About Facebook Ads
Paid media that has to pay back.
Facebook Ads is Meta's advertising platform, covering Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and the Audience Network. At the data level it exposes campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives, audiences, placements and a long list of performance insights through the Marketing API.
The point of pulling Facebook Ads into a warehouse is that Meta's reports are attributed by Meta, in a window Meta picks, against the events the Meta pixel fires. That is useful for intraday optimisation and not enough for the question about which social ads produced customers who bought and stayed. Next to your CRM, Shopify or Klaviyo data, social ad spend gets measured against revenue that cleared, not against reach that was served.