Afrobeats x amapiano launch
No past buyers to retarget. Built for purchases from day one.
Names withheld. Every number below is pulled straight from the ad accounts.
$95K of ad spend. $292K of it tracked directly to Meta ads at 3.1x; the ticketing platform reports $732K in total ticket sales across the same events.
46 sales campaigns have returned over 4x. Here are the ones that tell the story.
No past buyers to retarget. Built for purchases from day one.
Past buyers first, then lookalikes. Sold out in 10 days.
275 orders from under $400.
One themed hook, one sales campaign, one weekend.
Second edition, warm audience from the first.
Cold and warm ad sets kept apart so they never competed.
Live within days of the fixture. Diaspora targeting.
Same event, same page: sales build 8.8x, traffic build 2.5x.
Copy written for the group chat, not the algorithm.
Each edition's buyers became the next one's audience.
Cold test returned 7.4x. Scaled 11x and still held 4.5x.
One concrete hook: the boat. Sales campaign only.
Meta-reported purchases and purchase value, Aug 2023 to Sep 2026, purchase-optimised campaigns with $250+ spend. One order can include several tickets.
Free-entry residencies are judged on cost per RSVP, not return. Two weekly Latin residencies and a multi-city R&B series, all on sign-up pages we built.