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Creative Pace: are you shipping enough creative for your spend?
Check whether your creative volume keeps up with your spend, from a Meta ads CSV. It runs in your browser and nothing gets uploaded.
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About this tool
What Creative Pace calculates.
Creative Pace checks whether you launch enough new creative for your spend. It counts the unique ads and concepts you shipped in a window, works out the rate your spend needs, and sizes the gap, including how many creators it would take to close it.
- The formula
- Window spend is converted to a 30-day monthly equivalent. Every $10K of monthly spend justifies one new creative concept, so required concepts per month is monthly spend divided by $10,000. Required ads per week is that times your ads per concept (3 by default, set from the ratio in your data), divided by 4.3 weeks. Two multipliers then raise that baseline. The hit-rate multiplier compares your winner rate with a 10% healthy norm and is capped at 2x. A winner is an ad whose window spend is at least 10 times the median ad's, because Meta sends budget to what converts. The age multiplier compares spend-weighted portfolio age with a 55-day healthy norm and is capped at 1.3x. A dilution check warns when the recommended ship rate would push spend per ad below the $1,500 Meta needs to find a signal.
- Expected input
- A Meta ads export CSV with a header row, up to 500,000 rows, parsed in your browser. It needs four columns: ad_name, adset_name, date and spend. The campaign_name column is optional and powers the keyword filters. Columns are matched the same way as in Ad Scale Scatter (amount_spent for spend, reporting_starts for date and so on), and a file loaded into either tool can be reused in the other. The ad set stands in for a creative concept, and an ad's launch date is the first day it appears in the data. Rows without a date are dropped, since every pacing number depends on dates.
- Assumptions and limits
- A month is 30 days and 4.3 weeks, and the creators-needed math assumes one creator makes about 8 ads a week. The multipliers only raise the requirement. A low hit rate means more attempts per winner, and an old portfolio means winners are decaying. Portfolio age always uses a fixed trailing 30-day spend window, so the window slider can't change what stale means. With less than 60 days of data, the age numbers are capped by the data itself, so load more history for a reliable read.
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