of invoiced revenue for every £1 spent on Google Ads, across the group's two brands, since late 2019. It started in a single rented room.
Results The ledger, opened
Numbers, or it didn't happen.
Every figure below is pulled from the Google Ads account it belongs to. Clients are anonymised out of respect for their competitive position. Each card states the window it covers, and nothing outside that window is being claimed. The detail behind any of it comes out on a call.
01 The cards
Real accounts, real numbers.
A selection, not a roll call. Fewer cards than most agencies show you, because these are the ones we can put a source against. Scroll the ledger.
reported conversions, because almost all of them were page views. 13,155 at £1.58 became 1,426 at £17.28, and every one is now a real signup.
return once the offline balances are counted: £656,000 of bookings from £29,000 of spend, across two brands.
return on ad spend across one selling season: £214,000 of revenue from £13,600, and the accommodation sold out.
return on ad spend held across seven years: £591,200 of tracked revenue from £55,249 of spend.
contactable enquiries: 614 completed forms and 277 calls placed straight from the ads, on £58,210 of spend.
to acquire a subscriber worth a modelled £309, which is what allowed the account to scale from £7k to £26k a month.
completed enquiry forms from £146,546 of spend, across two brands, in one of the most expensive auctions in UK search.
per enquiry across 1,775 of them: 1,321 completed forms and 454 calls placed straight from the ads.
per trade enquiry across 389 of them, on an account that counts exactly one thing as a conversion.
of 48 tracked search terms at position one, up from 11 when tracking began. 45 of the 48 are in the top ten.
organic growth: 163 sessions a month to 2,199, with total traffic up from 368 to 5,992.
per enquiry across 291 of them, on an average budget of around £230 a month. Small budgets can still work properly.
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02 The deep dives
Every case study, in full.
Thirteen accounts chosen from more than a hundred worked with since 2021, each with its numbers, its method and its caveats on one page. Plenty of good accounts are missing from this list because their tracking will not support a number we would be willing to print.
Why anonymised?
Their numbers are their advantage.
Publishing a client's cost per booking is publishing their playbook to every competitor bidding against them. So the ledger here is anonymised, and the receipts come out on the call: the accounts themselves, screen-shared, with the figures above sitting where they came from. Ask, and you get shown the real thing.
Your numbers could read like this.
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