CASE STUDY - FOLLY

We cut Folly's CPA by 42%.

Hair Wellness · Supplement · DTC

Valid × Folly
−42%Blended CPAmonth over month, toward target
Winning creatives / weekdoubled 9 → 18, week over week
24Valid concepts shippedbuilt from scratch, iterated weekly
About the client

A hair gummy for every kind of shedding.

Folly is a DTC hair-wellness brand built around a daily gummy that uses microsphere encapsulation for up to 3× better absorption, with 30+ clinically studied ingredients. It is positioned as the modern Nutrafol alternative - no horse pills - made for the moments hair thinning hits hardest: GLP-1 users, postpartum, perimenopause and stress-related shedding. When we started, the account was running well above its CPA target and over-indexed on a single static format.

01 - Performance Creative

Valid AI Creatives built the engine.

Valid AI Creatives rebuilt Folly's creative engine from scratch. Since early June we shipped 24 unique concepts, grounded in real customer language and Folly's priority audiences, tested in cohorts and iterated on weekly. As the engine ramped, the account's winning creatives doubled from 9 to 18 per week and blended CPA decreased 42% month over month, toward target.

Blended account CPA over the engagement · June – July 2026 · indexed
CPA target Where we started Jun 8–14Jun 15–21Jul 1–6Jul 20–26 −42% CPA
Valid winning ads vs the account average · week of Jul 1 – 6 · lower is more efficient
CPA target Baseline−44%−53% Account averageValid winnersBest Valid creative vs account averagevs account average

Valid's winners are the most efficient creative in the account.

Valid's blended slice is still ramping, but the creatives that graduate out of testing are the cheapest per purchase in the account - below both the account average and the target.

Perimenopause Hair Loss Hook Valid UGC · perimenopause story · 1:1 Under CPA targetScaled
Overlooked Reason Hair Hook Valid UGC · practitioner education · 1:1 Scaled winnerTop Valid spender
GLP-1 Took My Hair Valid UGC · GLP-1 story · 9:16 Scaled
  • Real hair-loss stories. First-person UGC for the moments shedding hits hardest - GLP-1, postpartum and perimenopause.
  • Before / after proof. The scalp transformation shown up front instead of a symptom shot.
  • Hero product statics. Clean gummy-versus-pill comparisons that scale.
  • Partnership creators. Whitelisted creator UGC - the most efficient volume in the account.
The results

An account moving toward target.

−42%Blended CPAacross the June – July engagement
Winning creatives / week9 → 18 under the CPA target
−44%Valid winners vs accountthe cheapest cost per purchase in the account

CPA figures are shown indexed and as relative change only; Folly's absolute cost figures are withheld at the client's request. Source: Folly's Meta exports and the Valid ads dashboard, June – July 2026. Blended CPA is measured at the account level; Valid creative is one input among the account's media.

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