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Jesse Tilner November 06, 2025 at 04:38 AM

question for those spending between $500k-1m/month on meta. How many of you structure creative tests based on time passed vs dollars spent. ie. do you let a test run for 3 days or do you decide when it hits a certain spend threshold

Peter Quadrel November 06, 2025 at 05:41 AM

Depends on how strong the day of week effect is for a brand. But really for traditional stat sig its based more on number of people who have seen the ad being the key variable.

Shin Takeda November 06, 2025 at 02:33 PM

@Charles Tichenor IV <@U09KB376KV3> @Nativ Yanko?

Nativ Yanko November 06, 2025 at 04:07 PM

I think it depends on your ad account structure. For some clients we use an ABO where it will have a specific amount of spend before we determine the results. For other clients we use a CBO cost cap. If it gets a lot of spend then we see as a winner. If it doesn't Meta didn't determine as a winner. But seconding what Peter said the main thing is the amount of people that have seen the ad.

Natalie Bowman November 06, 2025 at 05:22 PM

spend 3x target CPA or 5-7 days

Charles Tichenor IV November 07, 2025 at 09:31 PM

Why would time have any bearing on the test?

the idea of using ABO to force spend out of context
or using Cost Caps which are in no way predictive of future behaviro
to test ads doesn't really make sense

i've easily spent that much in a week
and often, the biggest liability to growth is such a massive investment of time and money spent on destabilizing the funnel to make ads fatigue

if you can spend more
why launch an ad to make that not true?

if you have a ton of ads (like over 8-10)
why not just remove the bad ads before making a bigger mess?

Peter Quadrel November 07, 2025 at 11:45 PM

@Charles Tichenor IV If you launch the test during BFCM I'm sure time will have something to do with the results. Or only run the test on weekends. Or only on weekdays.

Charles Tichenor IV November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Sure, but if this is only for BFCM
we know that most of the best ads will be the ones already running