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An Advertising Consultant Measured on ROAS, Not Impressions
A senior advertising consultant for B2B, eCommerce, and consumer brands. Paid search, paid social, programmatic, and CTV, run by an operator who has owned the budget.
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A senior advertising consultant for B2B, eCommerce, and consumer brands
Why teams hire a Chameleon advertising consultant
Senior operators only
Every engagement is led by an advertising consultant with hands-on command of seven and eight figure media budgets. No junior buyers between you and the strategy.
Measured on revenue
We report on return on ad spend, pipeline, and customer acquisition cost, not impressions and reach. Rankings of vanity metrics never make the deck.
Every channel, one operator
Paid search, paid social, programmatic, retail media, and CTV planned together, so spend moves to the channel that pays back rather than the channel a siloed team defends.
Why hire an advertising consultant from Chameleon Collective
Most paid media problems are not bidding problems. They are decision problems: budget pinned to the wrong channel, creative that never gets tested, and reporting that measures activity instead of revenue. A senior advertising consultant fixes the decisions first, then the tactics.
Direct senior expertise
You work with the advertising consultant who builds the plan, not an account manager relaying it. The people who ran paid media for AT&T, Ford, and Toyota are the people in your account.
Full funnel, not just the platform
We connect paid search, paid social, programmatic, and CTV to what happens after the click. An advertising consultant who only optimizes inside the ad platform optimizes the wrong thing.
Creative and measurement together
Performance lives in the creative and the measurement, not the bid. We pair a structured creative testing cadence with clean conversion tracking so every dollar is attributable.
Built for paid plus organic search
Paid and organic search compete for the same query. We plan them as one demand strategy, including how AI search is reshaping where commercial intent shows up.
What our advertising consultant engagements cover
We scope to the channels and decisions that move your revenue, not a fixed retainer of busywork.
- Paid search account restructure, query mining, bidding strategy, and landing page alignment across Google and Microsoft Ads.
- Paid social full funnel programs on Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest, built around a creative testing cadence.
- Programmatic and display DSP strategy, inventory quality, and frequency discipline that protects margin.
- Connected TV and streaming CTV planning and measurement that ties brand spend to lower funnel lift.
- Retail media Amazon, Walmart, and marketplace advertising managed against true profit, not just ad sales.
- Measurement and tracking conversion tracking, server side tagging, and incrementality testing so attribution survives an audit.
- Creative strategy a testing roadmap that turns ad creative into the performance lever it actually is.
- Media mix and budget planning where the next dollar goes, modelled against return on ad spend.
How We Compare
| Feature | Chameleon Collective | Traditional ad agency | Full-time hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs your account | A senior advertising consultant | Junior buyers on many accounts | One person, one skill set |
| Time to impact | Weeks | A quarter of onboarding | Months to hire and ramp |
| Channel breadth | Search, social, programmatic, CTV, retail | Often siloed by channel team | Limited to the hire's background |
| Measured on | ROAS, pipeline, and CAC | Impressions and reach | Whatever the role was scoped to |
Frequently asked questions
Common questions from teams evaluating an advertising consultant.
Engagements are scoped to the work, not a percentage of your media spend. That removes the conflict of interest baked into the agency model, where the firm earns more when you spend more. A fractional advertising consultant typically engages for a defined scope and cadence, and you see the cost before any media runs. We will give you a fixed scope after the initial audit.
Paid search, paid social, programmatic and display, connected TV, and retail media such as Amazon and Walmart. The point of a single senior operator is that these channels get planned together. Budget moves to the channel that pays back, instead of being defended by a siloed team that only owns one platform.
Agencies are effective when you need high volume production and a large bench. The trade-off is that junior buyers usually run the day to day while senior people sell and report. With Chameleon Collective the senior advertising consultant who builds the plan is in your account every week. We also bill on scope rather than a percentage of spend, so our incentive is your return, not your budget.
Account restructure and tracking fixes usually show up within the first few weeks, because most accounts carry obvious waste. Durable gains from creative testing and media mix changes compound over the following quarter. We set the expectation against your sales cycle, not a generic benchmark.
Yes, and it is usually the first thing we audit. If the measurement is wrong, every optimization after it is guesswork. We handle conversion tracking, server side tagging, and incrementality testing so that the numbers in the platform match the revenue in your business.
Often the highest leverage role is strategic oversight on top of an existing team. We can run the accounts directly, or set the strategy and measurement framework and hold your team or agency to it. We scope that explicitly at the start.
Directly. Chameleon Collective is a senior-only collective, so there is no account-management layer between you and the strategist who builds and runs your advertising program.
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