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by pz 5549 days ago
"FB charge a premium for CPC"? what do you mean?
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You can buy FB ads either on a CPM or a CPC basis.

If you buy CPC ads, FB shows your ads to users who are more likely to click on ads, but you'll pay a lot for this service.

CPM prices are much cheaper. From my experience if you've got a CTR of over 0.025% (1 in 4000 views) then paying CPM is cheaper than CPC. And you should be able to get a CTR over that for most things.

General opinion among the FB ads community seems to be that paying CPC is a suckers games, FB are just using CPC pricing to exploit unsophisticated ad buyers.