Emie James: scaling the account the right way.
Role: Creative Director
Disciplines: Performance Creative · Paid Social · Efficiency
Deliverables: A 90-day creative overhaul that grew revenue while cutting ad spend
Metrics: Revenue $24K → $456.3K · ad spend $91.72K → $76.95K (down 16%) · holistic ROAS $0.26 → $5.93
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A brand needed a genuine efficiency turnaround: grow revenue meaningfully while actually reducing ad spend. Doing both at once is the hardest thing to pull off in performance, because the easy path to more revenue is more spend, and that was off the table.
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When ROAS is sitting near breakeven, the problem is almost never the budget, it's the creative. Fix what's actually converting and you can grow revenue and cut spend at the same time, because every dollar suddenly works harder. The efficiency was hiding in the creative, not the media plan.
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Diagnosed the account to find where spend was working and where it was leaking.
Overhauled the creative around what was actually converting, rebuilding the winners.
Cut spend where it wasn't earning its keep instead of pouring more budget on a weak account.
Held the higher efficiency across the full 90-day window so the gain was durable, not a blip.
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Revenue climbed from $24K to $456.3K while ad spend dropped 16% ($91.72K → $76.95K), taking holistic ROAS from $0.26 to $5.93. More revenue on less spend, the clearest proof that the creative, not the budget, was the lever.
“We're so thrilled with the progress. Katie and the creative team are on top of everything, and the last couple of meetings have been awesome.”