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Why Your Meta ROAS Is High but Your Revenue Is Flat

Every week, marketing teams celebrate winning campaigns in Meta Ads Manager. And every week, a few days later, the CFO asks the question that deflates the room: if the ads are doing so well, why has total revenue not moved? That gap between a great-looking dashboard and flat actual revenue is one of the most common and most expensive problems in DTC. It happens because Meta's definition of success is not the same as yours.

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