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$72K/mo brand — tracking was the bottleneck, not the ads

They thought their ads were failing. The truth? 30% of revenue was invisible.

Here’s one you’ll relate to.

DTC brand spending ~$72K/mo.
Solid creatives. Scaling budgets.

But:

  • Match rate stuck at 65%

  • GA4 data didn’t line up with backend

  • Meta underreporting by $30K

Ads looked like they weren’t working. But they were.
The tracking was lying.

14 days later, after fixing it with my Attribution Recovery Protocol (ARP):
✅ Match rate 92%
✅ $18K+/mo in “invisible revenue” recovered
✅ CPL dropped 22%

I break it down in the video:

— Saku
Founder, Paid Media Lab™