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      Paid Social

      Get there before the comparison .

      By the time your buyer opens a comparison site, the sale is a price war you fund and the middleman referees. Paid social is the channel that gets you there weeks earlier, planting the want, building the trust, so when the moment comes, they come to you.

      We run it as the engine’s throttle: demand created on schedule, sequenced for buyers who decide slowly, and measured to what a customer cost, not what a platform claimed.

       

       

       

       

      Paid Social Agency

      The one auction the aggregator can't win.

      On search, you bid against comparison sites with venture money and your own brand name in their headlines. In the feed, they’ve got nothing: no product story, no faces, no reason to be watched. Their entire model is catching buyers at the end. Paid social is the channel built for reaching them at the beginning.

      Most brands waste that advantage, running bottom-funnel offers to cold audiences and wondering why CAC climbs. The platforms reward the opposite: creative worth watching, shown to the right buyer, weeks before they’re ready.

      We reverse-engineer the CAC that works from your margin and LTV, then build the demand programme that hits it. Cold angles that plant the want, proof that builds the case, retargeting that closes it, each doing one job in a sequence, none pretending one ad wins a considered sale.

      How we do it

      Every platform plays a different position. None of them gets the same ad.

      Meta

      TikTok

      Facebook

      LinkedIn

      Instagram

      X

      Pinterest

      Snap

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      Meta

      TikTok

      Facebook

      LinkedIn

      Instagram

      X

      Pinterest

      Snap

      YouTube Shorts

      Our method

      Sequenced for buyers who take weeks, not clicks.

      A considered purchase doesn’t convert off one impression, so we don’t plan in single ads. We plan in sequences: what someone sees first, what follows once they’ve watched, what answers the objection they haven’t voiced yet. Six touches over six weeks, each one earning the next.

      The targeting runs on your first-party signal, real customers seeding the lookalikes, real sales feeding the algorithm through CAPI, so the machine hunts buyers, not clickers. And every campaign doubles as research: paid social is the fastest honest read of what your market responds to, and what it learns reprices every other channel you run.

      This is also where your content earns distribution. The decision content, the creator work, the founder pieces, paid social is how they reach ten thousand of the right people instead of your followers. Demand isn’t a boost button. It’s built.

      FAQs

      Frequently asked questions

      We tried Meta. The CAC was horrible.

      Almost always one of three things, and usually all three: bottom-funnel offers shown to people who’d never heard of you, creative that looked like advertising, and last-click measurement that gave the feed no credit for the sales it started. Run cold demand work and judge it on next-day ROAS and it will always look broken. Measured on what it actually does, it’s usually the cheapest demand you can create.

      Our product is restricted, we can't even advertise it directly.

      This is where the angle matters more than the ad account. When the product can’t be named, the condition, the outcome and the decision still can: consultation-first funnels, education-led creative, claims frameworks agreed with compliance before anything ships. We build paid social inside regulated categories where the naive playbook gets accounts banned. Restriction kills lazy advertising. It rewards ours.

      Which platforms should we actually be on?

      Wherever your buyer’s attention lives in the weeks before they decide, which is a research question, not a preference. Meta is usually the spine, the deepest targeting and the best testing engine. TikTok finds demand younger and cheaper, LinkedIn earns B2B trust at B2B prices, Pinterest catches planners early. We’d rather run two platforms properly than five as a checkbox.

      How does this work with the aggregators we still depend on?

      Quietly in parallel. Paid social builds the direct pipeline while the aggregator keeps delivering its volume, different audiences, different moments, no conflict. Over time the mix shifts: every customer won in the feed is one you didn’t pay commission on, and one whose data feeds the next campaign. The aggregator doesn’t need to know it’s being weaned.

      How fast does paid social pay back?

      Retargeting and warm audiences pay back in weeks, they always do, and they’re the smaller prize. The demand work compounds: audiences that know you, saved posts, branded search climbing, CAC drifting down as the market warms. We set leading indicators so you can see it building long before the revenue line moves, and we’ll tell you honestly which spend is harvesting and which is planting.

      What share of your paid social budget creates demand, rather than harvests it?

      If it’s under half, you’re funding the auction, not escaping it.

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