> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.foundable.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Run ads on Facebook, Google and more

> Connect your ad accounts, then approve and launch the ads Ted drafts for Facebook, Instagram, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

Ted writes ads for your business on Facebook and Instagram, Google search, TikTok, LinkedIn and Pinterest. You check each one, and nothing spends until you launch it.

Ted can do this for you: ask him to draft a Google ad for your new product.

Ted drafts ads on any plan. Connecting an ad account, approving and launching need Pro or Max: on other plans, those buttons open the plans. The owner or an admin connects networks and decides on ads.

## Connect an ad account

Each network charges your card from your billing account there, called an [ad account](https://docs.foundable.com/help/glossary.md#ad-account), never Foundable. No ad account? Try [Foundable Ads](https://docs.foundable.com/run/foundable-ads.md). LinkedIn Ads needs your LinkedIn account [connected](https://docs.foundable.com/run/social-accounts.md) first.

**1. Open the network**

In Run, press **Ads** in Ted’s apps, then the network under **Or use your own ad account**, like **Meta Ads**. On a phone, they sit under Start on Run’s card, or behind ▦ (**Run tools**) while he works.

**2. Press Connect**

Press the network’s Connect button, like **Connect Meta Ads**. For Meta, Foundable first shows what to choose in Meta’s window: press **Continue**.

**3. Sign in at the network**

Sign in and allow access. In Meta’s window, choose your business, the Facebook Page your ads run as, and your ad account. Facebook asks you to allow Social Media Connector, which Foundable uses to run your ads.

**4. Pick the ad account**

Back in Foundable, pick the ad account and what your ads run as, like your Facebook Page. Press **Use these**, or **Use this** for Google. To add your card, press **Add in Meta**, or your network’s, beside **Payment method**. Google bills your Google Ads account.

For Ted to draft ads for a network while Run works, turn on **Use in Run** there.

## Approve and launch an ad

**1. Review Ted’s draft**

A draft waits under **From Ted** on [Home](https://docs.foundable.com/get-started/home.md). In the network’s window, it’s marked **Needs your OK** on the **Ads** tab, or under Google Ads’ setup. Press **Review** to see it as the network shows it.

**2. Approve it**

Press **Edit** to change it, or **Decline** to set it aside. Press **Approve** twice: the network creates the ad paused and reviews it, and nothing spends yet. Network not set up yet? Its step, like **Connect Meta Ads**, takes Approve’s place.

**3. Launch it**

Once its row says **Ready to launch**, press it, then **Launch** twice. It starts spending from your ad account.

To stop an ad, press its row, then **Pause**. Ted never approves, launches or pauses an ad himself, even with **On its own**.

## Check that it worked

A running ad’s row says **Live**. Press the row for its last 7 days under **Ad performance**: how often it showed, its visits and its spending.

## If something goes wrong

> [accordion] “Meta didn’t share an ad account that can run ads. Reconnect and tick one, or fix it in Meta Ads Manager.”
>
> You didn’t tick an ad account in Meta’s window, or it can’t run ads yet. Disconnect Meta Ads, connect it again, choose **Edit previous settings** and tick it, or fix it in Meta Ads Manager.

> [accordion] “Pause your live ads first: once Meta Ads is disconnected, Foundable can’t pause them, and they’d keep spending.”
>
> A live ad keeps spending. Press each one’s row, then **Pause**, and disconnect again.

> [accordion] “Rejected by Meta”
>
> Meta turned the ad down, so it doesn’t spend. Press its row to see why, and ask Ted for a new one.

## Related

> [card] [Run ads without an ad account](https://docs.foundable.com/run/foundable-ads.md)
>
> Ads paid from your ad money.

> [card] [Run: Ted runs your business](https://docs.foundable.com/run/overview.md)
>
> Ted’s apps, and how Run works.

> [card] [Compare what each plan includes](https://docs.foundable.com/account/compare-plans.md)
>
> Which plans include ads.


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