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Use organic momentum to choose what your next ad test should explore.

Bring better creative hypotheses to the ad account, then measure results there.

Research the creative before writing the test.

A high-performing ad needs more than an interesting opening. The offer, audience, page and execution all matter. Organic content research is useful earlier in the process: it gives you concrete examples of what people are responding to.

Follow brands and creators close to the audience you buy media for. Inspect recent views gained, views per hour and comments. For TikTok, examine available shares alongside views. These measurements help decide what deserves a closer look, not what caused the response.

Turn one observation into one hypothesis.

Suppose a demonstration starts with a familiar frustration before showing the product. Its recorded views are rising faster than in the previous interval. Save the post and describe a testable idea: “Showing the problem first may make the benefit clearer to this audience.”

  • Name the element you want to test: opening, demonstration, objection or visual sequence.
  • Keep the comparison window and metric visible in your research notes.
  • Adapt the idea using your own assets, product and offer.

Use paid data to judge the paid result.

Build the variant and evaluate it in your advertising setup. Decide in advance which outcome matters and avoid changing several unrelated creative elements if your aim is to learn about one of them.

Catchrise does not receive your ad spend, attributed revenue or conversion data, so it cannot calculate ROAS or optimise campaigns for you. Its role is to make the research behind your next test easier to inspect and reuse.

Try this

Save three references, choose one common idea and write a short test brief: hypothesis, variant, audience and the result you will evaluate in your ad account.

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Put the research into practice.

Explore the demo: choose a post, inspect its growth and see the content behind the numbers.

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