Paria Case Study

We cut their cost per purchase 44% and increased ROAS 55% before touching the website.

Paria is a cycling, running and athleisure brand that had been burned by agencies before. We rebuilt their cold acquisition from scratch and ran the most profitable campaign in their entire account.

Paria cyclist in checkerboard jersey
3.43×
ROAS (£13.5K ad spend)
£14.99
Cost per purchase (£13.5K ad spend) with £51 AOV
2.20%
CTR (double their biggest campaign)
£1.46
Pure profit per £1 spent, above all costs
01 The Situation & Our Approach
The Situation
  • Inconsistent sales
  • Campaigns not being actively managed
  • One prospecting campaign spent over £1,000 at a 0.72 ROAS
  • Burned by agencies charging big retainers
Our Approach
  • Deep research to understand their customer
  • Built standout creative in-house
  • Rebuilt cold-audience prospecting
  • Ran an initial trial period so they could sense-check the work before committing further
02 The Results
ROAS
+55%
2.21× 3.43×
Cost per purchase
44%
£26.74 £14.99
CTR
+
1.10% 2.20%
CPC
46%
£0.48 £0.26

Their highest-spending campaign vs our prospecting build (£13.5K ad spend).

Campaign Performance 3.4× return
£13.5K
Ad spend
£46.5K
Revenue
Best ROAS, CTR & CPP of any campaign in the account
03 The Funnel
Sessions
75,831
+406%
Added to cart
2,739
+1.8K%
Reached checkout
1,709
+1.1K%
Completed checkout
976
+5K%

Normally a funnel narrows as it deepens. Here the opposite happened. Purchases grew far faster than traffic, which means the people arriving were already sold.

04 Year-On-Year Impact
+45%
Online store revenue
+42%
Orders (1,040 vs 733)
+41%
Net sales (£38K vs £27K)

Figures compare January–April year-on-year, online store only — the cleanest like-for-like view, excluding retail and wholesale.

"There's a lot of snake oil out there — we'd been burned before. This turned the dial for us. It's been a game changer, and it's allowed us to make proactive choices instead of fighting fires every day."

Sam Morgan · Founder, Paria

What this means for your brand

If your acquisition feels like guesswork, or you've been burned by an agency that promised more than it delivered, Paria's numbers show what's possible when acquisition is rebuilt as a system, not just handed to another media buyer.

We didn't find a clever hack. We did the research, built creative, and drove real profit.

The result was the most profitable campaign in the account, 44% cheaper acquisition, and a business with the cash and confidence to grow on its own terms.

And we did it before the CRO work even started.

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