Root Cause Analysis: Meta Ads + TikTok Ads
Why did this number change? askotter reads Meta Ads and TikTok Ads together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does root cause analysis with Meta Ads and TikTok Ads work for a small business?
askotter reads Meta Ads and TikTok Ads side by side so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause. A ranked list of likely causes, each with the evidence behind it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Meta Ads
- Campaign and ad set performance, Creative performance, Audience targeting data.
- From TikTok Ads
- Campaign and ad group performance, Creative and video metrics, Audience targeting.
- Status
- TikTok Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Meta Ads or TikTok Ads. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why did this number change?
Bookings dropped 23%. The ad, the website and the weather all get blamed. Without your accounts side by side, it stays a guess.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Meta Ads and TikTok Ads side by side, so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our PPC management work.
How Meta Ads and TikTok Ads records line up
Meta Ads and TikTok Ads both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Meta Ads and TikTok Ads both keep the UTM source, medium and campaign values from the visit, so activity lines up campaign by campaign even when no single person can be matched.
Shared between the two: the customer email address and the UTM campaign tags.
What root cause analysis uses from each
Root cause analysis needs timestamps precise enough to put events in order.
From Meta Ads that means creative changes and delivery status by ad. From TikTok Ads it means creative fatigue by ad and date.
TikTok Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Meta Ads on its own
Meta sees who saw and clicked an ad. It cannot see a sale its pixel missed, and lead-form contacts stop being visible to it once they leave Facebook or Instagram.
Timing. Meta reports conversions under its own attribution setting, seven days after a click and one day after a view by default.
Access. The Meta Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
TikTok Ads on its own
TikTok sees views, clicks and the conversions its pixel catches. It cannot see what happens after a visitor leaves the tracked site.
Timing. TikTok reports conversions under the attribution windows chosen in the ad account, and those counts can include view-through conversions.
Access. The TikTok Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
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Questions about Meta Ads + TikTok Ads
Do I need a developer to connect Meta Ads and TikTok Ads?
How is askotter's Root Cause Analysis different from what Meta Ads shows on its own?
Meta Ads + TikTok Ads is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.