April 8, 2026
The metrics that actually matter (and the ones that lie)
ROAS is a vanity metric until you connect it to contribution margin. A CFO-grade view of marketing measurement.
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A 6x ROAS can still lose money. If that sentence surprises you, your measurement is optimizing for the wrong outcome.
Measure to margin
We tie every channel back to contribution margin and payback period, not just return on ad spend. It changes which campaigns you scale — sometimes dramatically.
Revenue is vanity. Margin is sanity. Payback is survival.