Ad Copies

Targeting DSA Regulated Locations (European Union)

To copy an ad set targeted in the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) regulated locations, please set the payor/beneficiary information first. Otherwise the copying request may respond with one of the following errors:

Payor missing error

{
 "error": {
 "message": "Invalid parameter",
 "type": "FacebookApiException",
 "code": 100,
 "error_data": "{\"blame_field_specs\":[[\"dsa_payor\"]]}",
 "error_subcode": 3858079,
 "is_transient": false,
 "error_user_title": "No payor provided in DSA regulated region",
 "error_user_msg": "The DSA requires ads to provide payor information in regulated regions. Updating/creating ad needs to provide payor of the ad.",
 "fbtrace_id": "fbtrace_id"
 },
 "__fb_trace_id__": "fbtrace_id",
 "__www_request_id__": "request_id"
}

{
 "error": {
 "message": "Invalid parameter",
 "type": "FacebookApiException",
 "code": 100,
 "error_data": "{\"blame_field_specs\":[[\"dsa_beneficiary\"]]}",
 "error_subcode": 3858081,
 "is_transient": false,
 "error_user_title": "No payor/beneficiary provided in DSA regulated location",
 "error_user_msg": "The DSA requires ads to provide beneficiary information in regulated regions. Updating/creating ad needs to provide beneficiary of the ad.",
 "fbtrace_id": "fbtrace_id"
 },
 "__fb_trace_id__": "fbtrace_id",
 "__www_request_id__": "request_id"
}

Creative Parameters

When making a copy of an ad, you may overwrite fields on the creative spec by using the creative_parameters argument. Currently, this supports overwriting the API spec at the top-level parameter level, i.e. when creative_parameter supplied, the new creative will use all of the newly provided value for any valid parameter. Otherwise, the values from the source ad’s creative will be used.

Find out more about the available fields in our documentation for ad creatives.

Creative spec overwrite example

{
 "body": "original ad body",
 "degrees_of_freedom_spec": {
 "creative_features_spec": {
 "text_optimizations": {
 "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
 },
 "inline_comment": {
 "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
 }
 }
 },
 "image_url": "https://example.com/my-image-url",
 "name": "original ad name",
 "title": "original ad body"
}
 

{
 "degrees_of_freedom_spec": {
 "creative_features_spec": {
 "text_optimizations": {
 "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
 },
 "image_touchups": {
 "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
 }
 }
 },
 "image_url": "https://example.com/my–other-image-url",
 "url_tags": "source=fb_ad"
}
 

{
 "body": "original ad body",
 "degrees_of_freedom_spec": {
 "creative_features_spec": {
 "text_optimizations": {
 "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
 },
 "image_touchups": {
 "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
 }
 }
 },
 "image_url": "https://example.com/my–other-image-url",
 "name": "original ad name",
 "title": "original ad body",
 "url_tags": "source=fb_ad"
}
 

Note the following:

• body, name, title are not supplied in the input spec, so they are carried over from the original
• url_tags is defined in the input spec, but not in the original spec. It is defined in the new spec
• image_url is defined in both. The input value is used in the new spec.
• degrees_of_freedom_spec defines opt-ins for text_optimizations and inline_comment in the original spec, and only text_optimizations and image_touchups in the new spec. The input degrees_of_freedom_spec completely overrides the old one, and previously defined sub-fields are not used.