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What is CAC?

Finance

Customer Acquisition Cost. Total ad spend ÷ total customers acquired. Different from CPA in that CAC accounts for all acquisition costs (ad spend, creative production, agency fees) not just ad spend alone. At scale, true CAC is always higher than platform-reported CPA.

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