Meta Ads management: creative that sells, measured honestly.
On Facebook and Instagram the creative is the targeting, so the account that tests the most angles learns fastest. We test weekly, scale winners, cut losers without sentiment, and report what iOS 14 did to measurement rather than paper over it.
PixelCrayons' Meta Ads service runs Facebook and Instagram advertising on a weekly creative-testing cadence, measured against your revenue. New angles are tested every week and killed or scaled on evidence; prospecting carries the budget's weight so retargeting can't claim conversions that were coming anyway. Catalogue ads turn the product feed into always-on commerce campaigns, and measurement leans on server-side signals and holdout tests (part of the audience sees no ads, so we can see what the ads add) rather than taking the platform's post-iOS-14 attribution at face value. Direct for brands; white-label for agencies.
Creative testing logged, win or lose✦
New creative angles tested every week✦
Prospecting funded before retargeting✦
Frequency capped: persuasion, not stalking✦
No return-on-ad-spend guarantees: nobody can keep them✦
Creative testing logged, win or lose✦
New creative angles tested every week✦
Prospecting funded before retargeting✦
Frequency capped: persuasion, not stalking✦
No return-on-ad-spend guarantees: nobody can keep them✦
Every week, new angles enter the account: different hooks, formats and arguments, not five crops of the same banner. Every week the losers are killed without sentiment while winners earn more budget. Creative fatigue is the tax every Meta account pays; a standing test pipeline is the only way to stay ahead of it.
Weekly
02
Prospecting first, retargeting in proportion
Retargeting warm audiences always looks brilliant on paper, because it harvests demand that prospecting, or your brand, already created. We fund cold-audience prospecting as the engine of growth. We size retargeting to the audiences that genuinely need another argument, and cap frequency so your ads persuade rather than stalk. Budget balance is reviewed against evidence, not against which line flatters the report.
Ongoing
03
Measurement after iOS 14
App Tracking Transparency broke the old pixel's picture: shorter windows, modelled conversions, gaps where opted-out users used to be. We ship the Conversions API alongside the pixel so server-side signals fill what the browser lost, then triangulate the platform's claims against your analytics and actual revenue. Where retargeting's contribution is in doubt, we test with holdouts instead of arguing about attribution.
Maintained
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Catalogue ads for commerce
For stores, the product feed becomes an always-on salesforce: catalogue campaigns show the right products to new buyers and remind browsers what they left behind. The feed itself, titles, images, availability, is treated as the creative it is. Built with the same team behind our eCommerce development work, so feed fixes actually ship.
Per catalogue
05
The handoff after the click
Meta traffic arrives curious, not convinced, so the landing experience is built and tested with our conversion team to finish the argument the ad started. The buyers your ads win are handed to email and lifecycle flows so the second sale doesn't need a second ad budget. Paid acquisition should fill a system, not a bucket with a hole in it.
Per campaign
30
First 30 days
Fatigue to cadence, measured against revenue.
01
Days 1 to 2
Account & creative audit
Account structure, audiences, frequency, creative history and measurement torn down: what's fatigued, what retargeting is over-claiming, whether the Conversions API is even live, baselined before anything changes.
02
Week 1
Test plan, priced
A rebuilt structure, a creative testing roadmap of angles and formats, and the measurement fixes, itemised and priced. You approve what changes and what it costs before a single campaign moves. Media spend is not in that price: Meta bills it to you directly.
03
Weeks 2 to 4
First wave live
Server-side tracking live and verified, prospecting rebuilt, frequency caps applied, and the first creative test wave in market, with kill criteria agreed before launch, not negotiated after.
04
Month 2+
The testing rhythm
The weekly cadence begins: new angles in, losers out, winners scaled, retargeting held to its evidence, reported weekly against revenue, not against the platform's own scorecard.
Inside Prism
Your engagement, week to week, in one workspace.
Where the engagement includes it, marketing runs in a Prism workspace you log into: requests, approvals, tasks and the weekly review, with the cost of each channel beside the leads it produced.
Each decision recorded, with the expectation attached.
03
Cost per qualified lead
Fully loaded. Unmeasured spend shows as unknown, never zero.
How we report it, in Prism
The creative record, not a highlights reel.
What you receive in month one
Meta campaigns are reported as a test log you can read from the first entry to the last. In the first month you receive the pixel and conversions API check against a test purchase, the audience map showing who each ad set reaches and who is excluded, and the creative log listing every variant, its hypothesis and its verdict. Winners and losers both stay in the record.
01Pixel and conversions API check: events matched to a test purchase
02Audience map: reach, exclusions and overlap between ad sets
03Creative log: each variant, the hypothesis it tested, the verdict
04Weekly sheet in Prism: spend, purchases, cost per purchase, frequency
05Landing page checklist: what the ad promises, what the page shows
Meta Ads is one platform inside our PPC practice, where the media plan and rebalance live. Google Ads captures the demand your creative creates; email and lifecycle keeps the buyers your ads win. Run both? Start at the hub.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
Response and start times
We typically respond within four business hours. Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed.
Business hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm IST, excluding published company holidays. Typical expectations, not guaranteed service levels.
Before work starts we agree how often you get updates, what the reports cover and who sends them. You know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue. For hourly and retainer work, time is recorded in Workstatus, so you can see the time records behind your invoice.
Who owns the ad accounts, the data and the work?
Your materials, data and accounts remain yours, and we prefer to work in advertising and analytics accounts you own, with access delegated to our team. Agreed ownership rights in bespoke deliverables transfer under the engagement terms and applicable payment; third-party software and assets keep their licences. We do not withhold customer-owned data or accounts over a payment dispute.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
Can you guarantee first-page rankings?
No. Search engines decide rankings, and we do not guarantee rankings, AI-search citations, leads or revenue. We agree the work, how progress will be measured and how often we report it, and we explain what the measures show and what we will change next.
The answer is a cadence, not a number. On Meta the creative does the targeting: the algorithm finds your buyers by watching who responds to which message, so an account with one 'best' ad has one idea and no way to learn. We keep a standing pipeline of different angles: new hooks and arguments, not five crops of the same banner. Fresh tests enter weekly, and performance decides tenure. Fatigue shows in the numbers before it shows in opinions; the cadence catches it the same week.
Yes: differently, and any agency pretending nothing changed is selling nostalgia. App Tracking Transparency removed a large share of individual-level tracking, so Meta now models part of what it reports: shorter attribution windows, statistically estimated conversions, delayed data. Our response is layered: the Conversions API runs alongside the pixel so server-side signals recover what browsers lost. Platform claims are triangulated against your analytics and actual revenue, and where a number is modelled we label it modelled. The platform's scorecard is an input to decisions, never the referee. Your revenue is the referee.
Because retargeting's flattering numbers are partly borrowed. It reaches people who already visited, an audience your prospecting, SEO and brand already created, then claims credit for conversions, many of which were coming anyway. Spend everything there and the warm audience drains while nothing refills it; the account eats its own pipeline and calls it efficiency. The right structure funds cold-audience prospecting as the growth engine, sizes retargeting to the people who genuinely need one more argument, and caps frequency. Where it matters, we also test retargeting's real contribution with holdout audiences rather than trusting attribution to settle the argument.
If you sell more than a handful of products, almost certainly: they are the workhorse of commerce on Meta. Catalogue campaigns pull from your product feed to show the right items to likely buyers and to remind browsers what they left behind, which makes the feed itself the creative: titles written for shoppers, images that stop a thumb, prices and availability that are actually current. That is where most catalogue setups fall down, and it's fixable. Ours are built with the team behind our eCommerce development service, so feed and storefront problems get engineering fixes, not workarounds inside Ads Manager.
No, and post-iOS-14, return guarantees deserve extra suspicion, because even measuring return now involves modelling, which we explain rather than exploit. Auction prices, creative response and your market's demand sit outside anyone's control. What we commit to contractually is the work and its transparency: server-side measurement shipped and verified, a genuine weekly testing cadence with agreed kill criteria, prospecting-led budget balance, frequency caps, and reporting against your revenue rather than the platform's scorecard. Two invoices, not one: our management fee, and your media spend, which Meta bills to you directly and which is never part of the fee. Your ad account stays in your name throughout, so every claim we make is checkable.
Yes: paid social ships under partner agencies' brands like every service here: your reporting templates, your client calls, our specialists testing the creative. Client ad accounts stay in the client's name throughout, so nothing is held hostage. The arrangement is NDA-backed. We do not approach the clients you introduce to us for direct business. That protection runs through the work and for twelve months after the last assignment for that client ends, and it is written into the agreement. We have served 500+ agencies.
A free Meta Ads review: creative fatigue, prospecting-to-retargeting balance, frequency and measurement, with the fix list ranked by wasted spend. Keep it whether or not we ever work together.