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Digital Ads

Paid media across every channel — accountable to pipeline and ROAS, not clicks.

Paid media matched to your audience and model — B2B intent, B2C demand and everything between — planned, built and managed against revenue outcomes.

Digital Ads — service sheet A one-page PDF: what it is, the value it creates, and the outcomes.
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What Digital Ads delivers

Every channel

Search, social, display, programmatic and CTV — the right mix for your audience.

B2B & B2C

ABM and lead-gen for complex sales; demand and shopping for consumer brands.

Measured on revenue

Retargeting and attribution wired back to the data layer — ROAS, not impressions.

Representative stack

Google AdsMetaLinkedInTikTokMicrosoft Ads

See the full technology stack & how we select it →

Drive Growth
Reduce Risk
Improve Efficiency
Increase Value

KPIs we move — measured, owned, reported

Return on ad spend Cost per acquisition Cost per qualified lead Click-to-conversion rate Impression share

Every KPI is tied to a named owner and a target agreed up front — so this service is accountable to outcomes, not activity, for every stakeholder who consumes the value.

Capability Maturity — we walk you up the five levels

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Level 1 · Initial — reactive — firefighting; success rides on heroicsLevel 2 · Managed — planned per team — results still inconsistentLevel 3 · Defined — standardised — repeatable, fewer deals lost to chaosLevel 4 · Quantitatively Managed — measured — forecast with confidenceLevel 5 · Optimising — self-improving — compounding margin & advantage

Operated at Level 4 · Quantitatively Managed — measured, predictable and owned. We track this rank and raise it over time. See the five levels →

Why this matters

Functional value, value-stream value — and why it can't be ignored.

Functional value

Buys and manages paid media across search, social, display, programmatic and CTV — matched to your audience and model and wired back to attribution.

Value-stream value

The demand-capture stage: it converts intent into pipeline at a known cost and pushes ROAS and CAC into the data layer, so every pound spent is traceable to revenue.

Why you can't ignore it

Unmanaged ad spend is the fastest way to burn cash invisibly — bidding against yourself, paying for clicks that never convert, with no line back to revenue. The waste compounds every month until someone owns the number.

One data layer · measured & owned

Every service creates data — captured, measured, owned.

Digital Ads doesn’t just run — it generates signal. We land that data in one warehouse and turn it into live KPIs tied to a named owner, so performance is attributable and acted on, never trapped inside a single tool.

Data warehouse

Supabase Snowflake Keboola BigQuery

KPIs, dashboards & apps

Plotly Retool Apache Superset

Platform-agnostic — we connect what you already use and add a warehouse only where it earns its place.

How we select technology

We choose technology last — for the outcomes it has to earn.

Never tech for its own sake. A tool joins the stack only where it measurably protects value, cuts cost or unlocks speed — fit to a designed system, owned where it counts, and measurable from day one. How we select technology →

Speed

Modern, edge-served stacks are sub-second. Slow surfaces cost conversion and SEO every single day.

Cost

Cut licence, hosting and per-task SaaS fees — pay for capability, not lock-in or idle enterprise tiers.

Security

Flat, edge architecture with almost nothing left to attack — fewer moving parts, smaller surface.

Ownership & no lock-in

Composable and self-hosted where it counts — you own the system, not rent someone else’s.

Measurability

Clean data and KPIs baked in — you cannot improve, automate or apply AI to what you cannot measure.

Fit to process

The right tool for a designed system — selected against process readiness, so it amplifies, not adds friction.

How we deliver · DMAIC

Every Digital Ads engagement runs on DMAIC.

Define the goal and its value, measure the baseline, analyse the real constraint, improve with a proven build, then control the gains — so results are predictable, repeatable and defensible, not down to luck.

DDefine

Agree the goal, value, budget & timescale up front.

MMeasure

Baseline the KPIs above — current state, not guesswork.

AAnalyse

Diagnose the real constraint and the solution needed.

IImprove

Build the chosen solution; prove the uplift.

CControl

Lock in the gains; monitor and sustain them.

FAQ

Common questions

What is Digital Ads?

Paid media matched to your audience and model — B2B intent, B2C demand and everything between — planned, built and managed against revenue outcomes.

Why does Digital Ads matter?

Unmanaged ad spend is the fastest way to burn cash invisibly — bidding against yourself, paying for clicks that never convert, with no line back to revenue. The waste compounds every month until someone owns the number.

How does Sentry deliver Digital Ads?

Buys and manages paid media across search, social, display, programmatic and CTV — matched to your audience and model and wired back to attribution.

What do I get with Digital Ads?

Every channel: Search, social, display, programmatic and CTV — the right mix for your audience. B2B & B2C: ABM and lead-gen for complex sales; demand and shopping for consumer brands. Measured on revenue: Retargeting and attribution wired back to the data layer — ROAS, not impressions.

Start here · the free first step

Digital Ads starts the same way every engagement does: with Discovery.

Two distinct moves — a free, no-obligation Discovery Session to find your value at stake, then the Discovery & Blueprint: 14 structured outputs — value model, roadmap and business case — before a pound of delivery is committed.

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Discovery SessionFree · no obligation
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Discovery & Blueprint14 structured outputs

Engaged alone or as one engine

Every service is outcome-led, with measurable targets agreed at the outset.

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