Performance Marketing with Fexingo: Paid Ads, ROAS, and Direct Response Conversations

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Performance marketing lives and dies by the numbers: cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, lifetime value, and the incremental lift that separates a winning campaign from a money-losing one. Lucas and Luna sit at a three-monitor ops desk every episode to dissect the paid-ads tactics and direct-response strategies that actually move revenue — not the hype. They walk through real campaigns from brands like Warby Parker, Allbirds, and HelloFresh, pulling apart audience targeting, creative testing, bid management, and attribution models. Lucas brings a journalist's instinct for questioning the assumptions baked into a dashboard — is that ROAS real or cannibalized? — while Luna pushes for the operational trade-offs: how much scale do you sacrifice for efficiency? The show is built for marketing managers, agency strategists, and founders who manage their own ad spend — people who need to defend budgets, optimize funnels, and explain performance to stakeholders without buzzwords. Every episode ends with a specific tension: when do you kill a top-of-funnel campaign that's not converting, versus nurture it longer? How do you attribute a sale to the right channel when the customer touched six touchpoints? That's the conversation you walk away with. #PerformanceMarketing #PaidAds #ROAS #DirectResponse #FacebookAds #GoogleAds #ConversionRate #MediaBuying #AdAttribution #LTV #CAC #MarketingROI #DigitalAdvertising #Programmatic #MarketingAnalytics #Business #FexingoBusiness #Marketing Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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    The ROAS Blind Spot in TikTok Shop Creator Affiliate Commissions

    Lucas and Luna dig into a hidden ROAS killer on TikTok Shop in 2026: creator affiliate commissions. While most brands optimize ad spend on paid placements, the affiliate fee structure quietly eats margins and skews attribution. They walk through a concrete scenario where a $50 product with a 20 percent creator commission looks profitable in the ads manager but bleeds cash once you factor in return rates and the commission clawback on refunds. They discuss how the platform's default commission tiers, the 'affiliate halo' on organic sales, and the timing of payouts create blind spots that standard dashboards miss. Lucas suggests a simple framework: layer commission cost into your blended CAC, track commission-adjusted ROAS by creator tier, and renegotiate rates based on true incrementality. Luna pushes back on whether brands even have the data to measure incrementality, and they land on a practical first step: a two-week test isolating affiliate-driven sales from paid ads. The episode closes with a forward-looking question about whether TikTok will follow Amazon's lead and tighten its affiliate reporting. #TikTokShop #CreatorAffiliate #ROAS #AffiliateMarketing #DTCBrands #PerformanceMarketing #PaidAds #Attribution #Incrementality #CommissionClawback #BlendedCAC #Ecommerce #Marketing #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #FexingoPerformanceMarketing #MarketingPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

    The ROAS Blind Spot in TikTok Shop Creator Affiliate Commissions

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Performance marketing lives and dies by the numbers: cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, lifetime value, and the incremental lift that separates a winning campaign from a money-losing one. Lucas and Luna sit at a three-monitor ops desk every episode to dissect the paid-ads tactics and direct-response strategies that actually move revenue — not the hype. They walk through real campaigns from brands like Warby Parker, Allbirds, and HelloFresh, pulling apart audience targeting, creative testing, bid management, and attribution models. Lucas brings a journalist's instinct for questioning the assumptions baked into a dashboard — is that ROAS real or cannibalized? — while Luna pushes for the operational trade-offs: how much scale do you sacrifice for efficiency? The show is built for marketing managers, agency strategists, and founders who manage their own ad spend — people who need to defend budgets, optimize funnels, and explain performance to stakeholders without buzzwords. Every episode ends with a specific tension: when do you kill a top-of-funnel campaign that's not converting, versus nurture it longer? How do you attribute a sale to the right channel when the customer touched six touchpoints? That's the conversation you walk away with. #PerformanceMarketing #PaidAds #ROAS #DirectResponse #FacebookAds #GoogleAds #ConversionRate #MediaBuying #AdAttribution #LTV #CAC #MarketingROI #DigitalAdvertising #Programmatic #MarketingAnalytics #Business #FexingoBusiness #Marketing Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo