Working example — Paid Media Management & Reconciliation
The platforms report their own scoreboard. This is the real one.
A DTC eyewear brand's 24 months of paid media, reconciled against actual Shopify revenue rather than platform-reported conversions — the gap between the two numbers changes the entire read on whether media is working.
12.35x
True MER against Shopify revenue — well above the platform-reported figure
8.03x
ROAS as reported by the ad platforms themselves
~33%
of online revenue never claimed by any campaign at all