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What is ROAS?

Return on ad spend: revenue from ads divided by what the ads cost, so $40,000 in sales on $10,000 of spend is a ROAS of 4. It ignores margins, so a healthy-looking ROAS can still lose money.

$4 sales ÷ $1 spend = ROAS 4

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The CFO didn't ask how cheap the AI-made cutdowns were to produce; she asked for ROAS, and they returned $3.80 in sales for every dollar of media.

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One dollar of ad spend drops onto the left pan, four dollars of sales stack on the right, the beam tips and the ratio dial points to 4.

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Take last month's ad with the best ROAS and make two new cutdowns in your creative tool, keeping its hook and offer and changing only the opening shot.

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