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Meta, Google and channel choice
Meta ads or Google ads for a property launch?
Last updated 2026-09-09
Both, in different roles. Meta creates demand — it puts the project in front of people who were not searching for it, which is most of the market for a new launch, and it carries the volume. Google captures demand that already exists — someone typing a project name, a locality plus "apartments", or a competitor's name is far further down the funnel and converts at a much better rate on far less volume. Running Meta alone caps your quality; running Google alone caps your scale.
How the split usually falls
For a new launch with no existing search volume against its own name, the majority of media goes to Meta simply because that is where the reachable audience is. Google carries a smaller budget doing higher-value work: defending your own brand terms, catching locality and category searches, and picking up competitor-name traffic where that is permitted and sensible.
As a project builds recognition its own name starts accruing search volume, and the Google share becomes more valuable over time. Failing to defend your own project name on search is the most common cheap mistake in this category — channel partners will bid on it, and they will convert traffic you paid to create.
The measurement asymmetry to watch
Google will usually look better in a last-click report and Meta will usually be doing more of the work than it gets credit for, because demand creation is invisible to last-click attribution. If you cut Meta on a last-click view, Google's performance typically degrades a few weeks later — the searches it was capturing were being created upstream.
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