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AF Digital Marketing Group
Panama City Beach  ·  Est. 2021
Performance marketing · plain English

Ads that work.

We're a small paid-media shop on the Florida Panhandle. We run Meta, Google, and TikTok ads for service businesses, e-commerce brands, and the kind of operator who would rather see a Friday memo than a quarterly deck.

$22M
Managed spend · 2021–2026
−31%
Avg. CAC reduction · 90 days
12
Active accounts · cap is 16

What we actually do.

Four disciplines, run in-house. Everything else, we tell you you don't need.

01 / Paid social

Meta & TikTok ads

Account ownership, creative testing, weekly readouts. Most of our client spend lives here — particularly for service businesses and DTC under $20M.

02 / Paid search

Google & YouTube

Search campaigns where intent already exists. Display and YouTube when the funnel needs a top-of-funnel push. We don't run search for brands that don't have search demand.

03 / Local lead gen

Local services & home services

Roofers, HVAC, pool service, fencing, dock builders — the Panhandle is full of these and we're good at them. Geo-targeting, call tracking, lead routing to the actual installer.

04 / Conversion design

Landing pages & offers

We write the copy and ship the pages. Every campaign we run has a page we built behind it. Most of our wins come from the offer, not the targeting.

The shop.

Started in 2021, originally to run media for one beach-rental company. Grew because the work got results and the owner kept telling other owners. Still small on purpose.

We're a four-person team out of Panama City Beach. One owner, two media buyers, one creative. Everybody who works here used to work somewhere bigger — agencies, in-house brand teams — and got tired of the layers between the people doing the work and the clients paying for it.

We've kept the headcount small on purpose. The reason we can move fast and write the memos ourselves is because there's nobody to delegate to. We cap the client book at sixteen accounts, which is roughly four per buyer. We're at twelve today.

The work itself is pretty plain. We run ads. We watch the numbers. We change what isn't working. We tell you what's working and what isn't, on Mondays, in writing. We've been doing this for long enough that the unsexy parts — the account structure, the creative iteration cadence, the Friday memo — are mostly muscle memory at this point.

// the shop, by the numbers
  • Founded 2021
  • Headcount 4
  • Active accounts 12 / 16
  • Median engagement 2.3 yrs
  • Avg. account spend $28K / mo
  • Pitch decks delivered 0

Recent work.

A representative sample of what an engagement here looks like. Details have been generalized; we share specifics on the second call with references.

01
Regional roofing contractorPensacola → Tallahassee
Rebuilt a leaking Meta funnel that had been generating leads at $145/each. Restructured campaigns, killed three creative formats that weren't working, ran a 6-week creative test.
CAC: $145 → $61
Lead volume +2.4×
02
Vacation rental property mgmt30A corridor
Took over a Google Ads account that was running on autopilot. Negative keyword cleanup, conversion tracking fix, restructured into match-type-discipline campaigns.
ROAS: 3.1× → 6.8×
Spend flat
03
DTC apparel brandFlorida coastal lifestyle
Scaled Meta from $15K/mo to $90K/mo over 9 months. Most of the work was creative pipeline — built a UGC system and tested 80+ hooks during the ramp.
Spend +6×
Blended ROAS held

How we run an account.

Three phases. The same three for every client. The boring parts are the parts that work.

01 // Audit

First two weeks

We go through your existing accounts, your historical creative, and your measurement setup. We deliver a written audit — what's working, what isn't, what we'd do differently. If the audit doesn't read well to you, we part ways and you keep the document.

02 // Build

Weeks three to six

Campaign restructure, creative testing roadmap, conversion design, measurement fixes. Mostly invisible work. The reason scaling later works is because this part got done first.

03 // Run

Ongoing

Weekly Monday memo. Bi-weekly working session if you want it, async by default. Quarterly retrospective. We will tell you when to stop spending. We will tell you when something we shipped isn't working. That's the deal.

Tell us about the account.
// Write to
advertising@afdigitalmarketinggroup.com
// The shop
14101 Panama City Beach Pkwy
Suite 203
Panama City Beach, FL 32413
// Hours
Mon–Fri 9–6 Central
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