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Why Meta and Google Reject Investor Relations Ads (And What Actually Works)

Acaari Research

SMARTCAST YOUR ISSUER DISCLOSURES

You wrote a clean ad about your quarterly results. Legal signed off. The platform rejected it anyway.

Meta and Google have specific policies for financial products and services. To an automated reviewer, a real company announcing results and a pump-and-dump promoter can look alike. The reviewer leans cautious.

The fix isn't finding a way around review. It's writing ads that are obviously what they are.

What tends to cause trouble

Performance claims, even true ones, can read like return promises out of context. Forward-looking language raises questions about who is promising what. Urgency, money imagery, price targets, and anything that looks like a tip can also create problems.

What works better

Point to the disclosure, not the conclusion. Instead of 'Revenue up 200%,' try 'Q3 results are out. Read the release.' Instead of 'Production expected in Q2,' try 'Management walks through the project timeline in our latest presentation.' Show the actual asset rather than a chart heading upward.

Send people to your IR page or the release itself, not a landing page built to convert. Include your company name and ticker so it's clear who's speaking, and say who paid for the ad.

Accounts and verification

Platforms increasingly ask financial advertisers to verify who they are, and some ads come with limits on how narrowly they can be targeted. Running ads through an agency's accounts is normal practice, but it doesn't exempt anyone from those rules. Whoever runs the account is responsible for following them.

At Acaari, our job is knowing the policies well enough to build ads that pass because they comply, not because they slipped through a different door.

The short version

Factual beats exciting. Linking to the source beats summarizing it. And an ad that would make sense to a regulator reading it cold will usually make sense to a platform reviewer too.

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