CHANNEL · YOUTUBE
YouTube, run with attention.
YouTube is the most undervalued channel in most performance accounts. Short, well-written scripts, hard direction, social proof — and a measurement layer that does not pretend it is search.
Most performance teams undervalue YouTube because they measure it like Google Search and find the CAC unfavorable. They are measuring the wrong thing. YouTube is consideration and reactivation; its job is to populate the brand-search and direct intent that converts later, not to convert in-session. Once the measurement layer reflects that, YouTube becomes one of the more efficient acquisition channels in the mix.
How we run it
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Scripts written, not improvised. We open with a 6-second hook, structure in three beats, end with a single direction. No talking heads without hierarchy.
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In-stream skippable for consideration; bumpers for reactivation; YouTube Shorts for upper-funnel discovery. Three formats, three purposes — not interchangeable.
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View-through credit modeled in the warehouse, not in Google Ads. Last-click gives you a CPA that has nothing to do with what the channel actually contributed.
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Brand-search lift as a real-time read. If brand search is not lifting after 4 weeks of YouTube spend, the creative is the problem, not the channel.
Where it works
YouTube earns its place by lifting the rest of the funnel. Run it that way and it pays for itself; run it as a CPA channel and it never will.
Where it breaks
Where YouTube breaks: programs that allocate to YouTube based on Google Ads' last-click attribution and decide it underperforms. They decommission the channel and watch their brand-search demand quietly soften two months later.
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