Creative Is the New Targeting: Why E-commerce Ads Fail Without Better Creative | EP. 226

Creative Is the New Targeting: Why E-commerce Ads Fail Without Better Creative | EP. 226

March 25, 2026 · 24 min · Season 1 · Episode 226

About this episode

Andrew Maff discusses the shift in e-commerce advertising where creative has become more important than targeting.

Creative has become the most important factor in e-commerce advertising. In this 226th episode of The E-Comm Show, Andrew Maff breaks down one of the biggest shifts happening in e-commerce advertising: creative has replaced targeting as the primary driver of performance on platforms like Meta and TikTok. This episode is for you if your ecommerce ads used to perform well but now feel unpredictable, expensive, and harder to scale. What You’ll Learn: How your ad creative now determines who the a...

More episodes of The E-Comm Show

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The E-Comm Show podcast page.