The Audience Testing Playbook That No Longer Works on Meta For the better part of a decade, the dominant Meta advertising methodology was structured audience testing: build ad sets targeting different combinations of interests, behaviors, and demographics; run them simultaneously with controlled budgets; identify the winner; scale. The approach made sense in an environment where […]

The Metric Graveyard: Why Impressions and Clicks Stopped Predicting Revenue There is a version of the marketing dashboard that looks impressive in every weekly review — high impressions, strong click volumes, respectable reach across channels — while the sales team reports another quarter of pipeline that does not close at rate. This disconnect, repeated across […]