When Facebook constructs a bid, right, it's constructing a bid for you that feeds into what's called a second price auction. It's both estimating the likelihood of that person to tap on your ad and then actually check out. So it effectively comes up with an expected value for each customer that you serve an impression to. The optimal strategy is to cap that marginal pack that you'll pay for any incremental customer.
Andrew Campbell sits in a unique position: he's the Head of Data Science at the most ambitious project in all of ecommerce, OpenStore, which means he's thinking about ecommerce data & how to automate operational processes from a perspective that no one else is. So I grabbed 40 minutes of his time to talk about what's happening at OpenStore, what it's like to row in the Olympics, and why you should be at least trying Bid Caps for your Facebook Ads.
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Intro Music: "Tell Me Mama" by The Devious Means
Outro Music: "Rusty Little Scissors" by The Devious Means