Paid Social & Creative Strategy

The creative engine that lets you scale paid social.

Creative strategy, production, and media buying as one system — built to reach net new customers efficiently so you can spend more and grow, not spend more and plateau.

Work with Wonderland Start with an Audit
UGC — Sunday Citizen
Social Proof — Sugared + Bronzed
Video — Life & Leisure
Hi-Fi Brand — Hylo Athletics
Video — Sunday Citizen
Lifestyle — Sunday Citizen
Video — Sunday Citizen
Graphic — Havenwise
Video — Sugared + Bronzed
UGC — Sunday Citizen
Platforms we buy across

What actually goes into running your account.

01

We map the landscape before we touch the account

We run a competitor audit across paid social, organic content, messaging, claims, tone of voice, and visual identity. We map where the category is crowded and where there’s room to say something different. Then we build personas — not demographics, but real attitudinal segments drawn from Reddit threads, product reviews, social sentiment, and cultural search behaviour. Each persona gets its own angles, hooks, and messaging priorities.

Persona framework / competitor map
02

We build a mix of hi-fi and branded lo-fi — not one or the other

UGC, graphic statics, motion, founder-led, comparison ads, social proof, lifestyle, meme formats — the algorithm rewards range, and we give it range. Real creative diversity means net new concepts across different personas, visual styles, and creators — not the same brand shoot B-roll recut ten ways. Every concept is tied to a persona and a hypothesis, and every ad has a naming convention that traces back to the angle, the hook, the creator, and the audience it was built for. That’s how you move from “this ad worked” to “we know why.”

Creative format grid / sample ads
03

We test boldly — but always in a brand-enhancing way

We produce and test a lot of creative. Lightweight guardrails for brand voice, UGC creators, and headlines make sure a creator in Manchester and a designer in-house are building work that feels like the same brand without slowing each other down. Things like: use precision over superlatives. Frame products for specific people, not “everyone.” Anchor social proof in real specifics. The guardrails exist to enable volume, not restrict it.

Creative guardrails doc
04

Every ad is an input. What matters is the mix.

Each ad is an input inside a campaign. What drives results is the creative mix working together — the platform allocates spend toward what’s working and the winners scale themselves. Creative testing isn’t swapping ten hooks on the same footage and calling them ten different ads. Meta’s delivery system evaluates the full package — visual, copy, offer, audience — and ads that only differ on the surface get bucketed together. We structure accounts around that: diverse concepts that earn their own auctions. When something underperforms, we autopsy it. That learning shapes the next brief. Net new concepts propel account growth — repetitive variations plateau it.

Creative inputs → Account mix
05

We optimise for the backend, not the dashboard

It’s typical for us to inherit an account that looks great inside Ads Manager — healthy ROAS, tidy view-through conversions — and make it look worse in-platform while making the actual business numbers a lot better. That’s because we shift spend toward net new reach and stricter, incrementality-focused measurement. Blended metrics are the true business metrics. In-platform ROAS and attribution providers are proxy metrics — useful directionally, but they’re the platform’s opinion, not your P&L. We optimise for contribution margin growth, not vanity CAC.

Performance dashboard / blended view

Creative built for the feed, not for a deck.

Before/After — Sugared + Bronzed
Before / After
Spray Tan Results
Product Static — Pet Database
Product Static
SmartTag Launch
Branded Lo-Fi — Sunday Citizen
Branded Lo-Fi
Benefits Call Out
Illustrated — Havenwise
Illustrated
Confidence in Settings
Video — Sunday Citizen
UGC Collage
Plush Perfection
Comparison — Caatch
Comparison
Caatch vs. Chatbots
Native — Havenwise
Contextual
Writing on the Wall
Comic Strip — Pet Database
Graphic
Milo’s Story
UGC Static — Sugared + Bronzed
UGC Static
AMA Tanning
Native UGC — Havenwise
Native UGC
POV: Heat Pump
Offer Static — Sunday Citizen
Offer Static
Best Deal in Bedding

Creative that’s spending, not creative that’s presenting.

A senior-only creative pod. No handoffs.

The people in the room when we talk strategy are the same people building your creative, managing your campaigns, and analysing your spend. No junior handoffs, no account managers relaying messages between departments.

We operate as an extension of your team — an extra set of eyes with owner-level thinking. Not task execution, but strategic conversations about creative direction, targeting adjustments, and where the next pound of spend should go. The kind of thinking your in-house team would do if they had more hours in the day.

What the pod covers

Creative strategy, competitor audits, and persona building
Script writing, static design, motion graphics, and video production
UGC briefing, creator management, and content ops
Media buying across Meta, Google, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and YouTube
Feed management, account structure, and campaign optimisation
Blended reporting, incrementality analysis, and strategic direction
Month-on-month rolling. No lock-in. We achieve retention through results.

A false dichotomy.

Our aim is always to do growth marketing in a brand-enhancing way. That doesn’t mean what most people think it means. The danger to your brand isn’t a lo-fi UGC ad or a meme format in your feed — it’s misleading claims, overpromising, and creative that erodes trust faster than it acquires customers.

A native, platform-appropriate ad is perfectly on brand if it forms the right associations with the right people. On-brand doesn’t mean following an outdated guideline doc about a specific font or colour — it means reaching net new people with the right associations, growing brand awareness with every impression that converts. That’s what actually grows the brand. Perfectly on-brand.

We combine testing rigour with long-term brand health. The two aren’t in tension — we think it’s a false dichotomy, and we ignore it entirely.

Hype-driven creative inflates expectations and decays fast. Evergreen creative compounds over time and supports scale. We build for the long game.

Let’s talk about your account.

Whether you need a full creative strategy or want to start with an honest look at what you’re running today — we’ll find the right starting point.