In sales from $75K of paid social, across 864,761 transactions.
The eBay return, confirmed by a holdout before it was reported.
Audiences from 287 providers and platforms, free to search. More than 295,000 are tagged Media & Entertainment or Technology & Telecom.
- CBS
- DirecTV
- eBay
- Meta
- OpenAI
Media and technology companies sell subscriptions and attention, and the advertising has to account for what happens after the sign-up. I bought media for DirecTV in the years when twelve months at half price was the whole category playbook, and the number that decided whether any of it made money was month thirteen, when the price stepped up. CBS, DirecTV, eBay, Google, Meta, and OpenAI are among the media and technology clients on this site.
Subscribers bought on a deep discount leave on schedule, so the plan counts customers at the price they pay after the offer ends, and the offer itself becomes part of the targeting. Cohorts get reported by month of acquisition, with churn and payback next to the cost per subscriber.
For eBay Germany, a two-week gamified microsite and $75K of paid social produced 864,761 transactions and $25.7 million in directly attributed sales. That 342 to 1 return went into the case study only after a holdout confirmed it, the standard every result here has to meet.
Streaming has split the audience. A fan who follows one NFL team now needs six channels and four streaming platforms, none of them sharing a frequency cap, so connected TV gets planned across apps and devices with reach counted by household. AI answers are the newest surface, and what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity say about a product now shapes the shortlist. That work runs through the SEO + GEO practice.
An engagement usually begins with the cohort data: what each acquisition month cost, and what it was worth a year later.
Count the subscriber you keep
A cohort review shows what each acquisition month cost and what it was worth a year later.
Start the conversationServices for media and technology companies
All eight servicesTargeted Digital Advertising
Connected TV, YouTube, social, and search planned across apps with one frequency view.
Service 02SEO + GEO
What ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity say about your product.
Service 03Digital Strategy
Subscriber plans priced on month thirteen as well as month one.
Service 05Lead Generation
B2B pipeline for technology products, followed to revenue.
Service 06Data Analytics + Insights
Cohort reporting and holdouts that hold up when a result looks too good.
Service 08AI Tools + Automation
Custom tools and reporting pipelines, built by the person who plans the media.
From The Signal
View all notesThe NFL Is Six Subscriptions Now. Your Reach Math Is From When It Was One.
Nine outlets carry the NFL this season and none of them share a frequency cap. How to buy the most-watched programming in America without paying for the same fan six times.
August 3, 2026Your Brand Has an AI Reputation. Nobody Owns It.
Ask ChatGPT about your company and read what comes back. That answer shapes buying decisions today, and in most organizations nobody is responsible for it.
May 15, 2026YouTube Is the Cheapest Attention in Video, Priced Like It Is Embarrassed
The largest video platform on earth clears at a fraction of CTV pricing, on the same living room screens, with better measurement. The discount is a sorting error you can spend.
May 8, 2026CTV Sells Like TV and Measures Like Display. Buy It Like Neither.
Connected TV gets pitched with television romance and reported with display precision. Both halves are misleading, and the buying playbook lives in between.
January 13, 2026The Subscriber You Buy on Discount Leaves on Schedule
Promo-heavy subscriber acquisition manufactures the churn it later blames on retention. Cohort math, the month-thirteen cliff, and why the offer is targeting.
January 7, 2026Case Study: eBay Germany, $25.7 Million in Two Weeks
The full mechanics of the eBay Germany campaign: a two-week gamified microsite, $75K in paid social, 864,761 transactions, and $25.7 million in directly attributed sales.
Resources
All resourcesAudience Finder, set to Media & Entertainment or Technology & Telecom
The full catalog of more than 950,000 audiences, opened on the 295,000+ tagged Media & Entertainment or Technology & Telecom.
RegisterAI Regulations Register
Worldwide AI laws and regulations, cited and kept current.
ReferenceSubscription metrics
Recurring revenue, revenue per user, churn rate, and trial-to-paid conversion.
BenchmarksConnected TV benchmarks
CPM and completion ranges for programmatic and premium connected TV in 2026, with sources.
CompareConnected TV vs linear TV
How each is bought, measured, and priced.
CalculatorReach and frequency
Impressions from reach and frequency, or frequency from impressions and reach.
Quick answers
How should a subscription business measure its advertising?
By cohort. Each month's new subscribers are tracked through the end of their promotion, with churn and payback set next to the cost per subscriber. Offers that bring in subscribers who leave in month thirteen cost more than they show at signup.
How do you buy connected TV without paying for the same viewer twice?
By planning across apps and devices with one frequency view. Sports and premium programming are split across several services, none of which share a frequency cap, so the plan buys through partners that can remove duplicate reach and reports it by household.
Can you influence what ChatGPT says about a product?
Through the sources it reads. AI assistants answer from the pages, reviews, and coverage they trust, so the work tests what each assistant says about a product, finds the sources it cites, and improves or adds the ones that would change the answer.
