The creative system

Make the media you already pay for work harder

One system, three parts, built around your brand, media plan and existing partners.

Creative is working media

Media buys the opportunity, creative determines your outcome

Creative influences what an impression costs, whether someone stops to watch, and whether your brand is remembered, or acted on, depending on the campaign’s job. An impression nobody watches builds nothing and costs full price.

Create demand
Capture demand
Media creates the opportunity
Creative has the most influence here
Repetition builds the outcome
01 · ExposureShownThe ad appears on someone’s screen.
ReachFrequencyCost per 1,000 impressions
What drives itMedia puts the ad in front of potential buyers. The only step media delivers alone.
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02 · AttentionStoppedSomeone stops and keeps watching.
3-second view rateCost per 3-second view
What drives itNobody has to watch. Native formats and strong hooks earn the first 3 seconds.
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03 · EncodingWatchedThe brand is stored or strengthened in memory.
Watch timeCompletionsCost per completed view
What drives itEarly brand cues refresh what people know. Longer viewing builds new associations to buy.
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04 · RetrievalRecalledThe brand comes to mind in the buying moment.
Brand liftSalesIndependent studies
What drives itRepeated brand cues make the brand easier to recall when the need arises.

A creative system makes more of the media you already pay for

One campaign · equal spend

Same spend. More watched, remembered and acted

A real anonymised campaign. Our ads ran head-to-head against the brand’s own ads in the same campaign. Brand lift was measured in an independent study, against people who didn’t see our ads.

Stronger outcomes for the same spend

Brand’s own adsCreatively Squared
01 · Shown−44%Cost per 1,000 impressions
02 · Stopped4.0x3-second views
03 · Watched2.3xCompleted views
04 · Acted+17%Link clicks
05 · Recalled · Brand lift, points vs control
+6Brand favourability
+10Purchase consideration
+7Brand associations

How it works

One connected process,
from strategy to the next brief

We plan the portfolio, produce it, learn from live performance and use that learning to shape what comes next.

Setup · brand profileAgreed once in setup: cues, claims, compliance and quality, applied at every stage.
StrategyPlan the portfolio
Buying momentsAd portfolioAudiencesScripts & storyboards
ProductionMake and approve it
Creator matchShoot and editPretestApproval
LiveRun by your media team
Ads running. We track how each one performs.
OptimisationDecide what changes
KeepPauseRemixReplace
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IntelligenceWhat worked, for whom and when goes into the next brief

The process · Setup

Agree the rules once, before anything runs

We agree how success is measured, the brand standards every ad must meet, the scale your media plan supports, and how we work with your existing partners.

What gets agreed

How success is judged, in order

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Business resultsDid it drive growth?
Brand liftPurchase intentAssociationsSales
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Performance signalsIs the creative working?
3-second viewsWatch timeCompletions
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Cost efficiencyHow efficiently?
CPMCost per completed view
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The process · Campaign strategy

Each campaign becomes a portfolio of ads. Every ad has a job

People come to your category at different moments, for different reasons. We plan an ad for each moment that matters, for each audience you need to reach, and size the set to your media plan.

The more moments your ads cover, the more buyers your brand reaches

Building relevance9 of 18 ads
Buyer sub-sets↓
Buying moments→
Morning
Afternoon
On the go
Professionals
Commute coffee
Desk reset
Between meetings
Parents
School-run fuel
Nap-time break
Park snack
Shift workers
Home-time breakfast
Night-shift lift
Between jobs

Each square can contain multiple concepts and ads, made for that target audience at that category entry point

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The process · Production

Ads that are native to the feed. Unmistakably your brand

Every ad is planned and crafted by our expert strategists. Your pack, colours, claims and distinctive cues are built in, and checked before anything runs.

The footage comes from 10,000+ vetted local creators in 80 markets. They bring the faces, homes and everyday moments that make an ad feel local and real. Our team briefs them and manages all rights and payments.

Creator 1
Creator 2
Creator 3
Different local people · same brand
Your IP, yours to keepRights documented
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The process · Optimisation

The ad portfolio, optimised weekly

Your media team runs the ads. We watch every one. Each week, we decide what to keep, pause, remix or replace. What we learn is saved by audience and moment, so each new brief starts from what already worked.

Week 4 portfolio report
Commute coffee74% view · cost ▼8%Keep
School-run fuel69% view · cost ▼5%Keep
Desk reset61% view · cost ▲14%Remix
Park snack40% view · cost ▲31%Replace
WeeklyReview every ad
2 daysRemix
2 weeksNew ads

Worked example · KitKat

One ad, from brief to optimised

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The conceptThe work break, as a guided brief. One cell in the portfolio plan.
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The pretestBrand 96%, quality 95%, compliance 100%. Cleared to spend.
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First resultsAbove baseline at 5.4%, but viewers leave at the midpoint.
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The remixSame footage, re-paced opening: 13.0%, 2.4x the original.
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New audienceThe proven idea, now with a painter: 15.8%. Learnings compound.
Initial concept
Starting point
5.4%3-sec view
2.0%completion
Remix
▲ 2.4x more watched
13.0%3-sec view
3.2%completion
Net new ad
▲ 2.9x more watched
15.8%3-sec view
5.0%completion

Free account audit

See it in your own account first

A free week of creative analytics on your Meta and TikTok ads. Read-only access. Nothing in your account changes.

Get your free account audit →

The platform and the people

Software for scale, people for judgement

The platform keeps your brand rules, approvals, pretesting and performance in one place. The same team uses it to make decisions with you every week.

What the platform keeps connected

Brand profileEvery ad follows your brand rules.Built once in setup, sharpened by every pretest and every week.
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PretestingKnow how an ad is likely to perform before you spend.A predictive score for every ad against your brand profile, with suggestions that show exactly what to fix.
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ApprovalsComment and sign off in one place.Mark the frame, leave the note, sign off last. What passes writes back into the profile.
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AnalyticsA decision on every ad, every week.Meta and TikTok at creative level, pretest scores joined to live results.
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Platform screen: a brand profile with always and never rules
Platform screen: a pretest score with a fix list
Platform screen: comments and sign-off on an ad cut
Platform screen: this week's ads ranked by pretest score and live click rate
The peopleA team that knows your brandYou work with the same strategists and producers every week. They learn your brand, your standards and your account, then use the platform to make better calls, faster.

Where we fit

We take the creative effectiveness role, whatever your setup

Your media agency or in-house buying team keeps the plan, the budgets and the buying. We add the creative effectiveness system, as your sole creative source or alongside the partners you already have, with the whole portfolio optimised weekly, whoever made what.

MediaYour media team
✓Media strategy✓Budgets✓Buying✓Trafficking
Creative effectivenessCreatively Squared
✓Portfolio strategy✓Native social production where needed✓Pretesting✓Weekly optimisation
Other partnersYour creative agency, in-house team or creator programsThey keep their role. Their ads join the same system and are optimised with the rest of the portfolio.

Two specialisms, one campaign outcome. We read media delivery so the creative keeps improving.

How it starts

From first call to first ads in four weeks

Onboarding happens once, at account level. After that, every campaign follows the same process at your team’s pace.

Our process. Actual timings follow your approval, compliance and trafficking process.

The first weeks

Set up at account level

Strategy callYour objectives, media plan and how success is measured.
Ways of working and introductionsYour partners, approvals and trafficking process.
Platform connectedYour Meta and TikTok ad accounts, read-only.
Brand profile set upGuidelines, brand codes, claims and markets.
Then, every campaign
Brief and strategy→Production→Approval and launch→Optimised weekly

Pricing

One annual agreement. Everything the system needs

Starting at

$120,000 / year

Annual commitments start at $120,000. Each campaign has one fixed fee, with your commitment setting the rate.

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What’s included

Creative strategy and productionCustomised setup and onboardingPlatform access, with your AI brand profileUnlimited users, brands and ad accountsYear-round Meta and TikTok creative analyticsDedicated account manager and support teamCreator management, usage rights and paymentsAll creative IP owned by you, fully documented

How our fees work

Your creative investment works continuously across the system, not as disconnected batches of ads.

12-month agreement

One fixed fee per campaign

Each campaign is quoted before work starts and invoiced on your campaign calendar.

Set by commitment

Commit more, pay a lower rate

Your annual commitment sets the rate applied to each campaign. The more you commit, the lower the rate.

Day 90

Start with confidence

We run the system in your account and review results with you as we go. If it hasn’t earned its place by day 90, you can leave for any reason and pay only for what’s been delivered.

One system. Your brand, remembered.

Your 30-minute strategy call

Start with a free strategy call

Thirty minutes, and it needs nothing from you. Your objectives, your current setup and partners, and where the system fits.

You’ll leave with
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Where your creative, partners and setup fit, and how we’d measure success
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Case studies from consumer brands like yours
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How the free ad account audit works, if you want one
Book a call →
One fixed fee per campaign
 ·  You own all the creative

FAQ

Questions brand teams ask

Won’t the platform just put all the spend behind one or two ads?+

Left alone, yes, the algorithm may concentrate spend, and it’s why a hero asset can’t build effective reach. A portfolio built for different entry points and audiences gives delivery more relevant ways to reach your whole market, ads people may actually watch and engage with. Then it’s a partnership: your media team shapes the structures, budgets, frequency caps, broad targeting, and we shape the creative those decisions deserve. Good media teams have opinions on the creative, just as we have opinions on the media setup. Campaign outcomes come from both sides collaborating effectively and relying on each other’s expertise.

Do you replace our creative or media agency?+

No. Your creative agency keeps the brand platform and hero campaigns, your media agency keeps the plan and the buying. We take the creative effectiveness role and we optimise the whole portfolio in the account, whoever made what.

Who buys the media?+

You do, through your agency or in-house team. Media buying stays with your media team, so we don’t mark our own homework.

What does it cost?+

One annual agreement, starting at $120,000 a year, invoiced per campaign with no monthly fee. Every campaign gets one fixed fee, quoted on your media plan, and campaign fees count toward your annual commitment, not on top of it. The more you commit for the year, the lower your rate. No per-asset fees, no media commission, no creator markups. Your number comes out of the strategy call.

How do you keep creators on brand?+

Every creator works to a directed brief built from your brand profile, and every ad is pretested against it, brand codes, claims, compliance, before you sign off and before it spends. Rights and payments are handled by us.

Who owns the creative?+

You do. All creative IP is owned by you, every asset, full usage, no per-asset licensing, with creator releases, territories and paid usage documented per asset.

What happens to the creative we already have?+

It stays in the plan. We plan around your existing and planned assets, produce the gaps or the whole portfolio, and measure everything in the account on the same scoreboard.

How is success measured?+

In one order, agreed in setup. Business results first, did it move the brand, validated with independent lift tests. Performance second, attention and completion, optimised weekly. Cost third, what it took. A cheap impression nobody watched is not a result.

We’re in a regulated category. Can this work?+

Yes, it’s one of the system’s strengths. Claims and compliance rules live in your brand profile, every ad is checked against them before your sign-off, and approval windows are set to your account.

How much of our team’s time does this take?+

Setup is the heavy lift, and it happens once. After that, we propose and you approve: comments and sign-off in one place, and each week’s decisions take minutes, not meetings. We tailor the involvement to you, from hands off to hands on, depending on how your team likes to work.

What do you need from us to get started?+

Onboarding comes first: we connect our platform to your ad accounts and set up your brand profile with your guidelines, media plan, objectives and partners. From there, each campaign moves at the pace of your approval, compliance and trafficking process.

What does your platform access in our ad account?+

Our platform connects to your Meta and TikTok ad accounts through their APIs, with read permissions. It reads creative-level performance so the portfolio can be analysed and optimised weekly, and the numbers are Ads Manager’s numbers, the same definitions, read through the API. It doesn’t buy media, change budgets or edit your campaigns.

How are creator rights handled?+

Every asset carries a documented release, with its territories and paid usage recorded against it. Creator management, rights and payments are handled by us and included in the fee.

What do we keep if we leave?+

Everything. Every asset, with its rights on file. You also keep the data and the learnings. The IP was always yours.

What if it doesn’t work for us?+

There’s a ninety-day opt-out, so you can see it work first.

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