Anomaly Detection
Performance problems rarely announce themselves. They show up quietly as a gradual ROAS decline, a slow CPA creep, or a campaign that stops spending, and by the time someone notices, the damage is done. Meerkads detects anomalies across all your campaigns in real time and alerts you the moment something looks wrong.
Connects with
Google Ads
Meta Ads
TikTok Ads
Shopify$2M
$450K
4.50x
Alerts
ROAS below floorTikTok Spark - Brand Awareness is at 4.4x ROAS.ViewCreative fatigueTikTok Spark - Top Performers - Ad #2: low conversion.ViewOverexposed creativeRemarketing - Brand Defense - Ad #2: High frequency (3.5x) · CTR below channel average.ViewConversions dippingMeta Ads conversions -1.1% week over week.View01
Performance does not follow office hours. A campaign can start overspending, underdelivering, or producing poor results at any time of day. Meerkads monitors every connected campaign around the clock and surfaces anomalies the moment they are detected, whether you are at your desk or not.
AIBest and Worst Campaigns
| Score | Name | Platform | ROAS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | Brand Search - Demo Store | | 8.4 |
| 80 | Stories - Cart Retargeting | | 8.1 |
| 76 | Lookalike - High Value Customers | | 7.8 |
| 76 | Remarketing - Cart Abandoners | | 7.2 |
| 70 | Instagram Feed - Catalog Sales | | 6.9 |
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A notification that says "performance dropped" is not useful without context. Meerkads anomaly alerts include what changed, by how much, on which campaign, and a suggested next action so you can respond immediately without having to dig through dashboards to understand the situation.
AICritical findings
TikTok Spark - Brand Awareness returns 4.4x ROAS on $31.6K spend, the lowest of your top 10 campaigns.
Brand Search - Demo Store converts at 8.02% with 8.4x ROAS on only $13.9K spend.
3 TikTok Spark creatives show low conversion and are flagged for fatigue.
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Simple threshold-based alerts only fire when a specific number is breached. Meerkads uses pattern-based detection to identify anomalies that do not trigger obvious thresholds but still represent meaningful deviations from expected behavior, catching problems early before they cross into territory that is expensive to recover from.
Creative Fatigue
Remarketing - Brand Defense - Ad #2Overexposed75/100High frequency (3.5x) · CTR below channel average
TikTok Spark - Top Performers - Ad #2Low conversion75/100Conversion rate dropped below the channel average while spend kept running.
TikTok Spark - Brand Defense - Ad #3Low conversion75/100Conversion rate dropped below the channel average while spend kept running.
TikTok Spark - Competitor - Ad #1Low conversion75/100Conversion rate dropped below the channel average while spend kept running.
Remarketing - Top Performers - Ad #2Overexposed55/100Conversion rate dropped below the channel average while spend kept running.
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For agencies managing multiple accounts, monitoring every campaign manually is impossible. Meerkads provides the same level of anomaly detection across every connected account automatically so every client gets the same standard of vigilance regardless of account size or retainer level.
Brands
The cost of a campaign anomaly is almost always proportional to how long it goes undetected. A campaign that starts overspending on a Monday and is caught on Wednesday costs two days of wasted budget. The same campaign caught on Friday costs a week. Most performance teams catch anomalies through manual checks, scheduled reports, or client complaints, all of which introduce delays measured in hours or days. During that time, budgets drain, performance declines, and the problem compounds. Meerkads replaces this reactive process with proactive, continuous monitoring that detects deviations from expected performance the moment they emerge. Alerts are specific and actionable, including exactly what changed and what to do about it, so response time drops from hours to minutes and the cost of every anomaly is minimized.
Anomaly detection in paid advertising is fundamentally a scale problem. A human can monitor a handful of campaigns carefully, but as account complexity grows across multiple channels, multiple campaigns, and multiple clients, the ability to catch subtle performance deviations before they become expensive problems breaks down. Meerkads solves this by automating the entire monitoring and detection layer. Connect your ad channels and Meerkads immediately begins tracking every campaign against expected performance patterns, flagging deviations as they emerge rather than after they have had time to compound. For performance marketers, this means fewer costly surprises and more time spent on optimization rather than firefighting. For agencies, it means every client account gets consistent, round-the-clock monitoring that would be impossible to deliver manually at scale.
What Meerkads monitors
Immediate alerts when campaign ROAS drops below expected levels or shows sudden unexpected changes.
Real-time notifications when daily or total spend exceeds your targets before significant budget is wasted.
Alerts when cost per acquisition rises suddenly or trends outside normal range across any campaign.
Detect when campaigns stop delivering, underspend significantly, or show unusual delivery patterns.
Pattern-based detection identifies when ad creative performance starts declining before it becomes a visible problem.
Consistent anomaly detection across all connected ad channels from a single alert system.
Blog
Guides, platform updates, and performance marketing insights from the Meerkads team.
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