Case Studies

Real results for data-driven teams

See how SaaS, DTC, and marketplace brands cut waste, scaled ROAS, and unlocked ground-truth reporting with Onward’s data stack and performance experts.
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Success stories

Customer Testimonials

From early-stage founders to growth VPs, we work with operators who need clarity, not clutter—and results that speak for themselves.

"Data visualization for me is a key piece of the offering as a fractional executive. To be able to talk to a CEO, marketing manager, the board or investors, and show them visually what's going on in a clear way is very important. To have Onward as a partner in creating those visualizations and being a thought partner with me has been super valuable."

Tom Balamaci
Fractional CMO, TBDigital

"I felt with Onward I could trust in execution on media buying and media strategy, but also their ability to provide the visibility, feedback loop and insights that would allow us to grow client businesses"

Tom Balamaci
Fractional CMO, TBDigital

"When you hire Onward you get expertise, you get project management, you get execution and media buying, you get engineer, you get a small scrappy team of digital marketers."

Ryan Donovan
CMO, 500 Level

“A standard partner in the paid ad world is just going to go into the platform and post the content and say some prayers. With Onward, data is the central glue that allows us all to see what’s working, see what’s not, and quickly iterate on doubling down on what’s working.”

Chris Cutter
COO, Blueprint

“Anyone who says ‘Hey, we are thinking about bringing on an ad agency.’, I give them the story of us using a bunch, then we found Onward.”

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

“Onward is fast, and iterative, and experimental, and intelligent, and having been a founder and CEO in the venture-backed tech world, these are people I would hire. These are people I would want as a part of my culture.”

Chris Cutter
COO, Blueprint

“Our data sources are a little messy… it’s sort of all intertwined. The dashboard is really helpful, because Onward and their team have made that the single source of truth."

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

"Onward has expertise understanding what the big players do at scale, then being able to break those same concepts and problems down, and model it out from a data perspective."

Nate Lyman
CTO, Songfinch

"It's very easy to execute marketing when you have a single source of truth and you can point to the dashboard and see how you're doing day over day, month over month, and year over year. It's clear as day."

Ryan Donovan
CMO, 500 Level

“It feels very much like an extension of our team. Very authentic, very casual, very focused on the data and the results, but also not taking themselves too seriously or us too seriously, which is a good match with our culture.”

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

"Onward came in and tried to really understand at a deep level how we operated, the nuances of how we define metric, how non-traditional our flow is. And supported us to define our reporting needs."

Nate Lyman
CTO, Songfinch

"With one of our clients, we were able to layout very clearly what was going on in each of the markets they operate in on a day-to-day or inter-day basis. We were able to show how we shifted dollars between different channels and how it was being effective or not, and if it wasn't how we were going to pivot. We were able to show the client pretty granularly on a creative by creative basis what offers were driving the most return on investment.

Tom Balamaci
Fractional CMO, TBDigital

"When you hire Onward you get expertise, you get project management, you get execution and media buying, you get engineer, you get a small scrappy team of digital marketers."

Ryan Donovan
CMO, 500 Level

"Part of what Onward does in a really great way is, I can outsource this problem to Jerry and the Onward team and have a high degree of trust that we can give each other good feeback... it is an extension of my team, and they are very intergrated into the business."

Nate Lyman
CTO, Songfinch

"Previous to Onward, we tried a bunch of different agencies... but I would go back to my tried and true, which was a single Google sheet with 100 tabs... but in this world it was, what if I saw this customer data, combine with this transactional data, combine with this marketing data."

John Williamson
CEO, Songfinch

“Our data sources are a little messy… it’s sort of all intertwined. The dashboard is really helpful, because Onward and their team have made that the single source of truth."

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

“A standard partner in the paid ad world is just going to go into the platform and post the content and say some prayers. With Onward, data is the central glue that allows us all to see what’s working, see what’s not, and quickly iterate on doubling down on what’s working.”

Chris Cutter
COO, Blueprint