For Advertisers — Performance Media Agency

A direct-response media agency that gets paid when the phone rings.

Since 1984, Airtime Media has bought Per-Inquiry TV, Per-Inquiry Radio, and Digital media on behalf of advertisers who measure success in qualified leads — not impressions. Pick one channel, or stack all three under a single CPL.

40+
Years buying direct-response media
2,000+
TV & radio stations under contract
210
U.S. DMAs covered, top market to small
1
CPL across every channel we run for you
The Agency

Forty years of moving phone lines.

Most agencies sell impressions and reach. Airtime Media sells a specific outcome — a qualified caller, click, or form on the other end of a media buy. That single distinction has shaped how we negotiate, plan, traffic, and report for the last four decades.

We hold direct contracts with hundreds of broadcast and cable networks, more than 2,000 radio stations, the top streaming audio and podcast networks, and the major paid-search and paid-social platforms. We run them as one performance line item against your CPL — not as three disconnected vendors.

The result: a single team that produces the creative, places the media, runs the call attribution, and defends your CPL week over week. One contract. One invoice. One number you measure us against.

Case Studies

Real campaigns. Measured outcomes.

Three recent engagements — one per channel — with the CPL, call volume, and ROAS numbers the advertiser saw on their own dashboard.

Case 01 — PI-TV
Final Expense Insurance

National PI-TV campaign cut CPL 38% in 90 days.

A top-five final expense carrier needed scalable inbound call volume without raising blended CPL. We rebuilt the creative rotation, moved spend into early-fringe and weekend daypart pockets across 142 DMAs, and tied every airing to a dedicated tracking number.

−38%
Cost per qualified call vs. prior agency
11,400
Qualified inbound calls per month at peak
210
DMAs cleared in the first flight
See PI-TV details
Case 02 — PI-Radio
Home Services — HVAC

AM/FM + podcast stack cut blended CPL by more than half.

A multi-region HVAC franchise wanted a phone-driven channel that could keep technicians booked through shoulder season. We layered terrestrial AM/FM news-talk against host-read podcast reads and measured every call at the station level.

−54%
Blended CPL vs. prior quarter
3.2×
Booked-job ROAS in first 60 days
27
Markets activated under one CPL
See PI-Radio details
Case 03 — Digital
Legal — Mass Tort Intake

Search + Performance Max lifted qualified intakes 2.4×.

A national mass-tort firm was paying for clicks that never reached a signed retainer. We rebuilt the Google Search and PMax structure around qualified-intake signals from the call center, then routed paid social into the highest-converting case types.

2.4×
Qualified intakes vs. prior 90-day baseline
−41%
Cost per signed retainer
<7 days
From audit to live optimized campaigns
See Digital details
How We Work

From first call to first lead, in two weeks.

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    30 minutes with a senior strategist. We pressure-test your category, current CPL, call-center capacity, and what 'qualified' means to your business.

  2. 02

    Modeled media plan

    We come back with a written plan: which channels, which dayparts, expected call volume, and a CPL guarantee in writing.

  3. 03

    Creative & launch

    English and Spanish spots, landing pages, and tracking instrumentation produced in-house. Live in 10–14 business days.

  4. 04

    Weekly optimization

    You see calls, costs, and CPL by day, station, and creative. We rotate spots and reallocate spend every week to defend your CPL.

Categories We Run

Built for businesses that close on the phone.

We specialize in categories where a qualified inbound call is worth real money — and where a strong call center can convert within minutes.

Insurance & Medicare

Auto, home, final expense, MAPD, U65 health, ACA.

Home Services

HVAC, roofing, solar, plumbing, windows, bath remodel.

Legal & Financial

Mass tort intake, personal injury, tax relief, debt.

DTC & Subscription

Health, wellness, supplements, and continuity offers.

Non-profit & DRTV Classics

Donor acquisition, fundraising telethons, classic DRTV.

B2B Lead Gen

High-ticket B2B services that close on the phone.

Measured Results

Four decades. One number that matters.

We publish the metrics most agencies hide. Every quarter, the same four numbers show up on our internal scorecard — and on every advertiser dashboard.

$1B+
Direct-response media placed since 1984
2M+
Qualified inbound calls delivered annually
94%
Of PI campaigns hit or exceed the written call-volume guarantee
6.4 yrs
Average advertiser tenure across the active book
Why Airtime

The agency advertisers call when CPL is the only KPI.

The same team that built America's classic DRTV campaigns now runs your performance media — with modern attribution wired into every spot, station, and click.

  • We take the media risk

    Per-Inquiry means we front the media spend. You pay only when a caller meets your geography, demographic, and intent rules.

  • One contract, one CPL

    Run TV, radio, and digital under a single invoice and a single performance benchmark. No vendor juggling.

  • Forty years of station relationships

    Direct contracts with networks, station groups, audio platforms, and podcast networks — rates you can't replicate in-house.

  • Independent attribution

    Every spot, station, and click carries its own tracking number or UTM. You see the math, not a black box.

How pricing works

We don't quote a cost-per-call on the website. We set it together on the discovery call.

Performance economics shift across TV, radio, and digital based on inventory, daypart, category competition, and what 'qualified' means to your business. Publishing a single number would mislead most advertisers and underprice others. Instead, we spend 20–30 minutes on a discovery call, model your real economics, and write your rate into the agreement — so the number you see is the number you pay.

Free

The discovery call is a no-charge working session. There is no billable consulting fee, no proposal deposit, and no obligation to move forward. If the economics don't pencil out for your category, we'll say so on the call.

What you sell and to whom

Your category, offer, geography, average order value or customer lifetime value, and how a 'qualified' call is defined inside your business.

Where you are today

Current channels, call-center capacity and hours, what you're paying per lead now, and which lead-cost or ROAS target makes the math work.

How we'd qualify a call

Minimum duration, IVR or live-agent routing, disqualifiers, and any compliance or licensing rules that apply to your vertical.

What we lock in writing

Once we model the economics together, your qualified-call target, weekly call-volume floor, and launch window go into the agreement before any spot airs.

Discovery call · how we set the number

How rates and performance work

We don't post a rate card because the right number depends on your economics. Here's how we figure it out together — and how you'll know it's working once you're live.

FAQ

Working with Airtime Media, answered.

  • Per-Inquiry (PI) is a performance pricing model: Airtime Media pays the station for the airtime, and you pay us a fixed cost per qualified inbound call. If the phone doesn't ring, you don't owe for the media. We define 'qualified' together up front — geography, language, call duration, intent.
Start a Conversation

Tell us your CPL target. We'll build the media plan around it.

  • Senior strategist on your first call — no SDR
  • Written CPL guarantee before you sign anything
  • Plan covers TV, radio, and digital under one number
  • Launch within 10–14 business days of contract

Or call a strategist directly at (888) 373-8463.

Or call us now · (888) 373-8463

Booking Q1 / Q2 Campaigns

Ready to make the phone ring?

Forty years of direct-response media buying — pointed at your CPL. Talk to a senior strategist this week.