Consumer apps · Dating

A dating app locked out of Meta and Google — ad creative where paid won’t run

Engagement: 2026 → ongoing
Brand confidential · category banned from the major ad networks
Brief

A gay dating app that cannot buy ads on Meta or Google — the two networks its mainstream competitors run on by default. The category is flagged, the accounts get pulled, and the usual paid playbook is simply closed. Growth has to come from earned and alternative channels, which means creative volume without a paid studio to make it

SectorConsumer apps · dating and social
ProblemBanned from Meta and Google ads. No paid funnel the competition takes for granted
ScopeTemplated ad and social creative for earned and alternative channels
ConstraintsSensitive category. Platform-safe creative. Brand identity removed from everything public
Build

01 · Angles

We map the value props that work for this audience and break them across funnel stages, so awareness, consideration, and install each get creative built for that moment, not one generic spot

02 · Creative system

Prompts and templates turn each angle into on-brand ad and social variants at volume — the same engine that produces a creator network’s daily output, pointed at paid-style creative

Built platform-safe so the work survives on the channels still open to a banned category

03 · Double down

Variants are scored on performance and the winners scale across every channel and language. The system learns which angles convert and produces more of them

Result
0
reliance on Meta or Google paid, by necessity
1
template-driven system producing ad and social creative
many
on-brand variants per angle, across funnel stages
all
open channels and languages winners get scaled into

This is the same problem boy.marketing was built for — winning in categories the big ad networks lock out. Brand and metrics are held private at the client’s request

Stack
Anthropic ClaudeGPT-Image-2FluxSeedanceElevenLabsFFmpegTemplate engineMulti-platform uploaders
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