Placements & Networks
Manual Placements
By the AdFlint research team · Last reviewed July 2026
Selecting exactly which Meta surfaces an ad set may run on, switching off everything you have not explicitly chosen.
You pick placements individually - feeds, Stories, Reels, Audience Network, and the rest - which is the only way to guarantee an ad never appears somewhere. Use it for brand-safety requirements, format-specific creative tests, or when a placement is verifiably wasting spend. The trade-off people underestimate is that every exclusion narrows delivery, so cost per result usually rises even when the reporting looks tidier.
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