Live · The Media House

    Distribution,
    engineered.

    A performance-focused creative agency that doesn't hand off to a media buyer. We are the media buyer. The team that wrote the hook is the team adjusting the bid at 2am. One P&L from idea to conversion.

    4
    Platforms
    5d
    Time-to-launch
    12+
    Hooks / month
    Daily
    Optimization cadence
    Live auction floor
    SESSION · 0000
    MetaCPA$24.50
    TikTokCPM$7.07
    SnapCPM$3.17
    YouTubeCPV$0.04
    Blended account avg · illustrative↗ ROAS 3.4x
    The Battlefield

    Three hundred billion dollars are auctioned every year.

    The US digital ad market crossed $300B in 2024 eMarketer. That spend is decided by an auction running 24/7 across four platforms that matter for performance brands.

    Most brands burn 30–50% of their ad budget on bad creative, broken pixels, and Advantage+ campaigns nobody knows how to read. We win share by operating the creative and the buying as a single P&L.

    The Battlefield · 2024
    $300B+
    US digital ad spend in 2024. eMarketer
    Approximate channel split below. Performance brands fight for share in the bottom three bars — that's where we operate.
    Search (Google + Bing)~$132B
    41%
    Social (Meta + TikTok + Snap)~$89B
    28%
    Connected TV / Video~$41B
    13%
    Retail Media~$60B
    19%
    Channel splits are approximations from public eMarketer / IAB / platform earnings summaries. Search figure includes Google + Bing.
    The Thesis

    One team. One P&L.

    The Studio makes the assets. The Media House spends behind them. Performance data closes the loop, every week.

    Division 01

    The Studio

    Creative Engineered for the Feed

    • → UGC Production
    • → Live Commerce
    • → Short-Form Editing
    • → Modular Hooks, Bodies, CTAs
    Output: Ad-Ready Assets
    Division 02

    The Media House

    Distribution Engineered for the Spend

    • → Meta Ads (FB + IG)
    • → TikTok Ads + Spark Ads
    • → Snapchat Dynamic
    • → YouTube Demand Gen + VVC
    Output: Lower CPA, Higher ROAS

    One team. One P&L. One throat to choke. Performance data from the buying side feeds creative iteration on the studio side. The loop tightens every week.

    The Research

    Creative drives 49% of all ad-driven sales lift.

    Nielsen Catalina Solutions ran the math on more than 500 CPG campaigns. The single biggest driver of incremental sales wasn't targeting. It wasn't reach. It wasn't recency. It was the creative itself. Nielsen Catalina / WARC

    And on Meta specifically, the algorithm has consolidated around Advantage+. The platforms are now doing the targeting for you. Which means creative is the last lever you actually control.

    Most agencies hand creative to a media buyer and pray. We don't hand off anything. The buyers slack the editors. The editors ship the next hook on Tuesday. The loop tightens every week.

    49%Creative
    • Creative49%
    • Reach22%
    • Targeting9%
    • Recency5%
    • Context / other15%
    The Platforms

    Four auctions. Four playbooks.

    Each platform rewards different creative, different bidding, different audience logic. We don't run a "social ads" generalist play. We specialize per platform, with real reach numbers and real CPM benchmarks attached to every decision.

    Meta

    Facebook + Instagram
    Creative Spec
    9:16 · 9–30s · safe zones top 14% / bottom 35%
    Our Play
    Advantage+ Shopping
    Modular UGC volume + Conversion API stitched within 5 days.

    TikTok

    Spark Ads + Top View
    Benchmark CPM
    $4 – $10
    Avg US CPM range (in-feed)
    Creative Spec
    9:16 · 21–34s sweet spot · captions baked in
    Our Play
    Spark Ads on creator handles
    We post from native creator accounts — not branded ones.

    Snapchat

    Dynamic Product Ads
    Benchmark CPM
    $2 – $5
    Avg US CPM range
    Creative Spec
    9:16 · 5–6s hook critical · Snap-native lo-fi
    Our Play
    Catalog DPA + Story Ads
    Gen Z reach at a fraction of Meta's auction floor price.

    YouTube

    Demand Gen + VVC
    Benchmark CPM
    $10 – $30
    Avg US CPM range (in-stream)
    Creative Spec
    16:9 + 9:16 (Shorts) · 15s, 30s, 6s bumper
    Our Play
    Demand Gen + Video View
    Long-form storytelling that compounds as remarketing fuel.
    The Mechanic

    How an auction actually picks a winner.

    The Meta and TikTok auctions don't reward the highest bidder. They reward the highest total value. Understanding this formula is the difference between a 4x ROAS account and a 1.2x ROAS account. Meta Ads Help

    $
    Your Bid
    What you're willing to pay
    ×
    %
    Est. Action Rate
    How likely a user is to convert
    ×
    Ad Quality
    Relevance, creative, post-click experience
    Total Value
    Highest score wins the impression
    The honest truth: two of the three levers above are creative-driven. Action rate is largely a function of how compelling your hook is. Ad quality is literally a rating of your creative and landing page. That's why brands can't just out-spend their way to lower CPAs — they have to out-create.
    Our Approach

    Audit. Research. Test. Scale.

    We don't guess our way to a winning account. We audit what's broken, research what's working in your category, test against isolated variables, and only scale once a formula has cleared the gate. Then the loop starts over.

    • 01Audit — pixel hygiene, attribution windows, audience overlap, creative fatigue scoring. Written deliverable in week one.
    • 02Research — Meta Ad Library, TikTok Creative Center, Snap Public Library, Google Ads Transparency. We map competitor hooks, formats, and offers before we shoot a frame.
    • 03Test — modular batches against isolated variables (hook / visual / CTA / format). Statistical-significance gate before kill or scale.
    • 04Scale — once a winning formula clears the gate, we duplicate horizontally (audiences, geos, placements) and vertically (budget) with guardrails.
    Closed Loop
    creative ↔ spend
    01
    Audit
    02
    Research
    03
    Test
    04
    Scale
    What We Manage

    The full stack of paid media.

    We don't just press "boost." We own pixel hygiene, conversion API, audience structure, attribution, reporting, and the iteration cadence between creative and spend.

    • Pixel & Conversion API setup
    • Audience architecture (cold, warm, retargeting)
    • Creative trafficking & native asset specs
    • Daily optimization (not weekly)
    • Weekly reporting + Loom walkthrough
    • CRO recommendations on landing pages
    • Attribution stitching (UTM + GA4 + Triple Whale)
    • Creative iteration loop with The Studio
    Weekly Performance Snapshot

    Sample Brand · Q2 W7

    Live
    Spend
    $84.2K
    +12% WoW
    ROAS
    3.8x
    +0.4 WoW
    CPA
    $36
    -22% WoW
    CTR
    2.4%
    +0.6% WoW
    Cost Per Acquisition$36 CPA
    Top Performing Hook
    "I tried this for 30 days..."
    Killed Creative
    Concept B-3 (CPA >$78)
    Next Brief
    3 new hooks · Monday
    Our Operating System

    Benchmarks we hold ourselves to.

    We publish our internal SLAs so you can hold us to them. If we miss one, you hear about it in the Monday Loom — not buried in a quarterly review.

    5 days
    Audit → first ad live
    Weekly
    Fresh creative drops from The Studio
    12+
    Unique hooks shipped per account / month
    Daily
    Hands-on-keyboard optimization (not weekly)
    Mon AM
    Performance report + Loom in your inbox
    Benchmarked
    Performance bonus only fires above audit baseline
    Pricing Model

    Setup fee. Spend fee. Performance bonus.

    We don't hide behind retainer-only pricing or pure percent-of-spend. You pay for the build, a fair management rate scaled to your spend, and we earn a bonus only when ROAS clears the benchmark we set in the audit.

    Setup
    From $2.5K
    Account audit, pixel rebuild, structure, creative trafficking. One-time.
    Management
    8–12% of spend
    Daily optimization, weekly reporting, creative iteration loop.
    Performance Bonus
    5–10% upside
    Triggered only when ROAS clears the benchmark we set in the audit.
    See Full Pricing Breakdown