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    Advertising
    10 min read

    Creative Performance Prediction Before Launch

    For creative teams producing 1000+ ad variations monthly. Predict creative performance before spend. 35% improvement in first-flight performance.

    Who It's For

    Creative agencies, brand marketing teams, and performance marketers producing high volumes of ad creative who need to prioritize which variations to test

    Problem Solved

    Brands waste 40-60% of ad spend testing underperforming creatives. Without prediction, every variation requires live testing budget to evaluate

    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

    1

    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 data
    await 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']
    }
    });
    2

    Analyze New Creatives

    Score new creatives against performance model

    // Predict performance for new creatives
    async 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
    };
    }
    3

    Prioritize Testing Queue

    Rank creatives by predicted performance

    // Batch score creative variations
    async 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 }));
    }
    4

    Learn from Results

    Continuously improve predictions with live data

    // Update model with live performance data
    async 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 needed
    await client.models.retrain({
    collection_id: 'creative-performance',
    trigger: 'performance_update'
    });
    }

    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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