Demand was compounding weekly and the brand was legally unable to advertise into any of it. The people who could reach that audience were not on any marketplace — so we went and found them, and built the channel to $104.9k a month in seven.
Paid social and search are restricted for anything adjacent to GLP-1 medication. Ad accounts were being disapproved and landing pages flagged while category demand grew faster than the brand could legally address.
We were asked to build a channel that never depends on a platform's approval, and to make it durable enough to hand over.
The best partners in this category are patients. You will not find them in a media kit.
The April flat month is the category, not the programme.
Figures cover the managed period only. Publisher legal review is a material and unpredictable variable in medically adjacent categories; the April flat month should be treated as a normal feature of this vertical rather than an anomaly.
This category converts on explanation rather than on offers. The first partners had to be able to teach the problem credibly; the second wave were the people going through it. Both take far longer to recruit than a voucher site, which is the shape of the first quarter.
Health editorial, registered dietitian newsletters and comparison publishers, each taken through a medical-adjacent compliance framework agreed before launch. Traffic was routed into educational guides rather than product grids, which lifted conversion 52% against the homepage baseline.
The highest-converting partners here are people documenting their own treatment. They have no rate card, no marketplace profile and no interest in a sponsorship. We found them inside the communities and onboarded them on commission alone.
Share of tracked sales across the managed period, by partner type
Our deal with every client is the same. We grow the programme, and when you're ready to bring it back in-house we give you the tools, the software and the support to run it yourself — without any drop in revenue. And we stay available, whenever your new account manager needs us.
The medical-adjacent compliance pack and the per-publisher clearance process, which is what makes a serious health publisher willing to take the placement.
Where the patient-community partners actually are, how to approach them and the terms that work when someone has never monetised before.
We stayed on hand for the next legal review, because there is always a next one and it always lands at an inconvenient time.
$308,500 in sales · 1,836 orders · 371k clicks · 31% active partners
When the two biggest platforms in the world refuse your money, this stops being a growth channel and starts being the business.
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