— About the agency

A small, senior team that prefers fewer clients done well.

Ad Scale Partners (legally Scaleup Ads LLC) is a Sacramento-based independent agency founded by media buyers and engineers who got tired of working at shops where junior staff ran six-figure accounts.

Our story

Built to run accounts the way we wished ours were run.

Ad Scale Partners was founded in Sacramento after years of watching client accounts get passed to inexperienced operators while senior staff focused on new business. We started this agency to invert that — every account here is touched daily by a senior media buyer with their own P&L responsibility.

We're a deliberately small team. That means we say no to about 70% of inbound work, and the clients we do take on get genuine attention from people who have been buying paid traffic since before "performance marketing" was a job title.

Mission

Our mission is to help businesses scale their brands with professional websites and expert-managed advertising campaigns. We build high-converting websites and expertly manage native ad accounts, Google Ads, Bing Ads, and Meta Ads so our clients can focus on growth while we handle strategy, optimization, and performance.

2021
Year founded
11
Full-time team
9 yrs
Avg. buyer experience
Sacramento
Headquarters
— Why teams choose us

Four things that make working with us different.

/ 01

Senior-only operators

Every account is led by a buyer with at least 7 years of paid-media experience. No bait-and-switch onto a junior team after onboarding.

/ 02

Sites + ads under one roof

The conversion path is the campaign. We build the landing pages, run the traffic, and own the result end-to-end.

/ 03

Written strategy, every time

Before any campaign launches you receive a documented plan covering KPIs, budget logic, creative scope, and reporting. No verbal handshake media buying.

/ 04

Transparent reporting

Live dashboards plus weekly written summaries. Raw platform access is shared on request. You always know what's happening with your money.

/ 05

Honest with the bad news

If a channel isn't working, we say so. If your offer is the problem, we'll tell you. We'd rather lose a retainer than burn budget pretending.

/ 06

Independent and unaffiliated

We have no platform partnerships that influence recommendations. Channel mix is chosen on merit per account, not on agency incentives.

— Sacramento advantage

Why our Sacramento location matters to clients across North America.

Sacramento sits at the intersection of California's tech corridor and a saner cost structure than the Bay Area. That lets us pay senior buyers competitively without inflating retainers, and run a team that overlaps fully with both East and West Coast working hours.

Our office at 1401 21st St, Ste R, Sacramento, CA 95811 houses media, creative, and engineering in one room — which is why turnaround on ad creative, landing-page changes, and campaign launches stays fast. Most of our clients have never set foot in Sacramento, but they do notice the response time.

— Team

The people on your account.

Lead operators with media-buying backgrounds across DTC, B2B, and lead generation. Names below are representative role profiles for the team that staffs client engagements.

— Founder & Lead Strategist

Founder, ex-DTC media director

Twelve years buying paid traffic, formerly directing media at a venture-backed DTC brand. Leads strategy and quarterly planning across all accounts.

— Head of Paid Search

Senior Google & Bing operator

Nine years on search platforms, including in-house at a SaaS company and three years at a performance agency. Owns all search and shopping campaigns.

— Head of Native

Native advertising specialist

Seven years buying native traffic across Taboola, Outbrain, and Revcontent. Manages advertorial strategy and creative compliance for all native engagements.

— Lead Web Engineer

Landing page & conversion engineer

Full-stack engineer building landing pages, lead capture systems, and analytics implementations for paid traffic. Handles all site builds in-house.

— Creative Director

Performance creative lead

Oversees ad creative production across image, video, and advertorial formats. Background in editorial and DTC creative production.

— Operations & Reporting

Account operations

Owns weekly reporting, dashboard maintenance, and client communications across all accounts. Single point of contact for billing and scheduling.

— Transparency & compliance

Commitments we make to every client and every platform.

To clients

  • No guaranteed-result language in proposals or contracts
  • Written strategy before any spend
  • Raw platform access on request
  • 30-day exit at any time after the initial term
  • No undisclosed media markups; pass-through media billing

To platforms

  • Strict adherence to Taboola, Google, Microsoft, and Meta ad policies
  • No misleading claims, no manufactured urgency, no fake testimonials
  • Required advertorial disclosures on all native landing pages
  • Full FTC disclosure compliance on endorsement content
  • Consent-based data collection and CCPA / GDPR aligned forms

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