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Mindbloom · Mental health and wellness · Influencer marketing & paid social · 2026

How Mindbloom cut CAC 25% with real patient testimony

In treatment categories, credibility is the conversion lever. Nothing else moves the number as much.

Mindbloom

25%

CAC reduction

alongside a 7-figure media buy

The results, up top — every number is in the strip below

25%

CAC reduction

against previous creative

40%

increase in referral sign-ups

second-order effect

15+

creators through the programme

testimony, not endorsement

$1M+

whitelisting & dark posting

seven-figure amplification

Sensitive category

credibility-led creative

trust before scale

Industry

Mental health and wellness

Location

United States

Channel

Influencer marketing & paid social

Services used

Paid social

Timeline

Multi-month programme

01 — The challenge

A sensitive category where advertising claims carry little weight.

Mindbloom operates in mental health, where prospective clients are cautious and sceptical by default, and where brand-voice advertising struggles to establish trust.

A seven-figure media budget amplifies whatever creative it is given — including creative people do not believe.

“People considering this are frightened and doing their own research. They do not want a brand telling them it works. They want to hear it from someone who did it.”

So micro-influencers and real testimony were put in front of the media budget.

02 — Our approach

Authentic testimonials, then whitelisting and dark posting at scale.

Fifteen-plus creators went through the treatment programme themselves and spoke from that experience, which is the only version of this creative that holds up in a sceptical category.

Whitelisting and dark posting then put that testimony behind the seven-figure buy, cutting customer acquisition cost 25% and lifting referral sign-ups 40%.

03 — What we did

What the campaign actually consisted of.

The working parts behind the Mindbloom numbers above.

15+ creators in-programme

Testimony, not endorsement

Creators went through the treatment before speaking about it.

Meta Ads Manager view for Mindbloom — Testimony, not endorsement

Whitelisting at scale

Credible creative, paid reach

Creator testimony ran as paid from creator handles across a seven-figure buy.

Meta Ads Manager view for Mindbloom — Credible creative, paid reach

CAC down 25%

Trust as an efficiency lever

Customer acquisition cost fell 25% once testimony replaced brand voice.

Meta Ads Manager view for Mindbloom — Trust as an efficiency lever

Referrals up 40%

The word-of-mouth effect

Referral sign-ups rose 40%, compounding the paid result.

Meta Ads Manager view for Mindbloom — The word-of-mouth effect

04 — The results

CAC down 25% and referral sign-ups up 40% on a 7-figure media buy

Period covered: Multi-month programme. Figures as reported in the campaign deck for this brand.

Source: figures as reported in this brand’s campaign deck — creator and paid-social performance as reported. Platform-reported creator and paid-social metrics, not independently re-verified against the ad account.

Meta Ads Manager screenshot for Mindbloom — CAC down 25% and referral sign-ups up 40% on a 7-figure media buyMeta Ads Manager screenshot for Mindbloom — Every result on this page was recorded before it was reportedMeta Ads Manager screenshot for Mindbloom — 25% CAC reduction and 40% increase in referral sign-upsMeta Ads Manager screenshot for Mindbloom — One dashboard: 25% CAC reduction, 40% increase in referral sign-ups, 15+ creators through the programme

The stack we ran it on

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Meta Ads Manager

Paid social

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TikTok Ads Manager

Paid social

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Creator sourcing

Casting

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Spark Ads & whitelisting

Amplification

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Frame.io

Creative review

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Canva

Creative

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GA4

Analytics

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Looker Studio

Dashboards

Numbers we can prove

We kept the receipts

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