Taikun Digital

Director of Paid Social

Hello Earth | B Corp™ Performance Marketing Agency

Managing Partner

As the Managing Director at Hello Earth Agency, I specialise in scaling direct-to-consumer brands through a combination of advertising on platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok, as well as utilising content and email marketing strategies. My goal is to help these brands achieve maximum growth and reach their full potential. 🚀

Managing Director

Head of Paid Media

We’re Hello Earth Agency. We’re committed to helping mission driven brands leverage their purpose to grow.  We Deliver circular strategies which close the loop on profit & recurring revenue.

Paid Media Manager

Velstar

Velstar are one of the UK’s top-rated Shopify Plus experts and we have produced over 50 Shopify projects to date. We’ve worked with some of the biggest brands on Shopify to help them grow bigger, faster and beyond their forecasts.

Digital Marketing Manager

Phil Kiel

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Creative and Paid Social at Taikun Digital - Ecom success powered by Paid Social and Creative Strategy - transparent and profitable performance marketing for brands.

Every account is different, that's why there’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to Upper Funnel activity.

Objective: Reducing Frequency, CPM and CPMr = increasing Reach.

Now what you may want to know is what campaign type to use: Awareness, Video Views, Reach, Engagement, Traffic (IG profile destination) BUT they all play a role at different times.

Where we see this work best is usually a mix of 2–3 campaign types, always including Awareness.

And unlike your Conversion campaigns, TOF is where you can get a bit more hacky, remember media buying of 2018?

Custom placements. Custom demographics. Interest or lookalike targeting.

Want to lift IG performance? Run an upper funnel campaign spending only on IG to drive that lift.

Measurement is where most brands go wrong.

You can’t just look at Meta’s in platform metrics and expect the full story.

Instead, build a picture across multiple data points, internal and external:

🏠 Internal metrics: total reach, rolling reach, CPM/CPMr, % new visitors, referral lift, Google referrals.

🌍 External metrics: post-purchase surveys, in-store mentions, email signups, list growth, holdout or incrementality tests (Haus, Stella, etc.).

Here’s how we run it:

Benchmark your metrics: run a Brand or Conversion Lift study first.

Launch campaigns and let them run for 4+ weeks. For creative, start with evergreen post IDs (variety of formats).

Measure again, repeat the benchmark tests you ran at the start but don’t expect big movement yet.

Keep testing, iterating, and evolving creative + targeting as insights build.

Upper funnel campaigns shouldn’t be fluffy.

When structured like this, they drive real incremental lift and help fuel every other part of your funnel.

Ignore your TOF, and you’re leaving growth (and cheaper conversions) on the table.

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The three creative formats I’d use to launch a new product 👇

Caffeine before bed? Yep that's what Zest is for. 

We've been talking to the team at Zest for the best part of a year so it's great to finally get this partnership off the ground. 

Looking forward to working with these great brand assets, take a look > https://takezest.com/

$235k monthly spend. 27 campaigns. 201 ad sets. 900 ads.

Most of them losing money.

This is what happens when you confuse "more" with "better" in Meta advertising.

I walked through this account yesterday. The setup was actively fighting itself:

❌ CPMr through the roof from campaign overlap
❌ Budget haemorrhaging across 201 ad sets
❌ Winners getting starved while losers burned through cash
❌ No clear read on what's actually working because data is fragmented

The "fix"? Consolidation down to 5-6 core campaigns:

✅ CBO ASC (Single ad set) - Evergreen winners to maintain frequency and CPMr
✅ CBO Whitelisting (Ad set per creator) - Minimum spend at ad set level so data compounds
✅ ABO Creative Testing - Low budget sandbox for new concepts
✅ TOF Campaign Types - Social profile visits, capped at 5% of spend
✅ Other - Non-evergreen activity (offers, launches, BFCM)

This structure should drop CPMr by 20% minimum just from reducing overlap.

If you're spending six figures monthly and running 20+ campaigns, you're probably making this harder than it needs to be. Fewer campaigns, fewer ad sets, fewer places to lose money.

Envu Media

Founder / Director

Freelance

Facebook/Google Ads - Email Marketing - CRO

Digital Marketing Specialist

ality

PPC Account Manager

Apple

EXPERT

iOS MENTOR

SPECIALIST

Accueil client / Découverte des besoins / Offres commerciales adaptées / Ventes additionnelles / Prise en charge des SAV.

Sales Representative

At Envu Media, we combine paid social and email marketing to lower CAC, maximise LTV, and create consistent, predictable revenue growth.

We’ve scaled over 20 brands, from household names to fast-growing challengers:
➜ Sauce Shop
➜ Bobbin
➜ Amazon Fresh
➜ Hilltop Honey
➜ Wavy
➜ Fiid
➜ Vive
➜ Fix8
➜ Fibe Prebiotic Soda
➜ Feel Güd
➜ Zoono … and more.

What makes us different?
Most agencies treat ads and email as separate channels. We align them into one growth engine, so every pound you spend works harder.


Some wins we’re proud of:
➜ Doubled revenue two years in a row for a UK challenger food brand without increasing spend.
➜ Profitably scaled a UK-based lifestyle brand to a 7-figure run rate in just 9 months.
➜ Unlocked growth for a UK coffee brand and grew their revenue by over 100% YoY.

Our growth engine:
➜ Paid Social: High-impact Meta campaigns that actually drive sales.
➜ Email & SMS: Brand building & Retention-focused automations and campaigns.

Get in touch to unlock your next stage of growth.

➜ www.envu.agency
➜ Book a call: https://calendly.com/envu/discovery-call

Kevin Sussat

How a 5-minute job prevented a brand from losing thousands in repeat revenue post Black Friday. 


BFCM started today for one of our brands.

Our paid ads were scheduled for today, and sales started to pour in this morning.

The brand’s Post-Purchase flow (which we don’t manage yet) wasn’t firing for a key product segment.

Got up this morning, brewed my TrueStart Coffee, sat down, opened the laptop to monitor everything and…

The product name that triggers the flow was wrong.

Meaning, customers were not entering the flow.

Leaving thousands on the table.

So I stepped in.

Product name changed, profiles back populated, job’s done.


Takeaway:
If your paid ads agency doesn’t request Klaviyo access, then you should consider working with an agency that goes beyond paid ads in 2026 or can manage both channels. 

#dtc #blackfriday #paidsocial #emailmarketing

Paid Social + Retention Marketing for Category-Defining DTC Brands | Founder at Envu Media

I’ve been in hibernation for the past 8 weeks because of this particular week.

The Black Friday week has officially started, and our brands are already seeing over 2x growth YoY.

It’s one of the most important weeks for DTC brands.

Months of funnel building leading to this moment. 

Everything has to be executed perfectly.

Every bug or mistake must be troubleshooted within the same hour.

Communication must be razor sharp. 

Everyone is on deck, available at all times to deliver the best results possible.


This is where elite teams separate from average ones.


While preparing our brands for the BFCM week, the team has grown again to match the demand (say hello to Jennifer Mussell), handled more inbound enquiries than ever and welcomed two wonderful brands like PerfectTed and MUTO.

I'm genuinely excited for the growth this week unlocks for the brands we partner with.

Every dashboard is live on my screens, Shopify notifications switched on...
The Black Friday week is here, and we’re ready to make it the biggest one yet for our brands.

Wishing every operator, founder, and team out there a massive week ahead.

Let’s get it.

#dtc #blackfriday #paidsocial #emailmarketing

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