Paid Advertising / PPC

Google · Meta · TikTok · LinkedIn · Montreal & Los Angeles

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Paid Advertising That Lowers Your CAC, Not Just Your Bank Balance

Google, Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn campaigns built on real tracking, relentless creative testing, and one rule: every dollar has to explain itself.

Ad account audit

> scanning conversion tracking... 3 leaks found.
Optimizing toward clicks, not sales. Same 3 ads live 8 months. 41% of spend on non-buying queries.

> estimated recoverable budget: 20-40%

300-513%

Campaign growth range

$500k

Ad spend managed

30%

Avg CAC cut in 90 days

700

Brands served

What is paid advertising management?

Paid advertising (PPC) management is the professional planning, building, and optimization of ad campaigns on Google Ads, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn. Popnest Media manages the full stack - strategy, conversion tracking, campaign builds, ad creative, landing pages, and reporting - with the goal of lowering customer acquisition cost.

The problem

Most ad accounts are leaking money right now. Probably yours.

We audit ad accounts every week. The same leaks, over and over.

Broken or missing conversion tracking

The account optimizes toward clicks instead of sales. The algorithm is flying blind, and so are you.

Set-and-forget campaigns

The same three ads for eight months while creative fatigue quietly doubles cost per lead.

Budget sprayed just in case

Paying for clicks from people who will never buy.

Ads pointing at a slow homepage

You paid for the click; a generic page threw it away.

Reports full of impressions and CTR

Hiding the only question that matters: what did a customer cost, and what were they worth?

Why it matters in 2026

The paid game changed. Creative and data won.

Automation ate the levers

Shift 01

Smart bidding killed the old bid-tweaking playbook. What is left to control: data quality, creative, and offer. That is where we live.

Creative IS the targeting

Shift 02

On Meta and TikTok the algorithm finds your buyer if the creative resonates. Testing volume is the edge - most agencies test 3-4 ads a month.

Privacy squeezed measurement

Shift 03

Server-side tracking and offline conversion imports are the difference between real ROAS and fiction.

Zero-click search raised paid value

Shift 04

With 43% of searches ending without an organic click, the paid slots capture more of the remaining intent.

What's included

Full-stack paid media, one team

Account & Tracking Audit

Service 01

Before we spend a dollar we fix measurement: analytics config, conversion tracking, server-side tagging, call tracking, offline conversion imports.

Google Ads Management

Service 02

Search, Performance Max, Shopping, Display, Demand Gen, YouTube, Local Services. Tight keyword and negative discipline, structured by intent.

Meta Ads

Service 03

Full-funnel builds: prospecting, retargeting, retention. Creative-led, because on Meta the creative is the targeting.

TikTok & LinkedIn Ads

Service 04

TikTok for consumer demand with native creative. LinkedIn for B2B pipeline with job-title precision. Platforms chosen by your economics.

Creative at Testing Volume

Service 05

An in-house creative engine producing hooks, angles, formats and UGC-style video at a volume traditional agencies cannot touch.

Landing Pages & CRO

Service 06

Ads are half the equation. Our web team builds fast, message-matched pages with one clear action. Same roof, no handoff gap.

Reporting That Matters

Service 07

Cost per lead, cost per acquisition, ROAS, revenue. Live dashboard plus a monthly strategy call.

Process

How ad spend becomes a growth engine

Step 01

Audit & economics. Account audit, tracking fixed, and the math defined: target CAC, breakeven ROAS, lead value. No launch until the scoreboard works.

Step 02

Strategy & structure. Platform mix, budget split, funnel architecture, offer strategy. You see projections before launch.

Step 03

Build & launch. Campaigns, audiences, creative batch one, landing pages, live. Bottom-funnel first, so results show early.

Step 04

Test & optimize. Weekly creative rotation, budget management, query pruning, landing page iterations. Losers die fast; winners get fed.

Step 05

Scale. CAC proven, spend scales deliberately: new audiences, platforms, geographies, without breaking the economics.

Your first 5 months, mapped

What actually happens after you sign

Days 1-14

Audit, tracking rebuild, strategy, creative batch one

Audit findings + launch plan with projections

Month 1

Launch, daily monitoring, first optimization passes

Live campaigns, first leads, clean data flowing

Months 2-3

Creative testing at volume, audience pruning, landing page iterations

Cost per lead trending down, clear winners emerging

Months 4-5

Scale winners, expand channels if the economics allow

Stabilized CAC, scaling plan, honest verdict on every channel

After month 5

Compounding: proven creative library, clean data history

An acquisition machine you can budget around

20-40%

Typical waste found on the first audit pass

Wondering where your budget is leaking? The free audit shows you in 48 hours.

Compared honestly

What you get, honestly compared

Popnest Media

✓

Conversion tracking rebuilt first - always step one

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In-house creative at testing volume

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Landing pages built + optimized

✓

Weekly waste control - negatives, pruning

✓

Account ownership: yours, always

✓

Reporting on CAC, ROAS, revenue

Typical PPC agency

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Tracking rebuild - sometimes

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Creative - often client provides

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Landing pages - usually a separate vendor

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Waste control - monthly, maybe

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Account ownership - sometimes held hostage

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Reporting on impressions + CTR

Industries

Built for businesses that need demand now

Local services - contractors, clinics, law firms

Restaurants & hospitality

E-commerce & DTC

B2B & SaaS

Real estate

Health & wellness

Franchises & multi-location

Montreal

Toronto

Los Angeles

Austin

+ Worldwide

Interactive

See what your account is probably leaking

Move the sliders. This is the same arithmetic we run on every free audit.

Most accounts we audit come in at 20–40% waste: spend going to non-buying queries, fatigued creative, or conversions the platform never sees.

Recoverable every month

$1,500

Customers today42
Customers after clean-up60
New cost per acquisition$84

Launch

Local business · single platform

One platform (Google or Meta), tracking done right, core creative, monthly optimization and reporting.

Growth

Most chosen · multi-platform

Everything in Launch, plus 2-3 platforms, creative testing at volume, landing pages, weekly optimization, revenue-tied reporting.

Scale

Aggressive multi-channel

Everything in Growth, plus full channel mix, advanced attribution, dedicated creative sprints, weekly strategy.

Questions

Paid advertising, answered straight

Enough to buy statistically meaningful data: most local businesses need $1,000–$3,000/month in media; e-commerce and competitive verticals $3,000–$10,000+.

Cost depends on how many platforms you run, how many campaigns and locations you need, and how much creative we produce. Your media budget is paid directly to the platforms and never marked up. We scope every retainer after a free audit.

Data within days, real traction within two weeks, with a 30–60 day optimization window before performance stabilizes.

Google captures existing demand, best for services and high intent. Meta and TikTok create demand, best for visual products, food and impulse.

Depends on your margins. 4× is great at 50% margin and a slow death at 20%. We work backwards from your unit economics.

We do, in-house: video ads, UGC-style content, statics, copy, at testing volume. Have assets? We use them. Have nothing? We build from zero.

Ready when you are

Find out what your ad account is really doing

Free audit, zero obligation. We will show you where budget is leaking, your true cost per acquisition, and what we would change in the first 30 days.