Resources

Knowledge that turns reporting into decisions

Guides and insights from the JUSTADDSUGAR practice: social media KPIs, benchmarks and creative performance, explained for teams that have to act on the numbers.

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Guide

Competitor Analysis in Paid Social: What You Can See and What You Cannot

Meta Ad Library, TikTok and organic profiles: what competitors reveal publicly, what stays hidden and how to turn it into creative hypotheses you can test.

5 October 2026 · 6 min read

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Guide

Creator Content vs In-House Production: When Creators Really Pay Off

Creator or in-house? How to compare fairly: same objective, same platform, full cost incl. production, a naming convention and a creator-by-creator breakdown.

24 September 2026 · 6 min read

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Guide

The First 3 Seconds: What Separates the Best Video Creatives from the Weakest

Top 10 vs bottom 10: what matters in the first three seconds of a video ad. A hook checklist, do and avoid patterns, and why learnings need evidence.

16 September 2026 · 6 min read

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Insight

What is sugarLENS? The JUSTADDSUGAR Performance Brain in four minutes

sugarLENS is the social media and creative analytics platform by JUSTADDSUGAR. What it does, why an agency builds it, what comes with it and who it is for.

8 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Guide

Creative Performance on Social Media: Which KPIs Really Count

Which KPIs show whether a creative concept works on social media? The JUSTADDSUGAR guide to reach, video views, engagement, creator content, CTR, conversions and sentiment.

31 August 2026 · 20 min read

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Guide

Proving Social Media ROI: From Spend to a Decision

How to prove social media ROI: define return per objective, calculate CPM, CPC, CPO and ROAS correctly, respect attribution limits and turn spend into a decision.

25 August 2026 · 6 min read

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Guide

CPC, CTR or CPO: Which KPI for Which Funnel Stage?

Which KPI should lead in awareness, consideration, traffic and conversion? One lead KPI and guardrails per stage, link clicks vs all clicks, and why the objective decides.

19 August 2026 · 6 min read

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Insight

Measuring Social Media Success: Which Benchmarks Really Help?

How do you measure social media success properly? A compact guide to historical values, publisher benchmarks and objectives. And why sugarLENS turns benchmarking into creative intelligence.

11 August 2026 · 4 min read

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Guide

From Comments to Creative Briefs: Practical Social Listening

Ad comments are the cheapest qualitative research. How to sort them by sentiment, theme, questions and objections, and turn the patterns into your next creative brief.

30 July 2026 · 6 min read

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Insight

Average Watch Time: Why TikTok, Meta and YouTube Numbers Can't Be Compared 1:1

Why average watch time measures different things on TikTok, Meta and YouTube: views, autoplay, ThruPlay, per view vs per person. And how to read AWT properly.

23 July 2026 · 6 min read

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Insight

Showing Up in AI Answers: How Brands Get Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity

How GEO differs from classic SEO and what makes content citable in AI answers: clear definitions, entities, structured data, crawlable HTML and original numbers.

15 July 2026 · 6 min read

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Insight

Why Averages Mislead: Combining CTR, CPC, CPM and ER Correctly

Why the mean of CTRs or CPCs gives wrong totals, how sum over sum gets it right, and how mix shift and small samples distort campaign and creative rankings.

7 July 2026 · 6 min read