Case study · Meta Partnership Ads

How an AI app scale-up cut its CPA by 3 to 5x with creator ads

Ads run from physician creators' own accounts, sourced, contracted, and launched by Gems. First in Italy, now in seven countries.

01 · The starting point
We knew creators could work, but doing it ourselves was slow and complicated: finding the right profiles, briefing them, getting content that actually performs as an ad.
LéoLéoGTM Lead, AI app scale-up

Name withheld: the client would rather not hand this playbook to their competitors.

02 · The results
3-5xlower CPA than the client's classic Meta campaigns, depending on the market
+43%click-through rate vs. classic ads
1.5M+plays on the featured creators' ads alone
30hsaved per campaign vs. running it in-house
15 daysfrom kickoff to first ad live
7 countriesrunning the same playbook
03 · The creators and the ads

Real doctors, real ads.

The ads ran from the creators' own accounts as Meta Partnership Ads, in each local market. Profiles and full videos stay private at the client's request.

898k plays🇮🇹
Italy120k followers
305k plays🇮🇹
Italy26k followers
202k plays🇺🇸
United States152k followers
97k plays🇯🇵
Japan186k followers
04 · Why Gems

One platform runs the whole thing.

Automated end to end

Sourcing, negotiation, contracts, payments, whitelisting: Gems runs the ops.

Relevant creator matching

Creators matched on audience and performance data, instead of an expensive bet on intuition.

Centralized tracking

Every creator, content, and ad tracked in one place, across the entire campaign.

Clear visibility on results

See what actually drove results, per creator and per ad.

Live in days

15 days from kickoff to the first ad live. New markets reuse the same playbook.

Keep control

You validate creators and content. Ads run in your ad account, on your audiences.

Gems handled everything: sourcing, contracts, briefs, whitelisting. Italy was the test. We now run the same playbook in seven countries.
LéoLéoGTM Lead, AI app scale-up