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Your best customers don’t look special on Day 1.

Churney predicts each new customer’s long-term value and sends it to Meta, Google and TikTok, so they bid for the customers who pay back.

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The problem

Ad platforms learn in days. Your revenue shows up in months.

Meta, Google and TikTok optimize toward whatever your conversion event tells them. If that event fires before customers show their value, the platform learns the wrong lesson.

The window

Platforms learn from the first days after a click.

Most of your customer value arrives after that: repeat orders, renewals, upgrades.

The proxy

So campaigns optimize for early events.

Installs, trial starts and first orders fire inside the window, so that is what bidding learns from.

The cost

Budget drifts to customers who never pay back.

You see it in cohort reports a quarter later, after the platform has already scaled the wrong audience.

How it works

02
BEST-IN-CLASS

Model

Proprietary machine learning trained on your data.

01
WEEKS 1–4

Connect

Connect ad accounts, warehouse and conversion events in weeks 1 to 4. The signal goes live in week 8.

03
THE COMMITMENT

Optimize

If the pilot doesn't lift your long-term ROAS by double digits, you walk away and spend no more time on it. What we ask for is your commitment to the process.

02
CUTTING-EDGE AI

Model

Our causal ML models train on your historical data to predict each customer's future revenue, adapting automatically as your product and user base evolve.

01
WEEKS 1–4

Connect

Connect ad accounts, warehouse and conversion events in weeks 1 to 4. The signal goes live in week 8.

03
THE COMMITMENT

Optimize

If the pilot doesn't lift your long-term ROAS by double digits, you walk away and spend no more time on it. What we ask for is your commitment to the process.

The pilot

From kick-off to a decision in four months.

Every pilot is a test against your business-as-usual setup. The budget per arm, the primary metric and the uplift that counts as success are agreed in writing before anything goes live.

Weeks 1–4

Connect

Ad accounts, data warehouse and conversion events connected and validated.

Weeks 5–6

Size and design

We build your model, present the opportunity sizing and sign off the test design with you.

Weeks 7–8

Signal live

The Churney signal runs live for a week so volume and match quality are checked before launch.

Weeks 9–14

Experiment

Churney vs. business as usual: a two-week learning phase, then four measured weeks.

Weeks 15–17

Read-out

Cohorts mature for two weeks, then we read out the result against the agreed criteria: scale up, extend or stop.

See the week-by-week onboarding guide →

Leading brands growing with Churney

Country
USA
Category
SaaS
ROAS
+190%

"Churney helped us scale our campaigns without sacrificing efficiency. By focusing on predicted long-term value instead of early conversions, we doubled new customer volume and improved ROAS by 190%. It’s now a core part of how we run performance marketing."

Kaveh Motamed
Sr. Director of Marketing
Country
UA
Category
Apps
ROAS
+45%

"Working with Churney allowed us to test a smarter approach to campaign optimization, one that focuses on users’ long-term value rather than just early conversions. It’s an exciting direction for improving efficiency and user quality in performance marketing."

Tetiana Marynych
Head of Analytics
Country
USA
Category
Retail
ROAS
+29%

"Many companies promise improved ROAS, but Churney actually moves the bottom line. We saw immediate improvements in efficiency that allowed us to scale without second-guessing."

Roi Yosef
CTO, Los Angeles Apparel
Country
TR
Category
Apps
ROAS
+26%

"When we evaluated Churney, we focused on three criteria: Could they construct a predictive signal with appropriate calibration? Could they integrate it reliably into our data pipeline? And could they measure the outcome without bias? They delivered on all three."

Ilker Çam
CTO & Co-Founder
Country
CN
Category
Apps
ROAS
+34%

"Churney helped us move past short-term signals and tap into our users' real long-term value."

Liu Hengyu
Marketing Lead
Country
UK
Category
Apps
ROAS
+12%

"Implementing Churney’s predictive LTV model has been a game-changer for our user acquisition strategy. By identifying high-potential subscribers early, we’ve not only increased the lifetime value of our customers but also significantly improved retention rates and overall campaign performance."

Tom Blackshire
Director of Organic and Paid
Country
IL
Category
Retail
ROAS
+33%

"Churney has improved our advertising efficiency. By optimizing for predicted long-term value, we increased ROAS by 33% while gaining scale. The impact was so clear that we’ve now rolled out Churney’s conversion action across our Google account. Beyond that, Churney has enabled us to launch and scale new product categories that we couldn’t advertise before. It’s transformed the way we approach growth."

Felix Leshno
Co-Founder
Country
DK
Category
Retail
ROAS
+28%

“The key to success is to identify potential high-value customers swiftly and channel marketing budgets towards acquiring them. Our partnership with Churney was crucial in fueling Meta’s machine-learning algorithm with pLTV values.”

René Tingskov
Head of Marketing
Country
DE
Category
Apps
ROAS
+64%
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"The most meaningful day-to-day change so far is that I'm checking the split a bit more closely than usual in order to learn as much as possible about the signal, for example when it leaves the learning period, when it will show the first good ROAS signals."

Heiko Mandler
Performance Marketing Manager, Blinkist
Country
CN
Category
Apps
ROAS
+55%

Build or buy

Build your cohort LTV. Buy the bidding signal.

pLTV for user acquisition needs two different models. One belongs in your data team. The other is what Churney runs.

Build it

Cohort pLTV for forecasting and payback

Finance planning and payback curves run on cohort predictions. Your data team should own that model, and we give you a free generator to build it.

Build yours at cohorts.churney.io →

That is Churney

User-level pLTV for bidding

Bidding needs a value for every new customer, sent within hours, calibrated for how each platform learns and proven in a test against business as usual. That is a control problem, not only a prediction problem.

Why two models are required →

Beyond ad platforms

The signal that trains ad platforms can train your models.

Meta, Google and TikTok are the largest learners in production, and they learn from the value we predict. The same prediction works as a reward for fine-tuning LLMs and agents: each response is scored by the renewal, repeat order or churn it leads to.

Outcome rewards

Predicted long-term value as the reward for any training run or agent decision.

Continual calibration Design partners

Every reward is checked against the outcome it predicted and retrained, so it holds up under optimization.

Learning from logs Research preview

Train on the interactions and outcomes you already hold, corrected for how past decisions were made.

We have run the same RFT tasks on Vertex AI, Together, Fireworks, Tinker and SageMaker.

See the reward layer →
Predicted value streamStreaming
Ad signalNew customer · predicted 1-year value $412→ Meta
RewardSupport reply · predicted value impact +$18→ RFT run
Ad signalTrial start · predicted 1-year value $38→ TikTok
RewardAgent action · predicted value impact −$6→ RFT run

Illustrative example. One prediction, two consumers: ad platforms and training runs.

See whether your data predicts long-term value.

Book a 30-minute call. We look at your setup and tell you plainly whether pLTV is worth testing.

FAQ

Questions performance and data teams ask before they change the bid signal.

If your real customer value shows up after the first conversion, these are the tradeoffs worth understanding upfront.

We already optimize on purchases or trials. Isn’t that enough?

It is enough if first-conversion value is a fair proxy for long-term profit across your entire customer base. For many businesses, it is not.

Ecommerce teams often see strong first-order ROAS while repeat rate, category mix, or margin tell a different story weeks later. Subscription and app teams often see trials or installs convert inside the platform window while paid subscriptions or in-app value show up after.

Optimizing only on early proxies can cap prospecting, distort category expansion, inflate spend on one-and-done buyers, and undervalue your repeat ones. pLTV is for teams whose best customers reveal their value after the platform stops looking.

We have LTV dashboards and cohort reports. Why isn’t that solving this?

Dashboards tell your team who turned out valuable. They do not tell Meta or Google who will become valuable so they can bid on similar users today.

Cohort LTV explains the past. A pLTV signal changes what your ad platform learns next: per user, at bid time, through server-side integrations like Meta CAPI and Google Ads API.

If the platform never receives a user-level future value signal, it keeps learning from short-window conversions even when your analytics team already knows long-window value matters.

Keep your cohort model for planning and payback. You can build one for free at cohorts.churney.io.

We built (or tried) pLTV in-house and it didn’t move the needle. Why would this be different?

That usually comes down to signal timing, integration, or measurement, not whether LTV can be modeled at all.

Common failure modes: predictions that arrive too late for the platform learning window; scores that never reach the ad platform reliably or at the right freshness; no clean way to prove lift against business-as-usual bidding; or a model that breaks when product, pricing, or funnel mix changes. Churney’s DIY pLTV cautionary tale walks through where internal builds usually stall.

Churney is built for activation and measurement together: calibrated predictions, platform delivery, and structured testing against what you run today, so your data team is not signing up for another open-ended internal build.

How do we know the lift is real, especially if we’re running other tests?

You should not have to take a vendor’s word for it, especially with concurrent channel changes, creative tests, or seasonality in the mix.

Before launch, agree what business-as-usual means, what gets held out or controlled, and which metrics you trust as source of truth: your attribution stack, not ours. The experiment goes live in week 9 and runs six weeks: a two-week learning phase that is excluded from the evaluation, then four measured weeks. Cohorts mature for two more weeks and the read-out comes in week 17, so you are not judging long-term value on a seven-day window.

Where possible, we run tests through each platform’s official experimentation tools. Meta and Google both offer native experiment frameworks, which helps keep holdouts, controls, and readouts sanitized and clean. For a deeper read on holdouts, BAU, and what “lift” should mean in a pLTV pilot, see what a pLTV test is actually trying to prove.

Will this hurt volume while we’re testing?

The goal depends on how you scope the pilot: improving ROAS at the same scale, increasing scale without hurting ROAS, or improving both. Not a forced tradeoff where optimization must cost you volume.

A well-scoped test is designed to hold blended CPA or ROAS stable while you compare new customers acquired under your current optimization against customers acquired with a pLTV signal, read out in week 17 against the criteria agreed before launch.

Success looks like stronger repeat rates, higher cohort LTV, and ROAS that holds up once late-arriving value lands, whether that shows up as better efficiency, more volume, or both. See customer stories for examples across ecommerce, apps, and subscription.

Our data isn’t perfect, or the warehouse isn’t ready. Can we still do this?

Maybe, but only if the fundamentals are fixable.

Churney typically needs months of historical customer, revenue, and event data; daily append-only updates; a consistent user ID across purchases and attribution; and clear revenue or payment data. Exact requirements depend on your stack: ecommerce, app, subscription, or mixed.

If IDs are fragmented, exports are weekly batch only, or legal has not approved data sharing yet, those issues need to surface early, not after kickoff. A sample export and joint session with your data analyst and UA lead is often the fastest way to know whether you are ready or what has to be fixed first.

See what data Churney needs to get started for the full checklist.

How is this different from tROAS, value-based bidding, or marketing mix modeling?

Value-based bidding and tROAS optimize from whatever value signal the platform already receives. Churney improves the signal itself: predicted per-user long-term value from your first-party data, sent server-side so the platform can learn from it.

Marketing mix modeling helps you understand channel contribution at a portfolio level, useful for budget planning. pLTV works inside the ad platform, at the user level, every day, so the campaigns you are already running can optimize toward predicted long-term value.

Many teams use both; they answer different questions.

Which platforms does this actually plug into?

Churney sends pLTV signals to the platforms where you acquire customers at scale, including Meta (Conversions API), Google Ads, and TikTok.

App flows can also use MMP paths such as AppsFlyer, with the important caveat that MMP data usually complements, rather than replaces, warehouse or first-party data for most setups. The right mix depends on where you spend and how your data is structured.

Is this only for big spenders?

pLTV works best when paid acquisition is meaningful enough to model, test, and learn from, and when customer value varies after the first conversion.

It is a weaker fit for businesses with flat post-conversion value, low spend, immature first-party data, or no performance team owning ROAS. If you are not sure, start with the Growth Predictability Test for a quick fit read before booking a consultation.

What does this cost, and what if the uplift doesn’t cover the fee?

That is the right question. Headline ROAS improvement only matters if it survives fees, margin, and the cost of running the test.

Churney runs a four-month pilot before production; the onboarding guide shows it week by week. Commercial terms depend on spend, scope, and pilot design. Evaluation should include net uplift math (incremental profit versus pilot and production fees), not a vanity ROAS percentage alone.

Exact pricing, pilot fees, and any performance-linked terms are shared during evaluation and should match legal-approved contract language.

Will legal and security sign off on the data share?

Enterprise teams routinely ask about identifier handling, retention, subprocessors, uptime, and DPA terms before any data leaves the building.

Churney works from first-party data with privacy-safe processing: PII excluded or hashed per integration requirements. Churney is SOC 2 compliant and supports security review for procurement and legal stakeholders.