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Create a Meta campaign from an existing one
Load a campaign of your ad account into Runads as the base of a draft: what is copied, what stays as kept targeting, what you choose again. The copy is paused.
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Choose Meta Ads placements by hand
Switch an ad set from Advantage+ placements to manual ones in Runads: platforms, positions, devices and the placements Meta refuses when chosen alone.
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Lead ads with an instant form, set up in batch
Create Meta lead ads with an instant form in Runads: choose the form of the page, see what changes in ad sets and ads, and which formats a form does not allow.
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Video and carousel ads in Meta Ads, in batch
Upload MP4 and MOV videos, build carousels of 2–10 cards and add a 9:16 file for Stories and Reels in Runads. Published paused through the Marketing API.
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How Runads works without storing your data
Where the Meta token, the model key, files, texts and drafts live in Runads: an encrypted cookie and the browser tab. What goes where, and when.
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Connect a model: open models, GPT, Gemini or Claude
Connect your own model key to Runads: OpenRouter, Groq, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google or Anthropic. How the key is checked and what the provider receives.
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Publish a Meta Ads campaign paused through the API
What Runads sends to the Marketing API when you publish: the order of requests, why every object is paused and when a stopped run can continue.
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Review a Meta Ads draft before publishing
How to read and edit a Runads draft: campaigns, ad sets, ads, budgets, interests and the checks that block publishing in the simple and advanced modes.
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Write a brief the model turns into a Meta Ads setup
What to put in a brief for Runads: offer, goal, countries, audience and budget. What the model receives, what it never chooses and what a new draft replaces.
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Upload creatives and texts for Meta Ads in one batch
Add up to 300 images and videos and 100 text variants to Runads at once: file limits, text fields, pasting from a spreadsheet and the landing link.
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Create a Meta app and a system user token
A Meta app for the Marketing API, a system user with the ad account and page, and a token with the permissions that Runads needs to publish ads.
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Connect a Meta ad account with a system user token
Connect Runads to Meta with a system user token: which ad accounts and pages appear, what an account status blocks and how long the session lives.