What's the Biggest Scaling Myth You No Longer Believe?

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Most media buyers eventually stop following advice they once believed. What's one scaling rule you completely changed your mind about?
 
honestly the whole only increase budgets by 20% a day rule is kinda dead. used to be so paranoid about resetting the learning phase but nowadays if a campaign is printing money i just double it. the algorithms are way better at handling big budget jumps now...
 
Often, there are limitations that aren't up to you or your budget. A prime example is the shave the advertiser give you some days, where you lost like 30% of leads without reasons
 
honestly the whole only increase budgets by 20% a day rule is kinda dead. used to be so paranoid about resetting the learning phase but nowadays if a campaign is printing money i just double it. the algorithms are way better at handling big budget jumps now...
If an ad performs well, doubling the budget is the most time-efficient way to test it, rather than increasing the budget gradually in small amounts, which often leads to disappointment.
 
that cpa has to stay exactly the same while spend increases. if i'm buying significantly more volume and cpa rises a little but the additional conversions are still profitable and downstream quality holds, i don't see that as failed scaling. i'd rather maximize profitable volume than protect a pretty cpa number while leaving money on the table.
 
One scaling myth I stopped believing is that you need to increase budgets aggressively once an ad is profitable. Sometimes a campaign is profitable at $100/day and falls apart at $300 because the audience or creative just can’t absorb that extra spend efficiently.
 
The biggest myth is that more traffic automatically equals more profit. If your conversion rate or delivery pipeline is broken, scaling up just burns your budget much faster.
 
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