CREATIVE FATIGUEEVIDENCE-GRADED SCORECARDS

Your best ad is fading. Catch the knee before the cliff.

Frequency is creeping. CPMs drift up on the same creative. And the refresh decision rests on a gut feel and a frequency rule someone tweeted in 2022. Sentrum models fatigue as a curve from your own account’s history, grades every creative with the evidence shown, and tells you the refresh cadence your account actually needs.

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CREATIVE SCORECARD · UGC-TESTIMONIAL-03READ-ONLY
B−
FATIGUE RISK: HIGH
Day 14 on a curve that breaks at ~16. Refresh scheduled-thinking, not panic.
CPMr TRENDFIRING
Cost per result up 18% over 9 days against the creative’s own baseline — past the fatigue threshold.
DECAY CURVEDAY 14 OF ~16
This format historically holds ~16 days in your account. Two days of headroom — schedule the refresh now.
HOOK RATEHEALTHY
Still top-quartile. This is wear-out, not a creative that stopped resonating — the concept is worth refreshing, not retiring.
EVERY GRADE EXPANDS INTO ITS EVIDENCEACCOUNT-RELATIVE BASELINES
HOW THE FATIGUE READ WORKS

From “is it tired?” to “refresh by Thursday” in three steps.

Not a frequency alarm — a model of how creative actually wears out in your account, graded with the evidence attached.

STEP 01 · MODEL
Fatigue is a curve, not a frequency rule.

Sentrum fits decay curves to your own account’s history, per concept and format — how long UGC holds versus statics, where the knee lands, how the CPM-to-result trend bends as an audience wears out. Your account’s curve, not a generic threshold.

SURVIVAL CURVES · CPMr FATIGUE TREND
STEP 02 · GRADE
Every creative gets a grade that shows its work.

Fatigue risk, hook strength, efficiency, consistency — composed into a grade you can scan in a second and expand into the metric, value, and threshold behind every sub-score. No black-box percentiles; the evidence trail is the product.

EVIDENCE-GRADED SCORECARDS · EXPANDABLE TRAILS
STEP 03 · CADENCE
The refresh schedule your account actually needs.

Decay speed gets compared against your real refresh cadence. If concepts break at day 16 and refreshes land at day 31, Sentrum quantifies what those 15 days of decayed delivery cost — and what cadence closes the gap.

CADENCE VS DECAY KNEE · COST OF THE GAP
THE SIGNALS

Four reads that separate fatigue from noise.

Each signal is computed from your own account’s baselines and gated by significance — so a refresh recommendation means the decay is real.

Signal 1
CPMr TREND
Cost-per-result drift against its own baseline

The cleanest fatigue signal: the same creative buying the same result for steadily more. Measured against the creative’s own history, gated so one bad day doesn’t trigger a refresh.

UGC-03’s cost per result is +18% over 9 days with stable CVR — classic wear-out, not a funnel problem.
Signal 2
DECAY CURVES
Where each concept sits on its survival curve

Concepts in your account have a measurable lifespan by format. Knowing an ad is at day 14 of a 16-day curve turns “should I refresh?” into a scheduling question.

Statics in this account hold ~11 days; UGC holds ~24. Three of your five live statics are past the knee.
Signal 3
WEAR-OUT VS WEAK
Fatigue separated from creative that never worked

A fading winner and a never-was look identical in a spend report. Hook and hold rates split them — one earns a refresh brief, the other earns retirement.

Hook rate still top-quartile, hold rate intact — the concept works; the audience is just done seeing this execution of it.
Signal 4
REFRESH CADENCE
Your shipping rhythm versus your decay rhythm

The account-level read: how fast creative decays versus how fast you actually replace it. The gap between those two rates is quantifiable wasted spend — and the strongest argument for a cadence change you’ll ever put in a deck.

Concepts decay at ~day 16; refreshes land ~day 31. Nine of 14 live creatives are past their decay knee — ~$1.7K/week of decayed delivery.
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FAQ

Questions you probably have.

How do I know if my Meta ad is fatiguing or if it’s just noise?

Single-metric rules (“refresh at frequency 3”) can’t tell the difference — every account wears creative out at its own rate. Sentrum models each concept’s decay as a curve from your own account’s history and flags fatigue when the trend is statistically real: rising CPM-to-result alongside position on the curve, not a one-day CTR wobble.

What signals does Sentrum use to detect creative fatigue?

Survival-curve position per concept (how long this format historically holds in your account), the CPM-to-result fatigue trend, efficiency versus the creative’s own baseline, and hook/hold rates to separate wear-out from a creative that never worked. Each signal feeds an evidence-graded scorecard you can expand and inspect.

When should I actually refresh creative?

On your account’s cadence, not a calendar habit. Sentrum compares how fast your concepts decay against how fast you actually ship refreshes — if concepts break at day 16 and refreshes land at day 31, that gap is quantifiable wasted spend, and the recommended cadence comes with the math attached.

Is this the same as Meta’s “creative fatigue” flag in Ads Manager?

No. Meta’s flag fires after delivery has already degraded, and it doesn’t say what to do beyond “try new creative.” Sentrum’s read is ahead of the cliff — position on the decay curve, the cost of the decay so far, and which concept styles in your account hold longest, so the refresh brief writes itself from evidence.

Does Sentrum change or pause my ads?

No. Read-only by architecture, never touches budgets or delivery. You get the grade, the evidence trail, and the recommended cadence; the pause button stays yours.

REFRESH ON EVIDENCE

Every creative dies. Stop being surprised about when.

Connect read-only and get every live creative graded in minutes — fatigue position, evidence trail, and the refresh cadence your account needs.

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