Budget lived inside ad-hoc boosts and duplicated campaigns. Audiences overlapped, creative fatigued fast, and nobody could say which angle was actually winning.
ROAS bounced between 0.8× and 1.4× with no documented hypotheses — each week restarted from gut feel instead of from data.
Creative production was expensive hero shoots only; there wasn’t a steady pipeline of hooks and formats to feed Meta’s learning phase properly.