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How Beetlejuice, The Musical turned US$ 18,200 in ad spend into US$ 329,000 in ticket sales

Two runs in Rio and São Paulo, R$ 92,900 (about US$ 18,200) in Meta Ads and R$ 1.68 million (about US$ 329,000) in tracked revenue: 6,003 tickets sold at a blended ROAS of 18.06. ShowBoost applied to musical theater.

R$ 1,68M

in ticket sales on R$ 93,000 (about US$ 18,200) in ad spend

6.003

tickets sold across the Rio and São Paulo runs

18,06

blended ROAS (20.58 in Rio and 16.63 in São Paulo)

Context

Beetlejuice, The Musical is the Brazilian staging of the Broadway show based on the Tim Burton film, with Eduardo Sterblitch in the title role, produced by Touché Entretenimento and ADP Produções. Winner of the Bibi Ferreira Award for Best Musical of the Year, the production ran two seasons in 2025: Rio de Janeiro (Teatro Multiplan) and São Paulo (Teatro Liberdade).

The challenge

Musical theater sells in a short window and performance by performance: a spike on opening night is not enough, you have to hold occupancy week after week for the whole run. The challenge was to scale sales beyond the organic audience of the show and the cast, across two cities with different competitive and calendar dynamics, keeping cost per ticket healthy from the first day to the last.

The strategy

Structure by city and by phase

Each run operated as its own campaign: Rio de Janeiro (Teatro Multiplan, August 7 to September 21) and São Paulo (Teatro Liberdade, October 3 to November 30). Inside each city, results were read by phase (opening, sustain and final sprint), because cost per ticket shifts across the window and budget has to move to wherever CPA is healthy.

Optimized for sales, not clicks

Campaigns ran on a conversion objective with the purchase event tracked end to end through the ticketing flow. That lets the algorithm optimize for people who actually buy, and it leaves the result auditable: 6,003 purchases recorded in the pixel and R$ 1.68 million (about US$ 329,000) in attributed revenue.

Official artwork for volume, backstage for social proof

The show's official artwork carried the delivery volume at a CPM between R$ 7 and R$ 8 (about US$ 1.40 to US$ 1.55). Alongside it, backstage videos in UGC format did the social proof work. The best of them, filmed inside the theater ("this whole theater is packing out"), closed at a ROAS of 40.85 and a CTR of 2.48%, well above the account average.

High frequency as a decision, not an accident

In the short window of a live event, a frequency between 7 and 9 is not waste. It is the cost of winning a purchase decision in a handful of weeks. Control ran by phase and by creative, rotating the artwork to hold off fatigue without easing the sales pressure.

Results

Total media investment

R$ 92.995

Tracked ticket revenue

R$ 1,68 milhão

Tickets sold (pixel purchases)

6.003

Cost per ticket sold

R$ 15,49

ROAS, Rio run (Aug 7 to Sep 21)

20,58

ROAS, São Paulo run (Oct 3 to Nov 30)

16,63

Best creative (backstage video)

ROAS 40,85

How to read this number: Revenue and purchases tracked by the Meta pixel in the ticketing flow (standard attribution window). Event sales concentrate revenue in spikes, at the opening and in the final sprint, and ROAS shifts by phase, so the consolidated number smooths those peaks out. Rio and São Paulo closed at different costs per ticket (R$ 13.09 vs R$ 17.28, about US$ 2.56 vs US$ 3.38) because of market size, number of weeks in the run and competition on the calendar.

Creative and execution

Official opening artwork in São Paulo: conversion campaign
Official opening artwork in São Paulo: conversion campaign
"Now playing" sustain creative: Teatro Liberdade
"Now playing" sustain creative: Teatro Liberdade
Artwork variation for anti fatigue rotation
Artwork variation for anti fatigue rotation
Variation featuring a scene from the show
Variation featuring a scene from the show

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