ROAS is a great metric right up until it's the only one you have. Creative Analytics now switches between ROAS, CPA, CTR, CPM, CPC, and conversions, flags fatiguing winners, and puts wasted spend front and center.
Anna Stepura
July 8, 2026
5 min read
Analytics
ROAS Is the Wrong Lens
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The Creative Analytics board is no longer ROAS-only: one selector switches the whole view between ROAS, CPA, CTR, CPM, CPC, or conversions, flags fatiguing winners, shows testing velocity and 30-day trends, and puts a wasted-spend dollar figure front and center — every row clickable through to the creative.
ROAS is a great metric, right up until it's the only one you have. If you're a lead-gen business, ROAS can't see your creative clearly — your value shows up as a cost per acquisition, not a return multiple. If you're testing top-of-funnel, ROAS punishes the exact creatives that are doing their job. A creative board that only speaks ROAS is fluent in one language and mute in the rest. So we made Creative Analytics multilingual.
One selector, the metric that matters to you
A single control now switches the entire board between ROAS, CPA, CTR, CPM, CPC, and conversions. A lead-gen brand flips it to CPA and instantly sees which three creatives are burning budget. A brand-awareness push reads CPM and CTR. Same creatives, the lens that fits your business.
It tells you what's about to break
A creative board that only reports the past makes you the anomaly detector. Ours does that job: fatiguing winners get flagged before they drag your average down; testing velocity shows whether you're feeding the machine enough new creative; trends versus the prior 30 days put today's number in context; and wasted spend sits front and center as a dollar figure, not buried in a table. Every row is clickable straight through to the creative itself — no cross-referencing IDs across three tabs.
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