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Paid social creative

A library of ads and the kit behind them.

We make the creative for paid social: short-form ads, their variations and a kit of parts made from your own product, so a new angle doesn’t start from nothing. We can run the campaigns too, or hand the creative to your team or agency.

  • Morse Micro
  • Crimson Education
  • Lumos
  • Superpower
  • Managed
  • Startmate
  • Keeyu
  • Everlab
  • Kaizn
  • Trusst AI
  • Concord Visa
  • Cardinal
  • Anyway
  • Turbo AI
Parts from the Superpower creative kit: two test cards and a blood sample tube

Paid social creative is the making of the ads themselves. We make short-form ads in sets, each ad around one customer question, with a kit of parts behind them drawn from your product’s own interface. Pieces of the kit can be recombined when you want a new angle. Our studio is in Sydney, Australia, and we work between Sydney and New York with startups whose paid team needs more creative to test.

  • Short-form ads, each one built around a single question your customer is already asking.

  • Versions of an ad that differ in one clear way, so a test can show which change mattered.

  • The reusable parts every ad is assembled from, made from your product’s interface so new ads stay on brand.

  • Every file named by its message and format, so your paid team can trace a result to the ad behind it.

  1. What you get

    Short-form ads by the set, the variations of each and the parts kit they are assembled from. The kit is made from your product’s own interface. Every file is yours, so your team can keep making ads from it.

  2. What it costs

    We scope a creative project together and quote it before starting. Creative that keeps going is a monthly team, from $10,000 to $30,000 a month. A first week on its own is $2,500. Media spend is separate from our fee.

  3. How long it takes

    The first piece of work takes a week. A project’s dates are fixed with you beforehand, and they depend on the number of angles and formats and on how fast claims are approved. A monthly team works month to month.

  4. When it’s not a fit

    You want a single ad made once. Nobody on your side can approve claims about the product. Or you want a result promised, and we do not promise results from ads.

Read how we plan a creative test
  1. Start from what has run

    You show us the ads you have tried, what you measure and what customers ask. We get access to the product.

  2. Choose the angles

    An angle is one customer question and the claim that answers it. We agree a short list with you, and what each one should teach.

  3. Build the kit

    We make the reusable parts from your product’s interface and your brand files, so every ad is assembled from the same pieces.

  4. Make the ads

    We produce each angle and its variations in the formats your channels need.

  5. Hand over

    Your team or your media agency runs the ads. When results come back, the kit is there for the next angle.

Questions about paid social creative

  1. Both. We make the creative, which covers the ads, the variations and the kit they are built from. We can also run the campaigns, which covers the budgets, the audiences and the reporting. If your own team or an agency already buys your media, we hand the files to whoever runs the account.

  2. Three things: the ads, their variations and the kit they come from. Superpower’s is the one to look at. Its ads take a lab result and make a story of it, each built on one question a person has about their health. Its kit holds result cards, biomarker chips, score rings and readouts of wearable and blood data, all drawn from Superpower’s own product UI, so the parts can be rearranged for a new angle.

  3. The number is set in the scope, and it follows what you want to learn. Each angle gets the versions needed to test one clear difference, such as the opening, the proof or the format. We would sooner make a few versions that each test something than many that differ by accident. Because every ad comes from the kit, a later version reuses what is already made.

  4. The ones your buyers use, settled before we start. Each platform has its own sizes and lengths, so the list of formats is part of the scope. Superpower’s ads are short-form pieces for paid social. Whether an angle runs as a still, as motion or as a short film depends on what it has to show.

  5. Whoever buys your media runs the test, and we make the creative so the test can teach you something. Before anything is made we agree what each version is for: the customer question behind it, the one thing that changes and the outcome that counts. Reading the results sits with the people running the account.

  6. It depends on the shape of the work. A defined creative project is quoted before we start. A monthly team, for creative that keeps going, costs from $10,000 to $30,000 a month. You can also begin with one week for $2,500, which we deduct from larger work that begins inside 60 days. What moves a quote is the number of angles, the formats and the size of the kit.

  7. One week, if it is a first piece of work. Beyond that we fix a project’s dates with you before it begins. They depend on how many angles and formats are in scope, how big the kit is and how quickly claims get approved on your side. A monthly team works month to month.

  8. A login to the product, your brand files and an account of what has been tried. With the product open we can build the kit from your own screens. The ads you have already run show us which angles are spent. Someone on your side should approve claims, because an ad makes a promise on the company’s behalf.

  9. You do. The ads, the variations, the kit and the source files are yours, and your own designers or another agency can keep building from them. A kit is made so its parts outlast one campaign. Everything is handed over in your accounts, named so the next team can read it.

  10. Yes. Refract is a Sydney studio that works between Sydney and New York. The project to look at is Superpower, which has raised a Series A. We built its creative system for paid social, and its case study shows the ads and the kit. We usually work with companies that have raised a seed or Series A round.

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