Case study · Telegram Ads
Memecoin channel in Telegram Ads: 2,974 subscribers at $0.97
- Niche: memecoins
- Language: English
- March–May 2026
- 2 ad accounts: TON and EUR
$2.34 → $0.74cost per subscriber: week one → week two
192one-channel campaigns in testing
$187peak day
The client runs an English-language Telegram channel about memecoin pumps: early calls on tokens.
Task: bring in subscribers for less than $1 each. Before us, a subscriber cost $2 and moderation kept rejecting the ads.
- Total Spend — all spend for the period, in dollars
- Total Actions — channel joins and funnel entries
- Avg CPA = spend / subscribers
- CTR across all campaigns
- EUR account: $1,870 spent, CPA $0.96
- TON account: $1,010 spent, CPA $0.97, CTR 7.36%
What went wrong and how we fixed it
1. An expensive start: $2.34 per subscriber
- Problem
- At first we advertised the channel directly. In week one we looked for the channels where the memecoin audience lives, and a subscriber cost $2.34.
- Solution
- We picked channels with SPY services and our AI selection tool. Every channel ran as its own campaign, and we switched off the ones that did not convert. A week later a subscriber cost $0.74.
$2.34 at the start1 channel = 1 campaign$0.74 a week later
2. A wide channel pack brought clicks, not subscribers
- Problem
- A campaign on 80 channels got 131,827 impressions and 11,370 clicks, but only 94 subscriptions. A subscriber cost €2.80.
- Solution
- We built packs of 25 and 55 channels, using only the ones that did well in testing. There, 25–28% of clicks turned into subscriptions, and a subscriber cost €0.71–0.88.
80 channels → CPA €2.80best 25–55 channels → CPA €0.71–0.88
3. Moderation started rejecting the channel's ads
- Problem
- On April 16, moderation rejected all 193 of the channel's ads in the TON account in a single day. In the EUR account it rejected one new ad in four.
- Solution
- We built a funnel: the ad leads to a bot, and the bot leads to the channel. We ran it on the same packs of the best channels. Up to 36–54% of clicks entered the funnel, at €0.34–0.55 per entry.
193 ads rejected in a daya funnel through a bot€0.34–0.55 per entry
- The funnel on packs of the best channels: CPA €0.34–0.55
- Each pack holds 25 or 55 channels picked in testing
The funnel creatives
The channel and bot names are hidden.
