Est. 2022 · Performance Marketing Studio

Saturn/ads.

A performance marketing studio for ambitious brands — measured on revenue, not impressions.

What we do
Design and operate affiliate programs, paid-media campaigns and conversion-rate work for growth-stage brands. Small senior team. No pods, no juniors.
$140M+
Media managed
27
Active partners
4.8×
Avg. ROAS
Services

Four capabilities. One P&L.

We work as a single integrated team — no silos between media, creative and analytics. It's the only way performance marketing actually compounds.

  • 01

    Affiliate program design

    We architect affiliate programs from scratch or rebuild broken ones — commission structure, partner recruitment, tracking, fraud controls, monthly QBRs. Set up once, run for years.

    Program strategyPartner recruitingTracking & S2SFraud & compliance
  • 02

    Paid media buying

    Direct-response buying across Meta, Google, TikTok, native and programmatic. Every campaign is measured against a target CAC or ROAS — nothing else.

    Meta / Google / TikTokNative & programmaticLanding-page testingMMM & attribution
  • 03

    Creative & conversion

    In-house creative team ships 20–40 fresh ad variants per week and a testing calendar for landers, offers and email flows. Fatigue is the enemy.

    Static & UGC creativeLanding-page buildsA/B & multivariateEmail & SMS lifecycle
  • 04

    Analytics & fractional growth

    For teams without a growth lead: we sit in the seat. Weekly reporting, incrementality tests, financial modeling and a data warehouse that finally reconciles.

    Warehouse setupIncrementality testsMTA / MMM hybridBoard-ready reporting
Selected work

Programs we've shipped.

Client names are protected by NDA. Numbers are pulled directly from client dashboards — happy to walk through methodology on a call.

Case · 012024 – present

Consumer Fintech

Affiliate program rebuild + paid acquisition

Rebuilt a stalled affiliate program from 8 to 340 active partners and cut blended CAC by 41% across paid channels.

-41%
Blended CAC
42×
Partner base
$18M
Attributable revenue
Case · 022023 – present

D2C Health & Wellness

Full-funnel paid media + creative

Took a subscription brand from a 1.7× ROAS ceiling to a sustained 4.9× by rebuilding creative testing cadence and the LP funnel.

4.9×
Blended ROAS
+188%
New-customer volume
62
Creatives / month
Case · 032023 – 2024

B2B SaaS (Series B)

Fractional growth + attribution overhaul

Replaced a legacy last-click model with a hybrid MMM + incrementality framework and reallocated 32% of spend to underweighted channels.

-27%
Cost per SQL
+3.2×
Pipeline velocity
32%
Spend reallocated
Case · 042024 – present

Ecommerce (Home Goods)

Affiliate + creator program

Built a creator-led affiliate program from zero — 210 vetted publishers, standardized offer set, and a monthly newsletter that keeps the funnel warm.

210
Active creators
6.1%
Rev share of total
24hr
Approval SLA

Full case-study deck available under NDA. We'll walk through unblinded data on a first call.

Request the deck
How we work

A four-phase engagement, designed to end.

We don't want to be your agency forever. The goal is to build a system your team can run without us — and then get out of the way.

I.Phase 1

Diagnose

Two-week teardown of your current program — accounts, tracking, offer economics, creative library. You keep the audit whether we work together or not.

II.Phase 2

Rebuild

We rewire tracking, cull weak partners, install a creative testing calendar and rebuild landers. First 60 days are heavy — that's on purpose.

III.Phase 3

Scale

Once payback is proven, we push spend. Weekly ops reviews, monthly QBRs, quarterly incrementality tests. No agency BS reporting.

IV.Phase 4

Hand off (optional)

When you're ready to bring it in-house, we hire your first growth lead, document every playbook and step out. Retainers should end.

The Studio

A senior team of nine. No pods, no juniors.

Saturnads was founded in 2022 by operators from the affiliate and paid-media worlds. Every account is run by someone who's spent a decade doing the work — not by a two-year account manager escalating to someone who has.

01

Managing Partner

Program strategy · Client leadership

Prev. media buying at two DTC unicorns and a top-5 affiliate network.

02

Head of Media

Meta · Google · TikTok · Programmatic

10+ years running direct-response accounts north of $500k/mo.

03

Head of Creative

Static · UGC · Landing pages

Former in-house creative director at a Y-Combinator DTC brand.

04

Head of Analytics

Warehouse · Incrementality · MMM

Ex-consultant. Builds the data infrastructure most agencies don't.

Verify us

Our team and company live in public.

Saturnads is a US-registered limited liability company with a Miami office and a fully identified founding team. Below are the official channels we use for company announcements and hiring.

Company facts
Legal name
Saturnads LLC
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Miami, FL, USA
Team size
9 (all senior)
Client focus
Growth-stage DTC, fintech, SaaS
Engagement model
Retainer + performance fee
Payment currency
USD
In the press

Coverage, talks and public work.

  • AdExchanger
    Op-ed
    Why performance marketing agencies need a shelf life
    March 2025
  • Modern Retail
    Interview
    How boutique studios are eating the mid-market agency lunch
    November 2024
  • Digiday
    Feature
    The rebirth of the affiliate program — from clearance to core channel
    August 2024
  • Affiliate Summit
    Keynote
    Rebuilding an affiliate P&L in 90 days
    Meet Miami 2024
Integrated with tracking & network partners
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New engagements

Let's see if we're a fit.

We take on a small number of new engagements each quarter and prefer to start with a 30-minute intro call. Tell us a bit about your program and someone from the team will reply within one business day.

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