Paid media
Creative Fatigue
Definition
Creative fatigue is the decline in an advertisement's performance caused by repeated exposure within a target audience. It shows up first as rising cost per acquisition at stable spend, and later as falling click-through.
The correct response is to rebuild the winning concept in a new format before the decline appears, not after. Waiting for the metrics to confirm fatigue means spending through the entire decline first.
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