#bidding

6 notes tagged “bidding”.

• Fixing Meta underspend — CTC's four phases, and why they never turn off adsCommon Thread Collective's 4-phase answer when Meta won't spend at target efficiency — (1) creative expansion with big concept swings, (2) bid-surface expansion by duplicating evergreen campaigns into other bid types, (3) an "underspend" ASC for ads that got <3× target CPA in spend, (4) relaxing the ROAS/cost constraint only when the business justifies it — plus the "never turn off an ad" principle and how others disagree.
• How the Apple Ads auction behaves — bid probing, bidding down and avoiding a competitor's "crown"Practical Apple Ads bidding lessons — the auction is not a clean second-price auction (raising bids can add cost but no impressions), high tap-through rate lets you cut bids up to 90% and hold position, probing bids reveals a competitor's ceiling, and keywords where one rival owns ~33% share of impressions are best avoided by small budgets.
• Meta bid strategy — minimum ROAS vs cost per result goal vs lowest costCTC's analysis of ~$1.5B Meta spend across ~320 accounts (Mar–Jun 2026) found minimum ROAS lands within a few percent of its target at portfolio level while the cost-per-result goal hit target less than half the time (on Google tROAS 1.3× target, tCPA 0.8×); why value bidding gives the algorithm more room, how CTC sets the target from margin and incrementality, budget liquidity, and the low-volume counter-advice to avoid manual bids.
• Meta value rules — bid more for people worth more (instead of restricting targeting)How to use Meta's value rules (Advertising settings → value rules → rule set; bid +X% by age, gender, location, placement, device…) to feed information Meta can't see — repeat-purchase rate, lead-to-customer conversion, LTV — instead of hard age/gender/placement exclusions, and the common mistake of copying data Meta already has.
• Scaling a Meta ad from signal to winnerHow practitioners decide something is a winner (spend velocity of $2K in 4–5 days, 2× the account benchmark held 3–5 days, internal ROAS above ~2) and how they scale it — budget steps, duplication into ASC or new ad sets, bid-strategy combos, new funnels and new avatars.
• Weekly Meta media-buying cadence and attribution settingsLaunch new ads on one fixed day each week and judge after 7 days; use 7-day click for evergreen campaigns and 1-day click for flash sales; starter bid/attribution defaults; how teams run weekly pillar and hypothesis reviews; when third-party attribution tools are worth it.