PERFORMANCE MARKETING / D2C

PerformancemarketingforD2C brandsthatneedmorethanads.

Most agencies are not fixing your growth. They are managing your ad account.

We work on what's underneath the campaign. The offer, the funnel, the numbers. Then we run the ads.

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Trusted by D2C brands spending lakhs on ads every month
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/ 01Why most D2C ad accounts quietly bleed

Three kinds of agencies.
Only one moves the needle.

KIND / 01
Run by media buyers.

Optimises CPMs and CTRs. Sends weekly reports. Doesn't know your AOV.

low
KIND / 02
Run by creative shops.

Beautiful ads. Strong hooks. No idea why mobile checkout drops 60%.

mid
KIND / 03
Run by people who own the P&L.

Knows your margin. Fixes the funnel. Scales what's already profitable.

5.2×

We're the third kind.

— That's why we built Bluvo Digital
/ 02The head start

There are no shortcuts.
We just took the long route first.

Every "profitable" ad account is the result of dozens of expensive lessons. We've already paid for them. Yours starts where most agencies are still guessing.

THE LONG WAY
A generic agency.
18 months of testing.
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STRATEGY PIVOTS
₹40L+
WASTED SPEND
18 mo
TO BREAK-EVEN
Same destination · Profitable scale
OUR WAY
Bluvo. 90 days. One straight scale.
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STRATEGY
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HERE'S HOW WE KNOW

Eight years of paid lessons.
Built into every account we touch.

₹40Cr+
in ad spend managed
EVERY LESSON ALREADY PAID FOR
60+
D2C brands scaled from zero
BEAUTY · WELLNESS · APPAREL · F&B
8 yr
of pattern recognition
SAME FOUR LEAKS, AGAIN & AGAIN

We are the performance marketing team that also fixes the funnel.
That is the whole advantage.

/ 03How we think

Every D2C account leaks money in four places.

Most agencies fix the one they can see. We work through all four, in order. That's why our accounts compound and theirs plateau.

LEAK / 01

The product page is a brochure, not a salesperson.

It describes the product. It doesn't sell it. No objection handling. No comparison to what they're currently using. No proof from a buyer who looks like them. No honest reason to buy today.

A good product doesn't sell itself online. It needs the page to do the work a salesperson would do in a store. Most pages don't, because they were never built to.

LEAK / 02

The ad and the page tell different stories.

The ad promises a transformation. The page describes ingredients. The ad shows a before-and-after. The page leads with brand values.

The buyer clicks expecting one thing and lands on something else. Bounce within eight seconds. The founder blames the ad. The agency tries new creative. The page never picks up where the ad left off, so the conversation breaks every time.

LEAK / 03

The account is scaling the wrong SKU.

Most D2C catalogues have one or two SKUs that carry the business. Sometimes the founder's hero product isn't the actual hero.

The data often shows a kit or a bundle with 2× the AOV and 30% better repeat rate. The account is spending against the wrong winner because that's what the brief said to push. Switch the spend to the real hero and the same ad budget produces a different business.

LEAK / 04

The first order is the only order.

Most accounts measure first-purchase ROAS and stop. The dashboard shows 4×. The bank account doesn't grow at 4×.

No 60-day LTV. No WhatsApp flow to get the second order. No retention loop. The business is renting customers, not keeping them. The agency reports profit. The founder feels the gap. Both are right.

/ 04The process

Three phases. One rebuilt account.

No 60-page Notion docs. No weekly status calls that should've been a Slack message. Each phase produces something you can see, measure, and act on.

01
WEEKS 1 — 2
Phase 1

The Diagnosis.

We map where money is being lost, which channels are actually profitable, and what your true CAC and contribution margins look like. Before we touch a single campaign.

02
WEEKS 3 — 4
Phase 2

The Rebuild.

We restructure campaigns around your real economics. Fix what is leaking. Reset spend toward what actually compounds, kill what is quietly draining the account.

03
WEEKS 5 — 8
Phase 3

The System.

Performance stabilises. Scaling decisions come from clarity. Reporting shifts from "what happened" to "what to do next."

THE OUTCOME

Within 60 days, you will have more control over your growth than you have had in the last 12 months.

/ 05About me
Shitanshu Kumar, Founder of Bluvo Digital
Shitanshu Kumar
Founder, Bluvo Digital
Available
8 yr
Years Experience
60+
Brands Worked With
₹40Cr+
Ad Spend Managed
5+
D2C Verticals
LinkedIn Profile
From the founder

Most agencies sell you the partner and deliver the intern. I don't run Bluvo that way.

Every strategy that touches your account passes through me. The audit, the structure, the scaling decisions, the hard calls. My team handles execution and the day-to-day, the way it should be. But the thinking and the difficult conversations sit with me.

I will tell you when your offer is wrong before I tell you your ads are.

I will tell you when to stop spending, even when it costs me the retainer.

That's the only version of this work I find worth doing. The four-leak framework wasn't built in a slide deck. It was built across 60+ D2C accounts where I made every one of those mistakes first, on my own time, with my own learning curve.

If that's the kind of partnership you're looking for, the call will tell us both quickly.

— ShitanshuFounder · Operator · The one in your Slack
More D2C categories scaled
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/ 06The toolkit

Four platforms. Nine industries. One operating standard.

We operate inside your account, not just on top of it. Here's what we actually run.

Platforms we run

Fluent in four.

Daily account ownership. Not just managed, operated.

Meta Ads
Full-funnel structures. CAPI rebuilds. Audience layering. Creative testing systems.
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Google Ads
Search, PMax, Demand Gen, YouTube. 150+ term negative keyword libraries built across accounts.
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YouTube Ads
Consideration-stage video for higher-AOV D2C. Long-form creative, audience signals, view-through retargeting.
VIDEO
Amazon Ads
Sponsored Products, brand defence, listing-to-ad alignment. PDP optimisation included.
D2C
Where we've scaled

Nine verticals deep.

Different categories. Same operating standard.

60+
D2C Accounts
9
Verticals
/ 01D2C Beauty & Skincare
/ 02Premium Apparel & Ethnic Wear
/ 03Wellness & Supplements
/ 04Premium F&B
/ 05Home & Lifestyle
/ 06Jewellery & Accessories
/ 07Mattress & Sleep
/ 08Florals & Gifting
/ 09Subscription D2C

If your account isn't on this list, we'll tell you on the call.

— No vertical we haven't seen before is worth pretending otherwise
/ 07The principles
By design

We do not operate like most agencies. By design.

We would rather tell you an uncomfortable truth than protect the relationship. These are the rules we run every account by.

/ 01

We do not optimise for dashboards.

If a metric looks healthy but the bank account isn't growing, we don't trust the metric.

/ 02

We do not scale what is not ready.

Pouring spend on a leaky funnel just leaks faster. The fix comes first. The scale comes after.

/ 03

We do not say yes to everything.

If your offer is wrong, we say so. If your hero SKU is wrong, we say so. Agreement isn't service.

/ 04

We do not hide behind reports.

You get the truth on a Slack message. Not buried in a 30-page deck on Monday.

/ 05

No junior touches your account.

Strategy and hard calls sit with the operators who built the framework. Execution is supported by the team.

/ 06

We spend your money like it is ours.

If a campaign doesn't move the business forward, we kill it. Even if it means a smaller retainer.

/ 08The fit check

We're not for everyone.
And we're okay with that.

Telling you upfront saves us both a call. Read both columns. If the right one feels uncomfortably close to home, we're probably the wrong agency. No hard feelings.

Green flags

You'll like us if…

You see your ad account as a P&L line, not a marketing cost.

You're okay with us pushing back when we think you're wrong. (We'll be polite about it.)

You've thought about who's actually buying your product. Even a hypothesis works.

You understand the funnel gets fixed before the spend gets scaled.

Red flags

We're probably wrong for you if…

Budget is your only filter. We're not the cheapest. We're not trying to be.

You want a team that follows orders without thinking. (Plenty of agencies will. We won't.)

You want to scale spend before fixing the leaks underneath. The math doesn't work.

You think performance is the agency's problem alone. If the offer or page doesn't work, we both lose.

Felt seen by the right column? No hard feelings. We'd rather point you to someone who's a better fit than waste your time.

/ 09 · FAQs

What people
ask before they
sign.

The seven questions every D2C founder asks on the first call. Now answered before the call.

Got a different one?
Bring it to the call, or send it ahead.
hello@bluvodigital.com

Most freelancers can run ads. Most agencies can manage them. Neither typically owns the funnel, the offer, or the unit economics around the ad.

We do. That is the whole difference. If your account just needs hands on Meta and Google, you do not need us. If your account needs someone who will diagnose the leaks underneath, plug them, and then scale, that is what we do.

No. Anyone who does is selling you a number, not a business outcome.

Your ROAS depends on your category, your margin, your product, your retention loop, and your competition. What we commit to is the work: the diagnosis, the rebuild, the system. The numbers follow when the work is right.

Weeks 1 to 2 are the diagnosis. We map where money is being lost, your true CAC, contribution margin, and which channels are actually profitable. You get the full diagnosis document by end of week 2.

Weeks 3 to 4 are the rebuild. We restructure campaigns around your real economics, fix what is leaking, and kill what is quietly draining the account.

Engagements start at a level where it makes sense for brands already running meaningful ad spend, typically ₹5L+ per month.

The exact number depends on scope: audit only, partial management, or full operating partner. We will walk you through the options on the call, and tell you honestly if your current stage is too early to benefit from working with us.

On strategy and the hard calls, yes. Every audit, every campaign architecture, every scaling decision passes through me.

Day-to-day execution is handled by my team, the way it should be. The thinking and the difficult conversations are mine.

That works. We have two paths for in-house teams.

One is a strategic audit and rebuild plan that your team executes, with us on Slack for the first 30 days. The other is a fractional operating partner model where we run the strategic layer and your team handles tactical execution. We will figure out which fits on the call.

We take on a limited number of accounts at any given time, because the model only works if I can be close to the strategy of every one of them.

If we are a fit, we usually start within 7 to 10 days of the first call. If we are at capacity, we will tell you on the call and you will know exactly where you stand.

If you've read this far,
we should probably talk.

30 minutes. No pitch deck, no follow-up sequence, no pressure. Just a real conversation about your business and whether we are the right people to build for it.

If you have questions or need anything during business hours, get in touch.

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