Marketing

Why your paid campaigns plateau at month three

Creative fatigue is usually blamed. In our audits the cause is more often audience overlap.

Ananya Rao 2 Sep 2026 1 min read
Why your paid campaigns plateau at month three

Rotate the audience, not just the creative

The short version: teams do not fail here because they lack effort. They fail because nobody wrote down which decision belongs to whom.

  • Overlapping ad sets bid against each other and inflate your own costs.
  • Refresh creative on a schedule, before performance drops.
  • Hold back ten per cent of budget for testing every single month.

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