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What is Creative Fatigue?

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The performance degradation that occurs when the same creative has been shown to your audience enough times that the remaining audience has mostly already decided whether to buy. Symptoms: rising CPM, declining CTR, rising CPA, despite no changes to targeting or budget.

Why it matters: Most operators interpret creative fatigue as a product problem when it's actually a creative rotation problem. The product is fine — the creative has reached saturation.

Trying to fix creative fatigue by increasing budget. More budget accelerates fatigue. The fix is fresh creative with new angles, hooks, and visual formats.

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