Bibado Account 13859523 · GBP

Paid social · account audit

The account is switched off, and what's still running isn't buying anything.

In October, 83% of spend went to three campaigns that produced three purchases between them. Reported ROAS fell to 0.5x, because the ads that actually sell were off. This audit covers what worked, what the money went on instead, the most likely cause of the drop, and the structure to rebuild on.

Data through
October 2026
Account
13859523 · GBP
Target
CPA ≤ £13 on a £40 order ≈ 3x
Prepared by
Searchflex
01

Account summary

The only live campaigns are Awareness, Engagement and a Start Trial lead campaign.

0.5x

Reported ROAS in October, with purchase ads off

83%

Of October spend — £886 of £1,069 — on three campaigns

3

Purchases those three produced between them

£13

Target CPA on a £40 order, roughly 3x

Reported ROAS by month, 2026

The band is the account's normal 2024–25 range. Hover any bar for detail.

Reported ROAS by month, 20262024–25 range0123456target 3xMay 2026 — 5.2x (Weaning Week)5.2xMayWeaning WeekJun 2026 — 2.0x2.0xJunJul 2026 — 1.9x1.9xJulAug 2026 — 2.6x2.6xAugSep 2026 — 1.7x1.7xSepOct 2026 — 0.5x (purchase ads off)0.5xOctpurchase ads off
May is Weaning Week, which used a different attribution window and is not directly comparable. Without it, May ran at about 1.7x. October is low because the purchase campaigns were switched off, not because they performed badly.

If only three things happen

  1. Turn off Start Trial, Awareness and Engagement. Together they are most of what is still being spent, and almost none of what is being bought. Start Trial alone has taken £6,981 for 125 purchases.
  2. Put the purchase campaigns back on. Retargeting, 1% lookalikes and the organic-post ads were all working when they were stopped.
  3. Stop switching things on and off. Give each campaign five to seven days before judging it.

The full list is in section 07.

These are Meta's reported figures, not an independent measurement. They are used here to compare periods within the same account on the same basis, not as a claim about incremental revenue.

02

The main problems

01

Conversion dropped while costs held steady

CPM stayed around £4.50 to £4.80. Purchases per landing-page view fell from roughly 10–15% in late 2025 to May 2026, down to 6–8% between June and September 2026. The problem is who is clicking and what they see, not what the auction costs.

02

Prospecting has never run much above 3x at scale

Lifetime Bundles: £131.9k spent, 9,357 purchases, £14.09 CPA, 2.92x. Lifetime Coveralls: £67.5k spent, £11.50 CPA, 2.88x.

03

Heavy repeat exposure

Bundles frequency is 16.8 lifetime. Account frequency ran between 6 and 11 through 2024.

03

What has worked

Weaning Week, 8–17 May 2026

Four campaigns · £10.3k spend · 2,001 purchases · £5.13 CPA · 6.2x
Campaign typeCPAROAS
Boosted organic posts£4.307.4x
Dark ads to warm audiences£4.806.65x
Generic dark ads£7.504.4x

Not a like-for-like comparison

These campaigns used a different attribution window, which adds engaged-view. Without Weaning Week, May ran at about 1.7x. The direction is real; the multiple is not directly comparable with the rest of this audit.

Retargeting — all currently paused

AudienceROASCPANote
Website visitors, 30 days5.2x£7.11
Add to cart or view content, 14 days4.8x£7.63
Customers / LTV4.7x£7.19At frequency 65
Engagers, 365 days3.8x – 4.7x—

Best older prospecting audiences

Organic-post ads, August 2026

Small samples, but they point the same way as Weaning Week.

Three things were stopped too early

Retargeting, 1% lookalikes, and the organic-post style ads. All three were performing when they were switched off.

04

Where the money has gone

Spend without a return

June to October 2026 unless stated. Lifetime figures for Start Trial.

Spend without a return, by campaign and placementStart Trial leadsStart Trial leads — £6,981 · still running£6,981still runningAwareness + EngagementAwareness + Engagement — £3,148 · still running£3,148still runningFacebook ReelsFacebook Reels — £1,356£1,356US / Canada testsUS / Canada tests — £1,305£1,305"Learning Curve" launch"Learning Curve" launch — £1,075£1,075MarketplaceMarketplace — £428£428Refer-a-friend retargetingRefer-a-friend retargeting — £312£312ThreadsThreads — £202£202In-stream videoIn-stream video — £159£159
The two largest are still running. Start Trial produced 4,780 trial starts at £1.46 each but only 125 purchases — a £55.80 CPA at 0.62x. Awareness and Engagement have produced three purchases and £124 of revenue between them since 12 May 2026.

Poor placements together account for about £2.1k between June and October 2026.

05

Why performance dropped

After the May promotion ended, the account returned to its normal 2x to 2.6x.

The 26 June consolidation is the most likely cause

Putting the best ads into a single Advantage+ campaign produced £15.2k spent at £17.73 CPA and 2.26x, on a CPM of £5.92 — against £4.40 to £5.60 in the Bundles campaign, which had been running 2.6x to 3.05x from April to June.

The data fits the consolidation hurting performance, but it does not prove it caused the drop.

06

The new structure

Three purchase-optimised campaigns only: prospecting, retargeting, and one promo or event campaign. Target CPA at or below about £13 on a £40 order, which is roughly 3x.

A

Prospecting

Purchase-optimised

Advantage+ broad, plus a 1% customer-list lookalike test. Optimise for the new-customer purchase event Leaf_NewCustomer_Purchase, which already exists in the pixel. Exclude existing customers. Remove Facebook Reels, Marketplace, Threads and in-stream.

B

Retargeting

Rebuild tighter

Rebuild website visitors at 14 days and add-to-cart at 7 days. Cap frequency — 17 to 65 is far too high. Keep the budget small, because these pools are limited.

C

Promo or event

Earned its place

Weaning Week is the model: education-led, organic-post and creator-style. The one structure in this account that has produced a step change rather than a drift.

Cost per acquisition against the £13 target

Lifetime figures except the June consolidation. Anything past the dashed line is losing money at a £40 order value.

Cost per acquisition against the £13 targettarget £13Coveralls (lifetime)Coveralls (lifetime) — £11.50£11.50Bundles (lifetime)Bundles (lifetime) — £14.09£14.09June consolidationJune consolidation — £17.73£17.73Start TrialStart Trial — £55.80£55.80"Learning Curve""Learning Curve" — £56.60£56.60
The two product campaigns are close to target. The three that are not are the ones this audit recommends stopping or rebuilding.

Creative

Organic-post and creator-style ads, education-led angles like Weaning Week, and three to five new angles a month. Static "62% off" bundle ads are now the baseline, not the winner.

Products

Lead with Bundles, which carries the higher order value — £41 against £33 for Coveralls. Test Coveralls separately.

Testing

One change at a time, and leave a campaign alone for five to seven days.

The customer journey

StepCompletionRead
Landing page → add to cart—The weak step. Test the product page for cold traffic and show the offer earlier
Add to cart → checkoutabout 25%
Checkout → purchaseabout 70%Working

Tracking

Tracking is in good shape. Purchase match quality is 9.3 out of 10 and server events are firing today; add-to-cart and checkout are at 7.4. The one gap: Click ID capture on purchases is only 19%, and that needs fixing.

07

Priority actions

01

Pause Awareness, Engagement and the Start Trial campaign

Unless the trial has a business reason beyond the ad account. Together they are the majority of current spend and almost none of the purchases.

02

Audit sibling accounts 3.0 and 4.0

Not covered by this audit.

03

Rebuild retargeting with tighter windows and a frequency cap

04

Relaunch the organic-post style ads and the 1% lookalike

As the new prospecting test. Both were working when they were stopped.

05

Exclude the weak placements and optimise on new-customer purchases

06

Stop switching campaigns on and off

Give each one five to seven days.

07

Test the landing page step for cold traffic