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Understanding Meta’s 2026 Attribution Update Attribution models in Meta Ads are one of the first pieces of supporting evidence advertisers use to judge whether campaigns are working. It estimates the likelihood that an ad influenced someone to buy a...

What Shapes Purchase Decisions Before the Click Most marketing is built on a simple assumption: people move from awareness to consideration to conversion in a predictable sequence. This assumption guides most campaign strategy, reporting, and attribution....

The Real Job of Advertising in a Go-to-Market Strategy Advertising is often treated as the growth engine. If performance drops, budgets are adjusted, new creative is built, and campaigns are restructured. But in most cases, advertising isn’t...

How Holiday Promotions Drive Restaurant Reservations (Valentine’s Day Case Study) Valentine’s Day is one of the most competitive, and most valuable, opportunities for restaurants to acquire new guests. Brands don’t just compete for attention,...

Creative Production for Paid Ads: A System for Testing and Scaling Creative Modern advertising systems rely heavily on creative. It’s the main driving force in successful marketing campaigns, and conversely, the most common failure point for many...

Understand the Psychology Behind Working Ad Creative Ad performance has always relied heavily on creative – the concept, message, offer, and general theme of communicating what a company is, does, and provides. However, most advertisers mistakenly...

Creative Fatigue Is a Delivery Problem, Not a Messaging Problem A familiar scenario in performance marketing: performance drops, frequency rises, CPA climbs. Time to refresh creative. Sometimes that works. Often, it doesn’t. Creative fatigue...

Creative Testing in the Age of Algorithms (2026) Creative testing is a topic that most advertisers think they understand. Create multiple ads and run them in a campaign – the winner will have the highest CTR or the lowest CPA. That logic may...

Building a Fully Automated Paid Media Reporting Pipeline with FiveTran Successful paid media campaigns are only as good as the reporting that supports them. The more often data is used to inform decision making, the better those decisions become. That...

Campaign Management Automation: What to Automate Efficiency isn’t just a campaign goal, it’s a necessity in operational process.  The fastest way to burn out a media buyer isn’t poor performance. It’s forcing them to manually manage...