Facebook + Instagram

    The liquidity channel.

    Meta still owns the deepest paid auction in DTC. The accounts winning right now are the ones feeding Advantage+ fresh creative every week — not the ones with the biggest budgets.

    How Meta picks a winner
    01
    Your Bid
    What you'll pay
    ×
    02
    Action Rate
    Likelihood to convert
    ×
    03
    Ad Quality
    Relevance + LP exp.
    ×
    = Total Value
    Highest score wins the impression
    3.35B
    Family DAP (Q4 '24)
    $164.5B
    FY24 ad revenue
    21.9%
    Worldwide digital ad share
    $7–$14
    US CPM (commerce)
    1.91%
    Avg US ads CTR
    $8.78
    Median US CPA (commerce)
    8.0+
    Target CAPI EMQ score
    1.5s
    Reels hook window
    The Lift, By Vertical

    Advantage+ Shopping vs. manual structure.

    Directional Q4 '24 ROAS comparison across e-commerce verticals. Manual still wins for tightly-segmented retention audiences — but for cold prospecting, A+ is no longer optional. Tinuiti Q4 '24

    Vertical
    ROAS — Manual vs Advantage+
    Lift
    Apparel
    MAN
    1.9x
    A+
    3.2x
    +68%
    Beauty
    MAN
    2.4x
    A+
    3.8x
    +58%
    Supplements
    MAN
    1.6x
    A+
    2.6x
    +63%
    Home / DTC
    MAN
    2.1x
    A+
    3.1x
    +48%
    The 7-Layer Stack

    We audit every Meta account against the same seven layers.

    Most accounts are leaking on layers 1–3 and never get to test layer 7. The audit doesn't start with creative — it starts with infrastructure.

    If your CAPI deduplication is broken, no amount of new hooks will save you. We fix the plumbing, then we ship creative.

    01
    Pixel + CAPI
    Server-side events live, dedup verified, EMQ ≥ 8.0
    02
    Catalog
    Feed errors < 1%, GTIN coverage 100%, daily refresh
    03
    Audiences
    Exclusion lists (90d buyers, 30d ATC) wired everywhere
    04
    Advantage+ Shopping
    Existing-customer cap 15%, creative slots rotated weekly
    05
    Manual ASC fallback
    Geo splits + interest stacks for diagnostic reads
    06
    Retention
    Post-purchase upsell flows, lookalike seeded off LTV top 10%
    07
    Brand
    Reels-first awareness layer, 8-second view rate KPI
    A+ Hygiene

    The five exclusions most brands miss.

    Same campaign type can ROAS at 4x for one brand and 0.8x for another. The difference is almost always one of these five.

    • Existing customers (≥90d) capped at 15%
    • 30-day add-to-cart audience excluded from prospecting
    • Geo splits for shipping-zone economics
    • Creative slot rotation enforced (no winner monopoly)
    • Quality-rated landing pages only (LP exp ≥ 7)
    The Creative Cadence

    One week inside a Meadowlark Meta account.

    This is the heartbeat. Every Meta account we run gets new creative on Monday and a kill review on Friday. Predictable rhythm beats heroic effort.

    MON
    3 new hooks ship from The Studio
    TUE
    Hooks live by 11am ET in test cells
    WED
    2 iterations on Mon's top performer
    THU
    ROAS read at 72h spend threshold
    FRI
    Kill review — losers off, winners scaled

    What we run on Meta.

    Advantage+ Shopping done right

    Proper exclusions, existing-customer caps, geo splits, creative slot management. Not 'turn it on and pray.'

    Conversion API + Pixel hygiene

    Server-side events deployed, deduplication verified, event match quality scored above 8.0 before we scale.

    Dynamic Product Ads

    Catalog feed cleanup, abandoned-cart and viewed-product flows live within week one.

    Creative iteration loop

    Modular UGC from The Studio. New hook ships Monday, losers killed Friday. No fatigue debt.

    The Research Phase

    We read every Meta ad before shooting ours.

    Meta Ad Library →
    • 01Pull every active ad from your top 5 category competitors weekly.
    • 02Score hooks, formats, and offers against engagement proxies.
    • 03Identify white-space angles competitors aren't running.
    • 04Brief The Studio against gaps — never copy, always differentiate.
    Meta Creative Spec
    Meta Ads Guide
    Aspect
    9:16 + 1:1
    Duration
    9–30s
    Safe zones
    Top 14% / Bot 35%
    Sound
    Sound-on default
    Hook
    1.5s window
    File
    MP4 · H.264
    32%
    Avg CPA Reduction
    3.4x
    Blended ROAS
    5d
    Days to First Launch
    12+
    Hooks per Month

    Anonymized blended figures from active Meta accounts. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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