Rally house style
Carried the volume
1,106 clicks · $1.54 per click · 0.59% click rate The brand look drove almost half of all clicks at a good price.Rally's paid launch has been live a little over 24 hours. Here's what it has already earned — and what it teaches us about your message going forward.
Every figure below is one time a Rally ad was seen. The highlighted figure clicked through to sign up.
Most Texans saw one ad in 24 hours. There is room to scale the winners before fatigue sets in.
All twelve ads, ranked by link clicks. Each card shows the exact creative that ran, with badges for what scales and what rests.
The strongest click rate in the account — 0.74% against a 0.60% average.
557 clicks · $1.80 per click
Second in volume at $1.56 a click. The plain offer works.
454 clicks · $1.56 per click
Cheapest clicks of the three biggest ads — $1.43 each.
361 clicks · $1.43 per click
Steady volume at $1.59 a click.
294 clicks · $1.59 per click
Second-cheapest click in the account at $1.41.
188 clicks · $1.41 per click
The photo approach holds for women at $1.50 a click.
162 clicks · $1.50 per click
The cheapest click in the account at $1.37.
134 clicks · $1.37 per click
$1.95 a click, 19% above the campaign average.
80 clicks · $1.95 per click
The weakest click rate of the qualifying ads.
70 clicks · $2.26 per click
The news angle cost a third more per click.
51 clicks · $2.13 per click
Below the volume floor. Read directionally.
36 clicks · $2.13 per click
The priciest click, on the smallest spend.
15 clicks · $3.38 per click
A 0.74% click rate against the 0.60% campaign average. Referral framing also owns the account's cheapest click — Bring a Friend at $1.37.
The same offer ran through three creative treatments, each with its own budget. Cost per click is the fairest judge.
Carried the volume
1,106 clicks · $1.54 per click · 0.59% click rate The brand look drove almost half of all clicks at a good price.Strong pull, high cost
773 clicks · $1.91 per click · 0.65% click rate The best click rate of the three looks, but the most expensive clicks. It keeps one job: Friend Cowboy Hat.Cheapest clicks
523 clicks · $1.45 per click · 0.56% click rate Everyday Texan faces bought the cheapest clicks on the smallest budget.The best click rate of the three looks, yet the priciest delivery made its clicks cost $1.91. It keeps one job next flight: Friend Cowboy Hat.
Who clicked and what each click cost — plus two ads where the audience split was too big to ignore.
Unknown age and gender segments (14 clicks, $28.84) excluded.
$1.48 per click for men vs $1.80 for women — and men were cheaper in every age band.
$1.59–$1.61 per click for 18–34, against $1.71 for 35–44 and $1.91 for 45–54.
The most clicks and the cheapest clicks, at the same time.
Same creative, 38% stronger pull with men — and each click 74¢ cheaper. Aim it accordingly.
Under-25s clicked at nearly 1.5× the rate of 35–44, at 80¢ less per click. Aim it younger next flight.
What day one tells us about how Rally's message lands — in and beyond paid ads.
"$25 for one hour" out-pulled every clever angle. Say the offer plainly, and say it first.
454 clicks · 0.71% click rate"Bring a friend, you both get paid" produced the top click rate and the cheapest click in the account.
0.74% best rate · $1.37 best clickPhotos of everyday Texans bought attention for about 20% less than designed graphics — and a full third less than the boldest ones.
$8.20 vs $10.40 per 1,000 viewsInflation-themed ads cost about a third more per click. The audience answers the offer, not the argument.
$2.13 vs $1.62 per clickMen 18–34 clicked cheapest of anyone. Women respond best to photos and the house style.
$1.45 blended for men 18–34Most people saw one ad in 24 hours. Spend can rise before the audience wears thin.
1.17× average frequencyConcentrate budget on what worked and rest what didn't. The split we recommend:
| Ad | Treatment | Spend | Views | Clicks | Click rate | Per click |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friend Cowboy Hat | T2 (Bold Type) | $1,004.87 | 75,492 | 557 | 0.74% | $1.80 |
| $25 for 1 Hour | T1 (Rally) | $707.83 | 63,500 | 454 | 0.71% | $1.56 |
| $25 Men Photo | T3 (Image-Led) | $517.49 | 63,506 | 361 | 0.57% | $1.43 |
| 1 Hour $150 | T1 (Rally) | $466.02 | 56,761 | 294 | 0.52% | $1.59 |
| 1 Hour $150 V2 | T1 (Rally) | $265.40 | 33,597 | 188 | 0.56% | $1.41 |
| $25 Women Photo | T3 (Image-Led) | $242.90 | 29,280 | 162 | 0.55% | $1.50 |
| Bring a Friend | T1 (Rally) | $183.83 | 23,314 | 134 | 0.57% | $1.37 |
| Earn $25 Red | T2 (Bold Type) | $155.88 | 15,914 | 80 | 0.50% | $1.95 |
| Y'all Ready | T2 (Bold Type) | $158.38 | 14,708 | 70 | 0.48% | $2.26 |
| Inflation Blue | T2 (Bold Type) | $108.68 | 9,155 | 51 | 0.56% | $2.13 |
| Inflation | T1 (Rally) | $76.71 | 9,188 | 36 | 0.39% | $2.13 |
| Friend Teal | T2 (Bold Type) | $50.73 | 3,945 | 15 | 0.38% | $3.38 |
Paid social added 302 signups to the program and generated 150 voter-file matches at approximately $67 each—about 55% below the prior $148 benchmark on a raw-media basis. The clearest message lesson: make the immediate $25 benefit unmistakable, then use stronger prequalification to improve match quality.
The flight validated paid social as an efficient recruitment channel. The next step is to preserve that scale while improving how prospects self-identify before signup.
The early test surfaced several promising directions. Following the client-directed decision to narrow the rotation, the remaining budget produced much deeper learning on a small core of messages—and click volume grew far faster than spend.
Meta generated another 12,070 link clicks at that marginal rate — roughly a third of what a Day 1 click cost. That is the clearest signal of successful optimization: the campaign did not simply spend more; it became more efficient as the selected ads accumulated delivery.
Across the full flight, paid social delivered 302 signups, 150 voter-file matches and 80 attendees. The backend gives us both a strong economic result and a clear path to make the next flight even stronger.
Paid-social-tagged records in the client backend.
71.1% official reported eligibility rate.
49.7% client-reported match rate.
Approved records as reported by the backend.
38.3% official reported attendance rate.
Approximation from the 23.9% reported completion rate.
At approximately $67 per voter-file match, the flight was about 55% below the 2024 $148 benchmark and 33% below the low end of the $100–$135 target range. This is a raw-media comparison and should be treated as directional unless the historic benchmark uses the same spend definition.
If the platform and backend periods and tags align, 302 signups from 14,669 link clicks imply a 2.06% blended click-to-signup rate. Better landing-page continuity, clearer qualification language and event-level tracking should help more of the campaign’s low-cost traffic become matched participants.
Paid social brought more signups than Craigslist, in-person, email, direct mail or other/untagged sources. The rate comparison helps identify where each channel is strongest; because comparable channel costs were not supplied, it is not a cost-efficiency ranking.
The 49.7% paid-social match rate trailed the 75.5% all-tactic rate. Better targeting and clearer self-qualification can address that front-end difference.
Paid social’s attendance and completion rates were 5.0 and 5.8 points above in-person, and 10.7 and 11.2 points above dialer.
Dialer’s high match rate paired with lower attendance and completion. The strongest comparison uses cost per match, attendee and completion together.
At the current paid-social economics, another tactic would need a fully loaded cost below approximately $33 per signup, $67 per voter-file match, $126 per attendee or $201 per completion to be more efficient on the same outcome. Without those costs, this report does not call another channel cheaper or more expensive.
The opening test identified several plausible directions. The full flight answered the next question: which of the selected messages could keep working as delivery grew? The plain $25 offer and the men’s photo supplied the clearest scaled proof.
After the initial review, delivery was intentionally concentrated into a smaller set of ads—principally Treatment 1, with continued delivery behind the Image-Led men’s creative; most Bold Type and other variants were paused. That focus gave the selected ads room to optimize. It also means the full-cycle totals prove scale for the ads with sustained delivery, while paused concepts remain useful early directional signals rather than full-flight head-to-head results.
Scaled message winner. It grew from 454 Day 1 clicks to 5,813 while cost fell from $1.56 to $0.54. The immediate, concrete benefit was easiest to understand and act on.
Scaled visual winner. It grew from 361 Day 1 clicks to 5,766 and delivered the lowest scaled cost. A real face and a plainly stated benefit worked together.
Runway changed the read. It improved from 36 early clicks at $2.13 to 653 at $0.67. The cost-of-living frame can work when the execution is clear; it is a supporting message rather than the primary volume driver.
Strong early signal. It led Day 1 with 557 clicks and a 0.74% CTR, then received little additional delivery. That preserves the referral concept as promising, but not yet proven at scale.
A direct, immediate $25 benefit; a real photo; and simple language. The top two ads drove 83.5% of attributed link clicks from 66.1% of attributed spend.
Referral language captured attention on Day 1, and the female-photo and male-photo versions were nearly tied. The paused versions did not receive enough runway for a scaled conclusion.
“Y’all Ready,” Friend Teal and the crowded Bold Type versions were less efficient in the opening window. Treatment 1’s later Inflation result suggests execution and clarity—not the issue topic—made the difference.
Across the full attributed breakdown, the immediate offer delivered a 66% lower cost per click and 2.9× the click-through rate. The larger potential total asks the audience to do more math; the near-term $25 benefit is faster to process.
These treatment totals reflect unequal duration and concentration, not a randomized full-flight comparison. Treatment 1 and the selected Image-Led men’s creative provide scaled evidence. Bold Type’s total largely reflects the brief opening window, so its standout referral message should be separated from the weaker surrounding variants in a future test.
Cost differences by gender were driven more by auction price than by willingness to click. The strongest next audience tests pair photo-led creative with younger audiences and direct-offer creative with women 25–44.
Bars show volume. The right columns show cost per click and link CTR.
45–54 had the highest observed CTR but only 16,962 attributed impressions and $178 in spend. Treat it as a test cell, not a proven winner.
2,218 link clicks at $0.47 each. Men 25–34 added another 1,610 clicks at $0.50.
“$25 for 1 Hour” reached 2.00% CTR with women 35–44 and 1.63% with women 25–34, both near $0.53–$0.57 per click.
Male and female link CTRs were nearly identical: 1.13% vs 1.14%. Female CPC was 25% higher because female CPM was 26% higher.
Women generated 103 shares vs 55 from men despite fewer impressions—a 3.1× higher share rate per impression.
Link clicks represented 95.5% of all clicks among 18–24, but 80.7% for 25–34, 63.5% for 35–44 and 57.0% for 45–54. Older groups interacted beyond the outbound link more often, so link CPC alone understates their broader engagement—but qualified conversions still need to decide value.
Craigslist’s 54.2% match rate was 4.5 points above paid social. Its listing likely carried more detail, which supports a clearer self-qualification test—but different audiences and missing channel costs prevent a causal claim.
Tighten whom the platform reaches.
Make the desired participant profile unmistakable.
Keep offer, format, placement and timing as consistent as possible. Compare cost per voter-file match, approved participant, attendee and completion. Do not select a winner on click-through rate or signup volume alone.
Meta remains the strongest near-term recruitment channel. A broader portfolio makes sense when total raw media reaches roughly $40K–$60K+ and the program can run for two to three months.
Google and YouTube answer different jobs and need more runway. Reddit adds community-management obligations. Diversification should happen because the program has a longer-term objective and enough budget—not simply because another platform is available.
There is $20,000 of budget remaining. Concentrated on Meta with a shorter path to registration, that is enough for two full flights and a genuine move in cost per qualified participant. The current export carries no ad-level conversion result, so this flight's creative findings are traffic findings — the next setup should connect each ad, audience and form path through to match, attendance and completion.
14,669 Texans clicked. If the platform and backend periods and tags align, roughly 2.06% of them completed a signup. Every one of those clicks was already paid for — the fall-off happens after the media has done its work, in the handoff from ad to website. A Meta Instant Form keeps registration inside Facebook and Instagram: the form opens in-app, Meta pre-fills name, email and phone from the profile, and the person never leaves the feed or waits on a page load.
It is the only change in this plan that costs nothing in media, needs no new creative, and compounds against every other improvement below. It also directly addresses the flight's one soft metric — the 49.7% match rate — because the qualification questions Relentless needs can live inside the form and filter before submission rather than after.
| Form rate | Signups | Attendees | Per match |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.06% current | ~600 | ~158 | ~$67 |
| 3.0% | ~870 | ~230 | ~$46 |
| 4.0% target | ~1,160 | ~307 | ~$35 |
| 5.0% | ~1,450 | ~384 | ~$28 |
Projection holds this flight's blended $0.69 cost per link click, its 49.7% match rate and its 26.5% signup-to-attendance rate constant, varying only the click-to-signup step. Deliberately conservative: it uses the blended rate rather than the $0.46 the stabilized period achieved, and assumes no gain from the six tests below. Directional, not a guarantee.
Each assumes Instant Forms is live and running against the website control.
Run the exact “$25 for 1 Hour” message on a male photo, female or neutral photo, and house-style layout with balanced delivery.
Isolate the visual rather than comparing bundled conceptsCompare the plain $25 offer, a more descriptive qualification/context version, and explicit referral mechanics in the same visual system.
Give the promising early ideas a fair controlled readDedicate a photo-led cell to under-35 audiences and a direct-offer cell to women 25–44. Keep 45–54 exploratory.
Audience × creative cells, not broad averagesRun Track A and Track B from the section above as parallel cells inside flight two, both routed through the Instant Form. Craigslist's 54.2% match rate is the hypothesis source, not a guaranteed benchmark.
Choose on quality-adjusted cost, not click-through rateA $12,000 flight over three to four weeks to settle Instant Forms and the match test, then $8,000 behind whichever structure wins. Within each flight, 75–80% behind the proven plain-offer and photo winners and 20–25% on equal-budget tests with a pre-agreed minimum delivery threshold.
Preserve operational flexibility while creating a fair readAdd per-ad UTMs, signup and qualified events, and offline or Conversions API feedback for VF match, approval and completion.
Cost per purchase is blank in the current Meta exportMeaningful platform expansion needs roughly $40K–$60K in raw media across two to three months so each channel gets enough spend to optimize. Split three or four ways, $20,000 underfunds every one of them and gives up the audience, creative read and retargeting pool Meta has already built. We would revisit the moment the budget picture changes.
July 29 carried unusually high launch-period costs. From July 31 through August 4, the attributed breakdown stabilized near a $0.46 CPC, 1.39% link CTR and $6.35 CPM—much more representative starting benchmarks for the next flight.
| Channel | Signups | Eligible | Eligibility | VF matched | Match | Approved | Attended | Attendance | Completion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 34 | 100.0% | 27 | 79.4% | 34 | 34 | 100.0% | 58.8% | |
| Referral | 2,064 | 1,429 | 83.3% | 1,402 | 67.9% | 1,403 | 762 | 54.3% | 41.5% |
| Craigslist | 227 | 165 | 73.0% | 123 | 54.2% | 163 | 85 | 52.1% | 36.8% |
| SMS | 3,772 | 3,348 | 89.1% | 3,109 | 82.4% | 3,330 | 1,653 | 49.6% | 32.3% |
| Other / untagged | 207 | 85 | 75.2% | 134 | 64.7% | 83 | 37 | 44.6% | 25.3% |
| Direct mail | 17 | 16 | 94.1% | 12 | 70.6% | 16 | 8 | 50.0% | 25.0% |
| Paid social | 302 | 212 | 71.1% | 150 | 49.7% | 209 | 80 | 38.3% | 23.9% |
| In person | 355 | 250 | 76.7% | 182 | 51.3% | 249 | 83 | 33.3% | 18.1% |
| Dialer | 927 | 737 | 80.0% | 832 | 89.8% | 733 | 202 | 27.6% | 12.7% |
| All tactics | 7,905 | 6,276 | 84.7% | 5,971 | 75.5% | 6,220 | 2,944 | 47.3% | 31.4% |
| Ad | Attributed spend | Impressions | Link clicks | Link CTR | Cost / link click |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25 for 1 Hour | $3,156.26 | 388,530 | 5,813 | 1.496% | $0.543 |
| $25 Men Photo | $2,924.90 | 498,876 | 5,766 | 1.156% | $0.507 |
| Inflation | $436.63 | 70,369 | 653 | 0.928% | $0.669 |
| Friend Cowboy Hat | $1,016.13 | 75,712 | 562 | 0.742% | $1.808 |
| 1 Hour $150 | $468.52 | 56,869 | 294 | 0.517% | $1.594 |
| 1 Hour $150 V2 | $269.05 | 33,662 | 190 | 0.564% | $1.416 |
| $25 Women Photo | $242.97 | 29,288 | 162 | 0.553% | $1.500 |
| Bring a Friend | $184.18 | 23,334 | 134 | 0.574% | $1.375 |
| Earn $25 Red | $156.98 | 15,967 | 81 | 0.507% | $1.938 |
| Y'all Ready | $159.42 | 14,734 | 70 | 0.475% | $2.277 |
| Friend Cowboy Hat V2 | $16.01 | 2,248 | 69 | 3.069% | $0.232 |
| Inflation Blue | $109.22 | 9,173 | 51 | 0.556% | $2.142 |
| Friend Teal | $50.89 | 3,954 | 15 | 0.379% | $3.393 |
| $25 Men Photo V1 | $3.49 | 457 | 6 | 1.313% | $0.582 |
| Friend Cowboy Hat V7 | $1.22 | 177 | 6 | 3.390% | $0.203 |
| Yall Ready | $0.11 | 31 | 1 | 3.226% | $0.110 |
| Age | Attributed spend | Impressions | Link clicks | Link CTR | Cost / link click | CPM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18–24 | $2,909.61 | 467,292 | 5,167 | 1.106% | $0.563 | $6.23 |
| 25–34 | $3,681.47 | 471,639 | 5,404 | 1.146% | $0.681 | $7.81 |
| 35–44 | $2,426.54 | 267,451 | 3,062 | 1.145% | $0.793 | $9.07 |
| 45–54 | $178.23 | 16,962 | 239 | 1.409% | $0.746 | $10.51 |
| Gender | Attributed spend | Impressions | Link clicks | Link CTR | Cost / link click | CPM | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | $5,138.09 | 749,736 | 8,475 | 1.130% | $0.606 | $6.85 | 55 |
| Female | $3,960.02 | 459,520 | 5,236 | 1.139% | $0.756 | $8.62 | 103 |
| Unknown | $97.87 | 14,125 | 162 | 1.147% | $0.604 | $6.93 | 0 |