Paid creative strategy & production for DTC brands

Your ad spend has outgrown your creative system.

We help DTC brands turn scattered content into a sharper paid creative engine, built on ad account insight, customer research, production, and fast iteration.

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4+ years
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2+ years
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4.7x
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The Real Bottleneck

Most brands don't have a spend problem first. They have a creative system problem first.

The account may be spending, but the creative process underneath it is reactive, inconsistent, and disconnected from what customers actually need to hear.

Pretty assets,
weak strategy

Nice-looking content that does not move the metrics.

No testing logic

Random ideas instead of a structured creative testing engine.

Angles disconnected
from customers

Creative that talks at people, not to them.

Production too slow
to keep up

Good ideas die before they ever reach the account.

Why Stay Awhile

We close the gap between spend and creative quality.

Stay Awhile is a creative-led paid media partner for DTC brands that already have traction but need a stronger system behind what gets made, what gets tested, and how creative decisions are made each month. Everything we do runs through our Signal to Scale approach — first we find the signal in what is actually working and what is holding performance back, then we build the system that turns that signal into compounding creative performance over time.

How Stay Awhile closes the gap between spend and creative quality — bridge from spend to creative quality, three pillars: Strategy-first, Paid-native production, Iteration-minded
Spend
  • More budget
  • More pressure
  • More testing demand
Stay Awhile
Closing the gap
Creative Quality
  • Better creative direction
  • Better paid-native output
  • Better decisions over time
01

Strategy-first

We work out what should actually be made before production starts, so the output has a job to do.

02

Paid-native production

Everything is built with paid usage in mind, not just aesthetics or generic content volume.

03

Iteration-minded

The goal is not more assets for the sake of it. The goal is stronger creative decisions over time.

The Work

Creative built for paid performance

This is not polished-for-the-sake-of-it brand work. These are paid social assets built to stop the scroll, carry the message, and give brands stronger creative to put into market.

UGC · Lifestyle
Graphic Ad
Video Edit
Lifestyle Shoot
Ad Creative
Brand Strategy
Performance
Hook Testing
UGC · Lifestyle
Graphic Ad
Video Edit
Lifestyle Shoot
Ad Creative
Brand Strategy
Performance
Hook Testing
Shoot Planning
Motion Graphics
Model Sourcing
Product Creative
Creator Briefs
ROAS Creative
Ecomm Shoot
Ad Strategy
Shoot Planning
Motion Graphics
Model Sourcing
Product Creative
Creator Briefs
ROAS Creative
Ecomm Shoot
Ad Strategy
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The Starting Point

Why every engagement starts
with a Reset

Most brands do not need another agency making more assets before the direction is clear. They need to understand what is actually weakening performance, what needs to change, and what stronger paid creative should look like in practice.

The Reset is the Signal phase of how we work. It sharpens the direction, gets the first stronger assets into market, and creates the correction point that the Creative Performance Partnership then builds on — turning signal into scale through better planning, production, and iteration over time.

The First 30 Days

What the first 30 days
actually look like

The Reset is not an open-ended engagement. It runs on a structured four-week cycle designed to move from diagnosis to strategic correction to first proof — so by the end of month one you know exactly what is weakening performance, what needs to change, and what stronger paid creative looks like in market.

Week 1
Intake and audit

Kickoff call, commercial intake, and full review of current ad creative, offer, and paid media context. We pull your top and bottom performers, tag every asset against a structured creative rubric, and run a category scan to see what competitors are doing that you are not.

Week 2
Strategic reset and direction

You receive the Signal Report — a focused document that names the creative bottlenecks, identifies the gaps in your current system, and sets the new strategic direction. This is the core of the Reset. It is where the correction happens.

Week 3
Production

We produce the first batch of paid assets against the new direction. Three short-form video assets, built from our internal creator pool and edited for paid social usage. The point of this batch is proof — evidence that the new direction works in market.

Week 4
Review and next-phase recommendation

Final review call. We walk through the findings, the strategic reset, and the first asset batch. If the fit is right, we map out what the ongoing Creative Performance Partnership looks like from here. If it is not, you leave with a sharper direction and the first stronger assets already in market.

The Partnership

Fix what's holding performance back

We do not jump straight into a vague monthly retainer. Every engagement starts with a Performance Creative Reset — the Signal phase — then moves into the Creative Performance Partnership if the fit is right.

Month One · Entry Point

Performance Creative Reset

$6,000 fixed

A first-month strategic intervention designed to diagnose the creative bottlenecks, reset the direction, and produce the first paid assets that prove a stronger approach.

  • Strategic kickoff and intake
  • Paid creative audit across your full ad account
  • Creative gap analysis and category scan
  • The Signal Report — your strategic reset and priority direction
  • 3 short-form paid video assets
  • Final review and next-phase recommendation

Best for: Brands that know the current creative is not strong enough and want a lower-friction way to fix the direction before committing to an ongoing partnership.

If the fit is right, we continue
Months 2+ · Where Results Compound

Creative Performance Partnership

$5,000/mo · 3-month minimum

An ongoing paid media creative partnership for DTC brands that need stronger strategy, sharper production, and better-performing assets over time. This is the Scale phase — the ongoing system that compounds the value of the Reset.

  • Monthly strategy and planning
  • Monthly review and iteration
  • One structured production cycle per month
  • 6 short-form paid video assets
  • 4 direct-response graphic ads
  • 25 paid-ready static selects

Best for: Brands with product traction and active Meta spend that need a stronger monthly creative system behind what gets made and tested.

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$6,000 to start · $5,000/mo for 3 months after

Month one proves the fit. Then we go longer.
The Reset exists so you can see the quality, experience the process, and judge the results before committing further. If it is not right, you walk away. If it is, we lock in — because that is when the system starts to compound.
Commercial Proof

Brands we've done this for.

Two examples of what happens when the direction gets corrected and the system behind the creative actually runs.

$30K
$500K
$30K
Starting
$500K
Monthly Revenue
Velocity Activewear
From $30K to $500K/Month — and a First Physical Store

The growth funded a retail store. Velocity had strong product and a loyal following, but their creative wasn't built to scale paid media. We rebuilt their entire creative strategy — new angles, new formats, a structured production calendar — and gave their media buyer a constant pipeline of test-ready assets. Revenue climbed from $30K to $500K per month, and the consistency of that growth funded the opening of their first physical location.

16x
Revenue growth
$500K
Peak monthly revenue
First retail store opened
B Stores
Outperformed Every Ad in the Account — for Two Straight Years

Their ad account had creative from three agencies, two freelancers, and an in-house team. Our first test batch outperformed all of it. Two years later, we're still their creative partner — and our ads still average a 7x ROAS across the full engagement. That's not a spike. That's a system.

7x
Average ROAS · 2 years
#1
Top performer in account
2+ year partnership and counting
ROAS Performance vs. Other Creatives in Account
Stay Awhile
7.0x
Agency B
2.7x
Freelancer
1.9x
In-House
1.5x
2+
Years
24+
Months Active
7.0x
Avg ROAS
AI + Real Production
AI-transformed monster version
Original photo with real models Original
AI Enhanced
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Custard Clothing
We turned their models into monsters. The collection sold out.

We shot real models in real locations, then used AI to transform them into monsters — creating ads that looked like nothing else in anyone’s feed. The concept was impossible to scroll past. The collection sold out, and the campaign averaged a 7+ ROAS throughout its run.

AI-Enhanced Creative Sold Out Collection
7+
Campaign ROAS
100%
Collection sold out
AI + Real
Production approach
Who This Is For

Who this works best for

Good Fit This is for you if…
  • You are a DTC or ecommerce brand already spending on Meta and feeling the cost of weak creative
  • Your product has traction, but performance feels inconsistent, stale, or too dependent on guesswork
  • At $30k+ per month on Meta, every average asset is costing you more than it should
  • Your team may already have a media buyer or marketer, but not a strong creative-performance system
  • You want sharper direction, better assets, and a partner who understands both creative and performance
Not a Fit This is not for you if…
  • You are looking for a cheap content supplier
  • You need a full-service growth agency handling everything under one fee
  • You are not yet spending enough on paid media to feel the cost of weak creative decisions
  • You want unlimited revisions, open-ended production, or ad hoc creative support
  • You are still trying to prove whether the product itself works
Common Questions

Questions we get asked
before the first call

Because the Partnership is an iteration engine — and iteration only works if the direction is correct. Most brands we talk to have been producing creative against the wrong thesis for months. The Reset is where we fix that. It reduces risk for both sides and makes every month of the Partnership that follows measurably sharper.
Then we tell you. Part of the Reset is being willing to identify when the bottleneck is sitting somewhere else — offer, targeting, landing page, product-market fit. If that is what the audit surfaces, you leave month one with a clearer picture of where to actually invest, which is worth more than another round of assets pointed at the wrong problem.
A standard audit gives you a document. The Reset gives you a document, a strategic correction, and the first paid assets built against the new direction — proof that the new thesis works in market. It is designed to move the needle in month one, not to generate a report you read once.
Ad account access for creative review, your top and bottom performing assets from the last 90 days, current offer and landing page, and a short brief on your ICP and performance context. We send a structured intake document on day one that makes this easy.
If the fit is right, we move into the Creative Performance Partnership the following month. The strategic direction set in the Reset carries forward into the ongoing production and iteration rhythm — which is the whole point of starting there. Three-month minimum on the Partnership, then month-to-month after that.
No. We are a creative-performance partner, not a full-service growth agency. We work alongside your existing media buyer or team. If you need a media buyer recommendation, we can point you to people we trust.
One Last Thing

Ready to fix the direction?

Book a fit call. We will walk through your current creative, your paid media context, and whether the Reset is the right next move.

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