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The Media Lift Effect

August 2025
Marketing

In a world where discovery is driving demand... Social has never been more — or more powerful misunderstood.

The days of throwing media budget at Attention spans are shrinking. And audiences are scattered across more platforms, creators, communities, and conversations than ever before. conversion-led campaigns and hoping for the best are over. CPMs are rising.

More than half of ad spend is wasted on content that simply isn’t built for feed — overly polished, poorly targeted, or creatively disconnected from how people consume content today.

People are savvier. They scroll past anything that even smells like an ad. Add in a flood of AI-generated content, creator-led campaigns, and branded always-on — and it’s no wonder attention is at more of a premium than ever.

At the same time, brands are investing more into social because it works. But with that investment comes a new kind of challenge: Disconnected teams. Disconnected planning. Disconnected creative.

Paid, organic, and earned media often sit with separate agencies, briefed at different times, by different client teams, chasing different objectives — all developing content with its own interpretation of brand. The result? Fragmented brand IP, duplicated effort, and low-impact creative that burns through budget without delivering real value.

And when complexity increases — with new platforms, new behaviours, and new technologies reshaping how people interact with content — those cracks only get wider.

That’s where we come in.

We help brands capitalise on complexity, from trend to spend — bringing together media, creative, and performance under one roof to unlock the full power of social. Because when media and creative work together — across the customer journey — the performance upside is exponential.

We call it The Media Lift Effect.

It’s what happens when brands show up consistently across paid and organic media, creating thumb-stopping work that delivers key outcomes across the funnel: discovery, consideration, and conversion.

The aim? To reduce wastage and increase mental availability by making content more effective. More of what people actually want to engage with, and less of what clutters the feed.

This is about engineering a system where paid and organic work together, where brand and performance are in sync.

When media and creative align across paid and organic - built with audience insight and activated through the funnel - the results speak for themselves.

We’ve delivered across clients:

  • 73% uplift in ROAS 137% uplift in conversion rate and from transforming static brand assets into fullfunnel, multi-format campaigns across platforms.
  • 32% ROAS uplift, 27% improvement in ROI 69% increase in CTR , and after creative was reworked for performance and tested organically before scaling
  • £327k in incremental revenue 2,677 additional purchases and directly attributable to paid social exposure
  • 2.06× ROAS lift 14.9% uplift in purchase intent and proven via controlled Meta lift studies
  • 2.7k uplift in paid search visits 2.6k uplift in organic search and triggered by social - proving its role in driving downstream demand in addition to upper-funnel reach

The results were driven by full-funnel thinking, from insight to execution. They were unlocked by a system: where audience, media, and creative work as one, and where testing turns content into outcomes.

High-performing social requires systems thinking - and a mindset that sees social as a space to generate demand as well as capture it.

** “We believe that creative opens the door, media gets you in the room and data tells you what to say.”**

Contents:

  • From scroll to strategy
  • What is The Media Lift Effect?
  • Making the model work for you
  • Creative is the new targeting
  • Paid media gives creative its wings
  • Learning beats guessing
  • How to activate The Media Lift Effect

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The Media Lift Effect

August 2025
Marketing

In a world where discovery is driving demand... Social has never been more — or more powerful misunderstood.

The days of throwing media budget at Attention spans are shrinking. And audiences are scattered across more platforms, creators, communities, and conversations than ever before. conversion-led campaigns and hoping for the best are over. CPMs are rising.

More than half of ad spend is wasted on content that simply isn’t built for feed — overly polished, poorly targeted, or creatively disconnected from how people consume content today.

People are savvier. They scroll past anything that even smells like an ad. Add in a flood of AI-generated content, creator-led campaigns, and branded always-on — and it’s no wonder attention is at more of a premium than ever.

At the same time, brands are investing more into social because it works. But with that investment comes a new kind of challenge: Disconnected teams. Disconnected planning. Disconnected creative.

Paid, organic, and earned media often sit with separate agencies, briefed at different times, by different client teams, chasing different objectives — all developing content with its own interpretation of brand. The result? Fragmented brand IP, duplicated effort, and low-impact creative that burns through budget without delivering real value.

And when complexity increases — with new platforms, new behaviours, and new technologies reshaping how people interact with content — those cracks only get wider.

That’s where we come in.

We help brands capitalise on complexity, from trend to spend — bringing together media, creative, and performance under one roof to unlock the full power of social. Because when media and creative work together — across the customer journey — the performance upside is exponential.

We call it The Media Lift Effect.

It’s what happens when brands show up consistently across paid and organic media, creating thumb-stopping work that delivers key outcomes across the funnel: discovery, consideration, and conversion.

The aim? To reduce wastage and increase mental availability by making content more effective. More of what people actually want to engage with, and less of what clutters the feed.

This is about engineering a system where paid and organic work together, where brand and performance are in sync.

When media and creative align across paid and organic - built with audience insight and activated through the funnel - the results speak for themselves.

We’ve delivered across clients:

  • 73% uplift in ROAS 137% uplift in conversion rate and from transforming static brand assets into fullfunnel, multi-format campaigns across platforms.
  • 32% ROAS uplift, 27% improvement in ROI 69% increase in CTR , and after creative was reworked for performance and tested organically before scaling
  • £327k in incremental revenue 2,677 additional purchases and directly attributable to paid social exposure
  • 2.06× ROAS lift 14.9% uplift in purchase intent and proven via controlled Meta lift studies
  • 2.7k uplift in paid search visits 2.6k uplift in organic search and triggered by social - proving its role in driving downstream demand in addition to upper-funnel reach

The results were driven by full-funnel thinking, from insight to execution. They were unlocked by a system: where audience, media, and creative work as one, and where testing turns content into outcomes.

High-performing social requires systems thinking - and a mindset that sees social as a space to generate demand as well as capture it.

** “We believe that creative opens the door, media gets you in the room and data tells you what to say.”**

Contents:

  • From scroll to strategy
  • What is The Media Lift Effect?
  • Making the model work for you
  • Creative is the new targeting
  • Paid media gives creative its wings
  • Learning beats guessing
  • How to activate The Media Lift Effect