Paid Social

Paid social that scales beyond your ambition

One channel can take you to £1m a month in spend — if you have true product-market fit and a team that knows how to unlock it. We're that team. Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest: we help you focus and  the right mix and make it work.

Problem we solve

Most brands hit a ceiling on paid social and assume they've maxed out the channel. They haven't. They've maxed out their approach.

The problem is usually creative, not media buying. There's bad media buying and good media buying, but how you structure an ad account won't get you from £100k of spend to £500k. That requires strategic creative — and most too often creative is seen as ‘let’s make our version of this ad.’

We lead with creative because that's what actually moves the needle. The right message, to the right audience, at the right stage of awareness. Compounded through rigorous testing. That's how you break ceilings.

How we run

Paid Social

Paid Social
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Meta is our core

Almost every person on the planet is on Meta. It’s the single widest-reaching channel for people who aren’t driven through intent. It’s TV but better, and should be where most brands focus 100% of their effort.

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TikTok for younger audiences

For brands targeting younger demographics, TikTok can be a strong secondary or even primary channel. The creative is faster-paced, almost entirely video, with quicker burnthrough. It often underattributes, which is why measurement matters even more here. Special focus should be paid to TikTok Shop.

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YouTube for full-funnel

YouTube lets you reach problem-unaware audiences and build demand at the top of funnel. We run YouTube as part of a broader media mix, not as a standalone play.

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Finding the right channel mix

Not every brand needs every channel. We help you find the mix that makes sense for your audience, your product, and your growth stage — then concentrate spend where it compounds fastest.

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One system across all channels

Every channel feeds into the Ballpoint Growth Framework. Same weekly sprints, same experiment rigour, same focus on incrementality. The channel changes; the discipline doesn't.

Ballpoint approach

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Ex-in-house talent

Every strategist has sat in your seat — heads of growth, heads of marketing, founders. We've scaled spend, defended budgets, and hired agencies that didn't deliver. We built the agency we wished existed.

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Strategy-led creative

We start with your customer: jobs-to-be-done, motivations, anxieties. We build creative frameworks before we build ads. Volume without strategy is just expensive noise.

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Experiment engine

Weekly sprints, clear hypotheses, compounding results. We test systematically so every week you learn something — and every month you're further ahead than you were.

Case studies for

Paid Social

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Mother Root

Launching Mother Root from 0 → 1

From 0 to 1

Yonder

How we built Yonder’s performance engine from zero to £70k/month in less than a year

£0 → £70k/month ad spend in nine months

Tilly Sveaas

How we grew monthly revenue for Tilly Sveaas 2.8× in 10 months

New customer revenue ↑ 364%

Who we work with

Brands who are serious about scaling via paid social. Whether you're on £30k/month or £300k, your aim will be to scale hard. You've got product-market fit, but you don't have the creative firepower to get to the next level.

Our current and recent roster

Break through your next growth ceiling

Ballpoint are a full service, creative growth agency that support across the entire customer funnel.