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Problem, solution or product: which angle gets clicked first

By Ryan Richardson · Published 8 October 2026

Three framing angles, leading with the problem, the solution, or the product itself, were tested against each other on native-style creative for the Ship It offer. Combined spend was A$73.00 across 101 ads, with zero recorded purchases.

The question

Does opening an ad with the reader's problem, with the solution, or with the product itself, get the most engagement on native-feeling creative for the Ship It offer?

Setup

3 ad sets/campaigns ran this test (problem-first, solution-first, product-first), 101 ads total, 22 Oct 2025 to 7 Oct 2026.

Results

MetricValue
Ads101
SpendA$73.00
Impressions2,066
Link clicks76
CTR4.74%
Landing page views58
Purchases0

What won, and how sure to be about it

No per-angle breakdown of the 3 framings was available in the pulled data beyond the combined total, so this test can't say whether problem-first, solution-first or product-first won on CTR individually. At the combined level, 4.74% CTR on 2,066 impressions across 101 ads is a thin sample, about 20 impressions per ad on average, which is too little exposure per ad to draw a confident conclusion even at the aggregate level.

What we changed next

No documented follow-on decision for this test was found in the pulled sources.

How to run this test yourself

When testing 3 framing angles across 101 ad variants, either cut the number of ad variants or raise the budget per ad; spreading A$73.00 across 101 ads left too little exposure per variant for either a per-angle or a combined read to be reliable.

The numbers
ClaimValueSource
Ads101Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
SpendA$73.00Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
Impressions2,066Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
Link clicks76Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
CTR4.74%Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
Landing page views58Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
Purchases0Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
Angles tested: problem, solution, product, across 3 ad sets/campaignsconfirmedSixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
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