Marketers at financial services companies with 50 to 1,000+ employees
The Meta Ads partner built exclusively for financial services.
We have spent tens of millions of dollars on ads and produced thousands of unique video ads for more than 250 financial services firms. It is the only industry we serve.
Official Meta Business Partner.
Inc. 5000 for 2026, ranked 641 of 5,000.
One account, three years
A nationwide advisory firmOne advisor to twenty in three years, no branch offices, no other agency in the account
They started us at $3,500 a month. Three years later they spent $510,000 in a single month, and they paid for every one of those increases out of the profit the ads made. Nobody wrote them a cheque to scale. The campaign funded itself, and the cost per appointment held while the budget went up 145 times.
Monthly ad spend
New client assets, running total
Clients Blackbox, Inc. knows the financial service industry very well.
Gleb SergeyevDirector of Marketing, Drake & Associates. $1B+ in assets under advisement.
They filled our calendar in a short period of time with highly qualified prospects, and delivered on time and within expectations every time.
Paul StanleyManaging Partner, Granite Bay Wealth Management
Why does getting a new ad live have to be this hard?
You have growth targets to hit, but the ads that got you here are starting to fatigue. Performance slips, you ask your agency for new creative, and what comes back is so far from what compliance will approve that another round of revisions begins.
Now you are losing weeks, questioning whether your ad spend is being managed well, chasing your agency for answers, and preparing to explain the shortfall to leadership.
Financial services marketing has a constraint most agencies are not built around. Creative has to get attention, work on Meta, and make it through compliance.
Have you been frustrated by agencies who:
- × Spend your budget but never hit the numbers they promised leadership?
- × Go quiet for weeks, then send an update with nothing in it?
- × Send creative compliance would never approve?
- × Keep running the same ads long after they stopped working?
- × Sound sharp on strategy but slow down the moment it is time to execute?
- × Charge a premium and deliver work you could have gotten anywhere?
At Blackbox, we treat your ad account like it is our own money.
We know how frustrating it is to hire an agency that talks a big game and then hands you work you have to fix yourself.
The top 0.1% of marketing talent
We review 4,000 to 5,000 applicants for every person we hire. The people running your account are the ones who made it through.
Exclusively built for financial services
We only run ads for financial services firms. You will not spend weeks teaching us how compliance works, because we have worked with hundreds of compliance teams already.
A full A-Team, not one generalist
You get six specialists on your account. Direct response strategy, Meta media buying, marketing tech, and video editing built for ads that perform.
The Blackbox Growth Loop
A strong Meta program needs four things working together.
Strategy, creative, compliance, media, repeat. Execution holds it all together. If one breaks, the whole account feels it.
Every part feeds the next. Nobody needs you to connect the dots.
01
Strategy
Are you optimizing for the right number?
A $10 lead is not better than a $20 lead if the $20 lead is worth ten times more.
When it goes wrongThe agency optimizes for whatever looks best in Ads Manager. CPL goes down. Lead volume goes up. Everyone celebrates. Then sales tells you the leads are worse.
When it worksThe media buyer knows what a good customer is actually worth. That changes who you target, what you say, what you optimize for, and where you put the next dollar.
What Blackbox doesWe start with the business outcome and work backward.
The cheapest lead is not always the best lead.
02
Creative
What happens when your best ad gets tired?
Because it will. The problem is not creative fatigue. The problem is realizing you need new creative after performance has already dropped.
When it goes wrongYour agency has three winners carrying the account. One stops working. Now everyone scrambles to make replacements. Two weeks later, you get five versions of basically the same ad.
When it worksNew creative is always being made. The media team tells creative what is working, what is not, and what they want more of. Creative comes back with new ideas, not just new versions.
What Blackbox doesWe write the copy, produce the videos, create the static ads, edit everything, and keep the pipeline moving. We have produced 5,000+ ads.
Creative is a system, not a project.
03
Compliance
Can you actually get the ad live?
A great ad sitting in compliance is worth nothing.
When it goes wrongYour agency makes something your compliance team was never going to approve. Compliance rewrites it. Now the ad technically passes, but nobody wants to run it. Or it goes back to the agency for another round. And another.
When it worksThe people creating the ad already understand the environment it has to live in. Compliance still has the final say. But you stop wasting time on obvious mistakes.
What Blackbox doesFinancial services is the only industry we serve. We have worked with 250+ financial services firms and hundreds of compliance departments. We build the creative and take it through your compliance process with you.
Compliance is part of creative. Not what happens after creative.
04
Media
Would you spend your own money this way?
Your media buyer should not just know Meta. They need to understand what the business is trying to accomplish.
When it goes wrongCampaign A produces $10 leads. Campaign B produces $20 leads. So the buyer kills B and moves the money to A. Makes sense. Until you find out B's leads are worth ten times more.
When it worksThe media buyer understands the economics behind the account. They know what deserves more budget, what needs another look, and what creative needs to build next.
What Blackbox doesYour senior paid media strategist is not just buying media. They own the strategy behind the account and connect what is happening in Meta back to creative.
Media tells us what to make next.
This is where most agencies break
You can have good people doing all four jobs and still have a bad Meta program. Because they are not working together.
Your media buyer sees an ad fatiguing.
Creative doesn't know.
Creative makes a new ad.
Compliance would never approve it.
Compliance changes the ad.
Media doesn't know why it changed.
Media optimizes for cheaper leads.
Strategy knows the expensive leads were actually worth more.
Every handoff is another place for something to get lost.
And who sits in the middle connecting everybody? You. When those four functions sit with different teams, you become the person connecting them. Now you are managing creative, media, compliance, strategy, and the agency that was supposed to take work off your plate.
One person owns the whole thing.
Your senior paid media strategist owns the account. They know the business objective. They direct creative. They buy the media. They coordinate with your compliance process. And they have specialists behind them for copy, video, marketing technology, editing, and project management.
Strategy team → Creative team → You → Compliance → You → Agency → Media buyer
One team. One owner. One objective.
How Blackbox works
The loop above is why. This is what it looks like from your side.
Step 1
We set the target
We agree on the numbers before we spend a dollar. Budget, volume of conversions, and cost per conversion. Everything after this is built to hit those three.
Step 2
We build and launch
We write the scripts, produce the video, and take it through your compliance team. Then it goes live.
Step 3
We double down on what works
New data every week tells us which ads earn more budget and which get cut. We keep refreshing creative so performance does not fade, and you get reported the numbers you set in step 1.
Who works on your account
Six senior specialists, working as an extension of your team. On your calls, in your tools, working to your compliance rules and your numbers, and reachable directly rather than through an account manager.
Your senior paid media strategist is a strategist, not just a media buyer. They set the direction across every part of the account and make sure each part is actually done well. They are also the person buying your media. So you are talking to the person running your ads, not a glorified project manager who has to get back to you on that.
Your one point of contact
Behind them, and you never have to manage them
Delivering
- Custom video scripting
- Paid ads management
- Video editing
- Videography consulting
- Tech integration and setup
- Reporting and analysis
- Ads fatigue and performance keeps slipping
- Replacement creative misses the mark
- Compliance sends it back, again
- Campaigns lose momentum
- More of your time goes on managing the agency instead of managing marketing
- New creative is always in the pipeline, before performance drops
- Creative is built to clear your compliance process the first time
- Media, creative and strategy feed each other instead of working blind
- One owner on the account, pointed at your objective
- You stop being the person connecting everybody
Schedule a 15 minute fit call.
We review your current Meta program, your creative process, your compliance requirements and where execution is breaking down. If it is a fit, we talk about next steps. If it is not, we point you in a better direction.
Official Meta Business Partner.