Article updated: August 15, 2022

Edit, clone, or delete an ad

You can edit the ad creative of an active campaign, delete it, or clone it.

Important: If you edit an ad creative, any social proof (likes, comments and shares) already collected on the ad is not retained.

Edit an ad

On the Legacy Hootsuite Ads home page, select Your campaigns, select Select a campaign, and then select a campaign from the list.
Select the All ads tab.
Select Expand all to reveal all your ads.
Select Ad Actions, and then select Edit creative under the ad you wish to edit.
Make your changes to the ad creative, and then select Proceed.
Select whether you want to update this single ad, or all the ads that have the same attributes you have changed.

We recommend you select Update all Ads affected to keep testing a uniform design that allows you to see results for the new picture more quickly.

On the Legacy Hootsuite Ads home page, select Your campaigns, select Select a campaign, and then select a campaign from the list.
Select the All ads tab.
Select Expand all to display all your ads.
Select Ad Actions, and then select Clone Ad under the ad you wish to edit.
Give the new ad a name, select the adset to put it in, select whether it will go live or be paused when created, and then select Clone.

When you delete an ad from Legacy Hootsuite Ads, the ad is also removed from Facebook.

On the Legacy Hootsuite Ads home page, select Your campaigns, select Select a campaign, and then select a campaign from the list.
Select the All ads tab.
Select Expand all to display all your ads.
Select Ad Actions, and then select Delete Ad under the ad you wish to edit.
Select Yes to confirm.

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