A major e-commerce operation — 563K ghost ads from 2014
A marketing partner deleted shared audiences and broke thousands of ad sets. Ten years later, 563K ads with a 96% zero-impression rate were still sitting in the account — and still included in reporting.
ghost ads still active in the account
zero-impression rate on flagged ads
undetected without automated governance
- 1 Connected all ad accounts to surface ads with zero impressions over any trailing period
- 2 Automated governance rule flagged every ad with deleted audiences
- 3 Cleaned up decade-old account debt that was distorting all performance reporting