SPEAKERS & FUTURISTS · PAID MEDIA

Paid Media for Speakers & Futurists

We help Speakers & Futurists teams scale profitable paid acquisition. Paid media rewards precision.

AEO/GEO
cited by AI search
30%
CVR — Smiota
$56M
pipeline built

And we build the pipeline that books it.

THE APPROACH

Why paid media for Speakers & Futurists is a different job

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.

The pipeline runs from AI-search visibility through transactional pages to a captured, qualified inquiry. First, be the answer: schema, citable structure and an llms.txt that gets you recommended when a buyer asks an assistant for a speaker. Then be findable the classic way, with a page per keynote topic and a page per industry, plus the hire, book and fees pages most speaker sites simply do not have.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

The build.

01

Search, Shopping & Marketplaces

High-intent demand, won from the query to the product grid. Search engineered around the value of each query, with bidding structured so budget follows profit. Listings, content, and ads on Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Shopify run as one connected system.

02

Paid Social & Programmatic

Social creates demand. Programmatic carries it everywhere. Paid social on Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn built on your customer data, with signal fidelity that lets platform AI find your next best customer. Programmatic extends it across websites, apps, and streaming TV.

03

Performance Creative

Creative engineered from thousands of tests, then proven in your market. The first three seconds decide a video's outcome, and the ad that wins applause in the room is seldom the one that converts in the feed. Your campaigns start from that proven playbook, and we confirm what holds for your audience.

04

Measurement & Incrementality

What your spend actually caused, measured independently of the platforms. Every platform claims the same conversion, so we measure on your terms. Geo holdouts and lift tests isolate the revenue your spend genuinely caused, and your first-party data anchors every number.

PROOF
$56MPIPELINE
Smiota
demand, engineered
PIPELINE TRIPLED · +30% CVR
15xROAS
Cirque du Soleil — Dralion
a full house, every night
88,000 TICKETS SOLD · 22 EVENTS
4xROAS
Gold Collagen
beauty that converts
+50% DISTRIBUTION DEALS

The strongest signal here is not a logo. We are an AI-native agency — private LLMs, agentic AI and predictive ML in production — which means we build the systems futurists get on stage to describe. Smiota is the lead-engineering proof: 30% CVR and $56M of pipeline from the same inquiry machinery.

TRUSTED BY 80+ COMPANIES
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HOW WE WORK

A plan, from day one.

01
Audit & Model

We audit the account, surface the wasted spend, and model what a customer is worth. Every dollar gets a plan to answer to.

02
Measurement First

Server-side tracking, offline conversions, and a clean incrementality baseline go live before launch. Success is defined before a single dollar spends.

03
Build & Launch

Accounts structured around profit, performance creative loaded, media in market fast. Early signal compounds.

04
Test & Scale

Every week we cut what loses and fund what wins. Lift tests confirm winners are genuinely incremental before they scale.

05
Report & Defend

Reporting in revenue, margin, and pipeline terms. Built so you can defend every dollar to your finance team.

WHAT YOU GET

Deliverables that ship.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes. Our published work includes Smiota at $56M PIPELINE. We run paid media inside a full-stack engagement built for Speakers, Futurists & Speaker Bureaus, so it is wired to the same measurement layer, CRM and first-party data the rest of your growth runs on — which is what makes the numbers defensible.

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