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Case studies

Four brands.
341 million views.

Full economics on every campaign below: spend, CPM, CAC, payback period and revenue. Published with our clients’ permission, including the numbers that don’t flatter us.

341M Views engineered
12,400 Videos shipped
$0.43 Blended CPM
$6.6M Net-new ARR
Case 01 · Fintech · Prediction markets
$61,400 Peak MRR · from $0 in 31 days

The hardest vertical, and a Domain Rating of 1.

Finance audiences are trained to distrust. Platforms police financial claims. PolyPick had no SEO, no brand and no ad history. The unlock was counter-intuitive: creators who opened by showing the tool losing converted at 4.1× campaign average.

38.4M views 1,240 videos $0.61 CPM $14.88 CAC 12-day payback
Case 02 · B2B SaaS · Content & SEO
$1.93M Net-new ARR · 4,720 paid accounts

Everyone said UGC doesn’t work for B2B.

It doesn’t, when you hire actors. We hired 31 working SEO practitioners and agency owners instead. They got 33% fewer views than generalist creators and converted 6.9× better, at a CPM 42× cheaper than LinkedIn.

71.2M views 2,860 videos $0.88 CPM $13.27 CAC 217 G2 reviews generated
Case 03 · Consumer AI · B2C subscription
148.6M Views · at a $0.29 CPM

We stopped selling AI and started selling the invoice.

In a category where every competitor makes the same true claim, the win came from reframing. “You’re paying $110 a month for five AI subscriptions” beat “all your AI in one place” by 3.4× on signups, same creators, same budget.

350K accounts 4,180 videos $0.29 CPM $5.86 CAC 5-day payback
Case 04 · Creative tools · B2C
$0.21 CPM · lowest in the portfolio

A $9 product where paid ads were impossible.

At $9 a month, a $38 blended paid CAC gives a 1.04:1 LTV ratio. You pay $38 for $39 and call it growth. So we removed the presenter entirely. Language-free “silent demos” travelled across every market and drove CPM to 21 cents.

82.9M views 4,120 videos $0.21 CPM $4.32 CAC 9.2:1 LTV:CAC

Side by side

All four campaigns, unedited.

Read across rather than down. Notice how widely CPM and CAC vary between them. That spread is category-driven, and it is why we quote a range rather than a promise.

Campaign comparison
Spend figures are creator payouts and production only
Campaign Vertical Creators Videos Views Spend CPM CAC Payback Net-new ARR
PolyPickFintech 141,24038.4M $23,424$0.61$14.88 12 days$736,800
WritecreamB2B SaaS 312,86071.2M $62,656$0.88$13.27 12 days$1,925,760
AI4ChatConsumer AI 624,180148.6M $43,094$0.29$5.86 5 days$3,528,960
AirbrushCreative tools 474,12082.9M $17,409$0.21$4.32 15 days$435,456
Portfolio total 15412,400341.1M $146,583$0.43$8.29 9 days$6,626,976
Creator counts are per-campaign activations, not unique creators, the same creator appears in more than one campaign, which is why the column totals 154 rather than matching the 1,100-creator network. Net-new ARR is attributed subscription revenue annualised at the campaign-exit run-rate.

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