Glossary
What is ad change monitoring?
Ad change monitoring is the continuous recording of changes inside ad accounts — budgets, status, targeting, creative — so that performance movements can be attributed to a specific change.
Definition
Ad change monitoring is continuously recording what changes inside an ad account: budget and bid edits, campaign or ad status changes, audience and targeting edits, and creative swaps.
Performance metrics tell you results moved. Change monitoring tells you what moved them.
Why it matters
- Ad accounts are edited by multiple people, automated rules, and platform-side reviews — not all of it announced.
- Many apparent performance drops are a paused ad set, a rejected ad, or a budget change from the day before.
- A recent edit is also the main reason to suspect learning-phase instability rather than a real drop.
How to detect it
- 1Pull change history from the ad platform on a schedule and store it with timestamps.
- 2Align those timestamps with lead volume and cost per lead.
- 3Flag the changes that fall closest to the moment performance moved.
Example
Illustrative scenario: cost per lead climbs from 2pm. The change log shows the audience was widened at 1:58pm. That is the first thing to test — before touching creative or budget.
How Quarkad helps
Quarkad connects to ad accounts and records changes as they happen, then lines them up against conversion movements so an incident opens with the likely change already attached.
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Frequently asked questions
- Isn't the platform's own change history enough?
- It is a good source, but it lives apart from your funnel data. The value comes from putting changes and conversion movements on one timeline.
- Does ad change monitoring prove causation?
- No. It establishes what changed and when, which is the evidence you need to test a cause — not proof on its own.
Find the change behind the drop.
Quarkad monitors your funnels and the changes around them, then tells you which change lines up with the drop.