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Creative Deep Dive

How to analyse which creatives — and which creative elements — are driving performance in your Meta ad account.

Written by Maximilian Rast

tl;dr

  • The Creative Deep Dive pulls your Meta ad creatives directly into Klar so you can analyse performance visually — without switching to Ads Manager

  • Currently supported: Meta (Facebook & Instagram) and TikTok.

  • Choose from 7 attribution models (First Touch, Last Touch, Linear, and more) — requires the Klar Attribution Plan

  • Group by All, Image, Video, Ad Name, Ad ID, or Creative to filter and deduplicate performance

  • Each creative card shows Revenue, Orders, ROAS (both UTM and Pixel values), plus NC metrics, Spend, CPM, Thumb Stop %, Hold Rate, CTR, and more

  • Whitelisted ads are fully supported — reauthenticate your Meta datasource to enable full access


It is built for modern eCom marketing teams where creators, media buyers and strategists are working hand in hand.


Before you start

Reauthenticate your Meta datasource before using the Creative Deep Dive — even if you can already see some creatives. This gives Klar full access to pull all ad creatives, including whitelisted ones. [Follow these steps to reauthenticate]


Controlling the view

Four controls at the top of the page let you configure how revenue is attributed and measured:

Attribution model — choose how credit is distributed across touchpoints in the customer journey. This feature requires the Klar Attribution Plan.

  • Marketing Mix — analyses overall sales impact using statistical models

  • Data Driven — credits touchpoints based on their actual historical impact

  • Unique — custom model based on your own business rules

  • Linear — distributes credit evenly across all touchpoints

  • First Touch (default) — credits the first interaction with 100% of the conversion

  • Last Touch — credits the last interaction with 100% of the conversion

  • U Shape — gives most credit to first and last touchpoints, sharing the rest equally

  • Time Decay — weights recent touchpoints more heavily than earlier ones

Date type — controls which date revenue is allocated to:

  • Order Date (default) — allocates revenue to the date the order was placed, regardless of when the touchpoint occurred

  • Touch Point Date — allocates revenue to the date the touchpoint occurred

Conversion window — sets the maximum time between a touchpoint and a conversion that still counts as attributed: Unlimited, 1 Day, 7 Days, or 28 Days.

Filter Creative — filter the view to specific creatives by name or content.


Filtering and grouping creatives

Use the tab row below the controls to filter and group your creatives:

  • All — shows every creative

  • Image — filters to image ads only

  • Video — filters to video ads only

  • Ad Name — groups all ads with the same name and sums their data

  • Ad ID — shows each individual ad as a separate entry

  • Creative — identifies the same visual asset across different ads, ad sets, and campaigns, and sums performance across all uses

The same image or video is often used in multiple ads. Creative grouping shows you the true combined performance of each asset — not just one instance of it.

To sort creatives, use the metric selector on the right side of the tab row and toggle between Descending and Ascending.


What's on each creative card

Each card shows the following metrics:

Revenue, Orders, and ROAS each display two values side by side — one from UTM-based attribution (grid icon) and one from Pixel-based attribution (wave icon) — so you can compare both sources at a glance.

Below those, each card also shows:

  • NC Net Revenue, CAC, NC Net ROAS

  • Impressions

  • Spend

  • CPM

  • Thumb Stop %

  • Hold Rate

  • # of Add to Carts

  • Total Landing Page Views

  • CTR

  • CTR (Link)

Use Card Options (top right) to customise which metrics appear on cards.


Viewing video ads

All video ads can be played directly inside Klar — no need to open Ads Manager.

Press Next below the creative slider to step through to the video, then press play. For Dynamic Ads, all creatives used in the ad are accessible via the slider.


Whitelisting support

If you run ads through a creator's account (whitelisting), the Creative Deep Dive is fully supported. Follow the reauthentication steps carefully to enable access to whitelisted creatives.


Gallery vs Table view

Toggle between Gallery and Table view using the buttons in the top right. Gallery shows creative thumbnails with metrics cards. Table view (currently in beta) displays all creatives in a spreadsheet-style layout — useful for exporting and bulk comparison.

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