Goodbye to the 20% text limit in ads

Recently we had started to have customers asking us something like this: "how come Facebook has approved this company's ad (screenshot) if they have so much text in their ad? It takes up much more than 20% of the image and I've been turned down for much less".

This was a totally justified doubt since, at the end of the day, who hasn't been rejected or limited by Facebook for an ad due to excessive text? For the most part, those who have never run Facebook Ads campaigns.

Well, from now on we will start seeing ads with much more text and, of course, we can start experiencing the same thing in our own creatives. After so many years of repression, probably more than one will let off steam by creating text-only ads.

The point is that Facebook is dedicating September to getting rid of the 20% limit and although there has not yet been an official statement open to the public, some marketers had begun to receive notifications like the attached to the post.

The fact that Facebook is removing the 20% limit doesn't mean that their opinion "ads with less text work better" has changed. If they used to say that "less text is better", it now seems that the message is "less text is, generally, better". That's something.

That said, the limitation was originally imposed by Facebook to improve the overall quality of the ads that companies were making. In "the old days" you could see real creative monstrosities.

The problem is that people who knew what they were doing ended up as collateral damage... until now. No more having to use tools to check if there is too much text in the ad or not, no more yellow signs.

What does this mean for all of us who work with Facebook Ads? That we can start experimenting with text as we please and worry no more about the limitations.