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50 hours a month saved for a US social-commerce brand running high-volume TikTok acquisition

Head of Growth, US social-commerce brand running high-volume TikTok acquisition

up to 50

hours of client time saved monthly

500+

ads managed daily

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Company
A performance-focused social-commerce brand selling direct to consumers in the US. Paid social is its main acquisition channel, with creator-led creative and close data analysis deciding where the budget goes.
United States, East Coast
Industry
Social commerce
Client since
2020
platforms

"Traffic Revenue took high-volume campaign management off our plate. Launches go out on schedule, the mistakes we used to make by hand stopped, and someone is watching spend on a Saturday night. We are not the safety net any more."

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Head of Growth
US social-commerce brand running high-volume TikTok acquisition

Challenge

Before we took the account over, large-scale TikTok campaigns were run by hand against native platform rules. That produced:

  • Unreliable in-platform automation: Native TikTok rules often failed to fire on time or line up with the campaign schedule.
  • High volume of ads: Hundreds of ads live daily across time zones and objectives made manual QA overwhelming.
  • Risk of missed timing: Campaigns needed strict start and stop times, and manual work plus platform delays put that at risk.
  • No real-time visibility: With nobody watching the account, delivery failures and overspend went unnoticed for hours.
  • Weekends and off-hours: Nothing covered campaigns outside working hours, so problems sat until the next working day.
  • Scaling limits: Manual workflows made it hard to add ad volume or budget without adding operational risk.

Solution

The brand brought us in to run TikTok acquisition end to end: media buying, the launch calendar, daily monitoring and the reporting that sits on top of it. We took the account over and rebuilt the launch schedule around the way the campaigns actually needed to run.

Two things changed straight away. Ads started going live exactly when the media plan said they should, and spend and delivery got looked at every day, weekends included. The client team stopped doing QA by hand.

This is what we run on the account:

Launching and pausing ads on schedule

We hold the launch calendar and run every start and stop against it, so sequential launches and dayparted campaigns go live on time in the right market. Nothing waits for someone to remember.

Daily checks on spend spikes and delivery

Some campaigns spend faster than planned; others never start delivering because of a setup problem. We monitor ad performance daily and act on both, so budgets stay where they belong and every campaign gets a fair run.

Results

Running the account this way gave the client team their week back and made the programme safe to scale:

  • Up to 50 hours saved monthly on campaign management the client team used to do by hand
  • Faster launches and updates across high-volume campaigns
  • Weekend and off-hours cover on spend anomalies and delivery issues, so problems get answered the same day
  • Fewer manual errors at up to 500 ads managed daily

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