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A small studio that answers
for every dollar

We're a four-person paid media studio in Cannington, Western Australia. No account managers, no interns on your budget, just the people whose names are below.

The story

Started in 2019 because agency reporting was a joke

Daniel ran media at a big agency where "results" meant CTR screenshots and spend charts that hid the CPL. He left, took two clients with him, and built a studio around one rule: report money, not clicks.

Six years later we've run A$6.8M in ad spend across 214 accounts, e-commerce, clinics, SaaS, property, finance. Still four people on purpose. Small enough that the person who audits your account is the person running it.

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The studio team reviewing campaign results on a wall screen
How we think

Four rules we won't bend

01

Report money, not clicks

If a metric can't be traced to revenue, it goes in the appendix. Weekly notes lead with CPL and ROAS, always.

02

Your account stays yours

Ad accounts, pixel history, audiences and creative files are client property. If you leave, everything stays.

03

Say no early

If your margins can't support paid traffic yet, we'll tell you in the audit and suggest what to fix first.

04

Fewer clients, more attention

Each strategist carries a maximum of eight accounts. When we're full, new clients join a waitlist.

The team

Four people, all senior

Daniel Mercer

Founder · Lead strategist

11 years in paid media. Runs audits and the accounts where the stakes are highest.

Meta Blueprint

Mia Tanaka

Head of creative

Directs every ad we ship. Former DTC brand marketer who knows what stops a scroll.

2.1% avg. thumb-stop

Jonas Petrov

Tracking & analytics

Server-side GTM, Conversions API, BigQuery pipelines. Makes attribution boring again.

GTM Server-Side

Renata Silva

Media buyer

Day-to-day campaign operations across Google and Meta. Google Ads certified since 2020.

Google Ads certified
Work & research

Selected projects and what we learned

E-commerce campaign results dashboard
E-commerce · 11 weeks

Skincare brand, 1.6x → 4.7x ROAS

Rebuilt tracking first, then consolidated 23 ad sets into 4 Advantage+ campaigns. The lesson: structure beats spend.

Lead generation funnel for a clinic group
Healthcare · 6 months

Dental group, A$86 → A$41 per booked consult

Geo-fenced Meta campaigns around each clinic plus call tracking. The lesson: local intent beats broad reach.

B2B pipeline report showing cost per SQL
B2B SaaS · research

LTV-based lookalikes study

Internal study across 14 accounts: lookalikes seeded on top-decile LTV buyers outperformed standard 1% LAL by 34% on cost per SQL.

Seasonal sale campaign calendar
Retail · seasonal

Black Friday war-room playbook

Built a 30-day pre-sale warm-up system now reused by six retail clients. The lesson: auctions reward preparation, not last-minute bids.

About us FAQ

Before you ask

Four senior people plus a trusted bench of editors and designers for production overflow. Strategy and buying never leave the core team.

About half our clients are in WA, the rest are spread across Australia and a few in New Zealand. Everything runs over Slack and weekly calls, so timezone overlap is what matters.

Because real account management is daily work, checking auctions, watching frequency, reviewing creative. Past eight accounts it becomes inbox management, and we won't do that.

Occasionally, for agencies we've worked with before. It's not something we advertise, ask directly if that's what you need.

Want to work with a team this small on purpose?

Start with an audit. If we're a fit, you'll know inside the first call.

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