How Long Do You Test Before Killing a Campaign?

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One of the hardest decisions in media buying:
stop too early and you kill a winner.
wait too long and you burn budget.

Do you have a specific rule?
- number of clicks?
- number of conversions?
- spend threshold?
- time period?

Interested to hear how others approach testing.
 
There are a lot of variables at play here. The offer, the payout, the traffic source (blocking bots), your creatives, etc.

So I don't think anyone should be using a specific rule to decide whether to pause a campaign or let it run.

You can ask your affiliate manager for avg. EPC for that offer and once you're sure that your traffic quality is good (no bots), you can compare the EPC to judge if it's close to or greather than network EPC
 
There are a lot of variables at play here. The offer, the payout, the traffic source (blocking bots), your creatives, etc.

So I don't think anyone should be using a specific rule to decide whether to pause a campaign or let it run.

You can ask your affiliate manager for avg. EPC for that offer and once you're sure that your traffic quality is good (no bots), you can compare the EPC to judge if it's close to or greather than network EPC
Good point. Every offer is different.

The problem is that many campaigns become "almost profitable" and stay there for weeks because no stop conditions were defined beforehand.
We usually prefer having a testing framework with flexible thresholds rather than making decisions entirely on intuition.

Not a universal rule, but a predefined process.
 
One of the hardest decisions in media buying:
stop too early and you kill a winner.
wait too long and you burn budget.

Do you have a specific rule?
- number of clicks?
- number of conversions?
- spend threshold?
- time period?

Interested to hear how others approach testing.
Period and conversation
Are the main two for me
Number of clicks and threshold do have their shortcomings
 
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