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The Paid Traffic Truth : The Calm Week Before the Q4 Ramp
Oct 13, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Paid Traffic Enters Q4 Cheaper Than It Left August
Oct 5, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Meta's New Customer Cost Fell Four Weeks Straight
Sep 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why YouTube's New Customer Cost Just Reset
Sep 21, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why Your Holiday Marketing Reports Lie to You Twice
Sep 18, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Holiday Demand Pays Meta and Bills Google
Sep 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Monday Morning Report Is Eating Your Agency's Week
Sep 11, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Labor Day Made Your Ads Look Smarter Than They Are
Sep 9, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why One Channel Looks Too Cheap and Too Expensive at Once
Sep 2, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The 159% Markup Hiding Inside Your Blended CAC
Aug 31, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Retargeting Trap: How Tier 11 Cut nCAC 34% (Case Study)
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Apr 13, 2026, 8:39:35 AM
A real conversation with the Tier 11 team about what happens when the scoreboard is wrong — and what it costs you every single month.
Topics: Wicked Reports Digital Marketing Insights New Customer Acquisition Cost (NCAC) marketing_attribution_platform fix ROAS nmer
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Data Isn’t Power — Action Is
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Apr 6, 2026, 9:30:00 AM
Data Isn't Power — Action Is
If your data doesn’t change your behavior, it’s decoration. Here’s how the Action force turns attribution into execution.
From data to decisions
Metrics alone don’t grow your business. If your data doesn’t change your behavior, it’s just decoration.
Topics: Wicked Reports Decision Making Five Forces Methodology Ad Attribution Data Analytics Meta Ads Optimization
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Are Your Campaigns Failing — Or Are You Just Measuring Too Soon?
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 30, 2026, 9:29:59 AM
Are Your Campaigns Failing — Or Are You Just Measuring Too Soon?
The Expectation force fixes false negatives, aligns your Northstar KPIs, and gives you confidence in your ad spend.
Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution Data-Driven Decisions eCommerce Operations Measurement Windows
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Why Your Best ROAS Campaign Might Be Hiding Your Growth Problem
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 23, 2026, 9:00:03 AM
Why Your Best ROAS Campaign Might Be Hiding Your Growth Problem
Align campaign intention with the right metric — and finally make dashboards mean something.
Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution ROAS vs ROI new customer acquisition Performance Marketing Strategy Campaign Intention
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Marketing Success Isn’t Luck — It’s a System
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 16, 2026, 9:00:03 AM
Marketing Success Isn't Luck — It's a System
Introducing the Five Forces that turn marketing data into predictable, profitable growth.
Topics: Wicked Reports performance marketing Data-Driven Marketing eCommerce Strategy Scaling Shopify Five Forces Methodology
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Attribution Isn’t Your Problem. Decisions Are.
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 9, 2026, 9:00:04 AM
Attribution Isn't Your Problem. Decisions Are.
Teams stare at dashboards every day. They debate numbers. They argue attribution. They wait. And while they wait, money leaks out of the account. Not because they’re running obvious losers — but because they’re letting quiet losers linger for weeks.
Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Analytics Customer Acquisition Scaling Paid Media Ad Optimization Marketing Operations
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Meta Customer Acquisition 2026 : Signal Architecture
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 2, 2026, 9:00:00 AM
Meta Customer Acquisition in 2026: Signal Architecture, Not Audiences
The Meta acquisition game has changed, and if you are still trying to win it with audience hacks, you are already behind. Meta's algorithm is now better at finding audiences than any media buyer. The real leverage in 2026 is not who you target, it is what you teach the algorithm to value. That is signal architecture: the system that tells Meta what success actually looks like for your business, instead of letting it optimize for whatever is easiest to convert. Get it right and you escape the retargeting trap, lower new customer acquisition cost, and build repeatable growth instead of volatile performance. Here is the 2026 acquisition stack that is working right now.
Topics: Wicked Reports meta signal architecture meta retargeting trap meta customer acquisition meta ads optimization 2026
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Why ROAS Alone Is Hurting Your Marketing Growth
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 23, 2026, 9:00:00 AM
Why One KPI Is Breaking Your Marketing (And What to Do Instead)
Most marketing teams are obsessed with one question: how are we doing? It sounds reasonable. It is also one of the fastest ways to stall your growth, because "doing" what, exactly? When an entire company rallies around a single KPI, and that KPI is almost always ROAS, you create one behavior: optimize the bottom of the funnel forever. And that is how growth quietly dies.
Topics: Wicked Reports roas Marketing Attribution Marketing KPIs growth marketing new customer acquisition
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Why 7-Day Attribution is Killing Your 2026 New Customer Acquisition
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 16, 2026, 9:00:02 AM
Why 7-Day Attribution is Killing Your 2026 New Customer Acquisition
Short attribution windows undercount top-of-funnel success and train marketers to cut profitable long-term campaigns. To scale in 2026, brands must measure "Delayed Profit" using cohort lifetime value.
Topics: Wicked Reports performance marketing Top of Funnel Attribution Modeling Marketing Data Customer Consideration Cycle
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Why View-Through Conversions Are Dangerous for Your Ad Budget
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 9, 2026, 8:59:59 AM
Why View-Through Conversions Are Dangerous for Your Ad Budget
It’s a bold statement, but if you’ve ever seen your in-platform ROAS skyrocket while your bank balance stays flat, you know it’s the truth. At Wicked Reports, we see it all the time: platforms using view-throughs to manufacture confidence where there is none.

