Ecommerce growth insights straight from the trenches
Most stalled ad accounts aren't a creative problem at all. Here's the order we actually diagnose a flatline in: alignment, offer, TAM saturation, then tactics.
Andromeda penalises near-identical ads, so the five-hooks-on-one-video test is dead. Here's the 90/60/30-second script method we build batches around now.
The exact order I'd follow to launch a Shopify brand's Meta ads from zero in 2026: offer, creative, a two-campaign structure, and purchase from day one.
A dream revenue number isn't a goal until it clears three checks: category size, CAC versus contribution margin, and inventory depth. Here's the math we run.
A tariff hits your COGS, not your retail price, and a 5-point margin slip quietly lowers your break-even MER. Here's how to reset your Q4 budget and targets.
Around half of creative wins come from editing footage you already own. Most brands leave winners buried in the library and pay to reshoot them worse.
Hit a plateau on Facebook ads? Cutting budget is the trap. The three levers that get a capped account moving, plus the maths on why a $12 AOV bump wins.
An ad that's run 580 days isn't lucky, it's a format doing something right. The three video formats that refuse to die, plus the script skeleton behind them.
The customer who talks the most is rarely the one who pays the most, and your reviews quietly echo your own ads. Here's how I triangulate who actually buys.
CAC jumping after a scale usually isn't a dead campaign. It's delivery drifting to cheap, low-intent clickers. The diagnostics to run before you kill it.