iGaming ads in Canada?

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Advertisements must be precisely targeted to the legal age as defined by the target province (typically 19 years and older in most provinces, except Alberta and Manitoba).
 
Advertising iGaming in Canada is quite challenging, you must target your audience precisely.
 
canada meta ads for igaming have been getting hit hard lately, compliance filters in ON are super strict now tbh
 
Meta has strict policies for iGaming advertising, especially in Canada. Make sure your setup and creatives comply with the platform's requirements.
 
The strict compliance filters (especially around Ontario) make standard cloaking a coin toss these days. Meta's automated systems and manual reviewers flag mismatching landing pages almost instantly.

Beyond just the ad setup and broad targeting, the weakest link is often the payment infrastructure and BM history. If you're burning through agency BMs, make sure your funding source and card provider match the billing region cleanly, and your pre-landers have a rock-solid compliance layer before even sending paid traffic. Otherwise, no cloaker will save the setup from a rapid ban.
 
banjozinko said:
Anyone have experience running iGaming ads in Canada? Its been extremely difficult to get ads passed through Meta. Looking for help. Maybe I am cloaking wrong?

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Running ads for insurance products—in any country—comes with certain barriers; this is not a category that Facebook encourages.
You need to be clever in how you structure your campaigns, ensuring you avoid the specific markers—already logged by Facebook’s AI algorithms—that identify an ad as belonging to the insurance sector.
 
banjozinko said:
Anyone have experience running iGaming ads in Canada? Its been extremely difficult to get ads passed through Meta. Looking for help. Maybe I am cloaking wrong?

Using agency ad account & cloaking
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Do you have a license for your igaming company? If not then you probably can't run gambling ads whitehat on meta...
 
This requires strict adherence to age restrictions, licenses, and platform policies, so focus should be placed on accounts and compliant content rather than using tricks to conceal risky content.
 
banjozinko said:
Anyone have experience running iGaming ads in Canada? Its been extremely difficult to get ads passed through Meta. Looking for help. Maybe I am cloaking wrong?

Using agency ad account & cloaking
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The first thing I will audit is the full account setup, not the cloaked alone.

Check ur Business Manager verification, whether you have completed your advertiser identity and the domain verification, all play a key role when it comes to the ads approval. Thats why we used aged warmed up accounts.

Canads has its own regulated market requirement. You need to check whether that creative, landing page, and targeting are exactly done even though u have a good cloaker. Even a strong agency account won't solve missing these
steps until even if you use a cloaked.
 
banjozinko said:
Anyone have experience running iGaming ads in Canada? Its been extremely difficult to get ads passed through Meta. Looking for help. Maybe I am cloaking wrong?

Using agency ad account & cloaking
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What type of advertising account are you using? From what I understand, accounts with a history of ad spend are generally more likely to have their advertising campaigns approved. You might want to look into that.
 
Generally, igaming is a sensitive niche to run ads. Especially, this time, FB is scanning strictly.
you should try to change the content to comply with FB pocily.
about cloaking, if the current is not effective, you pls switch to another one.
 
When advertising for gaming, you should frequently rotate your ad creative, mask your website URLs, and use accounts that have already established credibility with Meta.
 
tbh id check the licensing requirements for each province before changing the ad setup. Canadian iGaming rules can be pretty strict and cloaking could make things worse if the landing page doesnt match what Meta reviews.
 
I suspect the issue might lie with the iGaming advertising policy in Canada, rather than just the agency account itself. Before trying to optimize your campaigns, you should verify your licenses and review the specific advertising requirements for each province, as well as Meta’s own policies.
 
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