Surftech

Case study

Overview

i9media | Surftech

This engagement shows what happens when media buying and creative production work together. We tightened campaign structure, targeted model-specific demand, and scaled creative output without adding strain to Surftech's team. The result: advertising shifted from broad reach to targeted performance, capturing high-intent searches and amplifying top products. More than better metrics, we built a stronger paid media foundation—one built to scale profitably and compound results over time.

Services

Advertising

Creative

66%

Increase in Blended ROAS

Advertising

In our first year managing Surftech’s paid media program, i9media transitioned the account from a spend-heavy growth model to a disciplined, profit-focused performance engine—delivering materially stronger returns on a significantly leaner budget. Advertising investment was reduced by 37.6%, yet efficiency surged across every core metric. Blended ROAS improved from 4.57x to 7.6x (+66%), attributed ROAS more than doubled from 3.2x to 7.1x, and Google ROAS nearly tripled from 3.31x to 9.57x.


In practical terms, every $100,000 invested under the prior structure generated approximately $450,000 in revenue, whereas under i9media’s management that same investment generated roughly $760,000—a nearly 70% increase in revenue per advertising dollar. These gains were driven not by increased budget or aggressive discounting, but by tighter campaign architecture, model-specific intent capture, refined product alignment, and creative execution that amplified proven demand. The result was a structurally more efficient paid media program positioned for scalable, profitability-led growth.

70%

More Revenue Per Advertising Dollar

250+

Assets Delivered


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Creative

In parallel with Surftech’s in-house creative efforts, i9media expanded the brand’s paid media output by building a scalable creative engine designed specifically for performance marketing.

This parallel production model not only cleared bandwidth for Surftech’s internal team but also accelerated go-to-market execution, enabling rapid iteration aligned with live performance data. By working closely with the Surftech team on content priorities, product launches, and seasonal storytelling, we transformed creative from a limited resource into a scalable performance driver.

250+

Assets Delivered

Results

66%

Increase in Blended ROAS

70%

More Revenue Per Advertising Dollar

250+

Assets Delivered

Conclusion

The i9media difference

In our first year managing Surftech’s paid media program, i9media restructured the account around performance discipline, intent alignment, and scalable creative execution. The result was a measurable leap in efficiency: a +66% increase in blended ROAS, with nearly 70% more revenue generated per advertising dollar, despite operating with a significantly leaner budget. Beyond optimization, we implemented a scalable creative system—producing 250+ supplemental assets across 80+ templates to expand testing velocity, support META placement diversity, and clear bandwidth for Surftech’s internal team. By aligning campaign architecture, product-level intent capture, and high-volume creative iteration, the paid media program evolved into a precision-driven growth engine built for sustainable, profitability-led scale.

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  • Businesses where we can add value. Whether you're looking for an agency of record to help you handle all your marketing needs or you're in need of a single service to fill an operational gap, we're available to service where we can add value. And if we're not a fit, we will tell you. Our priority is the long game, so much like you, let's focus on the work and identify the opportunities where we can help you drive the business forward. Our experience ranges from working with businesses large and small, wholesale, retail, and startup, from lifestyle and software to manufacturing and lodging.

  • Branding and performance marketing, from strategic to tactical. We start with a market competitive analysis, running a discovery to inform all the downstream work, using those business insights to give you an edge to gain market share over your competitors. Making things pretty and a proper technology stack are not enough. The business needs to polish its unique value propositions and properly align with the addressable target market. From there, our branding services include the full gamut of design, from logo and typography to digital and physical assets, like websites, flyers, tradeshow booths and beyond. On performance marketing services include advertising, e-commerce, email marketing, social media, website management, and more, setting clear objectives and repeatedly assessing results and identifying optimization opportunities.

  • We start with a discovery, which includes a competitive analysis of your 3-5 competitors, both head-to head and aspirational, looking at key performance indicators on multiple marketing channels, from website and advertising to reputation and beyond. Next is using those parameters to sharpen your positioning with clearly stated unique value propositions and communication guidelines for your product and service catalog, boosting your competitive edge. Lastly, drawing on that strategy, it's a plan of execution, and resource allocation, right-sizing on budget to the scale of the business and the success criteria requirements.

  • If we believe we can outperform your current efforts. We have lots of experience to draw from, which gives enormous insights on the expertise and work-hour requirements to perform at different levels. We've seen a lot, from teams having the humility to seek help to boost performance to teams being overly enthusiastic about mediocre performance. We don't want to waste either your or our time. We'll take a look at your marketing efforts and if we believe we can give you more productivity and profitability cost-effectively, we'll tell you. And if we can't, we'll tell you.

  • Our benefit is exactly in our range, from local to global and small to enterprise, serving various industries, which helps us avoid blindspots and gives us fresh perspectives to approach different industries. Our past industries include but are not limited to technology, manufacturing, biosafety, software, automotive, military, lifestyle, farming and gardening, accessories, aviation, and more.

  • Contact us for a free consultation and we’ll walk you through our method and whether we think there is a fit, where and the type. If we don’t see an opportunity to add value, we ‘ll tell you. For us, performance matters more than simply signing a new client. Our goal is retention. For that, we look for fits to drive results. Email or call and we’ll help get you started if the opportunity to add value is there.

  • Yes but also one-time services. You may need a comprehensive marketing solution or just a one-off service, such as a new website build or some branding assets, for instance. We’ll listen to what you are looking for but then also give you our insight on where we think you may most benefit from an engagement with us.

  • Net sales increase on lower discount rates and smaller advertising budgets with a cost-effective solution – that’s our preferred key performance indicator. Money in the bank. But sometimes the marketing is not performance, it’s branding. In that case, marketing assets must be inspirational, informative, and drive an inquisitive behavior to covert, retain and advocate to new prospect clients, building the momentum for growth.

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