Has your firm tried Meta or LinkedIn ads and got nothing back? Or never run them because nobody knew where to start? We build the campaigns and the creatives to get you more customers.
Some of the biggest paid social problems for finance companies.

We’re getting likes and impressions, but no clients.
The dashboard’s full of green numbers. Engagement up, reach up, follower count climbing. Then payday comes round and the team realises none of it turned into a single new client.
Social media engagement is the easiest metric to win and the hardest one to bank. A like doesn’t pay your overheads. A reach number doesn’t fill the diary. Most paid social campaigns in the financial services industry chase the feel-good metrics because they’re easier to report on than the awkward truth: scrolls aren’t leads and likes don’t sign retainers.
If your firm can’t trace the last new client back to a specific paid social campaign, the campaign isn’t doing its job.
Our brand looks like every other finance firm in the feed.
Open LinkedIn. Scroll for thirty seconds. Count the finance firms posting the same generic content. Tax tips with a stock photo. A vague quote about “trusted advice”. A team photo from a Christmas party three years ago.
Paid social only works when your firm’s social media presence stands out from the noise. That means a real social media strategy, content built around your firm’s voice and authority, and creative that doesn’t look like it was made from a template. Most financial services brands settle for what their generalist agency can produce, which is usually exactly the same thing the firm down the road is producing.
When the buyer can’t tell the difference between two firms in their feed, they default to whichever one they’ve heard of. Usually not yours.
The compliance team keeps killing our best ads.
Paid social is the most regulated channel in financial advertising. The FCA, the ASA and your own compliance team all have a say on every social media ad before it goes live. Standalone compliance, risk warnings that can’t be hidden behind a link, language that has to be fair, clear and not misleading, no jargon, no exaggeration, no promotional language that crosses the line.
Most agencies running social media marketing for finance brands don’t know what those rules look like in practice. They write the punchy headline. The compliance team blocks it. The agency rewrites without understanding why, the next version gets blocked too, and three weeks pass before anything goes live.
By the time the campaign launches, the creative’s been so watered down it can’t compete with the firms that got the compliance right the first time.
We need to be on LinkedIn, Meta and TikTok and we can’t keep up with the creative.
Every social media platform demands its own format. LinkedIn wants thought leadership and long-form educational content. Meta wants stopping-power visuals and short copy. TikTok and Instagram Reels want short-form video that doesn’t feel like an ad. Static, carousel, video, story, reel. Each format needs producing, editing and shipping, week after week.
Most finance firms don’t have the in-house creative team to keep up. The marketing manager spends half the week chasing freelancers, briefing designers, fixing copy that doesn’t sound like the brand. The other half they spend explaining to the partners why the campaigns ran with the same two creatives for six months.
42% of Americans under 30 say they get financial advice from social media. Reaching them takes consistent, well-produced engaging content built specifically for the financial services sector and the creative engine to keep producing it without burning the firm out.
What finance firms say about us.
Why paid social matters for finance firms.
LinkedIn reaches 2.8x more business decision-makers than any other major business site.
If your firm sells to other businesses in finance, LinkedIn isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s where your buyers already are.
43% of Americans actively seek financial advice through social media, rising to 77% of Gen Z and 61% of millennials.
The next generation of your firm’s clients aren’t on Google. They’re scrolling for advice on the platforms most finance firms are barely on.
82% of people are more likely to trust a finance company when its senior team is active on social media.
Paid social is the fastest way to build that visibility for buyers who haven’t met you yet.
Hear from the finance firms we work with.
Paid social done properly is five jobs. Most agencies only do one.

We run the campaigns, build the creatives and handle the other jobs most agencies skip.
Paid social only works when the campaign reaches the right buyer in the right feed. A B2B accountancy firm‘s buyer scrolls LinkedIn during work hours. A retail-facing financial advisor‘s buyer scrolls Meta in the evenings. A younger audience scrolls TikTok or Instagram Reels at lunch.
Most agencies guess at this. We start every engagement with a proper social media audit and a social media marketing strategy mapped to your sub-sector, your business objectives and where your buyers genuinely live online.
That’s the difference between paying to reach 10,000 people and paying to reach the 500 who’ll actually become clients.
This is the part most paid social agencies skip. They run the media buy and outsource the creative to a freelancer who’s never met the brand. The ads come back generic, the brand looks like every other finance firm in the feed, and the campaign underperforms because the creative was the weakest link.
We design, animate and edit every asset under our own roof. Static ads, animated stills, social media posts, carousels, short-form video for TikTok and Instagram Reels, infographics, ad copy variants ready for A/B testing across formats and platforms.
We don’t film or record the source footage but everything you give us, we turn into ad-ready creative that fits your brand and converts. Building brand awareness on paid social means showing up consistently with creative that earns the scroll, and that only happens when one team owns the work end to end.
Paid social isn’t about being everywhere. It’s about being in the right places. LinkedIn for B2B finance firms targeting other businesses, building thought leadership and generating leads from industry professionals. Meta for retail-facing financial services brands needing visibility and retargeting. TikTok and Instagram Reels for the younger audiences increasingly turning to social platforms for financial education and product discovery.
We run the platforms that earn their place for your firm. Not the ones that look good on a capability slide. Same team handling the media buy and the creative, so the campaigns evolve based on what the data shows is actually working.
Financial advertising on social media carries the strictest rules in paid media. Standalone compliance on every ad. Risk warnings sized so they can’t be missed and never hidden behind a link. Language that meets the FCA’s fair, clear and not misleading standard. No jargon, no exaggeration, no promotional language that crosses regulatory guidelines.
We write every campaign brief with these constraints in mind from the first draft. The risk warnings get designed into the creative, not bolted onto the end. Ad copy gets reviewed against compliance requirements before submission. Records of every ad variant, every approval and every campaign get kept on file to meet the three-year record-keeping standards finance firms work under.
Your compliance team should be checking the work, not rewriting it from scratch.
The metrics most agencies report on (likes, reach, engagement rate) tell you whether the algorithm liked your ad. They tell you nothing about whether the ad made you any money.
Our reports go further. Quality Scores and conversion rates, not just impressions. Cost per qualified lead, not cost per click. Where your CRM allows it, we trace specific revenue back to specific campaigns. A/B testing across ad copy, formats and creative assets, with the results feeding directly into the next month’s work.
The key performance indicators we track are the ones tied to your business goals: leads, calls, contact form submissions and signed retainers. If a campaign isn’t bringing those in, you’ll see it. If something’s working, you’ll see that too.
Paid social tailored to your niche of finance.
Accountants
Reach limited company directors, sole traders and contractors scrolling LinkedIn and Meta, with creative built around the moments they’re thinking about switching accountants.
Bookkeepers
Land in front of the small business owners and consumer-facing brands on Meta who need ongoing bookkeeping support, not just the ones already inside your referral circle.
Financial Advisors
Run FCA-compliant Meta and LinkedIn ads that reach pre-retirees, professionals and family-stage buyers ready for a real conversation about their money.
Insurance Brokers
Win attention from the commercial decision-makers, contractors and high-net-worth buyers your firm is built to serve, with creative built around the specific cover types you write.
Results we have achieved for companies like yours.
£30,948 a year in new business & rank 1 on Google for London’s toughest bookkeeping terms.
We took a brand-new US insurance company from no website to page one of Google in six weeks.
An accounting firm nowhere on Google. Under a year later, number one in Hampshire.
Three reasons finance firms choose HandL Agency for paid social.

There are dozens of digital marketing agencies promising paid social media for the financial services industry. Three things separate us from every one of them.
Most paid social media agencies hand the ad spend to a media buyer and the creative to a separate team that never speaks to them. The two halves never line up, so the campaigns underperform. We keep both under one engagement. Strategy, creative, ad copy and ad spend run through one team with one brief, which is why our financial brands maintain consistency across every social media channel they run on.
Paid social is a regulated industry channel. The FCA, the ASA and the platforms themselves enforce strict regulatory guidelines around financial promotions, promoting financial products and social media advertising language. Our compliance team reviews every ad before it leaves the studio, with records kept on file for regulatory compliance. That protects your firm from FCA breaches and from ads getting pulled mid-campaign because a generalist missed an obvious rule.
We’ve run paid social campaigns for accountants, bookkeepers, financial advisors and insurance brokers across the UK, Europe and the US. That book of work has given us customer insights into how finance buyers behave on Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok. We know which social media platforms reach pre-retirees, which encourage engagement from younger demographics and which targeted ads convert potential customers vs. burn budget. Most digital marketing agencies are still guessing at this for financial services companies.
We treat clients as partners, not contracts.
Quarterly catch-ups, dinners, beers, pool nights, coffees, darts, football, rugby and cricket.
We put real time into the financial services firms we work with because the work’s better when the relationship is. Most financial firms get treated like an ad spend line by their paid social agency. The accounts that compound for us are the ones that run as partnerships with finance businesses, not contracts.

Honestly? You don’t even need to work with us to get value from us.
Free creative templates, social media account audit checklists, ad copy frameworks for Meta and LinkedIn, content marketing guides, brand values worksheets and educational videos covering paid social fundamentals you can download and start using today.
Built for accountants, bookkeepers, financial advisors and insurance brokers ready to build their social media presence, run their own social media campaigns and engage their target audience without working with an agency. Genuine resources for financial companies wanting to establish authority, reach new audiences and increase lead generation across the financial sector.











Ready to bring in more clients without waiting on referrals?
In 45 minutes with Bailey and Luke, you’ll see exactly where your ad spend is leaking on Meta and LinkedIn, what your competitors in the financial services industry are doing differently and the two or three changes that would lift your paid social results in the next 90 days.
Whether the answer is creative, audience targeting, content strategies for younger demographics on TikTok and Instagram Reels or a full paid social strategy across every relevant channel, you’ll leave the call with a clearer picture than you walked in with. Built around the FCA compliance, regulatory guidelines and financial advertising standards financial institutions work under.
A great social media campaign gets your firm in front of buyers. Turning those scrolls into enquiries from the right target audience is what we actually do.
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