Your retargeting audience is burned out

The same people are seeing your ads 7+ times a week. Clicks dropped 38% — they're sick of seeing it.

Daily click-through rate · 14-day trend

Prior week avg: 1.52% → Recent week avg: 0.94% (–38%)

CTR has fallen 38% week-over-week as frequency climbed to 7.2

Costing you

$620.00

per month · $7,440.00 per year

Time to fix

30 min

Estimated, in Meta Ads Manager

How sure are we

Medium confidence · 88%

Below 90% comes with a 'what would change our mind' note

What's happening

Your retargeting set (people who visited your site in the last 30 days) is showing your ads to the same people about 7 times per week. A week ago it was 5. Click rate dropped 38% in the same window.

In plain English: you've shown your retargeting audience the same ad until they tuned it out. You're now paying more per click for the people least likely to buy. Either widen the audience (60-day or 90-day window) or refresh the creative — usually a single new variation drops frequency back to under 2.0 within a week.

Where we could be wrong

When this finding doesn't apply

If you are mid-promotion (Black Friday, product launch), high frequency and falling CTR are expected as the urgency window closes. If you refreshed creative in the last 7 days, the comparison is against a fresh-CTR baseline that the recent week cannot match.

We show this on every finding below 90% confidence. Right now, we're at 88%.

How to fix it

Step-by-step, in Meta Ads Manager. No external tools needed.

Expand the retargeting window from 30 days to 60 or 90 days to refill the audience pool.
Refresh the creative. A single new variation typically resets frequency to under 2.0 within a week.
If both are already optimized, reduce the daily budget by 30% until frequency falls below 5.0.
Do not pause the ad set entirely unless ROAS goes below break-even — retargeting volume is hard to rebuild from a cold start.

The exact numbers we fired on

Click to see the raw evidence. Useful if you want to verify our math before acting.

Recent 7-day frequency: 7.2
Prior 7-day frequency: 5.1
Recent 7-day CTR: 0.94%
Prior 7-day CTR: 1.52%
CTR week-over-week change: -38%
Last week spend: $1,420

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