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Pet products PPC for food, treat, supplement, and wellness brands. We run Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Chewy alongside Google Shopping, and report every dollar on auto-ship adjusted return on ad spend.

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$999+
per month · published
30 days
brief to launch
90+
mobile Lighthouse · launch gate
+38% booked calls after rebuild
AUTO-SHIP WIRED ATTRIBUTION
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Trustpilot4.7/5★★★★★
Clutch5.0/5★★★★★
Google5.0/5★★★★★
DesignRush4.9/5★★★★★
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4.9 WEIGHTED AVERAGE · VERIFIED BY PET BRAND FOUNDERS WHO PAID FOR THE WORK

Three ways your pet brand PPC is losing auto-ship orders

If any of these looks familiar, the free Google Ads audit names the fix and what it's worth before you spend a dollar.

Pet products PPC in review list where waiting is what costs beside a phone stocked rack that does not wait
CREATIVE

Meta rejects pet supplement and food creative on the health category flag

Meta rejects 47 percent of pet supplement creative on health-category and before/after flags. Sub CAC climbs 20 to 30 percent for the month while your ad account waits in review. The fix is a pet-safe creative library reviewed against Meta policy before launch.

✓THE FIX · PET-SAFE CREATIVE LIBRARY
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CHANNEL SPLIT

Amazon Sponsored Products steals DTC orders from your own Google Shopping bids

Pet parents click your Google Shopping ad, price-check on Amazon and Chewy, then buy there at 15 percent lower margin. Your DTC LTV erodes campaign after campaign. The fix is cross-channel source tagging plus an Amazon plus Chewy coordination layer so each marketplace ad reinforces your DTC funnel instead of cannibalizing it.

✓THE FIX · CROSS-CHANNEL SOURCE TAGGING
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CREATIVE

TikTok pet UGC burns out in 3 to 4 weeks without a fresh creator drop

Reuse the same 2 TikTok Spark Ads for a month, CPM doubles and TikTok Shop revenue drops 40 to 60 percent in a quarter. The fix is a monthly creator sprint with breed-specific unboxing, allergen-friendly ingredient reveals, and veterinarian endorsement clips so the creative library refreshes on cadence.

✓THE FIX · MONTHLY CREATOR SPRINT

3 outcomes every pet brand PPC retainer produces

Three numbers we sign against on every PPC program. Each one is a launch criterion, not a hope.

Pet products PPC line chart with a marked point, labeled lands on the floor

Lower cost per new auto-ship pet parent signup

Tight campaign structure, sharp negative keywords, and breed and ingredient landing pages drop median CAC from $46 to $18 inside the first 60 days.

Pet products PPC product cards with one checked beside a phone Subscribe screen, already selected

Same-session subscribe and save auto-ship conversion

Every pet products ad click lands on a one hero SKU page with ingredient story, subscribe and save default selected, and full Shopify checkout tracking.

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Weekly written pet brand PPC founder recap note

A written note every Monday from the pet media buyer running your account. Every claim tied back to Shopify or WooCommerce auto-ship signup data.

Four stages. Every step ends in a sign-off

Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed outcomes. Nothing moves to the next stage until your founder or ops lead signs the gate deliverable.

WEEK 1

Audit that exposes wasted spend and untracked auto-ship signups

Full campaign audit surfacing wasted spend, missing negatives, misconfigured conversions, and untracked Shopify auto-ship signup events. Median finding on new pet products accounts is 42 percent wasted spend and 247 missing negatives. Written up in a 20-page audit report signed off before we touch structure.

✓SIGN-OFF
WEEK 2

Campaigns rebuilt around hero SKU profitability

Campaigns rebuilt around your hero SKU profitability. Higher-margin SKUs get a higher target CPA. SKAG-lite structure with match-type discipline, Performance Max layered where your product feed qualifies, and negative keyword sculpt to strip waste before it starts.

✓SIGN-OFF
WEEKS 2-4

First live paid auto-ship signup inside 14 days

Landing pages built per campaign with cart flow, review proof, and trust badges. Every ad tracked through to a Shopify-verified auto-ship signup. If we do not hit a paid auto-ship signup inside 14 days, your first month is free.

✓GUARANTEE
MONTH 2+

Optimize and scale against real Shopify revenue

Weekly ad copy A/B tests, bid strategy tuning, landing page CVR iteration, and negative keyword sculpt. Once CPA is stable, spend scales into the ceiling. Every scaling decision tied to auto-ship signup MRR and your fulfillment capacity, not vanity spend targets.

✓MONITORING

What you actually get from our pet products PPC services

Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed outcomes. Each phase below has a defined deliverable, a written sign-off, and a date on the calendar.

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Week 1

Audit that exposes wasted spend and broken auto-ship tracking

Full pet products campaign audit surfacing wasted spend, missing negatives, misconfigured conversions, and untracked Shopify auto-ship signup events. Median finding on new pet products accounts is 42 percent wasted spend and 247 missing negatives. Written up in a 20-page audit report signed off before we touch structure.

PHASE DURATION
Week 1
SIGN-OFF
Written report
✓GATE · SIGN-OFF GATE
// DELIVERABLES
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Wasted spend and query miningevery search term with pet products spend reviewed. Off-category, brand-competitor, and irrelevant queries surfaced for negative keyword sculpt.
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Auto-ship conversion setup auditare conversions counting clicks (wrong), add-to-cart (better), or auto-ship signup (right)? Fixed at the root before any bid change.
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Product page and CVR auditproduct page conversion rate benchmarked against pet products category average. Every ad group mapped to its landing page with a CVR score.
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Written 20-page reportfounder and ops lead review and sign off before we rebuild. Nothing changes without a written go-ahead.
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Competitor auction insighttop DTC pet brands and Chewy category leaders pulled from Auction Insights and priced against your target ROAS ceiling.
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Baseline Shopify and GA4 reconciliationlast 90 days of pet products orders mapped by source so the audit report starts with a real blended CAC and auto-ship adjusted ROAS number.
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Week 2

Campaigns rebuilt around hero SKU profitability

Higher-margin pet products SKUs get a higher target CPA than commodity items. SKAG-lite structure with match-type discipline, Performance Max layered where your Google Merchant Center feed qualifies, and negative keyword sculpt to strip waste before it starts.

PHASE DURATION
Week 2
SIGN-OFF
Hero SKU first
✓GATE · PMAX WHERE YOU QUALIFY
// DELIVERABLES
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Hero SKU campaign structuretop revenue SKUs and category clusters each get their own campaign with target CPA based on SKU LTV including auto-ship reorder value.
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Negative keyword sculpt247 negatives added on average in the first pass. Prevents your budget from being drained by human food, competitor Chewy queries, and off-species traffic.
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Match-type disciplineexact and phrase for high-intent breed and ingredient queries, broad only on tightly scoped clusters. Every match type has a written rationale.
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Performance Max where you qualifyPMax layered where your Google Merchant Center feed and creator library qualify. Feed hygiene, GTIN, and asset group segmentation are done, not defaulted.
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Breed and size targetingad groups split by breed size, life stage, and dietary need so a small-breed senior joint SKU never shows on a large-breed puppy query.
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Amazon and Chewy coordinationAmazon Sponsored Products and Chewy retargeting coordinated with your DTC bids so marketplace spend feeds subscribe and save signups instead of cannibalizing them.
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Weeks 2 to 4

First paid auto-ship signup inside 14 days

Landing pages built per campaign with cart flow, ingredient panel, veterinarian endorsement, and trust badges. Every ad tracked through to a Shopify-verified auto-ship signup. Miss the 14-day first paid auto-ship mark, your first month is free.

PHASE DURATION
Weeks 2 to 4
SIGN-OFF
14-day guarantee
✓GATE · SERVER-SIDE TRACKING
// DELIVERABLES
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Hero SKU landing pagesevery campaign gets its own landing page built around one hero pet product or breed cluster. Homepage traffic never dilutes intent.
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Auto-ship signup conversion trackingconversion is Shopify subscribe and save signup, not click to cart. Tracked from ad to landing page to cart to Shopify checkout entry.
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Server-side pixel and GA4Meta CAPI, TikTok Events API, and Google Ads pixels wired with server-side backup. iOS 14 aware attribution baked in from day one.
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14-day guarantee in writingmiss the 14-day first paid auto-ship signup mark, your first month is free.
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Ingredient and allergen creativelanding page copy leads with the ingredient story pet parents care about most: grain-free, limited ingredient, AAFCO complete, veterinarian formulated.
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Unboxing UGC on the pagecreator unboxing videos embedded above the fold with breed and size labels so a pet parent sees their dog or cat on the landing page.
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Weekly cadence

Cost per auto-ship signup drops week over week

Ad copy A/B tests, bid strategy tuning, product page conversion iteration, and negative keyword sculpt run weekly. Average pet products account CPA drops 50 percent from launch to week 8. Every optimization is tied back to Shopify-verified auto-ship signups.

PHASE DURATION
Weekly cadence
SIGN-OFF
A/B testing
✓GATE · WRITTEN NOTE
// DELIVERABLES
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Weekly written optimization notesevery Monday: what changed last week, impact on CPA and auto-ship signup, what is being tested this week.
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Ad copy and creative A/B testingheadline, description, and creative testing at ad group level. Winners promoted, losers killed. No copy running longer than 4 weeks without a test.
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Bid strategy tuningmanual to target CPA to target ROAS progression as data compounds. Bid caps and budget shifting between hero SKU campaigns based on cohort LTV.
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Landing page CVR iterationproduct page conversion rate benchmark tracked weekly. Copy, form, and hero test cycles run in-house without waiting on external design.
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Chewy retargeting layerChewy shoppers who bounced on price get retargeted through Meta and Display with your DTC subscribe and save offer plus loyalty perks.
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Seasonal creative rotationholiday, back-to-school, and summer pet-parent moments planned 60 days out so creative is queued, not scrambled.
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Month 3+

Scale spend against real Shopify-verified revenue

Once CPA is stable, we scale pet products ad spend into the ceiling. Meta, TikTok, and Amazon Sponsored Products layered as retargeting and awareness. Every scaling decision tied to auto-ship signup MRR and your fulfillment capacity, not vanity spend targets.

PHASE DURATION
Month 3+
SIGN-OFF
Capacity aware
✓GATE · FOUNDER REPORT
// DELIVERABLES
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Spend-to-capacity modelad spend scaled against your fulfillment capacity and auto-ship signup throughput. Nothing spent past what your warehouse can fulfill.
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Meta and Display retargeting layeronce search demand is captured, Meta and Display layer built as retargeting for site visitors and lookalike for auto-ship subscribers.
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Monthly written report to founderevery 30 days: ad spend, auto-ship signup count, cost per auto-ship signup, revenue from paid, auto-ship adjusted ROAS, next month plan.
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Quarterly strategy reviewevery 90 days we present ROI and book of tests to leadership. Budget shifts and strategy tweaks signed off in the meeting.
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TikTok Shop scale planTikTok Shop layered where creator library and product margin qualify. Live shopping cadence and creator commission tiers written into the plan.
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Veterinarian endorsement testingveterinarian endorsement clips tested as a creative angle at scale, matched to breed and life-stage audience segments.
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Four pet brand PPC tiers for every DTC brand stage

Flat monthly fee. Every workstream listed, the quote you get is the invoice you pay. Ad spend billed by each network directly. The retainer runs a 6-month initial term, then rolls month to month, and you can change tiers with 30 days notice.

Launch
$999MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

First-time pet advertisers; ad budgets under $2,000/mo

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: $2K ✓Campaign builds: Up to 3 ✓Dedicated landing pages: 1 ✓Call tracking + recording ✓Negative keyword sculpting ✓Audience + geo targeting
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Growth
$1,499MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

Pet brands spending $2,000–$5,000/mo on ads

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Google Shopping ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: $5K ✓Campaign builds: Up to 6 ✓Dedicated landing pages: 3 ✓Call tracking + recording ✓Negative keyword sculpting
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Scale
$2,499MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

Aggressive growth; $5,000–$10,000/mo ad budgets

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Google Shopping ✓Meta ads (Facebook/Instagram) ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: $10K ✓Campaign builds: Unlimited ✓Dedicated landing pages: 6 ✓Call tracking + recording
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Enterprise
Starts at $4,500MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

National and multi-brand pet holdcos; $10,000+/mo managed spend

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Google Shopping ✓Meta ads (Facebook/Instagram) ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: Unlimited ✓Campaign builds: Unlimited ✓Dedicated landing pages: Custom ✓Call tracking + recording
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Pet Products PPC Tiers and Features

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Landing page CRO tests
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Negative keyword sculpting
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Weekly optimization cycle
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CRM offline-conversion sync
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Monthly performance review
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Weekly written note
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Live spend + lead dashboard
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Case studies See all case studies

Real pet brands, real ad spend, real auto-ship revenue

Each one includes where the client started, what we changed and what happened.

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Pet Shop · Multi-Store Retail · UK

Grew local inquiries 2.6× for a UK pet retail chain up against the marketplaces, with a mobile-first rebuild and daily social.

A UK pet retail chain was losing mobile shoppers to online marketplaces. Its dated site hid the phone number and had no way to order for pickup. We rebuilt it for mobile with call, WhatsApp and reserve buttons, tuned its Google Business Profile listings and posted daily on Instagram and Facebook. Within one quarter, calls and WhatsApp inquiries rose 158%, pickup orders rose 212% and repeat customers rose 47%.

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+158%
Calls + whatsapp
+212%
Click & collect
+47%
Repeat customers
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Veterinary · 400+ Locations

Grew Mission Pet Health leads 54% across 400+ veterinary clinics in the US.

Mission Pet Health, a veterinarian-owned network of 400+ animal hospitals, ran paid campaigns in silos. Its budgets ignored each clinic's capacity. We merged the ad accounts, launched Performance Max and Local Services Ads, and tied budgets to clinic capacity and financial data. Leads grew 54% year over year, ROAS beat its 12-month goal by 74% and efficiency improved 11% while spend scaled.

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74%
ROAS goal beat
11%
ROAS efficiency
54%
Lead growth
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Insurance · Pet · Australia

Drove 1132% ROI at Pet Insurance Australia, with a 31.06% conversion rate in 5 months.

Pet Insurance Australia fought much larger insurers for ad clicks. Its products were complex, and it had no landing pages or remarketing to win over buyers who were unsure. We built keyword-focused Google Ads with custom landing pages, remarketing and constant bid and ad tests. In 5 months the ads drove 455 conversions at a 31.06% conversion rate, returning $11 for every $1 spent.

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455
Conversions
31.06%
Conversion rate
1132%
ROI

CLIENT WORDS

Catalog ads at 5.8x where our old agency plateaued at 2x. Weekly notes tell us exactly what changed and what is next.
Josh Gingrich
CEO, Printed Mint
Verified via Clutch
5.8x catalog ROAS 3.4x return vs prior agency
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  • Smile Design Dentistry
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  • Toyota
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  • VP Dental & Medical Supplies
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Paid media management for pet brands is the day-to-day work of running campaigns on Google Ads, Google Shopping, Meta, TikTok, Amazon Sponsored Products, and Chewy on behalf of a DTC pet brand. That covers keyword and audience research, bid strategy, negative keyword sculpt, ad copy and creative production, landing page CVR iteration, conversion tracking, and weekly written reporting on auto-ship signups. A dedicated pet media buyer owns the account, sits in on your Monday planning call, and reports every dollar against Shopify-verified auto-ship signups. The management fee is flat and paid monthly. Ad spend goes to Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Shopify integrations directly with no markup. Pet brand founders always know what a paid channel costs against real reorder revenue, not vanity ROAS pulled from last-click. Nothing on the account gets touched without a written note explaining why, what changed, and how it moves cost per auto-ship signup week over week. Reporting cadence is Monday note, monthly founder report, quarterly review.

Retainer tiers start at $999 per month for Launch, $1,499 for Growth, $2,499 for Scale, and from $4,500 for Enterprise. Those are flat management fees. Ad spend is billed by Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Chewy directly and never marked up. Recommended monthly ad spend runs from $1,500 on a Launch DTC pet brand up to $60,000 plus on a national multi-line pet brand with a wide breed and life-stage catalog. The retainer covers a dedicated pet media buyer, weekly written notes, monthly written reports to the founder, quarterly strategy reviews, and full account ownership on cancel. You keep the ad accounts, pixels, product feeds, creative library, and audience lists on day one and forever, even if the retainer ends. Move between tiers with 30 days notice. Enterprise adds custom landing pages, multi-market budget pools, a dedicated success team, and a named lead media buyer plus a backup so response times hold when the first buyer is out. Pet products PPC services are the same team end-to-end at every tier.

For a DTC pet brand under $250k ARR, paid search and social produce auto-ship signups faster because paid clicks land the day the account launches. SEO compounds over 6 to 12 months into breed pages, feeding guides, and ingredient explainers that pull free traffic from Google, PetMD, and Rover forums. Past $500k ARR, the answer is always both. Paid captures demand today and gives fast signal on which breed and ingredient claims convert. SEO builds the moat that keeps CAC balanced when a paid platform raises CPMs. Running only paid ads leaves your brand exposed to any Meta policy shift or Google auction spike. Running only SEO leaves fast pet-parent demand on the table. The right mix for most DTC pet brands is 60 percent paid, 40 percent organic in year one, then shifting toward organic as the content library compounds. Enterprise brands often run a 40 percent paid, 60 percent organic split by year three once the top of funnel is fed by ranking breed pages.

Launch covers Meta only. Growth adds TikTok, TikTok Shop, and Google Shopping plus Amazon partner coordination. Scale runs Meta, TikTok, Google Shopping, Amazon Sponsored Products, and Chewy retargeting on a single dashboard. Enterprise adds custom landing pages, multi-market budget pools, a dedicated success team, and a named media buyer with SLA-backed response times. Chewy retargeting is included from Scale up because that is where Chewy shopper data starts to move the CAC math for DTC brands. Google Shopping feed hygiene through Google Merchant Center is included from Growth up. Amazon Sponsored Products is included from Scale up because at Launch tier the account rarely has the review count to compete on Amazon SERP without wasting spend on brand-defense queries first. TikTok Shop is added on Growth for brands with a working creator library. Performance Max is layered on Growth and Scale once the Merchant Center feed passes hygiene checks on GTIN, ingredient, and life-stage attribute tagging.

Paid pet products ad spend varies widely by channel and stage. On Google Search and Google Shopping, average CPCs for pet food and treat keywords run $0.80 to $2.50 depending on how competitive Chewy and Amazon are on that query. Meta and TikTok CPMs for pet audiences run $8 to $22 with cost per auto-ship signup landing between $18 and $60 after the first 60 days of optimization. Amazon Sponsored Products CPCs run $0.50 to $1.80 on branded pet queries and $1.50 to $4 on category queries. Total spend recommendations start at $1,500 per month at Launch tier and scale into $30,000 to $60,000 per month at Enterprise. A working blended target for a healthy DTC pet brand is $25 to $40 cost per new auto-ship signup with 3.5x to 5x auto-ship adjusted ROAS. Pet supplement and functional treat categories run 20 to 40 percent higher CPC than commodity kibble because more brands are bidding for the same search query on functional benefit claims.

A pet-brand paid media expert owns keyword research, campaign structure, bid strategy, ad copy and creative production, negative keyword sculpt, landing page CVR testing, conversion tracking, and weekly reporting on auto-ship signup performance. On this retainer, the dedicated pet media buyer runs your account end to end, joins your Monday planning call, and signs off on every campaign change before it goes live. Every optimization is written up in a Monday note tied back to Shopify auto-ship signup data, not ad-platform default reporting. The pet media buyer stays with your account across the full retainer, so you never explain your brand, breed catalog, or ingredient story twice. On Enterprise tier you get a named lead media buyer plus a backup so response times hold when the first buyer is out. That media buyer also owns coordination with your Klaviyo lifecycle flows and Chewy account manager so paid, email, and marketplace push the same auto-ship signup event, not three competing metrics.

The fastest way to promote pet products profitably is a mix of Google Shopping for high-intent search demand, Meta and TikTok for creative-driven audience testing, Amazon Sponsored Products for marketplace share of voice, and Chewy retargeting for shoppers who bounced on price. Every channel points at a hero SKU landing page built around one breed or ingredient story with subscribe and save default selected. Google Merchant Center feed hygiene is the single biggest gap most DTC pet brands miss. Complete GTINs, AAFCO attribute tagging, life-stage custom labels, and ingredient panel data grow Shopping impression share 30 to 60 percent before a single bid changes. Pet supplement claims must clear FDA animal veterinary rules before Meta will approve the creative for the health category. Creator-led UGC on TikTok and Meta Reels beats studio ads for pet audiences by 2x to 4x on cost per auto-ship signup because pet parents want to see other dogs and cats using the product before they buy.

For a Launch DTC pet brand testing a single hero SKU on Google Shopping, $20 a day (about $600 per month) is enough to get initial signal on click-through rate, cost per click, and conversion rate. That budget will not hit statistical significance on bid strategy or audience testing inside 30 days. To land the first paid auto-ship signup inside 14 days of launch consistently, budget $1,500 per month or more across Google Shopping plus one Meta prospecting campaign. Under $1,000 per month total, Performance Max cannot compound learning signal fast enough to move cost per auto-ship signup below $60. The Launch tier retainer works well for pet brands spending up to $2,000 a month, and Growth covers up to $5,000. Under that, we recommend running audit only until the budget is ready. Once daily budget passes $50, Google Shopping learning phase closes inside 10 to 14 days and cost per auto-ship signup starts dropping week over week toward the $25 to $40 blended target.

Standard paid pet product retainers run 6 months. Six months is the window we need to run the audit in week 1, rebuild in week 2, launch inside 14 days, and prove the CPA compounding pattern in weeks 8 to 24. On month 7, the retainer rolls month to month with 30 days notice on either side. Enterprise contracts run 12 months with the same rollover terms. If you cancel, you keep the ad accounts, pixels, product feeds, GA4 property, audience lists, creative library, and any custom landing pages we built. Nothing gets held hostage. You get a written handoff document with campaign structure notes, negative keyword rationale, and creative test learnings so your next agency or in-house team hits the ground running with real context. Half-price month-one option available for pet brands with strong existing data hygiene and complete Merchant Center feed already in place. Ask about the fast-start onboarding path when you book the 30-minute audit.

Every Monday you get a written note covering ad spend, cost per auto-ship signup, new auto-ship signup count, blended auto-ship adjusted ROAS, product page conversion rate, and what launched or paused last week. Every 30 days the founder gets a written report covering the same numbers plus 90-day cohort LTV, subscribe and save retention rate, Chewy retargeting recovered orders, and next month plan. Every 90 days we present a written quarterly review to leadership with strategy shifts, creative learnings, budget reallocation between paid channels, and a book of tests planned for the next quarter. Reporting is written first, dashboard second. Founders read a plain-English note, not a Looker Studio dashboard they need a media buyer to interpret. The dashboard is available on Growth tier and up for teams that want the raw numbers pulled from GA4, Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, and Amazon Advertising into one view. Every KPI ties back to a Shopify-verified auto-ship signup, not a last-click conversion.

Google Ads is the umbrella that covers Search, Shopping, Performance Max, YouTube, and Display. Google Shopping pulls product data from your Google Merchant Center feed (GTIN, price, availability, ingredient panel, life-stage) and shows product cards on the SERP. For pet products, Google Shopping and Performance Max together drive the largest share of new auto-ship signups because pet parents shop visually by breed size, life stage, and ingredient claim before they click. Google Search picks up branded and category queries where a pet parent already knows what they want. Performance Max blends Shopping, Search, YouTube, and Display into one budget for pet brands with a mature Merchant Center feed. Launch tier runs Meta only. Growth adds Shopping. Scale runs Shopping plus Performance Max in coordination with Amazon Sponsored Products so marketplace and DTC bids stop cannibalizing each other on brand queries. Feed hygiene must clear GTIN, ingredient, and life-stage attribute checks before Shopping campaigns launch, so a full feed audit sits inside the week 1 kickoff work.

The first paid auto-ship signup lands inside 14 days of launch on 30 DTC pet brands to date. Miss that window, your first month is free. Median cost per auto-ship signup drops 50 percent from launch to week 8 as the negative keyword sculpt tightens and creative winners get promoted. By month 3 the account is either scaling into new markets or holding a stable auto-ship signup number at target CPA. By month 6, most Launch tier brands are ready to graduate to Growth so we can add Google Shopping and Amazon Sponsored Products alongside the Meta account. Onboarding to first launch runs 10 business days for a brand with pixels wired and Shopify plus Merchant Center access ready on day one. Brands without pixels or feed data ready need 15 to 20 business days because Meta CAPI, GA4 conversion setup, and Merchant Center attribute mapping sit on the critical path before the first campaign can go live in the ad platforms.
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