Performance Advertising
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Performance Advertising

Make traffic predictable and profitable: strategy, campaign structure, product feeds, dynamic creatives, S2S conversions*, end-to-end analytics and betting management rules. ROAS*, CPA* and profit growth.

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Why Businesses Need a Performance Approach

We're building a system where every ad and every bet is money-related: tracked correctly, attributed, fed, test plan, budget orchestration and allerta. No leaks: channels are measurable, comparable and manageable.

Business effects

  • -18-35% to CPA* Due to the pure structure and S2S conversions.
  • +12-40% of paid traffic revenue thanks to feeds and dynamic creatives.
  • Transparency: ROI/ROAS through channels/campaigns/products/segments.
Each ruble of the budget has a goal, limits, rules and stop thresholds, all parameters and formulas are recorded in the documentation.
<10 days to a clean structure and tracking
95%+ matching offline revenue and reports
24/7 ROAS/CPA/Creative Delivery
SearchProduct AdsSocial RetargetFeed EngineA/B

Channels and formats

Search and context

  • Structure: exact/phrasal queries, negative words, SKAG/SKC logic.
  • Extensions, geo/time, device and audience adjustments.
  • Test plans for creatives: headline / body / CTA / quick links.

Commodity and catalog ads

  • Product feeds: categories, prices, availability, attributes of quality and margin.
  • Rules: cutting off zero margin, priority of new products / hits, seasonality.
  • Dynamic templates of creatives and promotional prices according to the rules.

Retargeting and remarketing

  • Behavior segments: viewing, adding, abandoned basket, value sensitive.
  • Exclusion audiences: buy/return/low margin.
  • Cross-sales and additional sales according to the rules of joint purchases.

Social media and messengers

  • Performance formats: tapes, storis, carousels, catalogs, lead-forms.
  • Hierarchy of budgets: campaigns → groups → creativity, frequency limits.
  • Creative system: Offers, Proofs, CTA, UGC and short video.

Marketplaces and aggregators

  • SKU, Residues and Marginality Betting; Anti-Cannibalization with Site.
  • Logic of promotion: coupons, shares, subscriptions; control of the share of promo-revenues.
  • Alerts on write-offs, logistics, fines and closing cards.

Brand Safety and Antifraud

  • Site lists, filters, frequency, stop words and exclusive audiences.
  • Click/shown anomalies, tracking discrepancies, click-through protection.
  • Whitelists and blacklists with auto-update.

Tools and architecture

The stack closes data collection, betting management, feeding, experimentation and reporting.

Tracking and attribution

  • UTM standards, click-ID, S2S*-sending conversions and the anti-double flag.
  • End-to-end analytics: leads/orders/revenue/margin by source and creative.
  • Models: last non-direct, data-driven, post-click/view, windows 1/7/30.

Feed engine

  • Generation and transformation of feeds (CSV/TSV/XML/JSON) on schedule.
  • Business rules: hide out-of-stock, filter by margin, promotional prices, tags.
  • Feed validator and error log; preview and A/B feed variants.

Bead management and pacing

  • Target rate rules CPA*/ROAS* and the probability of conversion.
  • Day and month-to-month pacing, redistribution of budgets between groups.
  • Guardrails: Stop by margin/frequency/CR, anti-overdelivery.

Experiments

  • A/B tests of creativity and pages: goals, power, stratification.
  • Geo/cluster tests for prices/offers/betting strategies.
  • Post-test: incrementality, segment effects, and impact on LTV.

Dashboards and alerts

  • Channels→campaigns→groups→creatives: CPA/ROAS, CR, frequency, reach, revenue.
  • Alerts: CR drop, CPA rise, delivery stop, 4xx/5xx on landing pages.
  • Weekly Insights and Work Plan: What to Scale/Slice/Test

Integration

  • CRM/ERP for transaction statuses, payments, returns and margins.
  • Catalogues / warehouses: balances, prices, shares, personal price lists.
  • Export audiences: retarget, similar, exceptions.

Typical stack

Web/App Analytics S2S Conversions Feed Engine Bid Rules & Pacing A/B & Geo Tests Dashboards & Alerts

How do we work?

(1) Audit and objectives

Check tracking, structure, feeds, landing; agree KPI: CPA/ROAS/margin, coverage and frequency.

(2) Strategy and structure

Media plan, segment map, campaign hierarchy, negative words, budget and betting rules.

3) Launch and tracking

Deploy S2S conversions, events, feeds and creatives; validate delivery and cost matching.

(4) Optimization

Weekly tests of creatives / offers, cleaning of requests / sites, redistribution of budgets.

(5) Scaling

Expanding keywords/audiences, look-alike, new formats and geo, automating rules.

What do you get?

Artifacts

  • Media plan with KPI and budgets on channels / stages of the funnel.
  • Campaign maps: structure, negative words, segments, frequencies, UTM standards.
  • Library of creatives / offers, matrix of tests for 8-12 weeks.

Infrastructure

  • S2S conversions and events, product/service feeds, feed validator.
  • Dashboards CPA/ROAS/CR/revenue/margin, allerts and reports.
  • Bidding and pacing rules, quality checklists.

Growth and support

  • Weekly recommendations: what to scale, what to disable, what to test.
  • Optimization of feeds and creatives for seasonality and margin.
  • Preparation for sales: promo matrix, thresholds and guardrails.

Examples of KPI

  • E-commerce: CPA/ROAS, AOV, share of promotional revenue, returns.
  • SaaS: CAC, signup→activation, PQL→SQL, LTV/CAC.
  • B2B: CPL/CPA, lead→meeting→deal, project margin.
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Cases

E-commerce: feeds and dynamics

Ввели фид-правила по марже/остаткам, динамические ценники и промо-теги. Итог: ROAS +27%, CPA −19%, доля «минусовой» маржи <1%.

SaaS: S2S and Structure

Reassembled campaigns on intent queries and segments, S2S conversions to SQL. CAC -22%, signup→activation +9 p.p.

B2B: Lead Quality and Remarketing

Eliminated "junk" sites / requests, set up remarketing in stages. CPL -31%, lead→meeting +18 p.p.

Checklists and quality control

Before launch

  • UTM standard and click-ID; end-to-end analytics events and objectives verified.
  • Fid valid: prices/residues/categories/GTIN/SKU/images.
  • Campaign structure: minus words, geo, schedule, frequencies, exceptions.

Optimization

  • Clean search queries and sites 2-3 times a week.
  • Weekly tests of creatives / offers (≥ 2 variants per group).
  • Redistribution of ROAS/CPA budgets and coverage.

Safety and risk

  • Cut-offs by margin/frequency, exclusion of purchasers/low value.
  • Antifrode: click/showing anomalies, bot filters, captchas.
  • Landings monitoring: 4xx/5xx, speed CWV* and availability.

Thresholds and alerts

  • CPA > цели 20%+ — пауза/понижение ставок/исключения.
  • ROAS < порога 3 дня — сдвиг бюджета в топ-группы.
  • CR drop -15% WoW - check tracking/landing/creatives.
Signal.ThresholdAction.
Rising spa> целевого на 20%Reducing rates, cleaning requests / sites, changing the offer / creatives
ROAS has slipped< порога 3 дняLow-margin SKU pause, budget redistribution
Feed's refusalerrors/empty fieldsRecoil on backup feed, notification, fixing rules
Falling CR-15 percent to the medianVerification of releases/speed, include session recordings, alternative landing test

FAQ

When will the first results be?

Basic cleaning of the structure and tracking – in the first 7-10 days; then – weekly improvements on the test plan and redistribution of budgets.

What if there's not enough conversions?

We rely on proxy metrics (micro-CR, additions/views), cluster tests, expand semantics and audiences, improve landing.

How do we account for margins?

We transfer the margin/order status to reports and feed rules, disable the negative SKU, change priorities and rates by category.

Do you need CDP/Cross-to-Close Analytics?

At the start, a correct S2S and basic data marts are enough; then we connect end-to-end analytics and segments to increase efficiency.

Decoding of terms

  • ROASReturn on Ad Spend – Return on Ad Spend costs.
  • CPACost per Action: Cost per Action (Lead/Buy)
  • S2S conversionsTransferring server-to-server conversions without browser loss.
  • Core Web VitalsLCP/INP/CLS: Speed/reactivity/stability of the interface.
  • SKAG/SKC: One Key, One Group/Campaign structures for pure relevance.
  • PacingEquitable budget allocation and control of the rate of expenditure.
  • Guardrails: security metrics (CR/margin/frequency) that limit risk.
  • IncrementalityMeasure the “pure” effect of campaigns vs. control.

Are you ready to turn advertising into predictable revenue?

We audit, we put together a strategy and structure, we clean up the tracking and feeds, we run tests and betting rules, and in a couple of weeks you'll see a decline in CPA and a rise in ROAS.

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