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In digital marketing campaigns, "Ad creative" refers to the actual content and design of advertisements, including visuals, copy, and calls-to-action, while "pacing" controls the rate at which the ad budget is spent over a campaign's duration. The relationship between these two lies in how pacing influences the deployment and performance optimization of ad creatives. Specifically, pacing strategies determine how quickly or slowly an ad creative is exposed to the target audience, which affects data collection speed and the ability to evaluate creative effectiveness. For example, if pacing is too aggressive, an ad creative might exhaust its budget before sufficient performance data is gathered, leading to premature conclusions about its effectiveness. Conversely, slower pacing allows marketers to collect more reliable performance signals on the creative, enabling iterative improvements or timely creative rotations. Additionally, pacing adjustments can be used to strategically increase exposure of high-performing creatives or reduce spend on underperforming ones, directly linking creative management with budget flow control. Thus, pacing acts as a lever to optimize the deployment and testing lifecycle of ad creatives, ensuring that creative assets are delivered at a rate that maximizes learning and ROI throughout the campaign lifecycle.