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Paid Search, Organic & AI Click Behaviour: Halo Insights

What does Best in Class Paid Media Look Like in the Age of AI SERPs?

Optimise Paid & Organic social media to maximise new customer acquisition and support raising your brand reach as part of a wider multichannel strategy.
Reach your audience on their own turf - from Instagram Stories to TikTok Shop - using sophisticated algorithms and first-party data to find new customers and drive sales.
When QueryClick took over the optimisation of ToysRus' Paid Social activity we found opportunities to rebuild around key seasonal events to make best use of media spend by looking at the full funnel with sophisticated attribution tooling & Halo reporting.
Within the first 6 months, we had bult a 120% uplift in revenue heading into their peak season.
By understanding which media was failing to deliver returns, and which was genuinely driving sales we were able to be much more efficient and our media spend reallocations paid off for ToysRUs.
Grab your Social Performance Audit from QueryClick and learn how we drove an increase of 120% in social media revenue for ToysRUs using sophisticated AI data analysis.
Because around 16.7% of all internet time is spent on social media; we ensure your budget is where the attention is. Our social campaigns use SMART objectives tied to KPIs, which work across social platforms, including:
Additionally, we use Lifetime Value (LTV) and Audience Cohort Insights to ultimately relate objectives to influence on revenue growth targets further down the customer lifecycle for your highest value opportunities.
This approach allows complimentary social projects which drive conversions and revenue to be integrated into existing social teams with little friction and can encourage that team's engagement with our data led approach as it helps reveal the direct business value of their activity to commercially focussed team members and C-Suite.
In our experience, often inhouse teams are operating under a PR or marketing brief that is only loosely related to revenue outcomes. While this may give flexibility to pursue brand-led objectives freely, it often results in budget instability and a lack of stable ongoing optimisation tied to key business success measures within a structured framework to allow performance to thrive and budgets to be built up.
Our experience as marketers with over two decades of optimisation in the bank tells us that paid Social is the tip of the spear for new customer acquisition and should be cultivated and supported with appropriate budget for a brand to grow effectively.

QueryClick's inclusion as a performance focussed partner, allows internal teams to shine by delivering on business objectives and identifying the relative value of Social channels compared to other Paid Media channels and the impact of Top of Funnel (ToF) on more performance focussed outcomes.
Building objectives tied to revenue helps distinguish these social projects that support a wider marketing performance strategy and allow us to operate in tandem with existing teams using unique data unavailable to internal teams or other agencies.
Ask to speak to one of our team today to find out how we can help support your growth strategy.
Tasked with driving awareness of a "Women in Engineering" project to support improved recruitment in Scotland, QueryClick worked with S1 to build a tailored Paid Social and Organic Search Strategy to capture and convert job listing enquiries over a six month period, delivering an uplift of £95k on minimal media spend, demonstrating the complementarity of the two channels.
Learn how Paid Social and Organic compliment each other when reported on clearly and without use of 3rd party measurement to get a true understanding of uplift with QueryClick today.
Raising global profile with smart integrated Paid Media grew sessions by 10k for minimal media spend yet still built conversions by 2,600%!
Understanding the upper funnel when building Social and TOF Campaigns are key for efficient new customer acquisition.
Find out how with QC.
When QueryClick took over the optimisation of ToysRus' Paid Social activity we found opportunities to rebuild around key seasonal events to make best use of media spend by looking at the full funnel with sophisticated attribution tooling & Halo reporting.
Within the first 6 months, we had bult a 120% uplift in revenue heading into their peak season.
By understanding which media was failing to deliver returns, and which was genuinely driving sales we were able to be much more efficient and our media spend reallocations paid off for ToysRUs.
The last few years have been devastating for performance measurement in Paid Social. We already know that AdTech can't be trusted to mark their own homework, but additional challenges include:
In short, traditional measurement which can get close to valuing Paid Social activity has been shattered by data compliance initiatives. Ultimately traditional analytics measurement reliant on deterministic matching (ID to ID) like GA4 is broken for evidencing value for Paid Social activity: any inaccuracy in any part of the chain breaks the whole. And there are a lot of inaccuracies in 2026.
Ultimately, 3rd Party data sources are inherently fragile.

That is why, at QueryClick we adopted use of Corvidae AI to allow probabilistic measurement and attribution of all parts of the conversion journey - regardless of complexity - following rigorous data privacy controls that allows for complete measurement and value for all social media activity.
Most social strategies fail to measure incremental value due to reliance on traditional measurement tools like GA4, leading to wasted spend on users who would have converted anyway.

Without Unified Reporting, such as Corvidae's or QueryClick's Halo reports, it is impossible to see how social engagement triggers future searches in the search and social space. By moving to modern AI architectures, we can join initial conversion touchpoints to the conversion with complete granularity.
Reallocating media spend becomes trivial with this unification, allowing your Paid Social activity to deliver genuinely incremental performance.
Despite having Corvidae AI in place for 3 years, QVC still found an additional €692k in a holdout test of Google Ad campaigns running Corvidae's conversion pixel compared to Google Ads' own.
"...working with Corvidae has been game changing" - QVC Global Performance Marketing Manager, Kristina Neumeyer.
Discover the power of AI path stitching and automated enrichment of your AdTech with Corvidae AI and QueryClick's Paid Media Team.
Social does not exist in a vacuum.
For example, Organic Search revenue typically dwarfs Social in most analytics platforms, and so amplifying organic content intended to develop Domain Authority for SEO performance is a natural strategy overlap that can benefit both channels greatly.
At QueryClick we can provide access to a variety of tools such as TrueSocialMetrics and Meltwater that can be used to help support synergies between Organic and Paid Social strategies, including:
For a fully featured social strategy, we can also bring centralised social and press distribution management & C-Suite reporting components into your strategy.
This enterprise brand development service includes:
Ultimately, our fully featured digital social and brand strategy allows assessment of the objective and contextual success of historic campaigns to allow strategies built around clear KPIs to ensure Social operates in-line with business objectives.
QueryClick delivered a boost of 52% year-on-year incremental revenue in our first year by targeting key iPhone launch dates using a variety of reports and insights generated by a suite of sophisticated in-house & external technologies.
Showcasing our multi-channel expertise, our work with Envirofone brought Paid Search, Social, SEO & Conversion rate Optimisation to the table to smash our targets out of the park in year one.
Understand how Paid and Organic search work together to maximise your site potential by requesting a chat with our team, just like Envirofone.
When QueryClick took over the optimisation of ToysRus' Paid Social activity we found opportunities to rebuild around key seasonal events to make best use of media spend by looking at the full funnel with sophisticated attribution tooling & Halo reporting.
Within the first 6 months, we had bult a 120% uplift in revenue heading into their peak season.
By understanding which media was failing to deliver returns, and which was genuinely driving sales we were able to be much more efficient and our media spend reallocations paid off for ToysRUs.
Using Corvidae AI to remove reliance on 3rd party cookies we built out customer journeys that were 39% longer, allowing us to see much earlier in the customer consideration period.
Giving this data to Google Ads to use for bid optimisation allowed us to demonstrate a 40% increase in ROAS, a 26% reduction in CPA and a growth of 41% in revenue.
Meet the QC team today and learn how we could rebuild your data and deliver incremental growth for you.
Paid social strategy has no shortage of data. With QueryClick at the helm we cut through Social AdTech's own reporting to give the true picture of your brand activity and Social contribution to conversion to let you grow efficiently.
Take advantage of cheaper CPA opportunities in Social channels that complement your wider Paid media strategy with our unique data insights drawn from Corvidae AI.
We align social activity with the See-Think-Do-Care model to ensure every ad serves a specific stage of the funnel .
| Planning | KPI performance is at the core of all forecasting and agile planning. |
|---|---|
| Creative Excellence | Measuring and optimising creativity using data-driven insights to strike the right chord. |
| Optimisation & Automation | Automating the small stuff to focus on integrated SEM and multi-channel performance. |
| Audience | Using 1st & 3rd party data to find users who mirror your highest-converting customers. |
| Attribution & Measurement | De-duplicating conversions to understand the true impact of Assisted and Non-Last Click wins. |
Using Corvidae AI to remove reliance on 3rd party cookies we built out customer journeys that were 39% longer, allowing us to see much earlier in the customer consideration period.
Giving this data to Google Ads to use for bid optimisation allowed us to demonstrate a 40% increase in ROAS, a 26% reduction in CPA and a growth of 41% in revenue.
Meet the QC team today and learn how we could rebuild your data and deliver incremental growth for you.
Using unified data insights, we can genuinely connect Top of Funnel actions that are generated by Paid Social activity through to a converting signal - regardless of how many devices are used by that customer before conversion - without the use of cookies or other 3rd party trackers.
This crucial insight is delivered thanks to Corvidae's patented AI stitching technology that allow us to compliantly understand the customer journey from start to finish - and beyond.
By building a complete picture that can be drilled into down to the individual campaign conversion level, we can see which campaigns - and ad creatives - actually moved the needle for customer conversion, and which are just driving vanity metrics that don't deliver bottom line results.
Social is regularly cited as the least effective channel by some distance for contribution to commercial objectives. The reality is it is typically your cheapest route to new customer acquisition.
Get in touch with our team and find out how you can slash your go to market costs and acquire new customers for less with QueryClick and Corvidae AI.
Social media can and should be your most efficient channel for growth.
While Paid Search has been heavily optimised over the last two decades and monetised in the age of AI SERPs so paid listings are critical for visibility; Social channels offer a level of competitiveness in pricing that can't be matched elsewhere, even when correctly attributed.
Consider your current strategy and ask yourself:

If you can't answer yes to these three simple questions, then you can guarantee improved performance from a Social Audit courtesy of QueryClick's expert, local team.
We are a UK based, remote-first business that is independently owned since 2008. our team of experts are carefully vetted and supported to deliver best in class strategy and recommendations, and to operate as an extension of your internal team. We also:
So lets get social together and build a high performance strategy together today.


