They tested it and dropped it — copy the angle, not the exact creative.
Ran for 19 days across 1 GEO but hasn't been seen in over a week.
Running in a single market (Germany) — a focused test, not a broad rollout yet.
- Seen 19/30 days
- 1 GEO
- Redirect chain checked
- LP host: ad.doubleclick.net
- Tracker: Google Ads (DoubleClick)
Reverse-engineered from the live ad — longevity, GEOs, and the affiliate funnel behind it. Verified by following the redirect chain on May 12. Free, no login.
Funnel, reverse-engineered
The campaign behind this creative
← the actual path the money takes.
Creative
Costa
Landing page
ad.doubleclick.net
where it lands
Product / Offer: not detected
Tracker
Google Ads (DoubleClick)
detected
Affiliate network: not detected
How we know: the tracker and affiliate network come from the live redirect chain we followed and fingerprinted hop by hop. Greyed nodes weren’t detected.
Cooling off
running 19d · last seen 34d ago · 1 market
No fresh sightings in over a week — momentum has dropped. Study it, don't chase it.
Gravity
51/100
push pressure now · 30d index
Strength
56/100
overall scale · 30d index
Run
19d
last seen 34d ago
Markets
1
countries seen
Landing page
ad.doubleclick.net
final host
Screenshot
—
not captured yet
Operator
—
unidentified
Network
Outbrain
traffic source
Meer, Sonne und bis zu € 300 Rabatt pro Kabine. Der Sommer beginnt im Mittelmeer.
Sea, Sun & Up to €300 Off Per Cabin — Summer Starts in the Mediterranean
Costa@costa
SUMMER SALES
Top 10% longevity in network
Days alive is a profitability proxy — advertisers don’t pay to run losers.
Seen in
Geo reach
Single-geo testa single marketPredominantly Tier 1, concentrated in Europe — Germany.
What the data shows
Costa's Outbrain creative has been running for 19 days across 1 country and first seen on April 22, 2026 and last seen on May 12, 2026. It has been observed in Germany. The ad lands on ad.doubleclick.net. On our 30-day observation series the creative has cooled noticeably in the last week. Costa is running 3 other creatives we have indexed, linked below for side-by-side comparison.
Creative headline: Meer, Sonne und bis zu € 300 Rabatt pro Kabine. Der Sommer beginnt im Mittelmeer.. Indexed on Outbrain by mediabuyer.
Landing-page intelligence
Landing page intelligence
Where this ad lands
The lander is the product — screenshot, redirect chain, offer, tech stack, and on-page text in one place.
Landing page not captured yet
Our crawler renders each advertiser’s funnel on a rolling schedule. Recently observed ads are queued first — check back to see the full-page screenshot.
Host
ad.doubleclick.net
Path
/ddm/trackclk/N8470.3068145OUTBRAINDE/B35665977.444358156;dc_trk_aid=637896843;dc_trk_cid=158630642;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=;gdpr=%24%7BGDPR%7D;gdpr_consent=%24%7BGDPR_CONSENT_755%7D;ltd=;dc_tdv=1
Full URL
Redirect chain
Chain not captured yet.
Final host: ad.doubleclick.net. Hop-by-hop capture runs as a separate pipeline; ads observed in recent ingests get crawled first.
Tracking parameters
- https://www.costakreuzfahrten.de/angebote/summer-sales.html?w_stdc
- DE^PERFORMANCE_DISPLAYNATIVE_CONVERSIONI^prospecting^OUTBRAIN^Main-Promo|T|Summer-Sales^n/a^GENERIC^Native-in-image^MED^vvka50218951233c03cd7f59692bf6aa4ef
- obOrigUrl
- true
+ 1 known tracker hidden (cloaker IDs scrubbed at ingest).
Tracking setup · Outbrain
Outbrain emits ob_click_id (your unique click), ob_source (publisher), ob_section (placement), and ob_position. Forward ob_click_id to your tracker as the postback key. ob_source and ob_section are the two highest-signal sub-IDs for blacklisting.
?ob_click_id={ob_click_id}&ob_source={ob_source}&ob_section={ob_section}&ob_position={ob_position}Default Outbrain setup template: ?ob_click_id={ob_click_id}&ob_source={ob_source}&ob_section={ob_section}&ob_position={ob_position}
Tech stack
No third-party monetization stack detected — this appears to be a direct landing page.
Landing page hubs
Landing page text
On-page text not extracted yet.
Observed daily (last 30 days)
Apr 25 → May 24·peaks Apr 30
30-day run pattern
FadingActivity has collapsed in the last week — the buyer is winding this creative down or rotating to a new variant.
- Coverage
- 27% of 30d
- Peak surge
- 1.5× vs median
- Last 7d
- 0
- WoW
- -100%
Peak day:
Window: Apr 25 → May 24
Sibling creatives from this campaign
Other creatives in Other on Outbrain
The rest of the set they’re running — see what else this angle is paired with.
Tested headline variants3
Tested headline variants
Costa's own A/B test — which headline they kept
The advertiser’s own A/B result, handed over: ranked by days running, the survivor on top. Variants they stopped running are struck through — they tested and killed those angles.
- #1Meer, Sonne und bis zu € 300 Rabatt pro Kabine. Der Sommer beginnt in NordeuropaKilled19d13 content tokens
- #2Erleben Sie La Bella Vita. Erhalten Sie bis zu € 300 Rabatt pro Kabine.Killed0d13 content tokens
Persistent across variants: biszu300rabattprokabine
More from Costa3
More from Costa
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