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4 ad angles, all over 4% CTR, all zero sales

By Ryan Richardson · Published 8 October 2026

In a cold-traffic ad-angle test, 4 angle variants each cleared at least 4% click-through rate (one reached 9.89%) across a combined A$186.77 in spend and 31,049 impressions. None of the 4 produced a recorded purchase.

What was tested

Angle is one of 4 dimensions (hook, angle, identity, length) tagged on ads in a single cold-traffic matrix test. The angle codes here are our own internal labels; their exact copy meaning wasn't documented in the pulled files, so this page compares performance by code, not by message.

Results

10 further angle codes in the same test each had under A$20 spend or under 1,000 impressions, too thin to include here.

Angle codeAdsSpendImpressionsCTRLanding page viewsPurchases
cant_evaluate12A$71.5012,2199.89%5700
assumes_2217A$59.157,8668.76%4210
effort24A$32.726,0824.04%1730
dont_know14A$23.404,8826.29%1940

How sure to be about this

Every angle that qualifies for this table cleared 4%+ CTR, with 'cant_evaluate' the strongest at 9.89%, and all 4 ended at zero purchases on a combined 1,358 landing page views. As with the hook and identity results from the same campaign, the limiting factor in this test wasn't getting people to click, it was converting the click.

The numbers
ClaimValueSource
cant_evaluate spend/ads/impressions/CTR/LPV/purchasesA$71.50 / 12 / 12,219 / 9.89% / 570 / 0Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
assumes_22 spend/ads/impressions/CTR/LPV/purchasesA$59.15 / 17 / 7,866 / 8.76% / 421 / 0Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
effort spend/ads/impressions/CTR/LPV/purchasesA$32.72 / 24 / 6,082 / 4.04% / 173 / 0Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
dont_know spend/ads/impressions/CTR/LPV/purchasesA$23.40 / 14 / 4,882 / 6.29% / 194 / 0Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
Thin-data exclusion threshold used across this datasetunder 1,000 impressions or under A$20 spendSUMMARY.md, Top 5 robust findings heading
Combined spend/impressions/LPV across the 4 qualifying angle codesA$186.77 / 31,049 / 1,358Sixty Steps ad account, Meta Ads data
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