Cedar Creek Analytics · A Grey Matter company

Creative, media buying and measurement from one team, judged on your signups, sales and revenue, not on clicks. Start with a free audit of your ad account.

  • Free, no obligation
  • Read-only access
  • Every change approved by you
Creative → Meta → your outcomesexample
Concept AFounderConcept BDemoCreatorCustomerMetayour ad accountSignupActivationPurchasePoint of sale
Daily briefDuplicate purchase event is inflating Meta’s count
Ranked by dollars at stake
No number without enough data
Every change approved and logged
SignupsActivationPurchasesRevenueRetentionStore salesCost per real customerReturn on ad spendCreative fatiguePacing
One shop, as much as you need

Most companies split this work across three vendors. Nobody owns the result.

When an agency makes the ads, a buyer runs them, and an analytics shop reports on them, much of your data falls between the seams. Cost per customer rises. Results become vague and contradictory. We provide data-based clarity and results.

Agencymakes the ads
Media buyerruns them
Analytics toolreports on them
“not our numbers”
“the creative is tired”
Cedar Creekmakes, runs and measures them
Cost per customer rises. Each can point at the others.One owner for the line from creative to revenue.
What we do

Create. Deploy. Measure.

Creative ranked by cost per activated customerday 1 · example
Concept A
cut 1
$52#2
Concept A
cut 2
$61#3
Concept A
cut 3
$88#5
Concept B
cut 1
$47#1
Concept B
cut 2
$70#4
Concept B
cut 3
$95#6
Family A Family B Worst cut is retired; best family gets the next brief.
Real control & attribution

From creative to result. End-to-end measurement.

The Meta panel is just the beginning. Watch as your leads convert and understand their behavior in minutes or hours. See what's working from ad to ad, from platform to platform, and as customers navigate your site to buy.

Impression
Click
Pixel conversion
Signup
Activation
Purchase
Retention
Life cycle
Enough to run the full workflow. Audit, creative, deployment and the daily brief, on what Meta can see.
Numbers you can defend

Most dashboards will show you a number they cannot support. Ours goes deeper and verifies the truth.

Every guard in our measurement exists because a real account once produced a confident, wrong answer without it.

Return on ad spend · this ad set
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Not enough data: 12 of 30 purchases. A ratio on 12 sales is arithmetic, not evidence.
floor · 30
Example: $3,000 spend, $180 average order. Drag it.
Real data-reliability thresholdsA cost per lead built on three conversions is arithmetic, not evidence. We make sure the facts you have are actually facts. The kind you need to make good decisions.
Platform counts checked against yoursMeta reports what Meta saw. We reconcile it daily against the signups, activations and sales your own systems recorded, and flag the day the ratio moves.
Cohorts read at equal ageActivation read by calendar day makes every recent cohort look worse. We compare each group of customers over the same number of hours from their first visit.
Fresh edits are not judgedAn ad set changed this week delivers erratically. We say it is in learning and hold the verdict until it settles.
Days in your ad account’s timezoneMeta bills on the account’s clock. Every pacing figure and day boundary is computed on it, not on ours.
What we cannot see is printedIf a source has a blind spot, the brief says so. A clean report built on a blind spot is worse than no report.
0
purchases before we print a return on ad spend
0
changes to your account without a person’s approval
0
owner from the first creative to the register
0%
of changes logged with what they were before
Every change has a name on it

Automation proposes. A person decides. The record keeps both.

Budget moves, pauses and launches are written down before they happen: what the ad set was, what we asked for, what Meta actually set, and why. If Meta quietly clamps a budget, the log says so.

At renewal you can see every decision we made with your money, and undo any of them.

change #0418applied
Ad setProspecting · broad
Before$800/day
Asked for$960/day · +20%
Meta set$960/day
WhyLowest cost per activated customer, three weeks running
Proposed byCedar Creek
Approved byYour marketing lead
Reverse this changeExample record. Try it.
How an engagement starts

From access to a working rhythm.

01

Free audit

Read-only access to your ad account. We read its history, tracking, structure and spend end to end, and send back a written list of what is costing money and what we would change first.

02

Measure

The daily brief starts. Outcomes are reconciled against your records and creative is ranked on real cost per customer.

03

Produce and deploy

The first creative families launch under the new structure, with every change approved and logged.

Why one owner

Who says marketing has to be cold?

Paid acquisition often feels like a walk in the cold: spend, wait, hope the report agrees with the bank account.

With one owner from the first creative to the register, every dollar has a reason, a record and a result you can defend.

Before you ask

Questions we hear first

What does the free audit include?

Your ad account’s history, tracking, structure and spend, read end to end. You get a written list of what is costing money, ranked by the dollars at stake, and what we would change first.

Do you need our passwords or admin access?

No. Read-only partner access in Meta Business Settings, or a system-user token through a one-time secure link. You can remove it at any time.

What does working with you cost?

After the audit we quote a clear monthly price for what you need: creative, media operations, measurement, or all three. Nothing starts before you agree to it.

Can you work alongside our agency or in-house team?

Yes. We can own the whole line, or only the measurement and hand findings to the people already doing the work.

Which platforms do you work on?

We start with Meta. LinkedIn accounts connect today, and Google is being added.

How soon will we hear back?

A partner reads every request and replies within two business days.

Start with a free audit. See what your ads are really earning.

Give us read-only access and we send back a written list of what is costing you money, ranked by the dollars at stake. A partner reads every request and replies within two business days.

  • Written, ranked findings
  • Read-only: we can see, not change
  • No obligation

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