UK paid social agency

Paid social agency for eCommerce brands ready to scale

Meta, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ads run by senior people and judged on the revenue that lands in your store.

Rococo runs paid social for Shopify and WooCommerce brands, with Meta at the centre and TikTok and LinkedIn where the audience justifies it. Built to sell, not to collect likes.

Jake BoaseMatthew JonesLuke KnightBonnie SwannTobias GillottRyan Brundle

Jake, Matt and the team run every account from Arundel, West Sussex.

  • Never a percentage of spend
  • Conversions API as standard
Rococo team reviewing campaign performance on a reporting dashboard
How we reportEvery account

Three sources. One number you can bank.

  • Meta Ads ManagerClaims the most credit
  • GA4Sees sessions, misses some orders
  • Your store revenueWhat actually landed
Meta Ads
Facebook Ads
Instagram Ads
LinkedIn Ads
YouTube Ads
TikTok Ads
Conversions API
Creative Testing
Shopify

The position

Most paid social accounts are judged on the wrong number.

Meta marks its own homework. Three things inflate what Ads Manager reports, and every one of them can be fixed.

  1. Retargeting takes the credit

    Warm audiences convert anyway. Without a new customer split, retargeting claims sales your brand, email or search would have made.

  2. Modelled conversions fill the gaps

    Since iOS opt outs, Meta estimates what it cannot see. Without the Conversions API, those estimates are what set your bids.

  3. Boosted posts buy reach, not orders

    Engagement is cheap and feels like progress. Accounts built on boosts grow followers, not revenue.

Rococo runs paid social against the revenue that lands in your store, with the tracking and creative volume the account needs to scale.

The arithmetic

The two numbers that decide whether Meta ads make you money.

Break even ROAS is one divided by what you keep from each sale. A store keeping 60% of every order breaks even at a ROAS of about 1.7. At 30%, it needs 3.3 before a single pound of profit appears.

That is why a target borrowed from another brand is meaningless. Targets on our accounts are set from your margin, per product group where the data allows it, with headroom above break even.

The gap between reported and real. Meta’s reported ROAS overstates what the ads added, because it claims credit for people who would have bought anyway. We judge accounts on blended figures reconciled against your store revenue and GA4, and run holdout tests where the spend justifies it. For the full workings, use our ROAS calculator.

Break even ROAS calculator

Break even ROAS2.2
Target ROAS2.9

Every £1 spent on ads needs to bring back £2.22 in sales to break even, and £2.86 to hit your profit goal.

Services

Paid social management services.

Everything a paid social account needs to scale profitably, run by the same senior team from tracking setup to the monthly report.

Meta ads: Facebook and Instagram

Prospecting, retargeting and Advantage+ Shopping structured around your catalogue and margin, with Facebook and Instagram placements split by your data.

TikTok and YouTube ads

Video first campaigns for products that sell on demonstration, tested against Meta on cost per new customer before budget moves.

LinkedIn advertising

For B2B offers where one signed client pays for months of spend. Lead forms and conversion tracking tied back to your pipeline.

Retargeting and catalogue ads

Dynamic product ads from your Shopify or WooCommerce catalogue, capped so they do not take credit for customers who were already coming back.

Creative strategy and production

Concepts, copy, static and video made in house, with UGC style and polished brand assets tested against each other every month.

Tracking and reporting

Pixel and Conversions API setup, consistent UTMs, and a monthly report that reconciles Ads Manager with GA4 and your store revenue.

Jake BoaseMatthew Jones

Not sure your tracking is telling the truth? Jake or Matt will check it on the first call.

Jake Boase and Matthew Jones, co-founders of Rococo Digital
Jake and Matt, co-founders

Who runs your account

A senior paid social advertising agency, not a boosting service.

Jake Boase and Matthew Jones scope and run every account, with the work done by our own team in Arundel, West Sussex. Nothing is resold, and nobody hands you to a junior after the pitch.

  • Search, social and email in one team. Meta is planned alongside Google Shopping and Klaviyo, so the channels stop claiming the same sale.
  • You speak to the person running it. No account manager in the middle, and a monthly review against the targets agreed at the start.
  • Creative produced in house. New ad variants every month at the volume your spend needs, because creative fatigue is what usually stalls a good account.
  • No percentage of ad spend. A monthly retainer scoped to the work, so we are never paid more for spending more.
  • Reported against your store. Ads Manager, GA4 and your store revenue side by side, with the number to trust called out.

“Rococo Digital turned our social ads into a consistent growth channel. Their creative and targeting expertise are unmatched.”

Linda Cartwright, Sindy Collectors Club

The specialists on your account.

A small in-house team does the hands-on work alongside Jake and Matt. Nothing is outsourced.

Luke Knight, Digital marketing at Rococo Digital
Luke KnightDigital marketingTurns the plan into the content, social posts and creative that go out each week.
Bonnie Swann, Lead designer at Rococo Digital
Bonnie SwannLead designerLeads visual design, from store UX to the campaign creative your ads run on.
Tobias Gillott, Analyst at Rococo Digital
Tobias GillottAnalystKeeps tracking accurate and reporting clear, so decisions rest on real numbers.
Ryan Brundle, Paid media at Rococo Digital
Ryan BrundlePaid mediaRuns Google Ads and Shopping day to day, so search and social work to the same targets.

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Process

How we run a paid social account.

  1. Audit and tracking

    We review the account, the pixel and Conversions API, your catalogue and your creative history, and fix measurement before anything else.

    First
  2. Targets and plan

    Break even and target ROAS from your margin, a spend plan, and the creative volume needed to sustain it.

    Before launch
  3. Build and launch

    Campaign structure, audiences and the first round of creative, launched with clear tests and agreed success measures.

    Launch
  4. Test and scale

    Creative and audience tests. Winners get budget, fatigued ads are replaced on schedule, and losing ads are cut quickly.

    Every week
  5. Report and plan

    A report reconciled to your store revenue: what worked, what did not, and what we test next.

    Every month

Meta ads

A Meta ads agency that reconciles against your store, not the dashboard.

Since iOS 14.5, Meta has been partially blind: users who opt out of tracking disappear from its view and modelled conversions fill the gap. Running Facebook and Instagram ads well now starts with accepting what the platform cannot see.

Before we scale anything

  • Conversions API and first party data. Server side tracking on your Shopify or WooCommerce store restores a large share of what the pixel lost. We will not push budget through a pixel only setup.
  • A prospecting and retargeting split that holds. Accounts that pour everything into retargeting look brilliant for a quarter, then stall when the warm audience runs dry.
  • Creative volume matched to spend. The higher the budget, the faster audiences burn through ads. The monthly variant count is agreed at scoping, not left to chance.

Calls we make per account, not by policy

  • Advantage+ Shopping, used with eyes open. Strong when an account has real conversion volume and a broad catalogue, opaque and flattering when misused. We tell you which side your account is on.
  • UGC against polished creative, tested rather than preached. Native looking ads usually win the feed auction on cost. Polished assets still carry consideration. The numbers pick the winner.
  • Instagram, Facebook, or both. Placement splits come from your data, not from a template.

Meta rarely works alone for a store. The search side of the same customers lives with our Google Shopping and eCommerce PPC teams, and the repeat revenue side with Klaviyo.

Fit

Who paid social works for, and who should not hire us yet.

Most agency pages claim to work with everyone. Paid social punishes the wrong fit faster than any channel we run, so here is where the line sits.

This works if you have

  • A store with proven product market fit. Paid social scales what already converts. It is an expensive way to discover whether anything converts.
  • Margin that survives the auction. Roughly 40% or better after cost of goods and delivery, or repeat purchases strong enough that the second order pays for winning the first.
  • Room for both media and creative. The budget has to fund fresh ad variants every month as well as the spend itself.
  • A B2B offer where one client pays for the year. LinkedIn clicks cost multiples of Meta clicks, and they are worth it when a single signed client covers months of spend.

Do not hire us yet if

  • You need revenue this week. Testing cycles are measured in weeks and compounding in months. Anyone promising faster is guessing with your money.
  • Your margin is under about 20% after everything. No creative or targeting saves that arithmetic on cold traffic. Paid acquisition is not your channel yet.
  • You want posts boosted and fingers crossed. Boosting is renting reach. We build accounts with structure, measurement and a creative pipeline.
  • You expect Ads Manager to be taken at face value. We reconcile against your store revenue. If you would rather see the flattering number, we are the wrong agency.

Cost

What it costs, and where the line sits.

  • A monthly retainer scoped to the accountStrategy, campaign management, creative production and reporting. We give you the figure on a call once we have seen what the account needs.
  • Never a percentage of ad spendThat model pays an agency more for spending more. Ours pays us for what the spend returns.
  • A one off audit or setup if you are not readyTracking corrected and the account restructured, yours to run, with the option to grow into a retainer later.

The spend floor

£1,500a month going to Meta

Below that, the algorithm cannot gather enough conversion data to learn properly, and a management fee starts to eat the return it is meant to improve. Under the floor, start with a clean setup and our free Shopify store audit.

Works alongside

Paid social works best alongside the rest of your growth.

Social creates demand, search captures it, and email turns first orders into repeat revenue. We run all of it in one team, so each channel is judged on what it adds.

get in touch

Tell us a little about your store.

A few quick details help us point the conversation in the right direction. We reply within one working day, and the first call is a focused 30 minutes with a senior member of the team, not a sales pitch.

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Paid social agency questions.

The questions brands ask us most before hiring a paid social agency.

What is paid social advertising?

Paid social advertising is the use of sponsored posts and ads on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok to reach targeted audiences and drive measurable business results.

Which social platforms do you manage?

We manage campaigns across Meta (Facebook & Instagram), LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube, tailoring creative and targeting to each platform’s audience.

How much should I spend on paid social ads?

About £1,500 a month going to Meta is the floor we work to. Below that the algorithm never gathers enough conversion data to learn properly, and a management fee starts to eat the return it is meant to improve. Under the floor, the better move is a clean setup and a one off audit, then run it yourself until the spend justifies help.

What types of campaigns do you run?

Mostly conversion campaigns for online stores: prospecting to new audiences, retargeting and catalogue ads, and Advantage+ Shopping where the account suits it. We also run lead generation on LinkedIn and Meta for B2B offers.

How do you target the right audience?

On Meta, broad targeting with strong creative now usually beats narrow interest stacks, because the algorithm finds buyers from conversion data. Our job is feeding it clean data through the Conversions API, separating new and returning customers, and testing creative that does the targeting for us.

How do you measure success?

We lead with blended ROAS reconciled against your store revenue, cost per acquisition and new customer share, reported transparently so you see exactly what is working. Platform reported ROAS is in the report too, with its flattery discounted.

What makes Rococo Digital different from other paid social agencies?

The co-founders scope and run every account, targets are set from your margin, and reporting is reconciled against your store revenue rather than Ads Manager. We also build and run the store side, so tracking and landing pages are fixed by the same team.

Do you create the ad visuals and copy?

Yes. Our in-house creative team produces the visuals, copy and video, at the monthly volume the account actually needs, because creative fatigue rather than targeting is the usual reason a good account decays. Native, UGC style ads and polished brand assets are tested against each other, and the numbers pick the winner.

Can paid social work alongside PPC and SEO?

Yes. Paid social creates demand while eCommerce PPC and SEO capture it, and the stores that grow fastest run them together, with email turning the traffic into repeat revenue.

How much does a paid social agency cost in the UK?

The UK market runs from a few hundred pounds a month with a freelancer to five figure retainers at large London agencies. We price as a monthly retainer scoped to the work in your account, and we will give you the figure on a call once we have seen it. One thing we will say publicly: we never charge a percentage of ad spend, because that model pays an agency more for spending more, not for spending better.

What ROAS should I be targeting?

There is no universal number, and a target borrowed from another brand is a common reason accounts underperform. Break even ROAS falls out of your gross margin: a store at 60% margin breaks even around 1.7, a store at 30% margin breaks even around 3.3. Your target should sit above your own break even with headroom, because the platform’s reported ROAS overstates what the ads truly added.

Why is my Meta ROAS lower than it used to be?

Usually the measurement changed more than the performance did. Since Apple’s App Tracking Transparency, Meta cannot see iOS users who opt out of tracking, so it fills the gap with modelled conversions. The fix is the Conversions API, first party data, and judging the account against your store revenue rather than Ads Manager alone.

Do I need the Conversions API on my Shopify or WooCommerce store?

Yes, before anyone scales your spend. The browser pixel on its own misses a meaningful share of conversions to tracking prevention and opt outs, and the algorithm optimises on whatever data it receives. We implement the Conversions API on Shopify and WooCommerce as part of onboarding, and we will not push budget through a pixel only setup.

Should I use Advantage+ Shopping campaigns?

Sometimes. Advantage+ Shopping works when an account has real conversion volume and a broad enough catalogue to give the algorithm choices. It also hides most of the levers and is happy to claim returning customers as new revenue, so on smaller or newer accounts we usually earn the data with structured campaigns first. It is a decision per account, not a policy.

How long before paid social is profitable?

Testing cycles are measured in weeks and compounding results in months. A typical account shows meaningful signal inside the first month and settles into dependable performance over a quarter. Paid social does not rescue this week’s revenue, and anyone promising that is gambling with your budget.

Who will actually run my account?

Jake Boase and Matthew Jones, the co-founders, scope and run every account, with the work done by our own team in West Sussex. Nothing is resold, nothing is outsourced offshore, and nobody hands you to a junior after the pitch.