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Independent Marketing Performance Consultancy

The Truth
Your Agency
Cannot
Tell You.

APF audits ad agencies, exposes hidden waste, and delivers the performance clarity your agency has no incentive to give. Independent. Data-fluent. Structured to tell you what you need to hear. The truth.

1Truly Independent Advisor: APF
20+Years of Industry Expertise
28:1Return on Ad Spend Delivered
$30.5MOmnichannel Revenue Growth
ZeroAgency Allegiances or Conflicts
1Truly Independent Advisor: APF
20+Years of Industry Expertise
28:1Return on Ad Spend Delivered
$30.5MOmnichannel Revenue Growth
ZeroAgency Allegiances or Conflicts

Your agency is incentivized to
spend your budget.
Not grow your revenue.

The entire agency ecosystem is incentivized to sell you more spend. They measure impressions and clicks, not business outcomes. You have no independent voice to validate what you're being sold. That changes today.

0%
Unmeasured Media Budget
On average, 34% of your media budget is spent on unmeasured placements. No data. No attribution. No accountability.
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Independent Voice
There is no other truly independent performance consultancy in this space. Every competitor has agency allegiances, incentive structures, or commercial relationships that compromise their findings.
Zero
Zero Allegiances
Every agency you've worked with has a financial stake in your continued spend. APF has none. No commissions, no referral deals, no hidden incentives. Ever.
APF

Zero agency
allegiance.
Zero compromise.

APF is the only firm in the marketing performance space that operates with zero agency allegiance. Not affiliated with, incentivized by, or in commercial relationship with any agency it audits. Structural independence, combined with 20 years inside the agency ecosystem, produces assessments no compromised consultancy can replicate.

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Zero Conflicts
02
Data-Fluent
03
Structural Independence
04
20 Years Inside

Results that speak without hedging.

0:1Return on Ad Spend Delivered
$0.5MOmnichannel Revenue Growth
0%Pipeline Growth
0%Increase in Unique Web Visitors

Engagements built
to deliver facts,
not feelings.

Every APF engagement begins with a frank assessment of where your marketing dollars are going and what they're actually returning. No hedging. No agency allegiance. No spin.

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Strategy Planning + Team Design

Discovery session, organizational assessment, team design blueprint, and a 90-day strategic roadmap. APF builds the foundation for a marketing function that performs.

Request This Engagement
  • +In-depth discovery session with leadership team
  • +Current marketing architecture audit
  • +Organizational capability assessment
  • +Team design blueprint and staffing recommendations
  • +90-day strategic roadmap with defined KPIs
  • +Executive briefing and Q&A session

From inquiry to insight in four steps.

01
Submit Your Inquiry
Fill out the contact form below. APF reviews every inquiry within 48 hours to determine if there is a fit worth pursuing.
02
Discovery Call
A 45-minute executive conversation to understand your marketing structure, current agency relationships, and specific pain points.
03
Engagement Scoping
APF delivers a scoped proposal with clear deliverables, timeline, and investment. No bloated retainers. No vague outputs.
04
The Work Begins
APF goes in. Audits the data. Finds the waste. Delivers a frank assessment with a clear path forward. Then we execute.
The Agency Performance Finder

20+ years inside the machine.
Now on your side of the table.

APF was founded on a single conviction: corporations deserve an independent voice. After two decades directing marketing at the highest levels of hospitality, media, consumer goods, and higher education, APF's principal built the firm that simply did not exist: one with zero agency allegiance, zero commercial bias, and no incentive to say anything other than the truth.

Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
International and national campaigns, media strategy
Restaurant & Food Service
International multi-unit brand, executive marketing leadership
Consumer Goods & Food
Brand management, performance marketing & category growth
Media & Publishing
Audience growth, content strategy, ad sales & multi-platform media performance
Higher Education
Accredited university, enrollment growth & digital strategy
Government & Advocacy
Issue-based campaigns, stakeholder mobilization & cause-driven strategy
Areas of Expertise
Performance MarketingAgency AuditsDigital StrategyMarketing ArchitectureData AttributionBrand ManagementP&L ManagementE-CommerceSEO / SEMOmnichannelArt DirectorAIO

"APF is the first truly independent truth-teller inside the marketing economy: the advisor who already knows where the waste is before you finish explaining the problem, and has no incentive to say otherwise."

— APF Core Idea  ·  The Agency Performance Finder

Intellectual property you can put to work immediately.

Beyond consulting engagements, APF packages its proprietary frameworks, training, and tools so your team can build lasting performance marketing competency.

Intellectual Property
Proprietary Audit Frameworks
Licensed performance marketing audit methodologies. White-label rights negotiated per engagement.
Books
Performance Marketing Guides
Published field guides on performance marketing, agency accountability, and data-driven strategy. Individual and corporate bulk pricing available.
Software Tools
Agency Audit Dashboard
Subscription-based SaaS platform for ongoing marketing performance monitoring, audit tracking, and data attribution.
Courses & Training
Marketing Performance Training
Self-paced online courses and live virtual cohorts for marketing leaders who want to build real performance marketing fluency.
Coca-Cola
Colgate-Palmolive
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Hershey
Unilever
IHG
Gaylord National
Marriott
McCormick and Schmick's
Amtrak
Entertainment Cruises
BET Networks
CNN
CBS
McClatchy Media
iHeart Radio
WNBA Washington Mystics
Cirque du Soleil
Cherry Blossom Festival
WPP
Ogilvy & Mather
Publicis
VMLYR
Wavemaker
Edelman
Salesforce
Olo
DoorDash
Uber Eats
ezCater
Punchh
Meta
Google
TikTok
Pinterest
Reddit
Snapchat
Coca-Cola
Colgate-Palmolive
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Hershey
Unilever
IHG
Gaylord National
Marriott
McCormick and Schmick's
Amtrak
Entertainment Cruises
BET Networks
CNN
CBS
McClatchy Media
iHeart Radio
WNBA Washington Mystics
Cirque du Soleil
Cherry Blossom Festival
WPP
Ogilvy & Mather
Publicis
VMLYR
Wavemaker
Edelman
Salesforce
Olo
DoorDash
Uber Eats
ezCater
Punchh
Meta
Google
TikTok
Pinterest
Reddit
Snapchat

Built for leaders who command $100M+ in revenue.

01
Hospitality
Hotels, resorts, restaurants, and luxury accommodation brands spending significant ad budgets across fragmented digital and offline channels. APF finds where the money goes and where it doesn't work.
02
Tourism
Convention and visitors bureaus, destination marketing organizations, and regional tourism authorities navigating complex media ecosystems and measurement gaps.
03
Entertainment
Live performance venues, event companies, and entertainment brands where every marketing dollar is a bet on ticket sales, attendance, and brand equity.

Ready to find the truth in your marketing?

APF reviews every inquiry within 48 hours. If there is a fit, you will hear from the principal directly. No intake team. No junior associate. The person who does the work is the person who responds.

Location2300 Wilson Blvd Suite 700-115, Arlington, VA 22201
Response TimeWithin 48 business hours
Inquiry Form

APF does not share your information with agencies, vendors, or third parties. Your inquiry is reviewed by the principal only.