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Ace Working Holidays

The UK’s number one name in working holidays abroad.

MetaGoogle AdsLead generation
6 years
Market-leading partnership
6,400+
Applications a year
~£1.60
Cost per application
About Ace Working Holidays

Ace Working Holidays is the UK’s leading provider of working holidays abroad, placing thousands of young people into seasonal roles across Europe’s biggest party resorts every summer. We have owned their paid acquisition for six years, with a single commercial objective: deliver a high volume of qualified applications to the sales team at the lowest possible cost, then convert them into confirmed placements in resort.

Six years of market leadership, and the launchpad for an entirely new category.
The strategy

The strategy behind the results.

A working holiday is a seasonal, high-consideration decision, so we built a year-round acquisition setup across Google and Meta, mapped to the full applicant journey from first inspiration to confirmed placement. Always-on demand capture runs alongside creative-led prospecting that reaches UK 18 to 24s where they spend their time, supported by sophisticated audience strategies, including re-engaging holidaymakers while they are in resort and most receptive to returning to work the following season.

Constant test-and-learn across audiences, messaging and conversion paths lets us scale application volume while protecting cost per lead, feeding the sales team a steady, high-intent pipeline through every stage of the booking cycle.

The applicant journeyYear-round, with a returning loopInspirationApplicationPlacementReturn next season

We map spend to the full journey, and re-engage holidaymakers in resort to return the next season.
The results

The numbers that matter.

6 years
Market-leading partnership
6,400+
Applications a year
~£1.60
Cost per application

Over six years we have helped Ace become the dominant force in UK working holidays, generating more than 6,400 applications in the last year alone at a cost of around £1.60 each. That consistent, efficient pipeline is what lets the sales team fill resorts season after season.

The same performance has underpinned the group’s expansion into ACE Travel, now one of the UK’s leading sellers of package adventures across Thailand and wider Asia, which we have helped launch and scale on exactly the same commercial principles.

LowDigital.

From impression to applicationGoogle Ads, six months164kAd impressions17.6kClicks to site2,551Applications started

A tightly structured account turning 164k impressions into more than 2,500 applications.

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