Creative
Creative Fatigue
The point at which a winning ad starts losing performance because the audience has seen it too many times. CPMs rise, CVR drops, ROAS erodes.
Creative fatigue is the decay phase of an ad's lifecycle — the point where frequency climbs, CPMs rise, CVRs drop, and ROAS quietly erodes. Every ad fatigues eventually; the question is how fast.
Typical fatigue windows:
- Under 7 days: Weak creative or narrow audience.
- 7-14 days: Normal for most dropshipping creative.
- 14-30 days: Strong creative or unusually elastic audience.
- 30+ days: Unicorn — protect it, but never stop feeding the pipeline behind it.
The metric that matters isn't the fatigue window itself — it's whether you have a new winner ready when the current one fatigues. Operators at scale maintain a pipeline of 3-5 new winners per month to keep compounding through the inevitable decays.
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