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Insurance202412 months

Meridian

Performance marketing that scaled spend 10× while improving ROAS.

Built attribution, creative testing, and AI-powered bid optimization across Meta, Google, and LinkedIn.

Marketing
  • 10×
    Spend scaled
  • 9.2×
    Sustained ROAS
  • +340%
    Revenue growth
  • -45%
    CAC reduction
The challenge

Where they were when we started.

Meridian was running a $15K/month paid program with a healthy 8× ROAS — and a board mandate to grow 10× without losing efficiency. Two previous agencies had tried and failed; spend would scale, ROAS would collapse. Their attribution was Google Analytics last-click, which lied about what was working.

Our approach

How we shipped it.

  1. 01

    Replaced last-click attribution with a multi-touch model fed by server-side tracking, validated against a 90-day holdout test.

  2. 02

    Built a structured creative-testing framework — 8 variants per concept per week, each tagged for retention, retargeting, or prospecting.

  3. 03

    Layered AI-powered bid optimization across Meta, Google, and LinkedIn that respected the new attribution signals rather than the platform-native ROAS.

  4. 04

    Ran systematic landing-page A/B tests on the top-of-funnel — typically the bottleneck once paid spend scales past $50K/month.

Outcomes

What changed for the business.

  • $15K → $150K/month spend with sustained 9.2× ROAS — actually higher than the starting baseline.
  • +340% revenue growth attributable to paid acquisition over the engagement.
  • 45% reduction in CAC, primarily from the creative-testing program weeding out underperformers earlier.
  • In-house team picked up the playbook on month 9 and now runs the program with us as advisor.
Scaling spend from $15K to $150K monthly while improving ROAS seemed impossible. Big Bold made it look routine — and the analytics they built means we actually understand why it's working.
Chris WilliamsHead of Growth, Meridian

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