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Performance marketing is where campaigns get accountable.
We bring audiences, creative, media, data and digital experiences together around measurable commercial outcomes, from generating leads and sales to increasing revenue, ROAS and customer value.
We don’t wait until the campaign ends to find out what worked. We test, learn and optimise while activity is live, using every interaction to make the next one perform better.
Most businesses need to show what their marketing investment returns, and how quickly.
Without a direct link between spend and results, budget decisions rest on assumptions, and money keeps going into activity that looks busy but doesn’t pay back.
Performance marketing ties investment to the commercial results it produces, so you can see what’s paying back and grow with confidence.
Performance starts by defining what we’re trying to change and how we’ll know when we’ve changed it.
We translate commercial objectives into campaign goals, audiences, conversion journeys and measurement frameworks, connecting activity with the actions and outcomes that create value.
Whether the measure is cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, qualified leads, revenue or customer value, the metric follows the objective.
Performance rarely comes from one channel or interaction.
We connect search, social, display, programmatic, content, landing experiences and CRM around the customer journey, using each channel for the job it’s best placed to do.
Working alongside our Planning and Paid Media teams means investment, creative and conversion can be optimised together rather than in isolation.
Targeting gets a campaign started, and performance data makes it smarter.
We test audiences, segments, behaviours, interests and intent signals against real campaign response, identifying where demand exists and which audiences create the greatest commercial value.
Those insights continually inform targeting, creative and investment as the campaign develops.
Creative is one of the biggest variables in campaign performance.
We test propositions, messages, formats, imagery, calls to action and executions head-to-head to understand what generates the strongest response.
Winning creative gets backed and underperforming creative gets challenged, while new variants are developed and tested during the campaign.
The learning continues after a campaign ends. Performance across our client portfolio helps us develop best-practice benchmarks that inform what we create next.
For Cerba Research, head-to-head creative testing increased lead qualification to 47%, compared with 23% historically.
For Contracts Advance, integrated organic, paid, email and search activity generated 82 deals worth more than £200,000.
Media can generate the response, but the experience has to convert it.
We analyse every step between the ad and the action, testing propositions, messaging, page structures, forms and calls to action to identify and remove unnecessary friction.
Working with our Web teams means campaign and conversion performance can be improved as one connected experience, so fewer opportunities are lost.
Performance media buying allows budget to move with the evidence.
Working across paid search, paid social, programmatic, display and other measurable media, we continually assess audience, creative, placement, bidding and conversion performance to identify where investment is generating the greatest return.
Our independence means there are no predetermined channel commitments. Budget goes where the opportunity and evidence tell us it should.
We define measurement around what matters to the business, connecting campaign activity with website behaviour, leads, transactions, CRM data and customer value wherever possible.
Our reporting dashboards bring channel and commercial performance together, giving teams a clearer view of what’s working, where value is being created and where investment should move next.
We report on cost per acquisition (CPA), return on ad spend (ROAS), revenue, qualified leads and customer value.
Performance campaigns create huge volumes of data. AI helps us make sense of it faster.
We combine platform intelligence with our own reporting, data and AI agents to monitor performance, identify patterns and surface opportunities across audiences, creative, media and conversion.
That intelligence helps our teams make faster decisions about what to stop, what to change and where to invest more.
We report campaign results, then build on them.
By analysing performance across campaigns and our wider client portfolio, we’re developing best-practice benchmarks around audiences, channels, creative, messaging and conversion.
That growing evidence base feeds back into Planning, Creative and Activation, helping us make better decisions before the next campaign begins.
We start with your commercial objectives and establish the measures that show whether marketing is contributing to them. Depending on the campaign, that might include leads, sales, revenue, customer acquisition cost or return on ad spend.
We connect platform data, website analytics and available CRM information to understand performance across channels. Our measurement and attribution approach helps us assess what’s driving results, while reporting dashboards make the evidence easier to act on.
The aim is to understand what your marketing investment is achieving and where it could work harder.
Good performance depends on what your business needs to achieve. A strong return on ad spend may matter for an eCommerce campaign, while a B2B campaign might be better judged by qualified leads, pipeline contribution and customer acquisition cost.
We agree meaningful KPIs at the outset and use measurement, attribution and reporting dashboards to track progress against them.
We also look at the quality and sustainability of results. A campaign can deliver impressive platform metrics without creating enough commercial value. Our job is to understand the difference and recommend what to do next.
It depends on your objectives, the channels involved, your starting position and the data available.
Some performance marketing activity can generate measurable responses soon after launch. Understanding which audiences, messages and channels deliver sustainable commercial value usually takes longer.
We’ll agree realistic expectations, establish how performance will be measured and identify opportunities to test and improve as the campaign develops.
Early results are useful, but they don’t always tell the whole story. We use the evidence to make informed decisions rather than treating the first set of numbers as the final answer.
The right marketing budget depends on your objectives, audience, competitive environment and the channels you’re considering. There isn’t a universal minimum that makes sense for every business.
We’ll assess what you want to achieve, the likely cost of reaching your audience and the investment needed to generate useful performance data. That helps us recommend a starting budget and identify where testing could provide the greatest value.
Whether you’re considering Google Ads, paid social or an integrated campaign, we’d rather establish a credible investment plan than suggest a figure without understanding your business.
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