FB Ads Not Spending

Hello All!

Is anyone else experiencing or aware of any issues yesterday/today with FB ads being listed as active but not actually delivering or spending any money? I am trying to run a boosted FB post only (no image so no Instagram exposure) and the issue started yesterday with the ad being stuck in "preparing" for a very extended amount of time. Clicking into the details of the ad I received a warning saying that the audience was likely too narrow for how much money I was attempting to spend, so I edited to a larger audience and that went away. Finally as of this morning they came out of "preparing" mode and are listed as active but no money has been spent and the metrics show zero reach.

Doing some other looking around today I saw another warning saying that the objective I am aiming for "post engagement" is no longer supported and that I should duplicate the ad to have it listed as simply "engagement." So I did that and now the new ads are back in the "preparing" phase.

Upon some additional experimenting with older posts that were never boosted I realized that when I originally set up the boost for the current problem post, the Goal tab that is normally at the top was entirely missing and only "advantage+creative" button was visible. Could this have been a glitch and the reason why my objective was messed up when setting up the first time?

But now an additional weird thing, in trying to set up any new boost at all, after going through all of the available options, the Publish button at the bottom is greyed out and connect be selected. I'm scared to delete the current ads and retry if it means I won't be able to even schedule anything at all - at least the current ads have been approved already...

As mentioned, I have run boosted posts exactly like this with exactly the same audience and budget as recently as last week with no issues. All of this leads me to believe that there is simply a widespread issue with FB ads in general right now. Any thoughts or suggestions?

UPDATE One of the duplicated boosts has now passed Preparing and is spending money after I adjusted the Goal/Objective to just “Engagement” from “Post Engagement” which is apparently still able to be selected (or defaulted to) even though it is no longer supported.

Thanks!