Performance Marketing that hunts for what's actually working

We work out where growth actually pays for your business. Then we run the marketing to get there. We follow the money, all the way to the bank.

Zero Fluff is a performance marketing agency for consumer brands, tired of reports that look good and mean nothing.
We judge every channel on margin, payback and cash, and we tell you when something stops paying, even if it's ours.

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What we do.Each service stands on its own.

Paid media

Campaigns run against margin, not against the panel.

Creative

Ads made to sell, and judged on what they sell.

Search

Being found in search results and in AI answers.

Analytics

Data you can trust before you move a budget on it.

Recent results

Indexed to the starting quarter = 100NEW CUSTOMERSMEDIA INVESTMENTCOST PER NEW CUSTOMER0100200300New customers, Start: 100New customers, Q2 rebuild: 216New customers, Q3 peak: 284New customers, Q4 stress test: 238New customers, Q1 efficiency: 178178Media investment, Start: 100Media investment, Q2 rebuild: 232Media investment, Q3 peak: 225Media investment, Q4 stress test: 164Media investment, Q1 efficiency: 118118Cost per new customer, Start: 100Cost per new customer, Q2 rebuild: 107Cost per new customer, Q3 peak: 79Cost per new customer, Q4 stress test: 69Cost per new customer, Q1 efficiency: 6767STARTQ2 REBUILDQ3 PEAKQ4 STRESS TESTQ1 EFFICIENCY

A recovery-footwear brand

A category-defining recovery-footwear brand had a growing market, a best-in-class product, and a shrinking customer base.

  • −33% cost per new customer, exit quarter vs starting quarter
  • 50% → 95% share of paid media on prospecting
+27.8%New customers, full year
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How we work,
four steps

1

Find the money question

What growth would pay for your business, given margin, payback, cash and stock.

2

Plan in order

What to scale, what to stop, what to check first. And what we are assuming.

3

Do the work

Campaigns, creative, SEO, analytics and research. Not just slides about them.

4

Decide on the numbers

Keep, cut or test, with a picture of the result you can discuss with the board.

“Their engagement is impressive.”
Marta PodhoreckaMarketing Manager, Brandline Group · Clutch review
4.9Average rating on Clutch
62Client reviews on Clutch
26Case studies

Optimising the report is easy.
We optimise for the margin.

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Anti-vanity

A nice ROAS in the panel is a signal, not a result.

Incrementality

We ask what would have happened without the spend.

Honesty

We say what we know, what we assume and where the risk is.

Marketing tied to the P&L

Margin, lifetime value, payback, cash.

Let's find what's actually working.

Bring one budget decision you are unsure about and talk it through with us.

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