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Grow your pet brand. Pet Products DTC Marketing Agency for paid ads, email, and SEO.

Pet parents are the most loyal DTC customer on the internet. Community-led creative outperforms every stock shoot we have ever tested. Subscription cadence tied to actual consumption keeps the refill honest. Pet-size, breed, and life-stage personalization via quizzes moves conversion before the first order ships.

Community
UGC from real pet parents and real pets. Stock creative underperforms every time and we have the test logs to prove it.
Cadence
Subscription cadence tied to how the product is actually consumed. A 28-day bag gets a 28-day ship and the math stops fighting you.
Personalization
Quiz-based pet-size, breed, and life-stage recommendations on the PDP. The right product for the right pet on the first click.
Where we run pet programs
  • Meta Ads Audience + creative tests
  • TikTok Ads Creator + Spark Ads
  • Klaviyo Lifecycle flows
  • Subscription + pet profile Recharge on Shopify
  • Google PMax Shopping + intent
  • UGC Pipeline Pet-parent content
  • Instagram Reels Community + creator
  • Meta Ads Audience + creative tests
  • TikTok Ads Creator + Spark Ads
  • Klaviyo Lifecycle flows
  • Subscription + pet profile Recharge on Shopify
  • Google PMax Shopping + intent
  • UGC Pipeline Pet-parent content
  • Instagram Reels Community + creator
  • Meta Ads Audience + creative tests
  • TikTok Ads Creator + Spark Ads
  • Klaviyo Lifecycle flows
  • Subscription + pet profile Recharge on Shopify
  • Google PMax Shopping + intent
  • UGC Pipeline Pet-parent content
  • Instagram Reels Community + creator
  • Meta Ads Audience + creative tests
  • TikTok Ads Creator + Spark Ads
  • Klaviyo Lifecycle flows
  • Subscription + pet profile Recharge on Shopify
  • Google PMax Shopping + intent
  • UGC Pipeline Pet-parent content
  • Instagram Reels Community + creator
Why pet operators hire us

What pet brands ship alongside every shipment.

Refill cadence tied to the bag rather than a default 30 days.

A 6 kg food bag for an adult golden retriever lasts about 28 days. A 60 ct multivitamin lasts 30. A pack of dental chews lasts 21. We set each subscription cadence to the consumption curve of the SKU, so the customer stops canceling to fix a pantry overflow.

Real pets, real parents, on camera.

A rotating pet-parent creator roster, a weekly shoot rhythm, and a library that tags which breeds and age bands won. Stock creative underperforms every time we have tested it against UGC.

Full rebuild cadence.

The operational commitment on every pet engagement.

90d
Paid + subscription + lifecycle rebuild window on every pet audit

The PDP knows the pet before the cart does.

A pre-purchase quiz captures pet type, size, breed, activity, and life stage. Recharge stores the profile. Klaviyo personalizes every email to the pet by name. Recommendations on the PDP filter to the right SKU on the first click.

Pet is an emotional category with retention economics most DTC categories envy.

Pet parents are the most loyal ecommerce customer on the internet. The right pet brand earns weekly engagement, a subscription that sticks because the cadence matches consumption, and a repeat purchase pattern that other DTC categories envy. The wrong pet brand misses all three because it markets the product and ignores the community around the product.

We run pet programs around consumption cadence first. Pull the product data, match the cadence, build the quiz, and only then start the paid and creative work. Meta and TikTok matter. Community matters more. Klaviyo with a pet-aware profile matters most. The goal is not a one-time buyer. The goal is the brand that becomes the family vet.

What pet marketing actually wrestles with

Three problems on every pet DTC account.

01

Subscription cadence

Pet food and supplements are perfect for subscription, but cadence must match consumption. Too frequent causes cancel, too infrequent loses loyalty.

02

Community > creative

UGC from real pets and owners outperforms brand creative at every stage.

03

Pet-size and breed targeting

A product that works for a Chihuahua might not be right for a Great Dane. Personalization via quizzes moves conversion.

Back of the envelope

Rough math on your pet pipeline.

Three inputs, a snapshot of your current state. Useful for framing the conversation. Do not build next quarter's plan from it. Real results depend on brand, pet category mix, subscription behavior, and creative quality.

$ / mo
Total ad spend across Meta, TikTok, Google, and any retargeting.
$
Blended new-customer cost across channels. Different from MER and from last-click ROAS.
$
Average order value on the first purchase. We model LTV separately in the audit.
Your current-state snapshot
New customers / mo
~521
First-purchase revenue / mo
~$57,292
Annualized first-purchase revenue
~$687,500

Pure math on the numbers you enter. We do not promise a specific CAC for your brand. What a good program does is move the CAC and LTV you already have in the right directions. First-purchase revenue is directional. The audit frames the LTV side honestly.

The pet playbook

Five phases of a pet program that earns weekly engagement.

Five phases that work in sequence. Community without cadence builds fans who never buy twice. Cadence without community ships bags into a void. Every layer compounds the one beneath it, and the vet partnership is the capstone that turns a brand into a habit.

Week 1-4

Community creative

UGC pipelines with real pet parents. Real pets, real moments. Stock creative underperforms always.

Week 2-6

Subscription economics

Cadence matched to consumption. Margin-protected offer ladders. Dunning and winback flows.

Week 4-10

Quiz personalization

Pet-size, breed, and life-stage quizzes that recommend the right product.

Week 6 onward

Lifecycle community

Email and SMS community beyond commerce. Pet care education, life-stage content, community moments.

Ongoing

Veterinarian partnership

Vet-clinic referral programs, licensed-vet advisor content, and co-branded campaigns that borrow clinical trust at the point of sale.

What we check in a pet audit

Where a healthy pet account measures well.

A handful of metrics have clear industry-wide ranges. Others (blended ROAS, first-purchase CAC) swing dramatically by brand, category, and product-market fit maturity, so we measure those against your own history and cohort rather than a published benchmark.

Metric
Typical range
Notes
LTV:CAC ratio
Varies by brand
Modeled per cohort in every audit
Monthly churn
2-6%
Industry range for DTC pet subscriptions
Repeat order rate
45-65%
Industry range for mature programs
AOV
$45-$140
Industry spread for DTC pet
Signals

Why we work in pet specifically.

  • UGC pipelines for pet brands
  • Pet-size and breed personalization quiz design
Illustrative engagement

What a typical pet rebuild quarter can look like.

Generalized example to show the shape of the work. Every pet engagement starts with a two-week audit. The audit tells us what is actually realistic for your brand, your pet category mix, your subscription behavior, and your current stack. We frame the next quarter honestly from there.

What a two-week audit covers
  • Subscription cadence audit across every recurring SKU
  • Meta + TikTok + creator roster review
  • Klaviyo flow inventory with pet-profile enrichment
  • Quiz, PDP, and Recharge portal conversion audit
Cadence
Fixed 30-day default Consumption-matched
Creative
Stock pet photos Real pet parents
Profile
Anonymous checkout Quiz-captured pet
Pet brand subscription and community dashboard view
Services we run

What a full pet engagement typically includes.

Paid, subscription, community, and CRO running as one program with the same reporting surface.

01 / Traffic

CRM & Marketing Automation

The system that turns leads into deals while you sleep.

  • Meta + TikTok segmented by pet type and breed
  • Quiz-driven audience signals feeding Recharge + Klaviyo
  • Weekly creator content promotion and test cadence
Book audit
02 / Nurture

Paid Advertising

Campaigns optimized to CPA, ROAS, and closed-won revenue.

Rebuild cadence: 90 days
03 / Close

Social Content & Video

Creative libraries engineered to convert.

04 / Traffic

Web Design & Development

Conversion-first websites that load fast and convert faster.

Adjacent verticals

Same playbook, neighboring categories.

Frequently asked

Questions we get asked every week.

  • Do you work with premium and mainstream pet brands?

    Both. Premium brands lean on education and community. Mainstream brands lean on paid efficiency and lifecycle. The core motion adapts.

Reviews

In their words.

Pulled from strategy calls, Slack threads, and end-of-quarter recaps with pet founders, growth leads, and community operators. Names and brands anonymized, voice unchanged.

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Bianca T.
Founder, Meadowrun Dog Food
3 weeks ago

We had a clean bag of kibble and a Shopify store. What we did not have was a subscription cadence that matched how dogs actually eat. They built the pet profile, tied the refill to consumption, and our cancel-save rate on month two stopped looking like a leak. Our customers tell us our brand feels like a friend, which is exactly the point.

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Priya N.
VP Growth, Nibblenook
a month ago

The creative pipeline before them was me texting my friend with the Frenchie asking for another video. They built a real pet-parent roster, a weekly shoot rhythm, and a library of UGC that actually outperforms anything we ever paid a studio for. Cat people especially respond to cat people. Who knew.

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Reuben A.
Director of Subscription, Orbit Pet Wellness
5 weeks ago

Our Klaviyo was a welcome flow and not much else. They rebuilt it around life-stage, pet type, and product affinity, then hooked the quiz data in so every email actually knows the pet it is going to. Subscription churn stopped feeling like a mystery. Our customer service team is fielding fewer cadence complaints too.

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Dani L.
Head of Community, Tallgrass Treats
2 months ago

We are a premium treat brand and what we needed was community. Conversion was already fine. They partnered us with a licensed vet for advisor content, got us into three clinic referral programs, and the weekly engagement we now see on our community content pays for itself. The brand finally feels like the family vet and that was always the vision.

Next step

Audit your pet program.

A 30-minute call. We'll walk your actual numbers and tell you the three things we'd change first.