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ROAS
ROAS is revenue attributed to advertising divided by the spend that produced it. Platform ROAS is measured in-platform; blended ROAS divides total revenue by total spend and is harder to fool.
ROAS targets set the creative bar: the required ROAS determines how aggressive the offer and how efficient the funnel must be.
Still to publish: spec.
Also called
Guides
A modern, opinionated playbook for building Meta ad creative that scales — hooks, formats, iteration cadence, and the metrics that actually matter.
A statistically-sound, budget-realistic framework for testing paid social creative — how many variants, how much spend, how long, and how to read the results.
How to structure Meta ad accounts in 2026 — consolidation, Advantage+ Shopping, retargeting segmentation, and the traps most accounts fall into.
Glossary
The percentage of users who complete a desired action after clicking your ad.
Net profit relative to total investment, expressed as a percentage.
Revenue remaining per order after all variable costs.
The share of exposed users who remember seeing an ad within a defined window.
The time period after ad exposure during which conversions are counted.
Gross revenue minus refunds, returns, discounts, and chargebacks.
An audience that has never engaged with your brand before.
The industry-average performance number used to compare against your own.
A creative asset that consistently outperforms the account benchmark.
Showing ads to users who have previously visited your website or engaged with your brand.
The bottom-of-funnel audience with the highest buying intent.
A top-of-funnel campaign optimising for reach, video views, or brand lift.
Benchmarks
Google Shopping CTR, CPC, conversion rate and ROAS benchmarks by industry — 2026 ranges for retailers.
Ecommerce average order value benchmarks by industry — 2026 ranges with device splits and levers that move AOV.
Return on ad spend benchmarks by industry vertical and channel — 2026 ranges.
Ecommerce conversion rate benchmarks by industry — 2026 ranges for Shopify, WooCommerce, and headless stores.
Free tools
Essays
Platform
Comparisons
Connected concepts
Facebook and Instagram advertising, now largely automated except for creative.
Search, Shopping, Demand Gen and Performance Max, all fed by your product data.
Ads assembled per-shopper from your catalog instead of hand-built per SKU.
A disciplined loop for finding which angles deserve budget.
Reading performance at the element level, not the ad level.
What one conversion costs you, all-in.
Clicks per impression — the fastest read on whether creative lands.
The auction price of a thousand impressions.
The revenue that only happened because of the ad.
The rules deciding which ad gets credit for a sale.
The margin a customer contributes over their whole relationship.
Put ROAS on autopilot.
Xeli AI turns your catalog into on-brand ads, watches performance, and ships the next batch before fatigue sets in.
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