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Military.com — Appendix A Meta Account
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Appendix A — Meta Account Structure

Live API pull, June 4, 2026. Data window: May 5 – June 3, 2026 (last 30d).

Account identity

Field Value
Ad Account ID 1034037341617540
Account Name LG Military Ads
Business Military.com (10153481725199270)
Currency USD
Status ACTIVE
Queryable Yes

Note: A second account (44665674 — "Military.com Ads") exists under the same business but only spent $4,990 last 30d (likely brand/content boost). The lead-gen audit target is unambiguously 1034037341617540.

Account totals (last 30d)

Metric Value Mo's prior claim Delta
Spend $841,425.95 $842K (v2), $841,952.78 (v1) matches within 0.07%
Impressions 38,557,408
Clicks 443,130
Reach 6,039,757
Frequency 6.38 6.45 (v1), 6.85 (May peak) matches; frequency has stayed elevated
CTR 1.15%
CPC $1.90
CPM $21.82
Purchase ROAS (Meta-reported) "Not available" "Meta captures ~half of real revenue" CONFIRMED — Meta can't compute ROAS because the Purchase value signal is broken (the root-cause issue)

Campaigns (6 active, sorted by spend)

# Campaign ID Objective Bid Strategy Daily Budget 30d Spend Leads CPL Notes
1 Auto SAC ALC Max Val (NEW) 120241310920250498 OUTCOME_SALES Highest volume $7,000 $341,592.67 9,375 $36.44 Started Mar 16. 66.9% premium over BAU (Mo said 65%)
2 Auto SAC BAU (NEW) 120240808864310498 OUTCOME_LEADS Cost per result goal $19,800 $338,882.19 15,587 $21.84 Started Mar 3. Pacing $338.9K/30d ÷ $19.8K/day cap = ~$11.3K/day actual = 57% utilization → MATCHES Mo's "$19.8K budget vs $11.4K actual" finding exactly
3 Auto SAC ALC (NEW) 120240808866140498 OUTCOME_LEADS Cost per result goal $8,500 $80,960.38 3,491 $23.19 Started Mar 3
4 Home SAC ALC 120238737024600498 OUTCOME_LEADS Cost per result goal $4,000 $37,553.24 2,573 $14.60 Started Jan 12. Lowest CPL of any Auto/Home ALC — Home is materially cheaper
5 Home SAC ALC Max Val (NEW) 120241432784690498 OUTCOME_SALES Highest volume $1,600 $29,268.19 1,363 $21.47 Started Mar 18
6 Home SAC BAU 120227142278050498 OUTCOME_LEADS Cost per result goal $2,000 $13,169.28 959 $13.73 Started Jun 16, 2025 — the longest-running campaign in the account, cheapest CPL

Structural observations:

Ad sets (13 active, sorted by spend)

Ad Set Campaign Type Spend Reach Freq CTR CPL Notes
Broad (Auto Max Val) Auto Max Val $341,592.67 4.09M 4.80 0.73% $36.44 Optimizes for RETURN_ON_AD_SPEND
Broad (Auto BAU) Auto BAU $117,789.71 1.79M 2.44 1.44% $22.10
Digital Marketing & Tech (Auto BAU) Auto BAU $77,645.37 1.45M 2.15 1.46% $20.74 Best CPL of all Auto BAU interest sets
Young Real Estate & Career (Auto BAU) Auto BAU $61,082.39 1.25M 2.13 1.51% $22.72
Broad 2.0 (Auto ALC) Auto ALC $50,388.12 1.17M 2.36 0.89% $23.38
Custom (Auto BAU) Auto BAU $48,084.24 715,735 2.49 1.52% $21.42 Reach is 716K, NOT a "1,000-person audience" (delivery is fine — Mo's "narrow Custom ad set" claim may refer to underlying custom-audience size, not reach; verify in Phase 1D)
Broad (Home ALC) Home ALC $37,553.24 202,793 3.23 2.60% $14.60 Highest CTR + best Home CPL
Vehicle Insurance (Auto BAU) Auto BAU $34,280.48 920,461 1.60 1.49% $22.64
Broad (Auto ALC) Auto ALC $30,572.26 400,961 2.34 4.59% $22.88 Anomaly — 4.59% CTR is 3x account avg; worth investigating
Broad (Home Max Val) Home Max Val $29,268.19 336,781 2.77 1.19% $21.47
Custom (Home BAU) Home BAU $7,600.23 51,979 2.19 2.75% $12.73 Cheapest CPL in account. Reach 52K — small but delivering well
Broad (Home BAU) Home BAU $3,149.90 42,071 1.52 2.07% $15.29
Home Insurance (Home BAU) Home BAU $2,419.15 32,212 1.65 2.39% $15.51

Audience-targeting observations:

Auto vs Home blended (30d)

Auto Home
Spend $761,435.24 $79,990.71
% of spend 90.5% 9.5%
Leads 28,453 4,895
% of leads 85.3% 14.7%
Blended CPL $26.77 $16.34

Key finding: Home CPL is 39% lower than Auto CPL. Home is the cheaper acquisition channel by a wide margin. Mo's earlier finding that "Home is growing while Auto fatigues" is consistent with this — and the case for reallocating spend share to Home is sharper than the May CSV alone suggested.

What's worth flagging now

  1. Auto Max Val is the largest single lever — $341K/30d at a 67% CPL premium, optimizing against a broken value signal. Either fix the value signal (Track 2 — root-cause) or pause Max Val until it's fixed (Track 1 — defensive). Both are valid; current state is the worst of both.
  2. Auto BAU pacing gap is confirmed at $8.5K/day undeployed — pure free-money lever if filled smartly (avoid over-scaling into fatigue per the May data).
  3. Home is the most efficient channel in the account by CPL — $14.60 (Home ALC) and $13.73 (Home BAU) vs Auto's $21–23 band. Recommends increasing Home share substantially.
  4. All-SAC structure confirms most "standard CPL levers" Mo identified are blocked — the audit must focus on what's available under SAC (creative, pacing, value-signal quality, customer-list LAL eligibility test).
  5. Frequency 6.38 sustained — at this level the account is mathematically burning audience; new creative inflow is the only structural fix.
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