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Notes from live accounts on creative strategy, ASO, analytics, CRO and market expansion. Written by the people running the campaigns, not a content department.
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Why good creatives stop working
Creative fatigue is usually diagnosed too late and treated with the wrong medicine. Here is what actually decays, how to see it three days earlier, and what to replace.
Finding winning angles before you spend
Most creative testing is expensive guessing. Angle research narrows the field before any budget is committed — and it takes days, not quarters.
What to analyse besides CTR
Click-through rate is the most quoted and least decisive metric in performance marketing. Here are the numbers that actually change decisions.
A budget increase is not scaling
Raising spend on a working campaign is the most common way to destroy one. Scaling is a procedure with preconditions, step sizes and stop rules.
ASO fundamentals for install-driven companies
Paid user acquisition runs through the store listing whether you optimise it or not. Fixing the listing is usually the cheapest CPI improvement available.
Building a creative testing system that never stops
Occasional testing sprints produce occasional insight. A permanent system produces a compounding archive — and a replacement winner ready before you need it.
Entering a new market without burning the budget
Most failed market entries were not bad markets. They were good markets entered with a translated campaign, no local economics and no exit criteria.
Landing pages that keep the ad's promise
A large share of what gets blamed on media cost is actually message match. The fix is usually a page, not a bid.
How much creative does an account actually need?
Volume targets copied from case studies are meaningless. The right number falls out of your own fatigue curve and testing structure.
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