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How should advertisers respond to sudden and persistent drops in campaign performance?

When facing periods of extreme performance volatility or suspected platform outages, advertisers may choose to temporarily reduce budgets or pause campaigns to protect capital. Professional media buying requires evaluating if erratic results are due to internal campaign issues or external platform-wide technical instability.
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