Google Ads and Meta Ads are not the same game. This reel explains how each platform works, what each algorithm wants, and why your paid media strategy has to fit the channel if you want better results.
Mark Hammersley
The Hammersley Brother's Ecommerce page. Ecommerce Expert Tips and No BS Business Advice
If your Meta ads will not scale, this is probably why. The issue is often not budget or campaign settings, it is that your top of funnel ad creative is not strong enough to win cold audience reach.
07/05/2026
This week on the podcast, we’re breaking down one of the biggest reasons ecommerce brands struggle to scale with ads.
It’s not always a traffic problem.
It’s usually a revenue per visitor problem.
Most store owners focus on traffic or conversion rate, but revenue per visitor is the metric that really drives ROAS, profitability, and growth.
In this episode:
• What revenue per visitor actually means
• How it directly impacts your ROAS and ad performance
• Why is the conversion rate alone is misleading
• The relationship between AOV, conversion rate, and revenue per visitor
• Why your ads might not be the real problem
• The easiest lever to improve revenue per visitor quickly
• Real examples of how improving this metric changes everything
• Why most ecommerce stores are under-optimised
Fix this one number, and your entire store performs differently.
Listen to the podcast episode here: https://youtu.be/3HxG0A__brY
If your Facebook ads are not scaling, the problem may be that your ad creative is too boring for cold audiences. This explains why Meta ads often get stuck retargeting warm traffic instead of finding new customers.
If you only look at ROAS, you can completely miss why your Facebook ads are failing to grow. Cost per reach, audience pe*******on, and top of funnel reach are often the real metrics behind ecommerce ad scaling.
Great Google Ads performance comes from relevance, usefulness, and matching intent, not just bigger budgets. This is a smart breakdown of quality score, user experience, and why Google rewards better search results.
This is one of the clearest explanations of why Meta ads can look profitable but still fail to scale. If your Facebook ads only work on warm audiences, you have a creative and reach problem, not just a ROAS problem.
Meta ads that look too much like product listings usually get trapped at the bottom of funnel. This is one of the clearest explanations of why Facebook ads often fail to reach new customers and why warm audience ads do not always scale.
Google Ads and Meta Ads are powerful, but they are not built around your brand. They are built around their platform goals. If you want better performance, lower costs, and more reach, you need to understand how each platform actually works.
ROAS on its own can hide a serious scaling problem. This clip explains why cost per reach matters, why some Meta ads only hit the same people again and again, and why that stops your ecommerce ad account from growing.
If your ecommerce ads are not scaling, the issue might be that your creative is too boring for Meta, even if the product itself is not boring. This clip explains the difference between intent driven Google ads and attention driven Meta ads, and why ad creative has to match the platform.
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