I'm Daniel Farnsworth, a performance marketer based in Auckland, New Zealand. I lead paid media campaigns across Meta, Google, and TikTok for ecommerce, SaaS, events, and service-based clients, focusing on full-funnel strategy, creative planning, campaign setup, optimization, and reporting. I’m comfortable managing high daily budgets, delivering clear insights, and continuously improving return on ad spend for clients. I've built and led the paid media function at The Attention Seeker, overseeing strategy, execution, and reporting across 15+ clients with $50K+ monthly ad spend. I partner with creative teams to concept and brief ad assets for full-funnel campaigns and have experience delivering advocacy campaigns for government agencies and UN Women Aotearoa and Youthline, including reducing cost per lead and designing enduring creative assets that remain live due to long-term performance.

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I'm Daniel Farnsworth, a performance marketer based in Auckland, New Zealand. I lead paid media campaigns across Meta, Google, and TikTok for ecommerce, SaaS, events, and service-based clients, focusing on full-funnel strategy, creative planning, campaign setup, optimization, and reporting. I’m comfortable managing high daily budgets, delivering clear insights, and continuously improving return on ad spend for clients. I've built and led the paid media function at The Attention Seeker, overseeing strategy, execution, and reporting across 15+ clients with $50K+ monthly ad spend. I partner with creative teams to concept and brief ad assets for full-funnel campaigns and have experience delivering advocacy campaigns for government agencies and UN Women Aotearoa and Youthline, including reducing cost per lead and designing enduring creative assets that remain live due to long-term performance.

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I’m Daniel Farnsworth, a performance marketer based in Auckland, New Zealand. I lead paid media campaigns across Meta, Google, and TikTok for ecommerce, SaaS, events, and service-based clients, focusing on full-funnel strategy, creative planning, campaign setup, optimization, and reporting. I’m comfortable managing high daily budgets, delivering clear insights, and continuously improving return on ad spend for clients.

I’ve built and led the paid media function at The Attention Seeker, overseeing strategy, execution, and reporting across 15+ clients with $50K+ monthly ad spend. I partner with creative teams to concept and brief ad assets for full-funnel campaigns and have experience delivering advocacy campaigns for government agencies and UN Women Aotearoa and Youthline, including reducing cost per lead and designing enduring creative assets that remain live due to long-term performance.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Media Strategist / Paid Media Lead at The Attention Seeker
September 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Built and led the paid media function, owning strategy, execution, and reporting across 15+ clients (ecommerce, SaaS, events, health, and finance). Partnered with creative teams to concept and brief ad assets for full-funnel campaigns. Managed $50K+ in monthly ad spend for clients such as AA Insurance, Extraordinary Pay, Pan Head & STIHL Shop.
Media Analyst at Topham Guerin
January 1, 2024 - September 1, 2024
Executed advocacy campaigns for government agencies and performance campaigns for UN Women Aotearoa and Youthline. Built an ad for UN Women Aotearoa that reduced cost per lead from $20 to $2. Planned Youthline creative that remains live due to long-term consistent performance.
Media Intern at Topham Guerin
November 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Supported paid media execution for The National Party during the 2023 General Election. Researched data for campaign creative and boosted awareness content with strict guidelines. Identified high-performing themes, with RAM-raid related content driving the strongest engagement.
Paid Advertising Specialist (Volunteer) at Eastern Bays Community Patrol
May 1, 2024 - Present
Provided digital advertising support for the Eastern Bays Community Patrol.

Education

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Qualifications

First Place, Industry Case Capstone (Business 351)
January 11, 2030 - January 5, 2026

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Retail, Professional Services, Other