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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Meta Cost Rose but Your Click Price Didn't
Jul 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap
Jul 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The ROAS Trap Held a Second Week — and Got Wider
Jul 22, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Your best ROAS channel costs the most per new customer
Jul 14, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%
Jul 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides
Jul 6, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
Jun 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Three Attribution Shifts That Changed This Week — And What They Mean for Your Revenue
Jun 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You
Jun 5, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Link Necklaces Cut Meta nCAC 22% and Nearly Doubled New Customers
May 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Monday Routine That Stops Wasted Ad Spend : The Five Forces Playbook
Apr 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Meta Advantage+ Isn’t Broken, But Your Reward Signal Is
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 26, 2026, 9:00:01 AM
Meta Advantage+ Isn’t Broken, But Your "Reward Signal" Is
Many eCommerce founders feel like Meta Advantage+ is a "black box" that works for a while and then suddenly hits a wall. You see the purchases coming in, but your new customer growth has flatlined.
Topics: Wicked Reports New Customer Acquisition Cost (NCAC) Meta Advantage+ eCommerce Scaling Ad Signal Architecture Retargeting Trap
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Meta Automatic Campaign Adjustments : Should You Worry?
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 8, 2024, 6:23:21 PM
META AUTOMATIC CAMPAIGN ADJUSTMENTS IN 2026 : SHOULD YOU BE WORRIED?
Meta now adjusts your campaigns for you, automatically, whether you asked it to or not. As of late 2025 Advantage+ is the default for new campaigns, and in early 2026 Meta merged manual and Advantage+ into a single interface where AI optimization of audience, placements, budget, and creative is simply on unless you dig in to turn pieces off. For a lot of advertisers this feels alarming, the platform is making changes to your ads, your targeting, and your spend without asking. So should you be worried? The honest answer is nuanced, do not panic about the automation itself, but be very worried about who is keeping score of whether it works.

