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Natalie Bowman August 22, 2025 at 03:04 PM

If you have an ad that is a winner in CBO testing, but then you drop it into your ASC scaling campaign and it spends, but takes a big crap (high frequency + CPA 50% over target), what conclusion do you draw?

Jeremy Sniezko August 22, 2025 at 03:48 PM

Would you say it's more BOFU creative? That may explain why it did better with lower testing spend and now has a high frequency in a scaling campaign.

You could look at audience segments to see how much of the spend was going to new/existing/engaged.

Natalie Bowman August 22, 2025 at 04:14 PM

def BOF, but the amount it spent in the ASC scaling campaign is the same as the $ amount in testing.

Will check audience segment now!

Theo van Wyk August 22, 2025 at 06:36 PM

Did you use Post Id when moving the ad?

Shin Takeda August 22, 2025 at 06:45 PM

calling in @Charles Tichenor IV for this

Natalie Bowman August 22, 2025 at 06:46 PM

yes, used post ID! @Theo van Wyk

Charles Tichenor IV August 22, 2025 at 09:54 PM

more on the matter
https://youtu.be/uJjaQ1xo_58

Charles Tichenor IV August 22, 2025 at 09:54 PM

Zachary Cannon August 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM

100% percent agree here @Charles Tichenor IV. Very little to be gained by moving it over. It was clearly already working, so why move it in the first place - creating work for work’s sake.

Natalie Bowman August 25, 2025 at 05:05 PM

@Charles Tichenor IV @Zachary Cannon makes sense actually lol. don't move it over arbitrarily.

So gonna scale it in place in our CBO. Then will start testing more in this campaign!

And leave what's working in the ASC!

Natalie Bowman August 26, 2025 at 08:19 PM

@Charles Tichenor IV @Zachary Cannon

So here's a new wrinkle - I scaled up the CBO adset some, which is good! CPAs stayed within range!

But then I added a new adset (mostly sale assets for Labor Day), and it's now hogging spend, but with terrible CPAs. Which is weird, bc usually something only picks up spend in CBO when it "beats" winners.

It's only been 2 days, but the campaign-wide CPAs are now almost double what they were L14.

Do I turn off the new adset or let it do its thing?

Charles Tichenor IV August 27, 2025 at 03:46 PM

Charles Tichenor IV August 28, 2025 at 06:59 PM

WORST thumbnail ever lol