How we got here
Tackle Ads was founded in 2024 by two former in-house growth leads who'd spent five years cumulatively at high-growth DTC brands. We'd seen agencies burn ad budgets, deliver vanity decks, and disappear when the numbers stopped looking pretty. We figured we could do better.
The premise was simple: a small senior team, paid a flat retainer (not a percent of your ad spend), giving you the same level of strategic ownership you'd get from an in-house head of growth — at half the cost and with a wider toolkit.
How we work
We run lean on purpose. No account managers between you and the people doing the work. The strategist on your account is the person buying media, briefing creative, and writing the weekly Loom. We can keep that promise because we cap our roster.
Who we work with
Most of our clients are ecommerce brands doing $500k to $20M a year, spending between $20k and $500k per month on paid acquisition. We're not a fit for very small brands (under $10k/mo spend) or massive enterprise accounts — those need different agencies, and we're happy to recommend one.
What we won't do
- Charge a percent of ad spend (it creates the wrong incentive)
- Lock you into long contracts (we earn renewals month by month)
- Run "awareness" campaigns without an attribution path
- Sell you a 14-channel funnel when you need 2 channels run well
- Hide what we're doing inside reporting decks designed to look busy
Where we are
Our team is fully distributed (US East Coast, US West Coast, Lisbon). We meet quarterly somewhere reasonable, usually around an industry conference. Operating address: Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
The numbers, since you asked
- Fixed monthly management fee + variable media fee model
- Reference list shared selectively
- 3.8× average blended ROAS across accounts
- Month-to-month structure after onboarding
- 5 full-time team members
Want to see if we're a fit?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll review your current setup and tell you honestly whether we'd help — including saying "you don't need an agency yet" if that's the case.