How a Medically Led Weight Loss Business obtained over 10,000 leads in 5 months.

At-a-Glance Snapshot

•              Client: Medically Led Weight Loss Business, with 7 clinics

•              Challenge: Signing up patients for their clinical trials

•              Solution: Paid Social Campaign

•              Results: 10,251 leads at an average cost of £1.92 per lead.

•              Timeframe: 5 months

•              Services/products used: Paid Meta Campaign

Client Background

Icon’s client provides a fully supported medically weight loss services to their patients. There customers are typically individuals with a BMI over 30, based in the North-West. However they also offer a remote service covering the whole of the UK. Our client has recently launched a clinical trials service and need to recruit patients to join the trial.

The Challenge

Our client wished was looking to sign up patients to their clinical trials across three locations across the North-West. They also wanted to grow their database of potential patients interested in medically led weight loss.

The Solution

Icon started a paid social campaign for our client across Instagram and Facebook. This approach was used as it allowed us to provide a targeted approach at a low CPM. This campaign commenced in May 2026. We collaborated with our client to obtain relevant creative and ad copy.

The Results
This campaign has performed exceptionally well with a low CPL and significant impressions. The results to date are as follows.

10,251 leads at an average cost of £1.92 per lead.

1,731,697 impressions

334,117 users reached 5.18 times.

This campaign has also contributed to improving brand awareness and building our clients database of prospective patients.

Key Takeaways / Lessons Learned

This campaign is a great example of how Meta can be utilised to gain more leads for businesses. Our client is so pleased with the results they’re launching a second campaign with Icon.

 

If you’d like to discuss whether a paid social campaign could help your business gain over 10,000 leads like our client we’d love to hear from you. Complete an enquiry today and the team will be in touch with you soon.