Post-mortems of 4,896 failed marketing campaigns. The data on platform bans, silent throttles & burn rates. Publishers of The Failure Report.onlinemarketintel.comJoined September 2026
@launch_llama We analyzed 4,896 failed marketing campaigns to find out why they die. 60% of them failed due to Platform Enforcement, not bad marketing. We built a data-driven post-mortem report from it.
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Finding 3: Silent Trust Degradation.
Account trust was absent or faked in 23 of the 38 recurring patterns (~1,270 cases).
Platforms quietly throttle delivery without formal bans. By the time conversion loss is visible, testing budgets are already burned. (6/7)
Most marketing post-mortems suffer from survivorship bias. Founders blame poor creative or weak copy when a campaign dies.
We analyzed 5,779 decisive campaigns.
The data shows 60.1% of failures had nothing to do with product demand.
What actually killed them: (1/7)
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Before spending budget on your next campaign, examine the raw post-mortem data.
We documented 5 real marketing runs across social, paid ads, and affiliate: 3 proven, 2 failed.
Read our free 14-page Case Brief: onlinemarketintel.com/reports/case-b…
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