Performance Digital Marketing Agency

Ad spend that earns more leases.

Multifamily PPC agency built for apartment lease-ups and stabilized communities. Google Ads and Meta Ads, managed end-to-end by Cameron Day. No lock-in. No layers.

How we grow your portfolio

Paid Ads. SEO, AI & GEO Ranking. Data Analytics.

Three disciplines, one owner-led team, tied together by results you can trace to leases signed.

Our focus

One specialty. One obsession with results.

What we do

Performance marketing built for apartment communities

Built around the multifamily lifecycle. Every account is owner-led. No juniors. No hand-offs. No lock-in.

Google Ads for Apartments

Search, Performance Max, display, and remarketing built for lease-up velocity and stabilized efficiency. Negative keyword discipline, budget allocation by floor plan, cost-per-lease reporting.

Meta Ads & Social

Pre-leasing awareness, retargeting, and interest-list campaigns, with creative testing and attribution you can trust.

SEO & Content

Technical audits, on-page optimization, and content strategy that compounds — so paid and organic work together instead of competing.

Analytics & Attribution

GA4 setup, conversion tracking, UTM hygiene, and custom reporting dashboards. If your data is lying to you, every decision downstream is wrong.

Competitor & Pricing Intelligence

We read your five real competitors every day — their floorplan pricing, their concessions, their advertised availability — and put the movement next to yours. Regionals find out someone dropped two months free the day it happens, not after losing the tour.

Our platform

Marketing Pulse

Every community's spend, traffic, rents, reviews and competitors on one screen, refreshed all day. Marketing teams stop building decks and regionals stop asking for updates. Included with ads management.

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What we’re doing at every stage of your lease-up

Most agencies run the same playbook all year. We don’t. Drag the slider from pre-leasing to stabilization and watch the strategy change.

Pre-Leasing · Day -90

Brand and broad-match search go live before the leasing office opens. We map real renter demand and start building retargeting pools, so the market already knows your name on day one.

Day -90Day -45Move-InRampStabilized
AwarenessPrimary goal
BroadMatch strategy
Scaling upBudget posture
Featured client · Top 50 National Operator

Nearly 3× lower cost per lease switching to Jamesday Digital

A multi-year partnership managing a multimillion-dollar portfolio ad budget across every community phase — from aggressive lease-up launches to efficient stabilized spend. As the portfolio grew from 8 to 50+ communities, spend followed the properties that needed exposure most each month, never the ones already leasing well.

We built custom reporting dashboards used daily by their internal marketing and leadership teams, pulling live Google and Meta performance into one clear view of cost per lease by community. No black box, no monthly-deck delay, and they own every ad account outright.

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~3×Lower cost per lease vs. prior multifamily agency
35%Cost savings in management fees
$1M+Annual ad spend managed
The fine print, up front

What we don’t do

Most agencies bury this stuff. We lead with it, because it’s exactly why operators switch to us.

We don’t lock you in

No proprietary platform. Everything runs in ad accounts you own. Leave whenever you want and take all your data, history, and audiences with you.

We don’t hand you to a coordinator

The owner manages your account, start to finish. The person you meet on the call is the person running your campaigns.

We don’t report impressions

Impressions don’t fill units. We report in cost per lease, tours, and applications — the numbers your leadership actually cares about.

We don’t bundle junk you didn’t ask for

No forced website platform, no mandatory chatbot, no tool stack you’ll never use. Just paid media that performs.

Why Jamesday

Big-agency results. Boutique-agency attention.

$5M+Annual ad spend under managementAcross multifamily portfolios nationwide
0Years paid media experienceIncluding in-house multifamily marketing leadership
Same dayResponse timeClients consistently call it out — it’s our most common compliment
Client voices

Don’t take our word for it

A custom, client-centered approach tailored to our unique business goals. His response time and adaptability stand out — his innovative mindset sets him apart from other providers.

Raven ReckleyVP of Marketing, Milhaus

Cameron has been more attentive to our advertising than any agency we’ve worked with. His knowledge of real estate and the industry is an additional advantage—and a rarity.

Joanna MahoneyDirector of Marketing, Onyx+East

Our total online revenue more than quadrupled compared to the previous agency, and our ROAS jumped to over 3.5. Cameron understands seasonal business and how to capitalize on those windows.

Kevin D.Owner, Day Furs

A rare combination of strategist, collaborator, and executor. Clearer insights, more actionable data — and a partner who actually responds the same day.

Mike PennachioPresident & CEO, GoKeyless
Why operators switch to us

What the big multifamily platforms won't tell you

Lock-in

You own everything. Always.

The big multifamily marketing platforms run your campaigns inside their proprietary systems. Leave, and your campaign history, audiences, and data leave with them. We build inside ad accounts you own — every dollar of learning stays yours, forever.

Layers

Your portfolio isn't a ticket number

At a 1,000-property platform, your community is a row in a queue. Here, every account is managed by someone who ran multifamily digital in-house. Concession changed? Exposure spiked? You get a same-day pivot, not a support ticket.

Bundles

Pay for performance, not packages

No forced website platform, no mandatory chatbot, no bundle of tools you didn't ask for. We plug into your existing stack — your PMS, your website provider, your attribution — and make the paid media itself outperform.

What mattersJamesday DigitalBig multifamily platforms
Who runs your account Direct — every accountRotating account coordinators
Ad account ownership Yours — full history & dataOften platform-owned
Contract structure Flexible, performance-earnedBundled platform contracts
Budget changes & pivots Same-dayRequest queues
Reporting Custom, in your GA4 & dashboardsTheir portal, their metrics
Fee structure Lean boutique — no management layers in your billBig-agency overhead baked into pricing
Multifamily operating experience In-house multifamily backgroundVaries by account team
How it works

From first call to first results

Week 1

Audit & strategy

We dig into your accounts, your market, and your goals — then deliver a clear roadmap with budget recommendations.

Weeks 2–3

Build & launch

Campaign structure, tracking, creative, and landing pages built right the first time. You approve everything before a dollar is spent.

Ongoing

Optimize & report

Continuous testing, transparent reporting, and budget that flows toward what’s working. You’ll always know exactly what your spend is doing.

Straight answers

Questions we get on the first call

How much should an apartment community spend on Google Ads?

It depends on the size of the community, the market, and whether it is in lease-up or stabilized. A lease-up carrying dozens of vacant units can justify several thousand dollars a month because every week of delay costs real rent, while a stabilized community holding 95 percent occupancy usually needs a much smaller budget aimed only at replacing natural turnover. The right way to set the number is to work backward from how many leases you need and what a lease currently costs you to acquire, not from a percentage of a marketing budget.

What is a good cost per lease for apartment marketing?

There is no single benchmark, because a studio in a secondary market and a three bedroom in a coastal metro do not cost the same to lease. What matters is the trend inside your own portfolio and how paid search compares to your other lead sources on the same measure. We calculate cost per lease from actual signed leases rather than form fills, which is usually the point where the number stops flattering the channel and starts being useful. Our guide on multifamily PPC cost per lease walks through the benchmarks and how to calculate it for your own portfolio.

Is Google Ads or Meta Ads better for leasing apartments?

They do different jobs. Google Ads captures renters who are already searching for apartments in your submarket, so it produces the fastest tours and is almost always the first channel to fund. Meta Ads reaches people who are not searching yet, which makes it valuable for lease-up awareness, filling specific slow floor plans, and promoting a concession. Most communities need Google first and Meta second, and the split shifts as occupancy climbs.

Do I still need paid search if I already pay for ILS listings?

Usually yes, and for a reason worth knowing: on an ILS, a renter who searches your community by name is shown your competitors alongside you. Direct paid search sends that renter to your own website, where the only community available to tour is yours. The two are not interchangeable, and the honest comparison is cost per signed lease from each source rather than leads or traffic.

Do you work with single communities or only large portfolios?

Both. The work spans single-asset communities through portfolios of over a hundred properties, managed under one Google Ads MCC so budget and learnings move across the portfolio instead of sitting in isolated accounts. Pricing is a percentage of managed ad spend for portfolio clients and a flat monthly fee for smaller single-property engagements.

Who actually manages the account day to day?

Cameron Day manages every account directly. There are no account coordinators, no junior buyers, and no handoff after the sales call. That is a deliberate constraint on how many clients the agency takes on, and it is the reason the person who builds your campaigns is the person who answers your email.

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Tell us a little about your setup and we'll come back with specific findings — where budget is being wasted, what's misconfigured, and what we'd prioritize first. You keep every finding whether we work together or not.

No setup fees. No lock-in. You own every account.
Who you'll work with

Owner-led, start to finish

I'm Cameron Day, owner of Jamesday Digital. I've spent over 14 years running large-scale paid media, including in-house time inside a national multifamily developer and operator before starting the agency. I know the lease-up grind, the stabilized-occupancy math, and the reporting your leadership actually wants to see.

When you work with Jamesday, you work with me. No account coordinators, no junior handoffs, no layers between you and the person running your campaigns. That's the whole point of staying boutique: senior attention on every account, every month.

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