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Finance brands optimize to the cheapest top-of-funnel event — a signup, an application start — and call it acquisition, when the number that matters is a funded account or a funded loan. The two are often three to five times apart, and the media buy is priced against the wrong one.
Two things we find almost every time. First, a triggering term — a downpayment amount, a number of payments, a monthly payment figure, “0% APR” — sits in the creative with none of the Regulation Z additional disclosures those terms require, and without the toll-free number the TV alternative-disclosure exemption would let you state instead. Second, the “funded account” pixel actually fires at application start, not at funding, so the cost-per-funded-account on the dashboard is really cost per application and reads far better than reality.
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Brand Signals
Aided and unaided brand awareness lift
Product-specific trust lift
Favorability lift
Consideration lift
Credibility or security perception lift
Intent Signals
Brand and product-specific search lift
Prequalification engagement lift
Application-start lift
Branch, advisor, or call-center engagement lift
Business Outcomes
Incremental funded accounts
Incremental approved applications
Incremental deposits or balances
Card activation or first-transaction lift
Qualified customer acquisition lift
Acquisition Efficiency
Cost per funded account
Cost per approved application
Customer acquisition cost
Cost per qualified lead
LTV:CAC ratio
Banks, credit cards, fintech, wealth management — every category in financial services has consolidated around CAC as the only metric that matters. Your board doesn't ask about reach. They ask what it costs to acquire a new account, a new card, a new advisor relationship — and whether that cost is going up or down. Your incumbent agency, paid on percentage of spend, has every incentive to show you a higher GRP number and no incentive to lower your CAC

CTV's combination of premium environment and digital-grade attribution makes it the most defensible upper-funnel channel financial services has ever had. We target verified in-market audiences (mortgage shoppers, card switchers, advisor seekers), measure pixel-to-application and pixel-to-funded-account, and run incrementality tests that isolate what CTV is causing — not just what it's correlating with. The success-fee model means we're aligned with your board on CAC. Not against it.
Cost per account opened
Cost per funded application
Cost per qualified lead
Branded search lift
Incremental new-customer acquisition over holdout
Built for the financial services CMO whose board no longer accepts impressions as evidence of impact — and whose agency hasn't adjusted to that reality.
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