Your ROAS is probably inflated. Find out by how much.
A fixed-scope audit of your Meta and Google accounts: wasted spend, learning-phase traps, audience overlap and fatigue, an honest creative read, and the CAPI gaps that inflate the numbers you scale on.

Definition
What is a paid media audit?
A paid media audit is a structured review of an ecommerce brand's ad accounts, usually Meta and Google, that identifies where spend is wasted and why performance falls short of potential. It examines account structure against how the delivery algorithms actually work, checks whether ad sets get enough conversion signal to exit the learning phase, maps audience overlap and creative fatigue, and reads creative performance from the data rather than opinion. Critically, it also verifies the measurement underneath: whether CAPI deduplication, consent, and conversion configuration are feeding the algorithm a correct signal, because an account optimising on inflated or double-counted conversions wastes budget no matter how well it is managed. Anlyto delivers this as a fixed-price engagement with read-only access, performance read against real store orders, and a ranked fix list presented in a founder-readable deck with a live walkthrough.
What the audit covers
What we inspect
We read your account the way the algorithm does
Ad accounts fail in predictable ways: structure that starves the algorithm of signal, audiences fighting each other, tired creative, and conversion data that lies. We check all of it, with evidence per finding.
Account structure health
Campaign architecture on both platforms read against how the delivery systems actually work today, not how they worked three years ago.
- Meta + Google structure review
- Budget allocation read
- Objective and bidding sanity check
Wasted spend analysis
Where budget burns without producing profitable orders, tied to the specific campaigns, ad sets, and settings responsible.
- Spend without profitable orders
- Placement and geo waste
- Spend on inflated signals
Learning-phase health
Whether your ad sets ever get enough signal to exit learning, or whether structure and edits keep resetting the algorithm.
- Learning exits vs limited
- Event volume per ad set
- Edit-frequency impact
Audience overlap + fatigue
Audiences bidding against each other and segments that have seen your ads too many times to care.
- Overlap between ad sets
- Frequency and fatigue read
- Exclusion hygiene
Creative performance read
What the data says about your angles, hooks, and formats: what carries the account, what is fatigued, what is missing.
- Winners and fatigue identified
- Angle and format gaps
- Testing cadence review
CAPI + dedup gap check
The conversion signal your bidding runs on, verified. Missing CAPI, broken deduplication, and consent gaps quantified.
- CAPI presence and dedup
- Event match quality read
- Signal loss quantified
The measurement angle
Most ads audits skip the part that matters
A typical agency audit reviews campaigns and creatives and stops there. But if the conversion signal feeding the algorithm is wrong, every optimisation built on it is wrong too. Missing CAPI deduplication alone can make an account report conversions that never happened, and brands scale spend on that mirage.
That is why our paid media audit always includes the signal check, and why it pairs naturally with the Tracking Audit. We are a measurement company that manages ads, not an ads company that mentions measurement.
Common waste patterns
- ROAS reported by the platform far above what Shopify orders support
- Ad sets that never exit the learning phase
- Overlapping audiences bidding against each other
- Fatigued creatives still taking a large share of budget
- Broad spend scaling on a conversion signal that is double-counted
- No structural difference between prospecting and retargeting
How it runs
From account access to ranked fix list
Fixed scope, read-only access, and performance read against your store's real orders.
Kickoff + access
A 30-minute call on goals, spend levels, and known pain, then read-only access to Meta, Google Ads, and your store.
Signal check
CAPI, deduplication, consent, and conversion configuration verified, so we know how much to trust the platform numbers.
Account diagnosis
Structure, learning-phase health, audience overlap, wasted spend, and the creative performance read.
Walkthrough + roadmap
Founder-readable deck presented live, with a ranked fix list your team or ours can execute against.
Pricing and next step
Fixed-price, from $X
The Paid Media Audit is fixed-price from $X with a fixed turnaround. It is part of our audit family, and is included in the Performance Audit bundle alongside tracking, CRO, and reporting.
If you want the fixes executed and the account run on measurement we verify ourselves, the natural next step is ads management: audit first, manage second, report on profit.
FAQ
Paid media audit questions
What we check, why platform ROAS lies, and what happens after.
Stop scaling on a number you can't verify
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll look at your accounts together, flag the obvious waste, and send a fixed quote inside two business days.
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Related audits and next steps
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Tracking Audit
The conversion signal your ad accounts optimise on, verified end to end. If the numbers don't reconcile, this comes first.
- Read more
Performance Audit
The paid media audit plus tracking, CRO, and reporting in one engagement, with a 90-day prioritised growth roadmap.
- Read more
Ads Management
Meta and Google run on measurement we built and verify ourselves. The audit is the entry point.
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