August 2026 advertising totals across all ad platforms, with change versus the prior month and the same month last year.
Spend
$0.00
+51.8%vs Jul 2026+156%vs Aug 2025
Results
0
+14.2%vs Jul 2026+71.0%vs Aug 2025
Revenue
$0.00
−24.3%vs Jul 2026+8.3%vs Aug 2025
Cost per result
$0.00
+33.0%vs Jul 2026+49.4%vs Aug 2025
ROAS
0.00x
−50.1%vs Jul 2026−57.6%vs Aug 2025
Performance over time
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Spend by day, daily totals, Aug 1–31, 2026.
Platform breakdown
Google Ads: $14,897 (36% of spend)Meta: $26,920 (64% of spend)
Google Ads
Spend
$14,897 +27.7%MoM
Results
145 −17.0%MoM
Cost per result
$102.58 +53.9%MoM
CTR
1.43% −39.9%MoM
Meta
Spend
$26,920 +69.6%MoM
Results
203 +56.2%MoM
Cost per result
$132.61 +8.6%MoM
CTR
3.12% +11.0%MoM
Audience and placement
Who the ads reached in August and where the results came from (Meta campaigns — Google doesn't report these splits the same way).
By age
Unknown1 results · $1.36
18-244 results · $555.94
25-3478 results · $7,972
35-4436 results · $6,153
45-5411 results · $2,450
55-6414 results · $3,031
65+50 results · $6,230
Sized by results
By state
New York5,334 clicks · $4,380
California4,549 clicks · $3,413
Texas1,900 clicks · $1,393
Pennsylvania1,673 clicks · $1,084
Illinois1,532 clicks · $1,076
Florida1,429 clicks · $1,069
Massachusetts1,413 clicks · $1,044
Washington1,169 clicks · $834.29
Other (44 more)17,072 clicks · $12,101
Sized by clicks (no conversions attributed at this split)
Facebook vs Instagram
Instagram108 results · $14,931
Facebook83 results · $10,943
threads3 results · $403.25
Audience Network0 results · $106.47
Other placements0 results · $10.09
whatsapp0 results · $0.00
Sized by results
Email performance
Campaign email for August, from Klaviyo’s own reporting — another engine feeding the same overall picture.
Campaigns sent
7
+16.7%vs last monthvs last year: no basis
Recipients
105,649
+15.7%vs last monthvs last year: no basis
Open rate
73.56%
−1.2%vs last monthvs last year: no basis
Click rate
1.00%
−0.0%vs last monthvs last year: no basis
Attributed revenue
$53,310
−6.2%vs last monthvs last year: no basis
Our role
Paid advertising — Meta
Paid advertising — Google (incl. Performance Max)
We run Automic Gold's paid advertising across Meta and Google. Ads are one arm of the store's growth alongside the site, email, and organic — this page shows what our part delivered and how it feeds overall sales.
What worked
Your content, tested as ads, beat the account average
On August 12 we turned 41 pieces of content your team shot into three test campaigns: Earrings, Jewelry, and Engagement. Together they turned $3,031 into $25,910, an 8.5x return in a month the account averaged 4.2x. The Jewelry campaign led at 10.9x, and Meta pushed most of its budget to the "Worn By Real People" photo pack on its own. The single best ad, a worn-in-daylight jewelry photo (DSC01505), turned $268 into $4,819.
Brand search and the catalogue campaigns held the floor
Brand search on Google returned 16.7x, turning $1,976 into $33,052. The two Meta catalogue campaigns spent $10,843 and brought back $50,098 at 4.4x and 4.9x. Non-brand search, July's weakest link at 1.4x, came back to 4.5x in August.
Email added $91,261 on top of the ads
Klaviyo attributed $91,261 in August: $53,310 from seven campaigns sent to 105,649 recipients at a 73.6% open rate, and $37,951 from the six automated flows. Flow revenue is up 37% from July's $27,659.
What we’re fixing
August ran below the 7x bar
We raised spend to $41,817, up 52% from July, and the account returned 4.2x preliminary with $175,194 tracked to ads across 348 purchases. The cause is concentrated: the three ring videos that led May through July wore out. The campaign built on them fell from 9.2x in July to 1.3x in August, and the two consolidated campaigns running the same videos returned 1.9x and 1.7x, so about $11,000 of prospecting spend ran through fatigued creative before those campaigns were paused on August 26. Performance Max also cooled from 7.4x to 3.3x. These numbers restate upward at the September 8 final as late attribution lands (July closed 4% above its preliminary), but August will finish below the bar.
What we're doing about it
September prospecting leads with your content. The Jewelry test gets the budget the ring videos lost, the fatigued campaigns stay paused, and the next content pack is built from what won in August: pieces worn on real people, shot in daylight, close to the hands and ears. Performance Max gets refreshed assets from the same winning content. The clearest ask from this month's data: more worn-on-body photos and short videos from your team. They outperformed everything else in the account.
Campaigns and creative
Every campaign that ran in August, with the actual creative. Open a campaign to see its individual ads.
MOF - CatalogueMetaPurchasesran Aug 1–31, 2026 · 31 days
Spend
$4,642
Results
33
Cost per result
$140.67
Revenue
$22,916
ROAS
4.94x
Cost per result MoM
+15.7%MoM
TOF - Adv+ Sales - RingsMetaPurchasesran Aug 1–26, 2026 · 30 days
Spend
$4,487
Results
44
Cost per result
$101.98
Revenue
$5,820
ROAS
1.30x
Cost per result MoM
+2.7%MoM
Prospecting | Consolidated Broad | CBO | 2026-08MetaPurchasesran Aug 3–18, 2026 · 22 days
Spend
$4,436
Results
40
Cost per result
$110.91
Revenue
$8,483
ROAS
1.91x
Spend MoM
MoM: no basis
Prospecting | Consolidated Broad VALUE | CBO | 2026-08MetaPurchasesran Aug 18–25, 2026 · 8 days
Spend
$2,068
Results
6
Cost per result
$344.67
Revenue
$3,582
ROAS
1.73x
Spend MoM
MoM: no basis
Text ad
AG_Brand_2026Google AdsPurchasesran Aug 1–31, 2026 · 31 days
Spend
$1,976
Results
70
Cost per result
$28.08
Revenue
$33,052
ROAS
16.72x
Cost per result MoM
+68.9%MoM
Prospecting | Jewelry Test | CBO | 2026-08MetaPurchasesran Aug 12–31, 2026 · 20 days
Spend
$1,564
Results
16
Cost per result
$97.73
Revenue
$17,093
ROAS
10.93x
Spend MoM
MoM: no basis
Retargeting - Social EngagementMetaPurchasesran Aug 1–26, 2026 · 28 days
Spend
$1,257
Results
13
Cost per result
$96.66
Revenue
$2,352
ROAS
1.87x
Cost per result MoM
−11.2%MoM
Text ad
AG_Search_NonBrand_2026Google AdsPurchasesran Aug 1–31, 2026 · 31 days
Spend
$1,216
Results
8.4
Cost per result
$144.26
Revenue
$5,419
ROAS
4.46x
Cost per result MoM
−22.4%MoM
TOF - Adv+ - SalesMetaPurchasesran Aug 1–14, 2026 · 15 days
Spend
$797.85
Results
8
Cost per result
$99.73
Revenue
$2,212
ROAS
2.77x
Cost per result MoM
−36.7%MoM
Prospecting | Earrings Test | CBO | 2026-08MetaPurchasesran Aug 12–27, 2026 · 16 days
Spend
$765.37
Results
4
Cost per result
$191.34
Revenue
$4,170
ROAS
5.45x
Spend MoM
MoM: no basis
No preview
Prospecting | Engagement Test | CBO | 2026-08MetaPurchasesran Aug 12–31, 2026 · 16 days
Spend
$701.86
Results
5
Cost per result
$140.37
Revenue
$4,647
ROAS
6.62x
Spend MoM
MoM: no basis
Month over month and year over year
Metric
August 2026
July 2026
Change
August 2025
Change
Spend
$41,817
$27,540
+51.8%
$16,362
+156%
Impressions
2,223,558
1,346,180
+65.2%
866,844
+157%
Clicks
51,626
35,805
+44.2%
16,983
+204%
Results
348
305
+14.2%
204
+71.0%
Cost per result
$120.08
$90.29
+33.0%
$80.36
+49.4%
CTR
2.32%
2.66%
−12.7%
1.96%
+18.5%
ROAS
4.19x
8.40x
−50.1%
9.88x
−57.6%
Change log
Every change made to the campaigns this month, and why.
Launched three test campaigns built from 41 pieces of content your team shot: Earrings at $100 a day, Jewelry at $100 a day, and Engagement at $50 a day, all broad US targeting with photos and videos in separate packs.
Why: The account had run on the same three ring videos since May. Testing your content in separate themed campaigns shows exactly which pieces earn budget next.
Why: spend hit $208.06 yesterday, 4.0x the recent $52.46/day pace. roas is 0.05, below the client's goal of 8.
Paused the three content test campaigns at the mid-test checkpoint.
Why: Early results were reviewed before more budget went out. The tests resumed August 25.
Switched broad prospecting to a value-optimized build: paused "Consolidated Broad" and launched "Consolidated Broad VALUE" with the same three ring videos, optimized for purchase value instead of purchase count.
Why: The broad campaign was averaging about $212 per purchase against an account average near $500. Value optimization points Meta at higher-value buyers.
Paused the campaign "Prospecting | Jewelry Test | CBO | 2026-08" automatically (stop gate).
Why: spend hit $135.99 yesterday, 3.0x the recent $44.75/day pace. no KPI goal on file for this campaign yet.
Paused "Consolidated Broad VALUE" and moved prospecting budget back to the three content test campaigns.
Why: After a week the value build returned 1.7x while the content tests beat the account average. Budget follows results.
Paused "TOF - Adv+ Sales - Rings" and "Retargeting - Social Engagement".
Why: The ring videos that returned 9.2x in July fell to 1.3x in August as their audience wore out, and retargeting ran 1.9x. Both stay paused while fresh creative takes over.
Paused the campaign "Prospecting | Earrings Test | CBO | 2026-08" automatically (stop gate).
Why: spend hit $147.26 yesterday, 4.8x the recent $30.47/day pace. no KPI goal on file for this campaign yet.