A media buyer has
one pair of hands.
Lapis has a system.

A media buyer manages the auction for you. Lapis creates the ads and landing pages, runs structured experiments, and turns every result into your next campaign, without adding headcount.

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Lapis generating on-brand ads for the Media Buyer comparison

Lapis

A full ads team in software

Lapis brings creative, matched landing pages, and structured experiments into one always-on system, then tags and measures every run so the next one starts smarter.

  • Creative, audience variants, and matched pages included
  • Always on, with no single point of failure
  • Every run is tagged, measured, and fed into the next

Media Buyer

One expert's bandwidth

A good media buyer brings real judgment to the auction, but creative and landing pages are usually separate, output is capped by one person's hours, and coverage pauses when they are away.

  • Buys and optimizes media, creative usually not included
  • Output limited by a single person's hours
  • Coverage and context depend on one hire

Trusted by 1,500+ marketing teams including

What Lapis adds beyond buying media

A media buyer optimizes the auction. Lapis builds the creative and pages, learns at the level of ideas, and turns each result into the next run.

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Creative and copy, not just media buying

Describe the offer and Lapis generates complete, on-brand ad directions with copy and imagery, so creative is part of the system instead of a separate hire.

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Tag every ad across nine dimensions

Every ad is labeled by angle, audience, use case, proof, and more, so you learn what wins at the level of ideas, not just individual creatives.

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Rank winners with confidence

Confidence-adjusted scoring discounts thin, low-impression results, so a lucky ad never outranks a proven one and every winner is one you can reproduce.

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Forecast before you fund

Compare directional forecasts for impressions, clicks, and CTR before you spend, then let live results become the source of truth.

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A matched landing page for every campaign

RapidDomain builds a complete, on-brand page matched to each ad and tests full-page variants against your conversion goal, so the work after the click is covered too.

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Generate the next run from what won

Lapis turns a run's learnings into the next batch: a recommended mix of angles, audiences, and budget shifts for your approval.

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Feature comparison

Where a media buyer and Lapis overlap, and where they differ. A lighter check means a buyer can do it, but through one person's hours.

LapisMedia Buyer
Included: Ongoing media buying and bid optimization
Included: Ongoing media buying and bid optimization
Not included: Hands-on human judgment on one account
Included: Hands-on human judgment on one account
Included: Original ad creative generated for you
Not included: Original ad creative generated for you
Included: Ad copywriting included
Not included: Ad copywriting included
Included: A matched landing page for every campaign
Not included: A matched landing page for every campaign
Included: Audience and bid strategy
Included: Audience and bid strategy
Included: Audience-specific creative variants
Not included: Audience-specific creative variants
Included: Performance forecasting before you spend
Not included: Performance forecasting before you spend
Included: Confidence-adjusted winner ranking
Not included: Confidence-adjusted winner ranking
Included: Creative tagged and scored across nine dimensions
Not included: Creative tagged and scored across nine dimensions
Included: Ads adapted into 100+ languages instantly
Not included: Ads adapted into 100+ languages instantly
Included: Always on, with no single point of failure
Not included: Always on, with no single point of failure
Not included: Deep expertise in a specific niche or platform
Included: Deep expertise in a specific niche or platform

Lapis

How a Lapis campaign runs

  1. Install your brand, products, and rules
  2. Brief the campaign in plain English
  3. Review and launch the ads and landing page
  4. Carry the results into the next run

Media Buyer

How a media buyer works

  1. Hire or contract and grant account access
  2. They audit the account and plan campaigns
  3. They build and optimize campaigns by hand
  4. You sync in weekly check-ins and reports

Why teams run Lapis alongside or instead of a buyer

01

A team, not a bottleneck.

One buyer can only do so much in a week. Lapis produces creative, pages, and experiments in parallel, so throughput is not capped by a single person's hours.

02

Creative included, not extra.

Media buyers optimize delivery, but the ads and landing pages usually come from somewhere else. Lapis builds them as part of the same system.

03

Learning that compounds.

Every run is tagged and measured with confidence, so wins are reproducible and each campaign starts from what the last one proved.

Choose Lapis

if you need to...

  • Get creative, landing pages, and buying in one system
  • Scale output without adding headcount
  • Tag and learn at the level of ideas
  • Compound reproducible results across runs

Choose a media buyer

if you need to...

  • Get deep, hands-on human judgment on one account
  • Lean on expertise in a specific niche or platform
  • Keep flexible, ad-hoc scope and account ownership
  • Have one person accountable for the relationship

Lapis managed plans pair AI agents with a dedicated strategist, so you can add human oversight without hiring a full-time buyer.

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