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Why Your Holiday Marketing Reports Lie to You Twice

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Holiday Demand Pays Meta and Bills Google

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The Monday Morning Report Is Eating Your Agency's Week

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Why One Channel Looks Too Cheap and Too Expensive at Once

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The Paid Traffic Truth : The 159% Markup Hiding Inside Your Blended CAC

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How to Track SEO & Content ROI in 2026 (Zero-Click Era)

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Meta Removed Detailed Targeting Exclusions : The 2026 Fix

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Aug 15, 2024, 10:18:03 AM

META KILLED DETAILED TARGETING EXCLUSIONS — HERE'S HOW TO KEEP YOUR TOP-OF-FUNNEL ACTUALLY COLD IN 2026


If you run top-of-funnel prospecting on Meta, one quiet change has been steadily breaking the thing that makes TOF work: your ability to keep warm audiences out of it. Detailed targeting exclusions are gone, and as of early 2026 Meta has finished enforcing it. Here's exactly what changed, why it's a problem for prospecting, and the setup that fixes it.

Topics: Facebook Wicked Reports Facebook conversions Facebook ads Facebook pixels Ad Operations TOF Prospecting
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Apple Link Tracking Protection & Attribution guide

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jun 16, 2023, 12:08:08 PM

APPLE'S LINK TRACKING PROTECTION IN 2026: WHAT IT ACTUALLY DID TO ATTRIBUTION (AND WHAT TO DO NOW)


Short version - Apple has spent the last few years quietly stripping the tracking parameters that marketers rely on to know which ads work. It started with iOS 17 in 2023 and iOS 26 escalated it. If your tracking depends on click IDs, a growing share of your Safari and Apple traffic is now going dark but UTMs survive and there are concrete ways to keep your attribution accurate. Here's the real state of play and what to do about it.

Topics: Email Marketing Automatic Link Builder Facebook conversions UTM value UTM UTM values Attribution Health WBRAIDS GCLID