Creative Performance Prediction Before Launch
For creative teams producing 1000+ ad variations monthly. Predict creative performance before spend. 35% improvement in first-flight performance.
Creative agencies, brand marketing teams, and performance marketers producing high volumes of ad creative who need to prioritize which variations to test
Brands waste 40-60% of ad spend testing underperforming creatives. Without prediction, every variation requires live testing budget to evaluate
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Why Mixpeek
35% improvement in first-flight creative performance, 50% reduction in testing budget waste, and data-driven creative optimization recommendations
Overview
Creative testing is expensive. This use case shows how Mixpeek helps creative teams predict which ad variations will perform best before spending budget on live tests.
Challenges This Solves
Testing Budget Waste
40-60% of ad spend goes to underperforming creatives
Impact: Millions wasted on creatives that fail to resonate
Creative Volume
Teams produce 1000+ variations but cannot test all
Impact: Best-performing creatives may never be tested
Subjective Decisions
Creative selection based on opinion, not data
Impact: HiPPO (highest paid person's opinion) drives creative choices
Slow Feedback Loops
Performance data takes days/weeks to accumulate
Impact: Campaign optimization delayed, budget inefficiency
Implementation Steps
Mixpeek analyzes creative elements (visuals, copy, composition) against historical performance data to predict engagement scores before ads go live
Train on Historical Performance
Build prediction model from past creative performance
import { Mixpeek } from 'mixpeek';const client = new Mixpeek({ apiKey: process.env.MIXPEEK_API_KEY });// Ingest historical creatives with performance dataawait client.buckets.connect({collection_id: 'creative-performance',bucket_uri: 's3://creatives/historical/',extractors: ['image-embedding', // Visual features'text-extraction', // Copy analysis'color-analysis', // Color palette'composition-analysis', // Layout features'object-detection' // Elements present],settings: {performance_fields: ['ctr', 'cvr', 'engagement_rate', 'view_rate'],segment_by: ['platform', 'audience', 'objective']}});
Analyze New Creatives
Score new creatives against performance model
// Predict performance for new creativesasync function predictCreativePerformance(creativeUrl: string, context: {platform: string;audience: string;objective: string;}) {const analysis = await client.extract({url: creativeUrl,extractors: ['image-embedding', 'text-extraction', 'composition-analysis']});const prediction = await client.predict({collection_id: 'creative-performance',query: {type: 'embedding',embedding: analysis.embedding},context: context,return_similar: 5 // Find similar past creatives});return {predicted_ctr: prediction.ctr,predicted_engagement: prediction.engagement_rate,confidence: prediction.confidence,similar_performers: prediction.similar,optimization_suggestions: prediction.suggestions};}
Prioritize Testing Queue
Rank creatives by predicted performance
// Batch score creative variationsasync function prioritizeCreatives(creatives: string[], context: object) {const predictions = await Promise.all(creatives.map(c => predictCreativePerformance(c, context)));return predictions.map((p, i) => ({ creative: creatives[i], ...p })).sort((a, b) => b.predicted_ctr - a.predicted_ctr).map((c, i) => ({ ...c, priority: i + 1 }));}
Learn from Results
Continuously improve predictions with live data
// Update model with live performance dataasync function recordPerformance(creativeId: string, metrics: {impressions: number;clicks: number;conversions: number;}) {await client.collections.update({collection_id: 'creative-performance',document_id: creativeId,data: {actual_ctr: metrics.clicks / metrics.impressions,actual_cvr: metrics.conversions / metrics.clicks,recorded_at: new Date().toISOString()}});// Trigger model refinement if neededawait client.models.retrain({collection_id: 'creative-performance',trigger: 'performance_update'});}
Feature Extractors Used
Retriever Stages Used
Expected Outcomes
35% improvement in first-flight creative CTR
First-Flight Performance
50% reduction in budget spent on underperformers
Testing Budget
3x more creative variations evaluated per campaign
Creative Velocity
78% correlation between predicted and actual performance
Prediction Accuracy
From weeks to hours for creative optimization
Time to Optimize
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