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The Growth Ceiling Trap : Why Meta Rewards Wrong Campaigns
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The Growth Ceiling Trap : Why Meta Rewards the Wrong Campaigns
You scaled to $3M, then $10M, maybe $30M, and then it stopped. You pushed out more creative, you raised the budget, and new customer acquisition stayed flat anyway. This is the growth ceiling trap, and it is one of the most common and most misunderstood plateaus in DTC. The frustrating part is that your dashboards still look fine while it happens. The cause is not your creative or your spend. It is a systemic bias in how Meta optimizes, and until you fix it, more budget just buys more of the same stall.