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Updated October 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

A brand lift study answers the question that reach and CPM reports can’t: did your ads make more people remember your brand? In Vietnam, running a self-serve Brand Lift test in the Experiments tool of Meta Ads Manager requires a campaign budget of at least $29,000 (the minimum Meta has applied since September 15, 2026). This guide covers eligibility, the setup steps, how to choose survey questions, how to read the results with a worked example, and a checklist to run through before you launch.<\/p>\n

It does not debate whether brand investment is worth it. Every threshold, button name and formula below comes from the Meta Business Help Center and Google Ads Help, checked on October 27, 2026.<\/p>\n

What a Meta brand lift study is and how Meta measures it<\/h2>\n

Meta selects a representative sample of people eligible to see your ads and splits it at random into two groups. The test group has the opportunity to see your ads. The holdout group is held back for the whole test. Both groups get the same survey question, and the difference in response rates is the lift your ads caused (Meta, About Brand Lift tests<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Think of it like this: you hand out flyers to half of a neighborhood and skip the other half. A week later you ask everyone, “Have you heard of Cafe X?” However many more “yes” answers come from the flyer half is what the flyers achieved. People who already knew the cafe live in both halves, so they cancel out.<\/p>\n

The survey appears in Facebook Feed and Instagram Feed. Topics you can ask about include ad recall, brand awareness, favorability, familiarity, recommendation, consideration and purchase intent (Meta, About brand lift poll questions<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Brand Lift vs. the estimated ad recall lift metric<\/h3>\n

Brand Awareness<\/a> campaigns (the Awareness objective with the ad recall lift performance goal) already report a metric called Estimated ad recall lift (people). Meta produces this number with machine learning, calibrates it with surveys run on a random sample of campaigns, and labels it “estimated” and “in development.” Meta recommends comparing it only across campaigns running at the same time, and says a Brand Lift test is still the most accurate way to measure ad recall (Meta, About the ad recall lift metric<\/a>).<\/p>\n

When to run a brand lift study, and when not to<\/h2>\n

Meta recommends Brand Lift when you run one campaign for one brand or product and keep the creative and budget the same throughout. It also fits when you can’t measure conversions directly (Meta, About brand survey tests<\/a>). This is brand awareness measurement with a control group, so it only pays off when the campaign is large enough and clean enough.<\/p>\n