You set up the campaign. You checked the targeting twice. You wrote copy that felt good. Hit publish. Then finally, your budget drained with almost nothing to show for it. You're not losing your mind. Meta ads really are harder to make work than they used to be, and the costs are going up along with every SAAS platform trying to charge you ‘$5 a week’ for nothing (sorry, I am sick to DEATH of that also!). The frustrating part? Most of the advice you'll find either blames you

Sometime within the last year uploading ad creative to Meta became excruciatingly painful. I secretly dreaded every new ad campaign thrown at me because in the back of my head, “I do not have enough patience that this task requires” alarms going off in the back of my mind.