Performance media buying

Most ad budgets don't fail loudly. They leak.

Wild Harbor Co. finds the leaks, seals them, and puts the money back to work. We plan, buy and manage paid media on Meta, Google, YouTube and TikTok for brands that judge advertising the only sensible way: by what it sells.

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Where the money goes

Nobody wastes ad money on purpose. It slips away in small amounts that never appear on a report:

A laptop showing an ad dashboard where spend is falling in red

Each leak is small. Together they decide whether your advertising is an investment or an expense.

  1. A campaign that looks profitable because two platforms are claiming the same sale.
  2. An ad that worked brilliantly in spring and has been quietly tiring ever since.
  3. A budget spread across eleven audiences when three of them are doing all the work.
  4. A landing page that loses visitors before they reach the second sentence.
  5. Tracking that broke during a website update and told nobody.
Fishing boats moored in a calm harbor below a lighthouse at dusk

Why we're called Wild Harbor

Advertising platforms are open water. Costs rise without warning, algorithms change overnight, and the ad that carried your business last quarter can stop working on a Tuesday afternoon.

A harbor is where a boat comes home, safe, with its catch. That is the job we signed up for: take your budget out into rough water and bring it back with more than it left with.

We are media buyers, creative strategists and analysts. We have spent our careers inside ad accounts, and we've learned that the brands that win are rarely the ones with the biggest budgets. They are the ones that waste the least.

What we do

YouTube

A good video ad earns the first five seconds, holds the next thirty, and tells the viewer exactly what to do next. We plan, script and test YouTube campaigns built to do all three.

A phone on a tripod filming a product beside a monitor of video ad variations

Creative strategy

On today's platforms, the ad itself does most of the targeting. So we treat creative as the main lever: new angles every month, hooks tested against your best performers, and a running record of what your customers respond to.

A laptop showing campaign charts on a desk by a harbor window at night

Tracking and measurement

Every decision we make is only as good as the numbers behind it. We set up and audit pixels, conversion APIs and analytics, then check them against your real sales, so we steer by facts rather than by what a dashboard would like you to believe.

Landing pages

Paying for a click and then losing the visitor is the most expensive leak of all. We review and test the pages your ads point to, from the headline down to the checkout button.

How we work

  1. A notebook with a customer journey sketch beside a laptop on a strategy call

    We listen before we touch anything.

    We learn your business first: your margins, your customers, and what a sale is really worth to you. No campaign changes until we understand what it is meant to achieve.

  2. A monitor showing an ad account audit with flagged campaigns

    We audit.

    We go through your accounts, tracking and pages line by line, and show you in plain language where the money is going and where it is leaking.

  3. Two phones showing two versions of the same ad side by side

    We launch and test.

    We rebuild what needs rebuilding and start a structured round of tests. Every test has a question, a budget and a point at which we call it.

  4. A tablet showing a growth chart climbing step by step

    We scale with care.

    When something works, we feed it step by step, watching the cost of every new customer as we go. Growth that collapses next month isn't growth.

What you can expect from us

You'll always know what we're doing and why.

Our reports are short, written in plain English, and lead with the result, good or bad.

You'll work with the people doing the work.

The buyers in your first meeting are the buyers running your account.

You'll own everything.

Ad accounts, pixels, data and creative stay in your name.

You'll hear bad news early.

If a campaign is struggling, you'll hear it from us before you see it on a statement.

Three media buyers reviewing campaign charts at a table by a harbor window

Who we work with

We do our best work with e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands, course and coaching businesses, and service companies that sell online. They share one trait: a product that already sells, and the ambition to sell a great deal more of it.

If that sounds like you, the size of your budget matters less than you might think. What matters is that every dollar of it is working.

Questions we're often asked

Which platforms do you buy on?

Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest and Microsoft Ads. We recommend the ones that suit your product and customers, not all of them at once.

Do you make the ads too?

Yes. We write the strategy, hooks, scripts and copy, and work with designers and video editors to produce finished ads. If you have an in-house team, we'll brief them instead.

How soon will we see a difference?

Fixing leaks often shows up within weeks, because you stop paying for things that weren't working. Building campaigns that scale takes longer, usually two to three months of disciplined testing.

How will we know it's working?

You'll get a short written update every week and a fuller review every month, with sales and costs measured against the targets we agree at the start.

Is there a minimum budget?

No fixed minimum. Tell us where you are, and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.

We've been burned by an agency before. Why would this be different?

Because you won't have to take our word for anything. You own the accounts, you see every change we make, and we're measured against your real sales, not the platforms' numbers. If we ever stop earning our fee, you'll see it in the numbers before anyone has to tell you.

Contact

Find out where your ad budget is leaking.

Tell us about your business and where your advertising stands today. One of our media buyers, not a salesperson, will read it and reply personally. The first conversation costs nothing. If your account turns out to be in good shape, we'll say so, and you'll have lost nothing but a few minutes.

Every week a leak stays open, it costs you the same as the week before.