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Your voice stays yours.

We manage Facebook and Instagram ads for established UK and US businesses. Creative testing and spending decisions start with what you need to sell.

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Facebook ads helped JP Bouvet Method reach 6x its size in under two years. Chofa's jewellery sales: six figures since September 2025. Its blended return on ad spend: 2.3x. Old Dirty Brasstards averaged above 15x blended return over two years. All three used creative testing.

↳ The short answer

Payback from Facebook and Instagram ads depends on creative that sounds like you, a destination that converts and enough testing volume. Account management covers setup and a schedule of variations, with spending reviewed against sales. The Social Target built the Meta acquisition engine for JP Bouvet Method, an online drum education business that reached six times its earlier size in under two years from 2024. That is business growth, rather than return on ad spend. Creative approval protects the founder's voice as the tests progress. Each test needs one clear idea and the photos or video to show it. And the page people land on must deliver what the ad promised.

JP Bouvet Method: grow the business, keep JP

At JP Bouvet Method, the brief was to grow an online drum education business without diluting its founder's brand. We built the Meta acquisition engine around that requirement. In under two years from 2024, the business grew to six times its earlier size.

JP Bouvet, Founder of The JP Bouvet Method, put it this way: "Full of ideas, but never pushy."

If your reputation is part of what people buy, creative approval belongs inside the testing plan. We need to know which claims you can stand behind. We also need examples of how you explain the work in your own words. An ad should give a new buyer a reason to listen without making an existing customer wonder who wrote it.

For a teaching business, an ad might show you explaining one idea. Another might show what a student can expect to practise. The lesson stays recognisably yours as we compare ways of presenting that teaching promise. You approve what the ads promise and how they sound. The results show what works, and spend follows the results, never at the cost of your voice.

Chofa Jewelry: wearable art gave the creative its direction

For Chofa Jewelry, the Meta creative centred on wearable art from a real artist. Each lucite piece is made by hand in Chofa's Miami studio. Discounts and urgency were not the starting point.

So the ads sold the work itself, not a discount. The case study records the commercial results.

For your product, we look for what the photographs and words can show truthfully. If a piece has a particular colour or shape, the ad and product page should make that detail clear. The variation needs an idea behind it. A different image is worth testing when it answers a buying question.

We review the ad beside its destination so someone who notices a piece can find it, see the relevant photographs and finish the purchase. Size and colour information belong on that route too. Those checks support the creative promise as well as the sale.

You approve the product claims and tone before a test runs. The test can then compare the response to the message without losing the reason the product was worth showing in the first place.

Old Dirty Brasstards: every sale had a date attached

Old Dirty Brasstards needed paid acquisition tied to a touring calendar. This UK touring band reached us after the Arts Council England Culture Recovery Fund paid for a marketing rebuild. Each show had a theme, the routing followed where the audience already was, and the ad spend moved with the tour.

Over two years of running that system, blended return on ad spend averaged above 15x, and 95% of events sold out.

For a tour, we plan Meta campaigns against the dates you can actually sell. We need the venue, ticket destination, sales position and remaining time for each show. A filled date can come out of the selling plan while another still needs support. We review the sales position show by show before moving budget between them, so the allocation follows the tickets still available.

The same deadline discipline applies to a fixed theatre run. The Lost Estate's immersive show The Great Murder Mystery had a fixed ten-week London run in 2021. We built its funnel strategy and ran the Meta campaigns, and more than 11,000 tickets sold.

For your event, we agree how sales updates reach us before launch. Whoever sets the budget sees ticket sales for each show, so they can weigh tickets left against days left.

What stays consistent across the three

Those briefs call for different creative. The common work is deciding what to test next and whether sales support more spend. We agree what the next creative variation should test before producing it. A variation might answer a buying objection in its first line. A new version should make a specific comparison possible.

We keep a record of the idea, the variation and the outcome. We retire weak ads early and raise spend on stronger ones deliberately. When performance falls, we examine the destination and the sales record alongside the ad. Replacing every visual without checking the purchase path would leave half the question unanswered.

Creator-made ads belong in this process when the person and the material fit your business. We agree the message and what the footage needs to demonstrate. Fresh filming can be scoped through our content production service; the production brief names the campaign idea it needs to express.

UK creative approval also checks that the finished ad is obviously identifiable as advertising, as required by CAP Code section 2 in the ASA's guidance.

Monthly reporting then brings the work back to the agreed business outcome. We show the result alongside the spending decisions it supports and the next test. A blended figure stays labelled as blended. If Meta sits within a wider account, our paid media service covers how the channels are managed together.

Your part in the first month

Creative approval needs a place in the testing schedule. You supply the claims you can support, examples of your own language and the material already available. We put the proposed variations in front of the person who can approve them. A test waits if its footage or signoff is missing.

The destination needs attention too. Someone must be able to complete the intended purchase or enquiry, and the measurement must record that action. Any missing product information belongs in the launch plan. We identify the required page work before recommending that spend begins.

Sales information completes the picture. For a store, that means the sales records used to assess the campaign; for a tour, the ticket position for each date. Agree how you will send us those updates, so we make spending calls on the same numbers your team sees.

Your monthly review brings the creative and sales evidence together. You see what the next test needs from your team, including any filming to commission and the claims to approve. Without them, the tests stall.

THE WORK.

JP Bouvet Method online drum course branding
JP Bouvet Method Meta ads
Chofa Jewelry handcrafted pink lucite ring worn in an editorial portrait
Chofa Jewelry Meta creative
Old Dirty Brasstards band promotional photo
Old Dirty Brasstards tour ads
The Great Murder Mystery immersive theatre production
The Great Murder Mystery campaigns

↳ Modules

Setup. Tests. Spending calls.

Each module below covers part of the account and its creative-testing cycle. Any new content production is agreed with you before the tests that need it go on the schedule.

MA01Marketing

A campaign ready to launch

We set up the Meta account and campaigns around an agreed business outcome. We review the destination and measurement before putting spend behind them.

    MA02Marketing

    Creative with a test behind it

    We schedule variations with a clear idea to test. Your voice and approved claims guide the creative; the results guide what gets another run.

      MA03Marketing

      Spending decisions you can follow

      Your monthly report explains which ads we stopped and where we increased spend. It ties those decisions to the results your business needs.

        ↳ Frequently asked

        Can you turn our existing photos and footage into ad variations?

        Yes, where each photo or clip has a clear point to make. Product photographs may make a detail clear; footage may show how the product looks in use. We review the available material against the proposed idea, then scope any missing production. Claims and tone still need your approval before a variation runs.

        How do you decide which ads belong on Facebook or Instagram?

        Placement follows what the creative needs to show and where the sale will happen. We review the ad as it will appear, then assess its results against the agreed outcome. Spending is not split equally between Facebook and Instagram simply to give both a share. The allocation needs evidence from your account.

        If a strong ad starts fading, do you replace it immediately?

        No. We check what changed first: the ad response, the destination, the offer or the sales measurement. Then we decide what to pause and what the next variation should test. The creative schedule keeps replacement ideas moving, so the next decision does not depend on producing everything from scratch.

        How does our in-house team approve creative during testing?

        Your team approves the claims and tone of proposed variations. The approval schedule names your decision-maker. If a test needs new footage, production is scoped before it enters the plan. That keeps the person responsible for your brand involved as the ads change.

        What must be working between an ad click and a recorded sale?

        We need the intended destination, a purchase or enquiry path that works and measurement of the agreed outcome. We also need access to the sales information used to assess performance. If one of those pieces is missing, we identify the fix before launch. Switching on campaigns is not the way to test whether a checkout works.

        Can the campaign plan follow individual tour dates?

        Yes. Tour dates shape the campaign plan. We note the venue, ticket destination and sales position for every show, and agree how fresh ticket updates reach us. The remaining time and tickets then guide the allocation, and your team approves changes as the tour progresses.

        ↳ Related services

        Pairs well with.

        Brand approval and creative supply sit beside the Meta account work.

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        Paid Media

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        Plan Meta alongside the other paid channels that fit your business.

        See paid media →

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        Marketing

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        Keep the offer in your Facebook and Instagram ads consistent with the wider marketing plan.

        See marketing →

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        The Social Target · Limited · Est. 2017 · London