Signal Analysis

Six data streams.
One leak map.

AdLeakIQ pulls from your ad platforms, website analytics, and revenue data simultaneously — cross-referencing signals that no single platform is built to show you together.

The Audit Engine

Your account, viewed from
every angle at once.

Most waste is invisible inside a single platform. It only reveals itself when data streams are cross-referenced. This is exactly what AdLeakIQ does.

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Meta Ads
Ad sets, audience definitions, creative performance, frequency data, placement CPMs, and spend by campaign objective.
Streaming 847 signals
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Google Ads
Search term reports, branded vs. non-branded spend split, Quality Scores, auction insights, and geographic performance by bid.
Streaming 1,203 signals
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TikTok Ads
Creative fatigue curves, audience overlap with Meta, CPM trends by creative age, and view-through vs. click-through attribution.
Streaming 492 signals
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Findings — Live
Branded Search Overlap$8,400/mo
Audience Duplication$14,200/mo
Creative Fatigue$6,800/mo
Geographic Waste$5,100/mo
Total Recoverable$34,500/mo
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Google Search Console
Organic impressions, clicks, and positions for every branded and non-branded query — used to detect paid cannibalization of owned rankings.
Streaming 2,840 signals
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Shopify Revenue
Order data, AOV, conversion rates by traffic source, and 90-day revenue baseline used to lock pre-audit performance benchmarks.
Streaming 318 signals
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GA4 / Attribution
Cross-channel attribution paths, assisted conversions, and session-level data used to identify credit misallocation and overlapping attribution windows.
Streaming 1,104 signals
The Six Leak Types

Every pattern we look for.
Every dollar we track down.

Each leak type requires a different cross-platform data comparison. Here's exactly what we're looking at inside each one.

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Branded Search Cannibalization
01

When your Google Ads bid on your own brand keywords, you're paying for clicks that organic results would have captured for free. We cross-reference your Google Search Console organic positions with your paid search term reports to calculate the exact dollar value of that overlap.

Branded Query Analysis — Google Ads vs. Search Console
Search Term
Organic Pos.
Paid CPCs
Waste/mo
[brand name]Exact match · 4,200 clicks/mo
#1
$2.40
$3,024
[brand] reviewsPhrase match · 1,800 clicks/mo
#2
$1.90
$2,052
[brand] shopBroad match · 1,400 clicks/mo
#1
$2.38
$2,009
Data Sources
Google AdsSearch Console
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Audience Overlap
02

The same user being targeted by multiple ad sets means you're bidding against yourself in auction, inflating your own CPMs and burning budget on users who have already been reached. We map audience definitions across all campaigns on Meta and Google to find every duplicated segment.

Audience Overlap — Shared Users by Campaign Pair
Prospecting LAL 1% vs Retargeting 30-day$6,200/mo
Prospecting
34%
Retargeting
34%
Shared users — both ad sets serving the same people simultaneously
Top of Funnel Interest vs Purchaser Exclusion$8,000/mo
Top of Funnel
41%
Purch. Exclusion
41%
Purchasers not excluded from prospecting — budget burned on converted users
Data Sources
Meta AdsGoogle Ads
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Creative Fatigue
03

As creative frequency rises, CPMs climb and CTR falls — often weeks before platform dashboards flag an issue. We model each creative's performance decay curve against frequency data to pinpoint the exact week waste began and quantify the ongoing cost.

Creative #A7 — CPM vs. Frequency Over Time
← Fatigue onsetCPM ↑CTR ↓
Week 1Week 4Week 8 (now)
Data Sources
Meta AdsTikTok Ads
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Geographic Waste
04

Budget distributed nationally ignores that conversion rates vary dramatically by state and metro. We cross-reference your ad platform geo reports with Shopify order data to find markets where you're spending heavily but converting at a fraction of your national average.

Ad Spend vs. Conversion Rate by State — Bottom 7
WY
0.22%
MT
0.28%
ND
0.31%
SD
0.34%
MS
0.38%
National avg: 1.84% · These 5 states: 0.31% avg
Data Sources
Google AdsShopify
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Dayparting Inefficiency
05

Most accounts run 24/7 with no bid adjustments by hour, meaning budget burns at 3am at the same CPM as peak evening hours — even when conversion rates differ by 10×. We map hourly spend distribution against hourly Shopify order data to find the drain windows.

Hourly Spend vs. CVR Heatmap — 7-Day Average
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CVR
Waste window (high spend, low CVR)
Peak window
Data Sources
Meta AdsShopifyGA4
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Attribution Gaps
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Each platform claims credit for conversions it didn't drive. Meta, Google, and TikTok all use last-click or view-through windows that dramatically inflate reported ROAS. We reconcile platform-reported conversions against Shopify order data and GA4 assisted paths to find the gap.

Claimed vs. Actual Conversions — 30-Day Period
Meta Reports
1,240
conversions
Google Reports
880
conversions
Shopify Actual
943
orders total
warningPlatform total claims 2,120 conversions — but only 943 orders exist in Shopify. Double-count inflation: 125%.
Data Sources
Meta AdsGoogle AdsShopifyGA4
By The Numbers

What we find in a typical account.

23%
Average waste identified
Across all audits completed, the average account running $20K+ per month carries 23% recoverable waste in at least one of the six leak categories.
3.4
Leak types per account
Most accounts don't have one problem — they have several running simultaneously, which is why a single-platform review misses the full picture every time.
48h
From connect to full Leak Map
Our AI engine processes months of multi-platform data in under 48 hours — what would take a specialist team 2–3 weeks to replicate manually.
How Signals Combine

Why no single platform
can show you this alone.

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Data Ingestion

We pull from every platform simultaneously

A read-only API connection is established across Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, Google Search Console, Shopify, and GA4. All data is ingested into a unified schema — standardizing date ranges, currency, and attribution windows so cross-platform comparisons are apples-to-apples.

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Cross-Reference Engine

Organic data unmasks what paid data hides

Google Ads alone will never tell you you're cannibalizing organic traffic — because it has no visibility into your Search Console rankings. Our engine joins paid impression data with organic position data, flagging every query where you hold page-one organic real estate but are still paying for clicks.

lightbulb"Brand keyword 'acme running shoes' ranks #1 organically — paid spend on this term is generating zero incremental traffic."
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Revenue Reconciliation

Platform ROAS is reconciled against actual orders

We pull Shopify order data and map it against all platform-reported conversions. The gap between claimed and actual conversions reveals attribution inflation — showing you which channels are taking credit for revenue they didn't generate, and therefore which budgets are being scaled on false signals.

lightbulb"Meta and Google together claim 2,120 conversions. Shopify recorded 943 orders. The 125% inflation explains why scaling Meta last quarter increased spend without proportional revenue lift."
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Leak Map Output

Every finding quantified, ranked, and actionable

The final Leak Map translates every signal intersection into a monthly dollar figure — ranked by impact, mapped to the specific campaigns and ad sets responsible, and paired with an exact fix recommendation. No vague insights. No agency jargon. A prioritized recovery roadmap you can act on immediately or hand to your existing media buyer.

check_circle"Total recoverable: $34,500/mo across 4 confirmed leak types. Leak Map delivered. Fixes ready for your approval."
See It In Your Account

Find out what's
leaking in yours.

The audit is free. The report is yours to keep. If we don't find anything, you owe nothing.

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For brands spending $20K+ per month · Read-only access · NDA on request