Optimized | Growth Marketing Agency

Founder

UPTHRUST | Growth Marketing & Digital Product Studio

Digital Marketeer

We help ambitious DTC & SaaS brands​ grow by pairing our proven growth systems with performance creative and landing page testing.

We work with 25+ 6 to 8 figure brands. Some of our success stories:
✅ Helped a subscription baby brand launch and scale to $250k/month in 12 months
✅ Reduced MER by 60% for a CPG brand in the first 90 days
✅ Helped a fashion DTC brand cut CPA by 43% through structured creative testing and UGC

Here's how we help you scale your brand:
👉 Performance creative: a consistent inflow of high-performing ad creative built around consumer psychology.
👉 Landing page testing: we design and build landing pages that match ad intent, messaging and customer pain points.
👉 Influencer & creator whitelisting: tap into trust and leveraging authentic creators that help increase brand awareness and social proof through .


If you’re a 6 to 8-figure DTC brand looking to break through a growth plateau or scale profitably, DM me “𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪” to learn more.

Alexander Pauwelyn

Sovran

Creative is king. We’re building modular performance video software to enable growth marketers to run video ad experiments without slow, costly, and error-prone manual work. 

I’ve been a growth marketer and creative strategist at Calm and Cash app. I’ve briefed over 4,473 performance video ads.

As marketers, we all know to constantly be testing hooks, messages, ad types, copywriting frameworks, and visual concepts.

Most video ads created don’t follow the proven structure of hook → body → call to action. 

If you don’t know how to structure a performance video ad, then you don’t know what to change to improve its performance.

Sovran lets you mix-and-match your hook, body, audio, and call to action clips to find the optimal video ad variations. Each variation comes with its unique naming convention so you don’t lose track of learnings.

“I am so happy that we use the Sovran platform. It took our designers an hour to create one variation. Now even creative managers can do it, and just for 10-15 minutes, we have 2-3 resizes. So it’s 4 times faster with Sovran.” - Viktoriia Niemaia, Creative Marketing Team Lead, GeoZilla 

“I created a bunch of variations last week and a handful have outperformed the control significantly. Saving tons of time!” - Nabeel Ismail, Paid Social Director, Factor

Book a meeting with me directly at https://calendly.com/mansonchen/30

Send me an email directly at: manson@sovran.ai

Parabolica

Before we came onboard, ROAS averaged 0.60 the last 3 weeks of April.


Unsustainable.


Their ad account was plagued by the usual:

- Too many active ads per ad set at their daily budget
- Running unprofitable products
- Too many audience types
- No testing campaign


What we did:

+ Reactivated historically good products
+ Consolidated the account structure
+ Paused historically bad products
+ Reactivated strong ads

Rocket science? No.
Simple media-buying fundamentals.

The result?:

1️⃣ ROAS increased 155%, from 0.58 to 1.48.
2️⃣ Spend increased 90%, from $5,838.67 to $11,134.45.
3️⃣ They can refocus on making the world a happier and healthier place.

Cash App

Led performance creative strategy team at Cash App
Data-driven creative concepting and iteration on paid social, UAC, mobile programmatic

Growth Marketing Lead, Creative Strategy

Calm

Paid Social Growth & Performance Creative Strategy

FB/IG iOS, Android, Web
International (ES, DE, FR, PT, KR, JP)

Growth Marketing

Smartly.io

Clients included - Uber, DoorDash, StubHub, Fabletics

Pod Lead - Managed Services

We are on a mission to make online advertising easy, efficient, and enjoyable across all major platforms. Easy as in automated, efficient as in constantly driving performance, and enjoyable through the best user experience and service in the market. We do this by combining creative automation, ad operations, and outstanding customer service to help brands scale their results – not headcount.

Great people choose us and stay with us because they like our company culture and how we tackle challenges of huge scale at speed. Learn more about how we work at smartly.io/culturehandbook.

Accomplishments
Scale Pinterest paid social operations for TechStyle brands to ~$1MM/mo
Drive product development of Smartly's nascent Pinterest ad buying platform 
Developed custom script to streamline Pinterest ad optimization workflow 
Management of Facebook branding/direct response strategies across accounts including Uber, DoorDash, and StubHub

Sr. Customer Success Manager, Managed Services

Dstillery

- Manage and nurture largest west coast customers through day to day communication and programmatic display expertise
- Partner with Account Executives and nurtured spend on key accounts by 5x YoY and 40% QoQ respectively
- Present quarterly business reviews to top west coast customers 
- Collect customer feedback and work with Product team to prioritize new features
- Provide best practice and use cases for internal and external end users on new platform features

Customer Success Manager

Brand Networks

- Develop, execute and optimize $500K+ monthly budget advertising initiatives for Realtor.com, LiveNation, New York Times, Marriott, Starwood
- Provide media planning, strategy, analysis, and post-buy reviews
- Maintain trusting relationships with clientele and ensuring satisfaction to keep Brand Networks top of mind for new business
- Collaborate cross-functionally (Customer Success and Professional Services) on plan execution including ad development and selection

Manager, Media Services

Applied Analytix

- Develop and maintain IBM Cognos TM1 databases (developed Sony Playstation’s Supply Chain Model, Portola Pharmaceuticals’ Finance/Forecasting Model)
- Lead training classes for clients (1-5 people) on how to use IBM Cognos TM1 software
- Program custom scripts using the built-in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool, ‘Turbo Integrator’, to move data from SQL databases into TM1
- Build custom, automated, Excel reports using TM1 as the backend database (P&L, Net Income, Headcount, Balance Sheet, etc)
- Wrote user-friendly documentation detailing how different components interact within the TM1 database

Database Implementation Consultant

Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce

Business Administration Intern

Founder, Sovran.ai | Make winning video ads 4x faster by remixing your clips without a big team. Automating modular video ads.

✔︎ What does Sovran do?

Creative is king. Sovran is a self-serve platform that enables you to scale multivariate video ad tests without compromising on quality.

✔︎  How does it help?

Our software allows you to upload video building blocks to combine into variations to increase creative production, testing speed, and efficient scale.

✔︎  What users are saying

“I am so happy that we use the Sovran platform. It took our designers an hour to create one variation. Now even creative managers can do it, and just for 10-15 minutes, we have 2-3 resizes. So it’s 4 times faster with Sovran.” - Viktoriia Niemaia, Creative Marketing Team Lead, GeoZilla

“I created a bunch of variations last week and a handful have outperformed the control significantly. Saving tons of time!” - Nabeel Ismail, Paid Social Director, Factor

✔︎  Interested in learning more:

Book a meeting with me directly at https://calendly.com/mansonchen/30
Send me an email directly at: manson@sovran.ai

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