SEM · Paid media

Paid search, measured in margin, not clicks.

Most accounts are tuned for traffic. We engineer them for profit, every keyword, bid and audience tied back to the pipeline it produces.

4.8×
average return on ad spend across accounts
41%
cost per acquisition after restructure
$0
wasted spend on junk search terms
The profit-first method

Clicks are a cost. We optimise for the return.

Spend with intent

Tight match types, negative lists and intent mapping so budget only chases queries that convert.

Optimise to ROAS

Bidding to revenue and margin signals, not last-click volume, feeding the platforms the right goal.

Engineer pipeline

Offline-conversion imports tie ad spend to closed-won, so the account learns what actually sells.

Every surface that converts

One profit goal, every channel.

Google Ads

Search & Shopping

High-intent capture with profit-weighted bidding and a clean, query-mapped account structure.

Performance Max

Controlled PMax

Feeds, asset groups and exclusions kept on a leash, the upside without the black box.

Meta

Demand & retargeting

Creative-led prospecting and tight retargeting that compounds the demand search captures.

LinkedIn

B2B precision

Account- and role-targeted campaigns for considered, high-value pipelines.

Reporting that proves it

Spend to revenue, drawn live.

A custom paid-media report for every account, spend, ROAS and pipeline updating in real time, not a slide rebuilt each Monday.

Live dashboardsCustom-builtExec-ready PDFs
Paid media report
SpendROASCPAPipeline
Return on ad spend
0%
▲ 5.4× ROAS
Refreshed monthly, not a slide anyone rebuilds by hand.
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Monthly performance
Proof

Same budget. 5.4× the return.

Loudmouth was buying clicks and hoping. We restructured the account around margin, fed the platforms offline conversions, and turned the same monthly spend into a predictable, profitable pipeline.

Start with an audit →
5.4×
Return on ad spend
38%
Cost per acquisition
Answer

What is SEM?

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is paid advertising on search and its partner networks, putting your business in front of people the moment they look for what you sell. Done well it isn't a click auction; it's a profit engine measured in return on ad spend and pipeline.

The questions clients actually ask

Before you hand over the budget.

We’re already spending and have no idea what’s working. Where does this start?
With a teardown of the account you have, not a pitch for a new one. We map every live campaign to what it actually produced, spend, conversions, and where the money quietly leaked into broad match, brand cannibalisation and junk placements. You’ll see the waste before you sign anything.
Our last agency reported great ROAS and sales were flat. How is yours different?
Because platform ROAS counts conversions the account is happy to take credit for, including people who’d have bought anyway. We import your offline and closed-won data so the number we report is revenue you wouldn’t have had otherwise. It’s usually lower than the dashboard, and it’s the one your CFO will actually trust.
Google keeps pushing us into Performance Max and “AI” auto-everything. Do we just hand over control?
No. PMax can work, but on a leash, with asset-group structure, brand exclusions, account-level negatives and a search-terms view we fight to keep visible. Left on full auto it spends your budget on cheap brand and Search Partner clicks that flatter the report. We take the upside and close the black box.
How much budget do we actually need before this is worth it?
Enough for the algorithms to learn, roughly 15–30 conversions a month per campaign type before automated bidding stops guessing. Below that we’ll tell you to consolidate, fix tracking, or hold spend rather than burn it proving a point. We’d rather scope you out than take a retainer we can’t make pay.
If we build this up with you, are we hostage to the agency forever?
No. The account, conversion setup, audiences and naming conventions are yours and stay in your Google and Meta logins, we just operate them. We document the structure and the logic behind it, and if you ever in-house it, your team inherits a clean account, not a haunted one.
Where does the line sit between paid and SEO, aren’t we paying for clicks we could earn free?
Partly, and that’s fine when speed matters. Paid buys visibility today and tells you exactly which queries convert; we feed that intelligence into SEO and AEO so you stop renting the terms you can own. The goal is for your paid bill to shrink on the keywords organic takes over, not to defend the spend forever.
Free ad-spend teardown

See where your budget leaks.

Send us your account and your target. We’ll map where spend is wasted, what’s actually converting, and where the profit is hiding.

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