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Field notes from running performance campaigns across Google, Meta, and the App Store.

• Agency vs In-House Performance Marketing: The Honest Cost Math

  What paid acquisition really costs in-house versus through an agency in 2026: salary math, tooling, creative volume, coverage risk, and the hybrid model that usually wins.

• Meta Conversions API Setup: A Practical Guide to Clean Signal

  Setting up the Meta Conversions API without double-counting: integration paths ranked, event deduplication explained, and which Event Match Quality scores matter.

• Google Ads vs Meta Ads in 2026: Where Should Your Budget Go?

  A practical breakdown of when Google Ads beats Meta, when Meta beats Google, and how to split a fixed budget across both for predictable growth in 2026.

• ASO Checklist: 10 Steps to Rank Your App in 2026

  A no-nonsense, sequenced ASO checklist covering keywords, screenshots, ratings, and the post-install signals that decide ranking in 2026.

• Why Most Apple Search Ads Campaigns Burn Money (and How to Fix Yours)

  The five most common ways advertisers lose money on Apple Search Ads, the metrics that matter (TTR, CR, CPT, CPA), and the account structure that fixes each leak.

• Creative Testing on Meta: A Repeatable Framework That Actually Lifts ROAS

  A four-stage creative testing system for Meta — concept, hook, format, and variant — that produces compounding ROAS gains instead of one-off wins.

• First-Party Data Strategy After the Cookie Sunset

  A pragmatic plan for collecting, modelling, and activating first-party data — the only durable acquisition advantage left after the cookie sunset.