Performance Marketing

Paid media measured in revenue, not impressions.

SearchXMedia is a performance marketing agency for D2C, ecommerce and real estate brands. We run Meta Ads, Google Ads and marketplace advertising against contribution margin — rebuilding measurement before spending, then scaling only what the numbers prove is profitable.

Meta Ads Google Ads Marketplace Ads Performance Max
4.1x
Median ROAS
₹47Cr+
Spend managed
1 Lac+
Leads generated
-37%
Avg. CAC drop
SearchXMedia performance marketing team reviewing live campaign results
4.1xBlended ROAS
Trusted by growing brands
D2C BeautyHome & LivingResidential DeveloperMarketplace SellerLuxury Real EstateWellness D2C D2C BeautyHome & LivingResidential DeveloperMarketplace SellerLuxury Real EstateWellness D2C
Free growth audit

We'll open your account and tell you what's actually wrong.

Send us access and we'll review structure, tracking, creative and margin. You get a written read on what to fix first — no cost, no pitch deck, no obligation.

  • Reviewed by a senior strategistNot an automated report generated from a tool.
  • Delivered in writingYours to act on, with us or with your current team.

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Proven results

Real campaigns. Real numbers. Real growth.

Three accounts, three different targets. The constraint we found, what we changed, and what it moved.

Marketplace-dependent to owned demand

Challenge
91% of revenue on one marketplace, take rate rising every quarter. Growth looked healthy; margin didn't.
Strategy
Rebuilt tracking first, then restructured Meta and Google around margin — moving budget to owned channels as they proved cheaper.
Impact
Direct overtook marketplace in nine months.
4.1x
Blended ROAS
68%
Revenue direct
-37%
Blended CAC
D2C skincare brand campaign performance review

Project launch against a fixed sales deadline

Challenge
Hard inventory deadline. Overnight enquiries reached sales next morning — buyers had moved on.
Strategy
Meta for volume, Google for locality intent, CRM routing to cut response time under twenty minutes.
Impact
Optimised to cost per site visit, not cost per lead.
9,400
Qualified enquiries
-52%
Cost per site visit
20 min
Response time
Real estate project launch campaign war room

Category share on Amazon without buying it twice

Challenge
Marketplace and own-store media bidding on the same terms, inflating cost on both.
Strategy
Split the two by intent stage, rebuilt the product feed, moved Sponsored Products to share-of-category.
Impact
Feed quality drove most of the gain, not the channel.
6.2x
Marketplace ROAS
+38%
Revenue
-24%
Blended CAC
Ecommerce marketplace advertising performance review

Want to see what your account looks like under this lens?

We'll run the same diagnosis on your ad accounts and send it in writing.

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Performance marketing solutions

Three channels. One margin target.

We run the channels that move revenue for D2C, ecommerce and real estate — and say no to the ones that don't.

Meta Ads creative testing session

Meta Ads

The demand engine. Creates want where none existed — the volume driver for D2C launches and site-visit calendars.

What's inside
  • Full-funnel structure with prospecting and retargeting separated
  • Creative testing calendar with a tagged asset library
  • Conversions API and server-side tracking, deduplicated
  • Lead form and landing page experimentation
Best for: D2C · Ecommerce · Real Estate
Scope Meta Ads
Google Ads search campaign management

Google Ads

The intent engine. Captures buyers already looking — lower volume, higher intent, usually your cheapest closed sale.

What's inside
  • Search, Shopping and Performance Max managed by intent stage
  • Query mining, negative sculpting and Quality Score work
  • Enhanced Conversions and offline conversion import from CRM
  • Remarketing sequenced by what the visitor actually viewed
Best for: Ecommerce · Real Estate · D2C
Scope Google Ads
Marketplace advertising and product feed optimisation

Marketplace Advertising

The share engine. Amazon and Flipkart media managed for category position, with feed quality doing the heavy lifting.

What's inside
  • Sponsored Products, Brands and Display across Amazon and Flipkart
  • Product feed and listing content optimisation
  • Share-of-category strategy beyond existing bestsellers
  • Marketplace and owned-channel budgets separated by intent
Best for: D2C · Ecommerce
Scope Marketplace Ads

Not sure which channel your budget belongs in?

That's the first thing the audit answers — and often the answer is "not the one you're spending on".

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The SearchX Growth System™

Six stages, run in order.

Nothing skips ahead. Media doesn't launch until measurement is verified, and nothing scales until the data says it's profitable.

01

Research

Account audit, competitor teardown and margin modelling to establish what a profitable CAC actually is.

02

Strategy

Channel mix, budget allocation and offer positioning, with a target attached to every workstream.

03

Campaign setup

Full-funnel account structure built, server-side tracking implemented and tested end to end.

04

Launch

Campaigns go live at conservative learning-phase budgets with a tagged creative slate.

05

Weekly optimisation

Creative rotation, budget reallocation and audience refinement, reviewed on a weekly growth call.

06

Scale

Budget increases only where contribution margin holds — never on ROAS alone.

Weekly growth calls

You'll never wonder what we did last week.

Every client gets a weekly growth call with the senior strategist running their account. Thirty to forty-five minutes, the same agenda every week, and a written action plan afterwards. It's the difference between an agency you have to chase and one you can plan around.

Most agencies report monthly, which means a losing creative can burn four weeks of budget before anyone discusses it. A week is short enough to correct course and long enough to have real data.

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Every Monday A SearchXMedia strategist running a weekly growth call with a client
01

Performance review against target

Numbers against target, with no rounding in our favour.

02

Winning creatives

What worked, why, and how we scale it.

03

Losing creatives

What we're switching off, and what it tells us.

04

Budget allocation

Where money moves next week, and why.

05

Audience insights

Which segments convert, which have fatigued.

06

Funnel discussion

Where visitors drop after the click.

07

Action plan

A written plan, with owners on both sides.

Why brands trust SearchXMedia

Traditional agency vs SearchXMedia.

Not a difference of effort — a difference in how the engagement is structured.

 
Traditional agency
SearchXMedia
Success metric
Platform-reported ROAS
Contribution margin after all costs
Who runs the account
Handed to a junior after onboarding
The senior strategist who scoped it
Account ownership
Often held by the agency
Registered in your name, always
Contract
12-month lock-in
3-month term, then month to month
When a channel fails
Kept running, reported optimistically
We tell you to switch it off
Client reviews

What partners say after year one.

★★★★★
They rebuilt our tracking before touching a single campaign. I pushed back at the time — I wanted campaigns live. It was the right call.
Rhea MalhotraHead of Growth · D2C beauty brand
★★★★★
We'd worked with three agencies before. This is the first one that told us to switch off a channel that wasn't paying for itself.
Arjun KapadiaDirector · Residential developer
★★★★★
The weekly call is the part I'd miss most. We stopped finding out about problems a month late.
Sneha NairFounder · Ecommerce brand
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Frequently asked

Performance marketing questions, answered directly.

Including the ones where the honest answer costs us the sale.

Performance marketing is paid advertising bought against a measurable business outcome rather than exposure. Instead of paying for impressions, you pay to acquire a customer, a lead or an order, and every rupee is traced back to what it produced. At SearchXMedia the outcome we optimise to is contribution margin, not platform-reported ROAS.

Management fees are charged as a fixed monthly retainer, separate from your media budget. Most engagements begin at a monthly ad spend of ₹3–5 lakh, below which tracking and offer work matters more than media management. We quote a fixed fee after scoping rather than a percentage of spend that rises automatically as you scale.

A good ROAS depends entirely on your gross margin. A brand with 70 percent margins can be profitable at 2x blended ROAS, while a brand at 30 percent margins may lose money at 3x. The number that matters is contribution margin after media, shipping, returns and payment costs.

Meta generally wins for creating demand and filling the top of a project funnel, because property is a visual, interest-driven purchase. Google captures buyers already searching by locality, project name or configuration, producing higher-intent but lower-volume enquiries. Most launches we run use both, with Meta driving volume and Google capturing intent.

Expect a directional read within four to six weeks and a reliable read by week eight to twelve. The first two weeks go to tracking verification and account structure, weeks three to six produce the first statistically usable creative and audience data, and scaling decisions follow from there.

We see the clearest results from a monthly media budget of ₹3–5 lakh upward. Below that, tests take too long to reach significance and the highest-leverage work is usually tracking, offer and landing page improvement rather than media management.

Always. Every ad account, pixel, dataset and dashboard stays registered in your name and you retain full administrative access during the engagement and after it ends. We work inside your assets, never behind them.

Every week you get a performance review against target, an analysis of which creatives won and which lost, a budget allocation decision, audience and funnel insights, and a written action plan for the following week. It runs 30 to 45 minutes with the senior strategist who manages your account.

Server-side tracking sends conversion data from your server to ad platforms rather than relying only on the browser, which is increasingly blocked by privacy settings and ad blockers. It recovers conversion signal that browser-only tracking loses, improving both reporting accuracy and the platform's ability to optimise delivery.

Yes. Marketplace advertising is one of our three core solutions, covering Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, product feed and listing optimisation, and share-of-category strategy across Amazon and Flipkart.

We audit first and recommend whichever is cheaper for you. Where account structure is sound we optimise in place; where structure is fundamentally wrong, rebuilding costs less than fighting it. We tell you which before you commit.

No, and we would be cautious of any agency that does. Outcomes depend on pricing, margin, competition, creative and platform changes outside any agency's control. We commit to a process guarantee instead: no media spend launches until tracking is verified end to end.

A senior strategist who joins your pitch and stays on the account. We cap the number of accounts each strategist carries, which limits how fast we grow and is the main reason performance holds up past the first quarter.

Performance marketing buys demand and delivers volume immediately, stopping the moment you stop paying. SEO earns demand and compounds over six to twelve months but starts slowly. Most clients run both, using paid media for near-term revenue while search builds the cheaper long-term channel.

Yes. Creative volume is the bottleneck on most accounts, not budget. We produce static and video variations against a tagged testing calendar so there is always fresh creative entering the auction before fatigue sets in.

A live Looker Studio dashboard in your own account that you can read at any time, a weekly growth call, and a monthly review measured against contribution margin rather than platform-reported return.

No. Engagements begin with a three-month initial term so there is enough runway to read signal properly, then continue month to month. We re-earn the relationship each quarter against targets agreed together.

In most cases reported ROAS fell further than actual performance did, because browser-based tracking lost the ability to attribute a large share of conversions. Server-side tracking recovers much of that signal, which is why we rebuild measurement before judging whether a channel is genuinely underperforming.

Yes, but the target changes. For a project launch the metric is cost per qualified site visit rather than cost per lead, because cheap enquiries consume sales capacity without producing bookings. We optimise toward the enquiries that convert to visits and eventually to sales.

Request a free growth audit. We review your ad accounts, tracking setup and margin picture, then send a written read on what is working, what is not, and what we would change first — whether or not you go on to work with us.