SERVICES / PAID GROWTH

Paid media built for scale.

We run paid search, paid social, programmatic, and marketplace advertising as one system built to grow revenue. Every dollar is tied to what a customer is worth and tested against incrementality, ensuring your investment drives measurable business impact.

15x
AVG. ROAS LIFT
382x
BEST CAMPAIGN-LEVEL ROAS
$54M
AD SPEND MANAGED
OUR POINT OF VIEW

Paid media rewards precision. Accounts structured so the algorithms can learn. Conversion data that carries real margin. Creative tested at volume. All of it compounds.

(01)CAPABILITIES

What's included.

01

Search, Shopping & Marketplaces

High-intent demand, won from the query to the product grid.

We engineer search around the intrinsic value of each query, with match types and bidding structured so capital allocation strictly follows profit. Listings, content, and ads run as one connected system, winning the search results and product grids where purchase decisions happen.

02

Paid Social & Programmatic

Social creates demand. Programmatic carries it everywhere.

We plan paid social as a demand-creation engine: audience intelligence built on your customer data, modular creative personalized at scale, and signal fidelity that lets platform AI find your next best customer. Programmatic extends it across websites, apps, and streaming TV on vetted inventory.

03

Performance Creative

Creative engineered from thousands of tests, then proven in your market.

Volume at that scale teaches what no brief can capture: the first three seconds decide a video's outcome, and the creative that wins applause in the room is seldom the creative that converts in the feed. Your campaigns begin from that proven playbook, and we test and confirm what holds true for your specific audience.

04

Measurement & Incrementality

What your spend actually caused, measured independently of the platforms.

Every platform claims credit for the same conversion, so we measure incrementality on your terms. Geo holdouts and lift tests isolate the revenue your spend genuinely caused, and your first-party data anchors every number to reality, answering the question that governs the budget: where does the next dollar go?

(02)HOW WE WORK

The method.

01
Audit & Model

We start with a full account audit that surfaces wasted spend and untapped demand, then model the economics: what a customer is worth, what you can afford to pay, and where the profit actually sits. This becomes the plan every dollar has to answer to.

02
Measurement First

Before launch we agree on how success will be judged and stand up the tracking to prove it: server-side events, offline conversions fed into your CRM, and a clean baseline for incrementality testing. Success is defined before a single dollar is spent.

03
Build & Launch

We get media in market fast so learning starts early, structuring accounts around profit and loading the funnel with performance creative to test. Early signal compounds, so we compress setup without cutting corners on tracking.

04
Test & Scale

Every week we read the results, cut what loses, and put budget behind what wins. Lift tests confirm the winners are genuinely incremental before we scale them, and a fixed share of budget stays reserved for testing new channels and creative.

05
Report & Defend

You get reporting in business terms: revenue, contribution margin, pipeline, and incremental ROAS, presented in the language your leadership already speaks. It is built so you can defend every dollar to your finance team without translating first.

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(03)THE TEAM

The people behind the numbers.

Sam Siam
Sam Siam
Founder & CEO
PAID MEDIA · DATA SCIENCE · GROWTH SYSTEMS
Thomas Schembri
Thomas Schembri
Head of Strategy
GROWTH STRATEGY · MARTECH · ANALYTICS
Tiffany Ho
Tiffany Ho
Performance Marketing
MARKETING AUTOMATION · EMAIL · CRM
Daniel Choi
Daniel Choi
Art Director & Creative Strategist
BRAND IDENTITY · CAMPAIGNS · CREATIVE DIRECTION
Celine Gantioqui
Celine Gantioqui
Content & Social Lead
CONTENT STRATEGY · SOCIAL · SHORT-FORM VIDEO
(04)WHAT YOU GET

Deliverables that ship.

Wasted spend cut and budget shifted to the searches, audiences, and creative that actually convert.
A ROAS improvement of 25-100% on most accounts.
Incremental revenue you can prove with geo holdouts and lift tests.
A full-funnel program where search, social, programmatic, and marketplaces run as one connected engine.
A steady pipeline of tested performance creative that keeps fresh winners in market.
Reporting in revenue, margin, and pipeline terms you can defend to your finance team.
A FIT WHEN
  • You are spending real budget on ads but cannot tell which dollars drive growth and which are wasted.
  • Your channels are run in silos by separate specialists, and the funnel stalls in the handoffs between them.
  • You are ready to scale your brand and need paid acquisition that stays profitable as it grows, whether you sell to consumers or to businesses.
(05)FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes. We run as a fully transparent extension of your team, and we are comfortable owning everything or handling only the channels where you need more firepower. We sync to your CRM and your sales team so paid media optimizes to real pipeline and revenue, and we share our testing roadmap so your people learn from it. Many clients keep strategy in-house and use us for execution and measurement, and others do the reverse.

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