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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%

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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides

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Why Agencies Shouldn't Fear the Numbers

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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You

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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You

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Meta Is Now Charging to Reach Your Customer

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How Link Necklaces Cut Meta nCAC 22% and Nearly Doubled New Customers

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How to Track ChatGPT Ads the Right Way

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Why Your Meta CPA Is Lying to You in 2026

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Setting the Intention : How the 5 Forces Automates Your Marketing Decisions

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 16, 2026, 9:30:00 AM

SETTING THE INTENTION : HOW THE 5 FORCES AUTOMATES YOUR MARKETING DECISIONS

For years, getting a real edge in ecommerce meant having the best data scientists or the most elaborate spreadsheets. You mined dashboards by hand, hunting for the signal in the noise. But manual data mining is slow, and in paid advertising, slow is expensive. The answer is not to hand your decisions to a black-box algorithm that guesses. It is to automate them with a system that computes the answer from your real data and shows you the math. That distinction, deterministic not generative, is the whole point.

Topics: Wicked Reports nCAC Marketing Automation AI in Marketing 5 Forces Methodology Ad Scaling Strategy
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Why nCAC is the Only Metric That Matters for Your Growth Budget

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 12, 2026, 10:30:00 AM

Why nCAC is the Only Metric That Matters for Your Growth Budget

In the early days of digital advertising, platform ROAS was a reliable enough indicator of success. Today, between privacy changes and aggressive platform "credit-claiming," ROAS has become a vanity metric.

Topics: Wicked Reports nCAC ecommerce growth marketing strategy Customer Acquisition roi vs roas
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Meta Is Pushing Advantage+ Campaigns Relentlessly

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 26, 2025, 4:09:58 AM

The promise of Andromeda’s AI brain sorting through a billion users to find your customers on auto-pilot sounds quite enticing!

I couldn’t help but wonder - is this a good thing for brands?

Topics: marketing attribution ROI Meta Advertising Facebook Ads Strategy nCAC Digital Marketing Insights Paid Social Trends 2025 Meta Advantage Plus Campaing Meta Advantage Plus Campaign Analysis New Customer Acquisition Cost (nCAC) Data Advantage+ vs Manual Meta Campaigns Marketing Attribution Data
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iOS 26 & Tracking Parameters: What Performance Marketers Need to Know

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 7, 2025, 10:45:24 AM

iOS 26 and Tracking Parameters: What Performance Marketers Need to Know

The release of iOS 26 has raised alarm bells across the digital marketing community. For performance marketers, agencies, and data analysts, the fear is always the same: "Will my tracking break, and will I lose visibility into what's really driving results?"

Topics: shopify data analytics nCAC Apple Privacy First-Party Data Advanced Signal iOS 26 Tracking Parameters
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Meta Advantage+ vs. Manual: 55,661 Ad Campaigns Analyzed

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jun 10, 2025, 11:10:12 AM

The promise of Andromeda’s AI brain sorting through a billion users to find your customers on auto-pilot sounds quite enticing!

I couldn’t help but wonder - is this a good thing for brands?

Topics: marketing attribution ROI Meta Advertising Facebook Ads Strategy nCAC Digital Marketing Insights Paid Social Trends 2025