Pott Candles · Kova · 24 Sept 2026

Your new ad sets: what goes live, and what we need from you

Following Tuesday's call: Evergreen becomes one campaign with three ad sets (Tomato, Seasonal, Everything else), each with a guaranteed minimum spend, plus a small testing campaign. Below is every ad we'd run in each one, including your new content from 23 Sept, what we'd pause, and where the gaps are. Figures are Meta, last 14 days to 23 Sept. CPA = cost per purchase.
What we need from you
  1. Budget. We recommend £1,820 a day from launch (up £500), so the three new ad sets learn together rather than twice. If you'd rather hold at £1,320 for the first week, just say.
  2. Review the new copy. After your feedback we rewrote it to sound more like you: plainer, warmer and more British, following the edits you made to the Tomato, autumn and Cook copy. Two things are on the review page: the headline under each carousel card, and fresh copy for the three new Rust & Amber ads. Each goes live as soon as it's approved, even if that's later than everything else.
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  3. Where did six of the new quotes come from? 79, 80, both "Tomato - Scent" images, "Lifestyle - Image" and the Fig card. We couldn't match them to your Yotpo reviews (our export runs to 6 Sept). If they're newer reviews or Instagram comments, that's fine, we just need to know they're real. They wait until you confirm.
Keep its current copyCopy already approvedCopy needs your reviewWaiting on a quote source
What we needStructureShort versionTomatoSeasonalEverything elseTestingVariety by ad setWhy not every quote cardHeld backPause listWhat we'd like next

How it's structured

One Evergreen campaign with one daily budget, split into three product ad sets. Each ad set has a guaranteed minimum, so every product always gets enough spend to show what it can do. Meta moves the rest to whatever is working that day. New ideas are tested separately and the winners move in.

Evergreen campaign
£1,820 a day (recommended)
One budget. Meta decides where the flexible money goes.
Tomato
8 ads
Minimum £364 a day
Tomato Vine
Seasonal
11 ads
Minimum £364 a day
Rust & Amber, Fig, Tonka, autumn range
Everything else
6 ads
Minimum £364 a day
Orangery, Sea Salt, the rest of the range
60% guaranteed, split evenly40% goes wherever it's working
Testing campaign · £50 a day
Quote cards test (5 ads). Each new idea gets its own small test for a week, and the winners move into the product ad set they belong to.
Unchanged and separate: Cook Candles (£200 a day), Retention (£60 a day).

The minimums, and how they change

WhenBudgetMin. eachGuaranteedMax. one set
First 2 weeks£1,820£364 (20%)60%60%
After 2 weeks£1,820£30049%67%
As we scale£3,000£450 (15%)45%70%
£4,500£675 (15%)45%70%
£6,000£900 (15%)45%70%

The short version

59 → 30
live ads now, and at launch (3 product ad sets + 1 test)
28%
of Evergreen's last 7 days went to one ad (855) at 1.06x
13 + 5
new ads into the product ad sets, plus 5 quote cards into a test
7
ads waiting only on your copy review (4 carousels, 3 Rust & Amber)

Tomato 8 ads

A fresh Tomato ad set with the same settings as your current main one (that one has hit Meta's 50-ad limit, so it switches off at launch with all its history kept). No Tomato ad runs on summer copy: 483 and 489 come back as new ads with your approved season-neutral copy (same images), and the Flora video pauses until its re-edit arrives. Six new ads go in, including video 26.

NEW COPYCopy approved
Ad 483 · maker caption on the squashed-tomato Pott
14d £407 · 1.37x · CPA £34
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
Artisan madeText-box cardThe maker says it
The image has no summer in it, but 3 of its 4 primary texts do ("the scent of the summer"). Rebuild it as a new ad with the season-neutral copy, then pause the original.
NEW COPYCopy approved
Ad 489 · Limited Edition three-wick
14d £477 · 2.22x · CPA £40
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
Artisan madeTitle-overlay staticCarries its own detail
The best Tomato image. 3 of its 4 primary texts are summer ("every June"). Same rebuild: new ad, neutral copy.
NEWCopy approved
"The smell is insanely gorgeous!"
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
The best-written quote card. The quote matches a real Yotpo review word for word.
NEWCopy approved
"The smell of this candle is otherworldly"
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
The scentReview cardReviews / rating
Designed review card. Matches a real Yotpo review. A different look from the text-box cards.
NEWCopy to review
Tomato collection carousel (3 cards)
Main text already approved. Card headlines need your review on the review page
Seasonal dropCarouselAsserted only
The first Tomato carousel. Card 3 sells the Starter Pack (all sizes in stock today).
NEWCopy approved
Video 22 · Starter Pack unboxing + VO (14s)
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
RefillableProduct video + VOCarries its own detail
"Unmistakable greenhouse smell". Sells the Starter Pack (all sizes in stock today).
NEWCopy approved
Video 23 · "The most satisfying sound. Plonk!" (4s)
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
RitualShort loop (3-7s)Shown working
The refill dropping in, as a sound. New for Pott: nothing else sells the moment itself.
NEWCopy approved
Video 26 · "The last candle you'll ever need to buy" (29s)
Your approved Tomato copy (22 Sept)
ValueProduct video + VOShown working
Tomato Pott and tomatoes on screen. The first ad in the account to make the VALUE claim: "Buy your pot once, refill it forever." Different from video 22: 22 sells the scent, 26 sells never buying a whole candle again.
Too much

Quote cards. Eight Tomato text-box cards were made, and two go in (77 and the designed review card). Meta puts almost all the money on one quote card in an ad set, so the other six would sit there unread. Four go into the quote test, the rest are held.

Easy fill (no shoot)

Nothing needed. Video 26 now makes the value case inside Tomato, which was the gap. Video 22 and video 26 are both Starter Pack unboxings, but they make different points (the scent vs never buying a whole candle again).

Needs making

The Flora re-edit, with the summer lines re-voiced. With 815 paused, Tomato has no person on camera at all, and that was the best Tomato video we have had. Then a Tomato customer talking to camera, plus one Tomato gift piece for the 1 Nov gifting campaign.

Seasonal 11 ads

New ad set: Rust & Amber plus Fig, Tonka and the autumn range. Six current ads move in (including 875, the one test ad that earned it), and five new ones go in, including the "What is a refillable candle?" carousel.

KEEPKeep copy
Ad 865 · "New Autumn Candles"
14d £458 · 2.74x · CPA £24
Keep its current copy
Seasonal dropTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
CPA £24, 2.74x. The best seasonal ad.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 852 · "Autumn Scents, available now"
14d £83 · 4.16x · CPA £14
Keep its current copy
Seasonal dropTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
4.16x on £83.
FROM TESTINGKeep copy
Ad 875 · "NEW Autumn Candles, Limited Edition"
14d £440 · 1.53x · CPA £44
Keep its current copy
Seasonal dropTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
Moves in from Testing: CPA £44 on £440, the only Rust & Amber static that earned it.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 837 · Fig, "Rich fig. Dark woods."
14d £695 · 1.32x · CPA £53
Keep its current copy
Seasonal dropTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
CPA £53, 1.59x over 30 days. The only Fig ad left.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 882 · Amber refill demo
14d £485 · 1.36x · CPA £48
Keep its current copy
How it worksHow-to / demoShown working
CPA £49. The only live ad that shows a refill going in.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 885 · "PSA this is the best Autumn candle"
14d £88 · 2.01x · CPA £29
Keep its current copy
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
2.01x on £88. The Seasonal ad set's one customer text-box card.
NEWCopy to review
Video 16 · founder opens the Amber sample (41s)
New copy (rewritten in your voice) needs your review on the review page
The scentPerson to cameraThe maker says it
Six months to perfect, ginger as the twist, refill shown going in. The strongest new asset. The "60 hours" matches the Standard refill.
NEWCopy to review
Video 15 · maker unboxes the Rust Pott (19s)
New copy (rewritten in your voice) needs your review on the review page
Worth keepingUnboxingThe maker says it
"You can keep this candle pot forever". The Seasonal ad set's only worth-keeping ad.
NEWCopy to review
"We just took this candle pot out of the kiln"
New copy (rewritten in your voice) needs your review on the review page
Artisan madeText-box cardThe maker says it
Replaces 862 as the Seasonal ad set's handmade ad.
NEWCopy to review
Rust collection carousel (3 cards)
Main text already approved. Card headlines need your review on the review page
Seasonal dropCarouselAsserted only
Same shape as the Tomato carousel.
NEWCopy to review
"What is a refillable candle?" carousel (6)
Main text already approved. Card headlines need your review on the review page
RefillableCarouselCarries its own detail
The cover is the Rust Pott, so it goes in Seasonal. Card 5 opens on "less waste": lead with "costs less over time" instead. Card 3 has a lowercase "give".
Too much

Title-overlay statics ("NEW Autumn Candles, Limited Edition"). More than a dozen were made in September, 4 stay and 3 new ones are held. Also the 3-second cosy loops: five were made, and the two that ran got nothing.

Easy fill (no shoot)

None needed for launch. Video 16 (founder) covers the scent, the maker and the refill in one.

Needs making

Amber customer proof. Our review export (to 6 Sept) has no Rust or Amber reviews yet, so pull the first real ones from Yotpo now and turn two into cards. Also a Rust & Amber gift piece for November.

Everything else 6 ads

New ad set: Orangery, Sea Salt and the rest of the range. Four proven ads plus the two refill how-tos (the carousel and video 27), which show a plain core Pott with no scent.

KEEPKeep copy
Ad 420 · Flora UGC, "Same Pott"
14d £591 · 2.06x · CPA £24
Keep its current copy
SubscriptionPerson to cameraA customer says it
CPA £24, 2.06x. The best CPA in the account.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 779 · Orangery, "ripe & fresh oranges"
14d £799 · 1.56x · CPA £50
Keep its current copy
The scentProduct video + VOAgainst the alternative
CPA £50, 2.04x over 30 days.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 869 Hook 2 · Sea Salt UGC
14d £630 · 1.82x · CPA £48
Keep its current copy
Worth keepingPerson to cameraA customer says it
CPA £48, 1.82x. Beat Hooks 3 and 4, which get paused.
KEEPKeep copy
Ad 821 · Sea Salt, written in the sand
14d £138 · 2.73x · CPA £34
Keep its current copy
Worth keepingTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
2.73x on £138.
NEWCopy to review
"How to refill your candle" carousel (5)
Main text already approved. Card headlines need your review on the review page
How it worksCarouselShown working
A sage core Pott among herbs, with no scent named, so it goes in Everything else. Card 3 is the hot-water trick, which answers the most common complaint in low-star reviews.
NEWCopy approved
Video 27 · "You do not need to buy a new candle every time" (7s)
Your approved autumn copy (10 Sept)
How it worksHow-to / demoShown working
A plain grey core Pott with no scent shown. Hot-water clean-out, then the refill goes in: the carousel's card 3 as a 7-second video.
Too much

Nothing. This ad set is thin, not crowded.

Easy fill (no shoot)

An Orangery quote card from a real review. There are 36 Orangery reviews on Yotpo, so it only takes a photo and a verbatim quote.

Needs making

Anything handmade or made by the maker for these products. Nothing in this ad set says it (the Tomato and Seasonal ones do). A short maker clip for Orangery or Sea Salt is enough.

Testing 1 concept ad set, 5 ads

All 22 current Testing ads pause (875 moves into Seasonal first, keeping its likes and comments). From now on each new idea gets its own small test ad set at about £50 a day for a week, and the winners move into the product ad sets. The refill pieces skip testing and go straight in, so the only test at launch is the quote cards.

Customer quote cards → the winning quote goes to its product ad set

The quote card is a proven format (the 707 family), so this test finds the best quote, not whether the format works. That matches your point on 9 Sept about testing variations evenly. Run only the quotes whose source is confirmed.

NEWCopy approved
"Divine even unlit"
Approved Tomato copy
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
Verified Yotpo quote.
NEWWaiting on you
"I love how I can just buy refills"
Approved Tomato copy. Waiting on where the quote came from
RefillableText-box cardA customer says it
The only quote card that argues the refill rather than the smell. Source to confirm: see What we need from you.
NEWWaiting on you
"Making the whole hall smell amazing"
Approved Tomato copy. Waiting on where the quote came from
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
Source to confirm: see What we need from you.
NEWWaiting on you
"Smells exactly like a tomato vine"
Approved Tomato copy. Waiting on where the quote came from
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
Source to confirm: see What we need from you.
NEWWaiting on you
Fig: "Obsessed with this candle"
Approved autumn copy (10 Sept). Waiting on where the quote came from
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
Brings Fig into the test. Source to confirm: see What we need from you.

Diversity by ad set

The same checklist as the content-diversity report, cut by ad set and counted on the launch roster. Counts are ads, because none of the new ones have spend yet.

What each ad set says (claim)

The brand-messaging claims. A dot means that ad set never makes the claim. Shaded means 40%+ of the ad set makes it.

TomatoSeasonalEverything elseTesting
Refillable11·1
Value1···
Worth keeping·12·
Artisan made21··
Ritual1···
The scent2214
Seasonal drop15··
Subscription··1·
How it works·12·
A job it does····
Gifting····
Ads81165

What it looks like (form)

The white text-box quote cards get their own row, so you can see where they stack up.

TomatoSeasonalEverything elseTesting
Text-box card22·5
Review card1···
Title-overlay static141·
Carousel121·
Person to camera·12·
Unboxing·1··
Product video + VO2·1·
How-to / demo·11·
Short loop (3-7s)1···
Lifestyle scene····
Ads81165

Why she should believe it (proof)

Read "Asserted only" first: those ads make a claim with nothing behind it.

TomatoSeasonalEverything elseTesting
A customer says it1125
Reviews / rating1···
The maker says it13··
Shown working212·
Carries its own detail21··
Against the alternative··1·
Press····
Asserted only151·
Ads81165

Why we don't run every quote card at once

When several quote cards share an ad set, Meta picks one within a day or two and puts almost all the money behind it. The rest sit there barely seen. This is what happened every time Pott has done it in the last 90 days (17 June to 15 Sept):

88%
of the spend went to one card in each ad set
47 of 65
quote cards got under £50 in three months
£29
average spend on each of the other 58 cards, less than one sale's worth
1.77x
what those other cards returned, against 1.89x for the leaders: not bad ads, just unseen
Evergreen main ad set4 quote cards · £8,582
Ad 707 took 97%
1 of 4 got under £50
Sea Salt6 quote cards · £741
Ad 70 took 90%
4 of 6 got under £50
Citronella May4 quote cards · £527
Ad 725 took 86%
2 of 4 got under £50
Subscription (existing customers)10 quote cards · £664
Ad 578 took 74%
8 of 10 got under £50
Cook test (July)10 quote cards · £1,525
Ad 685 took 71%
6 of 10 got under £50
Citronella test (July)18 quote cards · £1,082
Ad 725 took 69%
16 of 18 got under £50
Tomato test (July)13 quote cards · £753
Ad 709 took 53%
10 of 13 got under £50
the one card Meta pickedevery other quote card in the same ad set
So why not run them all anyway?

Held back 11 files

Not bad work. Each is a duplicate of something going live, or a spare for when a live ad tires.

HOLD
"NEW Autumn candles have arrived"
Seasonal dropTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
Same idea as 865/852/875, which already carry Seasonal. Swap in when one of them tires.
HOLD
"New Autumn scents, Limited Edition"
Seasonal dropTitle-overlay staticAsserted only
As above.
HOLD
Video 18 · "Autumn candles have arrived" (6s)
Seasonal dropShort loop (3-7s)Asserted only
A title-overlay static that moves.
HOLD
Videos 17 / 19 / 20 · 3-second cosy loops
Seasonal dropShort loop (3-7s)Asserted only
Three near-identical loops. The live ones that look like this (883, 884) got £91 and no purchases. Use them as Story fillers.
HOLD
Video 21 · lighting the Rust Pott (19s)
Seasonal dropLifestyle sceneAsserted only
A lifestyle scene with no words, which says nothing a static doesn't.
HOLD
Review card: "divine even unlit"
The scentReview cardReviews / rating
The same quote as image 76, which goes in the quote test.
HOLD
Maker: "SO happy with how these have come out"
Artisan madeText-box cardThe maker says it
Same idea as 483. It's the replacement when 483 tires. Typo: "Isle of Wigh".
HOLD
Video 24 · "Refilling my Pott with my all time favourite"
RitualShort loop (3-7s)A customer says it
Same moment as video 23. Hold as the second version.
HOLD
Video 25 · "One of the most delicious smelling candles"
The scentShort loop (3-7s)Reviews / rating
A review card that moves. Source not found.
HOLD
"Smells exactly like a tomato vine and is really strong"
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
The 6th Tomato quote card. Source not found.
HOLD
"I love tomatoes so when I saw this"
The scentText-box cardA customer says it
The 7th. Typos "dissapoint", "exacty". Source not found.

Pause list 26 Evergreen + all 22 Testing

Evergreen ads to pause on launch day, after their replacements are live. Together they spent £5,306 of Evergreen's last 14 days.

Ad14d spendPurch.ROASWhy
Ad 855£2,405311.06xTook 28% of Evergreen's last 7 days (£2,405) at 1.06x, CPA £78. It did 2.68x in Testing and fell apart when moved over
Ad 551£1,266251.16x0.68x over the last 7 days on £953. Summer in the voiceover and all the copy
Ad 815£8532.92xSame Flora video as 551: summer in the voiceover, all 6 primaries and 2 headlines. Comes back as the Flora re-edit
Ad 858£26841.22xCPA £67
Ad 869 H4£516101.37xLost to Hook 2 (1.37x vs 1.82x)
Ad 889£10230.71x0.71x
Ad 874£8421.44xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 883£6500.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 834£5800.00x0.45x over 30 days. 882 is the refill demo that works
Ad 890£4912.69xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 844£4900.00x1.23x over 30 days, none in the last 14
Ad 879£3800.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 866£3500.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 877£3500.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 869 H3£3200.00xLost to Hook 2
Ad 366£3100.00xMeta stopped spending on it. Video 26 makes the Starter Pack case
Ad 835£3022.55xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 880£2200.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 836£2200.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 862£2200.00xUnread. The Rust Pott kiln card replaces it
Ad 846£2100.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 840£1900.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 863£1700.00xUnread. Video 15 makes the keep-it-forever case
Ad 845£1300.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 838£1312.40xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays
Ad 872£900.00xUnread after 10+ days (under £100). Same idea as an ad that stays

What we'd like next

Already checked

Kova · Built from live Meta data (pulled 23 Sept 2026), the Yotpo review export (2,405 reviews to 6 Sept), Gemini scene logs for all 13 videos, and a visual pass over every image. Claim, form and proof tags follow your brand messaging document and the same checklist as the content-diversity report. Tags on new assets are hand-assigned from the creative.