Public Evidence Lab / Dossier O-2057

Payment-backedOPPORTUNITY DOSSIER · O-2057

Facebook ad ROAS drops as budget increases

Collected sample: 17 independent content items across 2 source families. Known publication dates: 2026-07-09 — 2026-10-28.

First seen 2026-07-09 · Last updated 2026-11-05 · Recalculated daily

83.5
Evidence confidence, not a return forecast
17
Independent source items, deduplicated by post
2
Public source families
3
Payment evidence: current spend or explicit intent
ProblemThe source-linked evidence below documents the recurring problem.
People affectedPeople represented in the linked public discussions.
Named alternativesFacebook Ads, Meta, Meta Ads, Meta Ads (Facebook Ads), TikTok
Collected sample dates · 12 weeks
08-1709-1410-1211-02

These observations describe collected samples, not platform-wide prevalence; they cannot establish whether a problem is widespread or accelerating. Collection scope changed on 09-16 and 09-27; monthly counts must not be read as trends.

Representative evidence

Full evidence chain · 17 items · 15 representative excerpts shown
Payment intent★★★★★Current spend

Post title: HELP - Spending $800k/mo on meta.... can't crack tiktok

Currently spending $800-1.2M/month on meta - I kno…

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Reddit2026-10-24View source ↗
Payment intent★★★☆☆Current spend

Post title: Bid caps and cost caps

My target CPA is $35, and I’m currently averaging …

The public layer keeps only a minimal excerpt. Open the source for full context.

Reddit2026-10-24View source ↗
Pain★★★★☆First-hand pain

Post title: Post Scale Performance Drop

Every time I scale to $300 budget or more, the per…

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Reddit2026-10-14View source ↗
Product complaint★★★★☆First-hand pain

Post title: Meta clinging on to one ad

This is consistent across every single campaign of…

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Reddit2026-10-13View source ↗
Product complaint★★★★☆First-hand pain

Post title: In your experience, can every business be scaled up? (via meta ads*)

Whenever I increase the budget things break. It do…

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Reddit2026-09-02View source ↗
Pain★★★★☆First-hand pain

Post title: Any time I increase budget results tank

I have never been able to scale my ads because eve…

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Reddit2026-08-29View source ↗
Pain★★★★☆First-hand pain

Post title: Facebook messing with traffic...

Lately when i'm trying to scale, it's just don't g…

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Reddit2026-07-09View source ↗
Product complaint★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Mass daily duplication + Hourly surf scaling

Ive been doing a bit too much research into how to…

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Reddit2026-10-28View source ↗
Pain★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: E-commerce Meta Ads Need Testing and Scaling Advice

we cannot turn this into a predictable, scalable M…

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Reddit2026-09-27View source ↗
Product complaint★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Meta Ads Purchase Volume Died Over the Past Two Weeks

We were spending $60/day and getting a 3-5x ROAS o…

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Reddit2026-09-23View source ↗
Product complaint★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: What's the best structure for a mobile app (installs objective) ?

At around $500/day , I don’t have too much trouble…

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Reddit2026-09-13View source ↗
Pain★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Conversion and scale

I increased my meta ad spend recebtly by a few buc…

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Reddit2026-08-29View source ↗
Pain★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Did I cook myself with impatience and greed?

So I go, okay, let's go. And bumped to $50/day. ZE…

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Reddit2026-08-19View source ↗
Pain★★☆☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Roas Decrease

Start from 500 per day from June, and give good re…

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Reddit2026-09-26View source ↗
Product complaint★★☆☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Meta Ads performance completely collapsed after increasing budget — what could be causing this?

I'm trying to understand why the campaign went fro…

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Reddit2026-08-20View source ↗

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Scoring summary

Evidence confidence = strength × evidence volume × source diversity × payment × competition × trend × 10. Counts use independent content items; only first-hand pain, current spend, explicit willingness to pay and concrete feature requests affect the score. Repeated posts by one author are discounted. Scoring and status changes follow deterministic rules.

“Payment-backed” means first-hand payment evidence exists in the record. It does not mean the business is worth building. “Fading” is a recency tag shown alongside any evidence level, not a lower level. Read the full methodology.