Paid Social Principles

Social platforms sell attention by the second. These are the rules for turning it into customers at a price you can defend.

  1. Creative is the targeting

    On modern platforms the ad finds the audience. Volume and variety of creative matter more than audience settings.

  2. Refresh before fatigue, not after

    Watch frequency and cost per result by creative. Rotate on a schedule, not when performance has already fallen.

  3. Send the platform real conversions

    Conversion API and server-side events give the algorithm something true to optimize toward.

  4. Exclude the people you already have

    Customers, recent converters and open leads come out of prospecting audiences, every campaign.

  5. Judge on blended acquisition cost

    Platform-reported results overclaim. Use holdouts and blended cost per customer to decide budget.

  6. Match the landing page to the scroll

    The page must deliver what the ad promised in the first screen, on a phone.

What we deliver for Paid social

The concrete work behind these principles, on the Services page.

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