The column missing from your Ads Manager

📊 A short one, but it has changed how a few brands here allocate prospecting budget.

Open Ads Manager and you can see adds to cart, purchases, cost per purchase, cost per add to cart. What you cannot see is how many of those people had never been to your website before.

Prospecting campaigns get judged on CPA. But a prospecting campaign that quietly re-sells to people who already know you will show a beautiful CPA, because warm traffic always converts cheaper. The number reads as efficiency when it is actually your retargeting audience wearing a prospecting label.

It compounds from there. You scale the campaign with the good CPA, Meta goes to find more people like the ones already converting, and those are the people already familiar with you. Net new visitors flatten while reported performance climbs. Then the quarterly review arrives, revenue is flat, and nobody can explain why the ads looked fine throughout.

The fix is a column, not a strategy change. Put net new visitors next to your campaign metrics and judge acquisition campaigns on the thing they are meant to deliver.

See how it is set up: https://www.customerlabs.com/request-a-demo/?utm_source=circle&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=net_new_visitors

Question for the group: is anyone here already reporting net new visitors per campaign? And when you first saw the split, how far off was it from what you expected?

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