Case Study

Elevating Customer Engagement Through Integrated Social, Planning, Analytics, and Partner Operations

Client Profile

Industry

Media

Publisher

SEBPO Services Utilized

Social & Community Operations

Media Planning

Data Quality & Accuracy 

Partner & Ecosystem Management

Reporting & Analytics

Financial Governance

Size

300 Employees

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Challenge

With campaigns running across multiple social platforms, complex media plans, and a growing need for accurate reporting and partner coordination, a global client required a partner capable of delivering operational excellence on a scale, especially during peak seasons. 

As the client’s campaigns ran across multiple platforms simultaneously, even the smallest execution error resulted in: 

  • Costly makegoods and revenue leakage
  • Reduced campaign profitability and strained advertiser relationships 

 

Alongside these challenges, the client faced complex media plans that increased headcount requirements and costs, contributing to burnout. Their need for accurate reporting and partner coordination hindered their ability to navigate operational risk, margin erosion, and reputational exposure. 

Enter an intelligent operations partner who sought to improve campaign performance, strengthen data integrity, and enhance communication across internal and partner teams. 

Strategic Intervention

From driving the front line of social engagement across Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn to building smart, predictive media plans that reduce surprises downstream, SEBPO brought structure to complexity and clarity to our client’s performance. 

Managing Multi-Platform Engagement at Scale Through Smooth Social and Community Operations

SEBPO’s social operations team served as the front line of customer engagement, ensuring campaigns ran smoothly across Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn. The client’s social presence remained consistent, compliant, and performance-driven when we drove:

  • Brand suitability and optimization. In 2025, SEBPO achieved a 100% reduction in brand safety flags for this client, ensuring safe, relevant placements. 
  • Cross-platform data checks. We validate delivery, spend, and engagement, infusing our client with peace of mind. 
  • Social pacing and performance reporting. We keep stakeholders informed with transparent reporting that provides strategic insights into campaigns.
  • Traffic and campaign management across all major social platforms. During peak season, our team supports 70 to 80 campaigns per month, spanning Meta, LinkedIn, and X, and manages a total average social monthly spend of $350,000. 

Structuring Campaigns for Success with Strategic Media Planning Expertise

Establishing a strategic foundation, SEBPO’s media planning team improved campaign predictability and reduced downstream execution issues. For this media client, we achieved smoother launches and gave our client greater confidence in revenue projections through:

  • Crafting media plans based on audience, budget, and channel strategy. We ensure campaigns are structured for performance from day one, not adjusted reactively after issues arise. 
  • Forecasting to predict spending, pacing, and performance outcomes. Our proactive forecasting provides leadership with predictability, stronger budget control, and fewer delivery surprises. 
  • Leading media planning calls with internal and external stakeholders. These collaborative calls align internal teams and external partners early in the process, reducing miscommunication and last-minute changes that often derail execution. 

Ensuring Clean, Reliable Inputs Powered by Critical Data Quality and Accuracy Teams 

Accurate data is essential for customer engagement, and our Data Quality Management (DQM) team ensures every dataset is clean, consistent, and actionable. This strengthened trust in the client’s reporting ecosystem and improved decision-making.

  • Cross-checking data accuracy across platforms, reports, and partner systems. We align performance metrics before they ever reach stakeholders, reducing discrepancies and reconciliation fire drills, so our client spends far less time defending numbers.
  • Identifying discrepancies before they impact reporting or optimization. We prevent flawed data from driving flawed decisions, whether it’s budget reallocation, pacing adjustments, or performance evaluations. 

Strengthening Collaboration and Governance Through Partner and Ecosystem Management

SEBPO Teams act as the connective tissue between our client’s partner ecosystem, aligning and informing agencies, publishers, sales teams, and internal stakeholders. Streamlining these connections has led to fewer surprises, stronger relationships, faster issue resolution, and a more coordinated, proactive revenue operation.

  • 3rd-party discrepancy reporting. We resolve delivery or spend mismatches before they escalate into billing disputes or partner friction. 
  • Client calls to align on performance, issues, and next steps. We keep performance transparent and action plans clear. 
  • Brand suitability and optimization recommendations. Our oversight protects reputation and ensures ads appear in safe, high-quality environments.
  • Sales rep communication. We provide commercial teams with accurate, timely information to confidently manage advertiser expectations.

Turning Engagement Data into Actionable Insights with Insightful Reporting and Analytics 

We provide this client with comprehensive views of campaign performance and customer behavior. These insights empower more refined strategies and improve customer engagement outcomes.

  • Campaign insights. We leverage our deep campaign insights to optimize in-flight and develop sharper strategies for initiatives down the line. 
  • Forecasting and pacing visibility. We support real-time decision-making through real-time pacing visibility and forecasts that allow our teams to adjust budgets, creative, and targeting before performance dips, not after. 
  • Social performance metrics across all platforms. When we provide a comprehensive view of performance and customer behavior across social platforms, we give this client more than dashboards. We provide clear direction. 

Ensuring Accuracy and Accountability with Financial Governance

SEBPO’s finance and Record to Report (R2R) support brings discipline and predictability to the revenue lifecycle, ensuring better billing accuracy and reducing reconciliation issues. To support financial transparency and operational control, our finance and R2R teams manage:

  • End-of-month billing report scheduling. We deliver billing reports on time with a 100% on-time rate and approximately 55 hours saved per month. Our intervention has reduced reconciliation bottlenecks and freed up internal teams to focus on higher-value initiatives. 
  • Purchase order (PO) management and financial documentation alignment. We eliminate mismatches between delivery and invoicing, minimizing disputes and accelerating revenue recognition.

Outcome

Complex, multi-platform media environments demand more than coordination. They require control, visibility, and accountability at scale. When this client partnered with SEBPO, we transformed their complex, multi-platform campaign operations into a seamless engine for driving high-quality customer engagement. By absorbing the heavy lifting of social operations, data management, and media planning, SEBPO enabled the client to focus on what matters most: connecting with their audience securely, consistently, and effectively across every digital touchpoint.

Key Measurable Results:

  • 100% Reduction in Brand Safety Flags: Ensured highly relevant and secure ad placements, protecting the brand’s reputation and guaranteeing a safe environment for audience interaction
  • 55 Hours Reclaimed Monthly: Took over end-of-month billing and reporting, allowing internal teams to redirect their focus away from administrative tasks and toward high-value audience strategies and creative optimizations
  • 100% On-Time Reporting Delivery: Provided real-time pacing visibility and cross-platform data checks, ensuring engagement metrics were consistently accurate and actionable
  • Flawless Scale of Engagement: Seamlessly managed 70 to 80 campaigns per month across Meta, LinkedIn, and X, optimizing an average monthly social spend of $350,000 to maximize audience reach and interaction

 

Strategic Business Impacts:

  • Consistent, Cross-Platform Brand Presence: Acting as the front line of customer engagement, SEBPO ensured campaigns ran flawlessly across multiple social channels without the disruptive execution errors that degrade the user experience
  • Deeper Customer Insights: Comprehensive analytics translated raw engagement data into clear narratives about customer behavior, empowering the client to build sharper, proactive campaign strategies
  • Enhanced Trust and Responsiveness: By preventing data discrepancies and resolving partner issues early, SEBPO created a more coordinated ecosystem, allowing the brand to respond to market shifts and audience needs faster than ever before

 

In a landscape where execution gaps can quickly erode margins and credibility, disciplined operational leadership has become a stabilizing force, reinforcing commercial confidence while positioning the organization for a more sustainable, scalable future. Ultimately, SEBPO moved the client out of a reactive operational state, delivering the scale and data integrity needed to foster authentic, high-performing customer relationships.

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