Tutorial creative strategy ·59 min ·Recorded Feb 2023

Optimizing Media And Creative For More Effective Ads

Evan Lee, Head of Creative Strategy at Motion, presents a structured workflow for optimizing ad creative by bridging the gap between performance marketing and creative teams. He outlines a repeatable "creative sprint" process spanning research, ideation, briefing, content creation, launch, creative analysis, and evaluation. The tutorial provides tactical examples of using granular data to diagnose performance issues at different stages of a video ad—thumbnail, hook, post-hook storytelling, and creative vs. landing page—and iterating based on those findings.

Outline

What's discussed, in order

00:00
Introduction, Housekeeping, and About Motion
02:23
What is Creative Strategy?
09:08
Creative Sprints: What They Achieve
14:14
Creative Sprint Categories & Cadence
23:33
Research: Building Personas
26:44
Ideation: Finding Inspiration
29:02
Granular Data Analysis & Briefing
42:48
Content Creation & Launch
43:19
Creative Analysis & Retrospective
49:53
Summary and Q&A
Frameworks presented

9 named frameworks

01 Creative Analytics & Reporting Process (Analyze / Visualize / Share)
A three-step process for utilizing creative data.
presenter's own (Motion) · ~01:02Play
02 Detailed Creative Strategy Workflow
A cyclical flywheel for managing creative strategy end-to-end.
presenter's own · ~05:22Play
06 Building Personas — Where to Start
Brand value props/selling points; past purchaser characteristics; historical performance across channels; explore social channels; review comments across website/channels; explore tagged posts on social.
~23:40Play
09 Detailed Steps to Approaching a Creative Sprint
01 Research → 02 Build personas → 03 Develop inspiration (external + own data) → 04 Translate findings into a brief (hypotheses + goals) → 05 Develop creative assets → 06 Launch → 07 Recap & memorialize → 08 Determine opportunities…
~50:02Play
Claims & hot takes

What's actually believed — in their own words

Every creative test should start with a hypothesis and a measurable goal.

Evan Lee — **Type**: opinion — **Timestamp**: 41:00 · 2023 #
Tactics & anti-patterns

The do's and don'ts pulled from the session

Do this
  • Evan Lee — **Timestamp**: 47:22: Use creative analysis to inform broader decisions beyond creative (e.g., influencer spend allocation). #
Don't do this
  • Evan Lee — **Timestamp**: 27:53: Neglecting your own first-party performance data while chasing external inspiration. #
Data & stats cited

Numbers quoted in this talk

"From a 13% to 65% Initiate Checkout Rate" — Evan Lee, 43:17 (case example: Chelsea's ad iteration)
2023 · #
"38% decrease in CPIC" — Evan Lee, 43:17 (case example)
2023 · #
Testing live duration ranges typically 7–30 days (spend-dependent)
Evan Lee · 2023 · 18:50 #
New concept creation takes ~14–45 days; iteration ~3–10 days
Evan Lee · 2023 · 18:50 #
Named entities

Everything referenced on-screen and by name

People mentioned (excluding speakers listed above)

  • Lauren Schwartz — Founder & Creative Director, The Loft 325 — endorsed — example of creative strategist (design background).
  • Audrey Madden — Creative Strategist, Huel — endorsed — example (digital marketing background).
  • Nicole Crowell — Sr. Creative Strategist, Structured Agency — endorsed — example (media buying background).
  • Sarah Levinger — @SarahLevinger — endorsed — community spotlight on personas.
  • Patrick Gatterbauer — @pgatterbauer — endorsed — community spotlight on tagged posts.
  • Rahul Issar — @therahulissar — endorsed — community spotlight on test tracking templates.
  • Connor — unknown handle — endorsed — community spotlight on test tracking templates.
  • Chelsea — unknown — referenced in case example on ad iteration (43:17).
  • Yousef — unknown — host/moderator (mentioned in intro).

Brands / companies referenced

  • The Loft 325, Huel, Structured Agency, Facebook, TikTok, Meta, Instagram, Google, YouTube, Reddit, Amazon.

Tools / products referenced (excluding Motion)

  • Foreplay — competitor ad tracking/organization tool.
  • Addison — competitor ad tracking tool (name per extraction; verification uncertain).

External frameworks / concepts cited

  • iOS 14.5 — as market shift elevating creative importance.
  • BFCM (Black Friday Cyber Monday) — promotional event used as data example.
Ad examples shown

2 ads referenced

Show all 2 ads with extraction details
Ad #1 — Bamboo Toothbrush
Unknown brand ·Image | Lifestyle ·01:14
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7 seconds
Hook (first 3 sec)
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Product / pitch
A bamboo toothbrush, shown in a lifestyle context with two children.
Key on-screen text
• "image" • "BambooToothbrush_IMG_LP" • "Spend $1.9K" • "ROAS 5.4" • "Conversion 6%" • "Add comment" • "The lifestyle shot worked best! Let's double down on these." • "Send" • "Cancel"
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Polished
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Why shown in this video
To demonstrate how the Motion app facilitates sharing insights and directing creative strategy.
Speaker's take
"and then share these insights with everyone involved."
Ad #2 — Laundry Service
Unknown brand ·Video | UGC ·43:17
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5 seconds
Hook (first 3 sec)
A static shot of an overflowing laundry basket in a doorway.
Product / pitch
A laundry service that saves time and reduces the burden of doing laundry.
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"If your laundry is taking you"
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Lo-fi | UGC
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The ad begins by presenting the problem of having too much laundry.
Why shown in this video
To illustrate a successful creative iteration that significantly improved performance metrics.
Speaker's take
The speaker doesn't comment on the ad itself, but the slide text highlights its success: "From a 13% to 65% Initiate Checkout Rate - Chelsea's ad iteration in December provided the foundation to kickoff 2023 in a big way" and "That's a 38% decrease in CPIC".
Slides & visual artifacts

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Slide #1 — Title Slide
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Optimizing Media and Creative for More Effective Ads
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• Motion (logo) • Evan Lee • Head of Creative Strategy, Motion • @evmklee
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"Okay, everybody. Uh, super, super, like I said a million times, and you can expect me to say it more and more, is I'm happy to have you all here."
Slide #2 — Creative analytics and reporting
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Creative analytics and reporting
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The Creative Strategist's Hub
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"The way that we think about ourselves is ultimately being the hub for creative strategy."
Slide #3 — Analyze
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Analyze
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Identify key drivers of creative performance
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"...is we make it really easy for you to be able to analyze what exactly is going on in your accounts..."
Slide #4 — Visualize
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Visualize
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Translate insights into visual reports
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"...visualize this so everybody, no matter your technical competency, is able to see what's going on..."
Slide #5 — Share
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Share
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Point your team in the right creative direction
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"...and then share these insights with everyone involved."
Slide #6 — Housekeeping
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Housekeeping
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Share your question and answers in the chat!
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20% off for 3 months. Code: MH20
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Recording & deck will be made available after the presentation
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"And from a housekeeping perspective, there's three things that come to mind."
Slide #7 — What role do you currently hold?
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• What role do you currently hold? • [Button] Media buyer • [Button] Creative Team Members • [Button] Editor • [Button] Mkt/Growth Manager • [Button] Creative Strategist • [Button] Sr. Management • [Button] Other
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"I just wanted to do a quick like roll call almost to understand who's in the building with us."
Slide #8 — What is Creative Strategy?
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What is Creative Strategy?
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"So I think the first place that I wanted to start here before we get into the true meat and potatoes of it, is just starting with some definitions."
Slide #9 — Creative has become mission critical
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Creative has become mission critical for all teams
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• Increased competition • Creator economy • Age of TikTok • iOS 14.5
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• Screenshot of an article titled "Using Creative Strategies To Win at Facebook Ads in 2022". • Screenshot of an article titled "Why ad creative is more important than ever".
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"The first thing that I like to highlight here is why has it become like relevant?"
Slide #10 — Creative vs. Analytical Brain
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Performance teams work with data, creatives work visually
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"But what we also know is is that the teams involved, funny enough, are almost just so different in personality types."
Slide #11 — Creative Strategy is the bridge
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Creative Strategy is the bridge
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• [Box] Creative strategy workflow • [Arrow pointing down to two boxes] • [Box] Creative teams <--> [Box] Performance marketing teams
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"So when I'm using the terminology of creative strategy, what I'm actually referencing is the sides of the brains or the teams that are involved, that natural gap, and creative strategy acts as that bridge."
Slide #12 — Detailed Creative Strategy workflow
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Detailed Creative Strategy workflow
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A circular flow diagram with 8 steps: 1. Research 2. Ideation 3. Briefing 4. Content Creation 5. Evaluation 6. Launch 7. Creative Analysis 8. (Arrow back to Research)
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At 22:22, the speaker refers back to this slide to introduce the concept of "Creative Sprints".
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"But that process can almost be detailed into a set of repeatable steps that allows you to consistently pump out the best creative possible and everyone moving forward together."
Slide #13 — Who manages this process?
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Who manages this process?
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"But I think a big thing that happens, it just becomes a conversation of who actually manages this process."
Slide #14 — Creative Strategists come from all different career paths
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Creative Strategists come from all different career paths
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• Headshot of Lauren Schwartz, Founder & Creative Director, The Loft 325 • Headshot of Audrey Madden, Creative Strategist, Huel • Headshot of Evan Lee, Head of Creative Strategy, Motion • Headshot of Nicole Crowell, Sr. Creative Strategist, Structured Agency
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"I almost like to consider it a hat. And the really cool thing about making it a hat is that it allows people no matter the career path or background to be able to jump into that role and truly own that."
Slide #15 — Creative Strategist Backgrounds
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Creative Strategists come from all different career paths
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• Under Lauren Schwartz: Design background • Under Audrey Madden: Digital Marketing background • Under Evan Lee: Media Buying background • Under Nicole Crowell: Media Buying background
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"So in these headshots here... we have Lauren, we have Audrey, and we have Nicole. Now they all hold creative strategist titles and like crushing it essentially, but the cool thing here is that they come from so many different... differences in terms of backgrounds."
Slide #16 — Why is the Creative Strategist hat so important?
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Why is the Creative Strategist hat so important?
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"And with those people who manage the process, it's now important to talk about why is it an actual role? Why is it a hat that somebody should wear?"
Slide #17 — A wide variety of teams are involved
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A wide variety of teams are involved
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A circular diagram showing 8 teams: • Management • Creative Teams • Media Buyers • Agencies • Clients • Account Managers • Brand Teams
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"Part of the reason I had asked everybody what your roles were is because in this process of building the right creative, there are so many teams involved."
Slide #18 — Creative findings without action are meaningless
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Creative findings without action are meaningless
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"...we could have all of the creative findings in the world, so so many data points that are necessary to us, but they're meaningless if we're not able to do something with them."
Slide #19 — Creative Strategists tie this all together
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Creative Strategists tie this all together
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"So whoever is wearing that hat of creative strategy, what that allows us to do, it allows us to formulate this all together."
Slide #20 — What is the process to ensure we're aligned?
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What is the process to ensure we're aligned?
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Slide #21 — Creative Sprints!
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Creative Sprints!
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"So that's where here at Motion and just in general, I know a lot of people do this, is we call them creative sprints."
Slide #22 — What we want to achieve
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What we want to achieve
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Making decisions
"What ad creative should I make next?"
Getting buy-in
"How do I convince my team or client I'm making informed creative decisions."
Educating others
"How can I level up the thinking of other members of my creative team?"
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"Essentially what we're saying here is that there's three levels to this equation."
Slide #23 — What we want to achieve (with outcome)
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What we want to achieve
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Making decisions
"What ad creative should I make next?"
Getting buy-in
"How do I convince my team or client I'm making informed creative decisions."
Educating others
"How can I level up the thinking of other members of my creative team?"
Bottom bar
= Increased efficiency and better creative output resulting in more $$
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"And by following this three-step process here, essentially what we want to be able to achieve is increased efficiency, better creative output, which is then going to make more dollars for you at the end of the day."
Slide #24 — Quick summary
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Disconnect between performance and creative
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Creative strategy helps bridge this gap
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Acknowledging the workflow makes it easy for anyone to jump in the role
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So many inputs (research, teams, findings, etc.) - need to create order
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Findings are great, but means nothing without action and workflow
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Creative sprints can help guide this process
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"But just as a quick summary to make sure we're aligned on creative strategy and the creative sprint process..."
Slide #25 — Poll
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• Is Creative strategy actively applied within your organization? • [Button] Yes • [Button] No • [Button] Not sure
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"I now actually wanted to jump into a quick poll..."
Slide #26 — Two categories with a Creative Sprint
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Two categories with a Creative Sprint
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New Concepts & Variations
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Iterations
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"The first category that I like to highlight is bucket number one being new concepts and variations, and then the second bucket are our iteration buckets."
Slide #27 — New Concepts
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New Concepts
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Use cases
Marketing calendar, product launches, new campaign, promos, etc.
Important info
Determine key attributes to track
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Heavy briefing & research, Heavy execution, Large quantity of creative assets
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"When I'm using the terminology of net new concept, what I'm really referring to here is when we talk about output, it's usually a larger quantity of creative assets that's required heavy execution, heavy briefing, and a lot of work for the team."
Slide #28 — Variations Example
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Variations Example
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• Problem: Acne | Concept: Before & After | Specs: 15sec video
Column 1 (Ad 1)
Hook 1, Body 1, CTA 1
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Hook 2, Body 1, CTA 1
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Hook 3, Body 1, CTA 1
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"So what that means in my example of variation is let's imagine that the problem that we're looking to solve is that there's an acne problem."
Slide #29 — Iterations
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Iterations
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Use cases
Leveraging available data, an ongoing and structured approach to performance creative is created
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Understand what you would like to track
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Light briefing, Focused execution, Low quantity of creative assets (iterations / new)
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"And then with that final definition, it's related to iterations. And the main difference between an iteration and a variation is that iteration is always going to be related to data."
Slide #30 — Creative Sprints New Concepts & Iterations
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Creative Sprints New Concepts & Iterations
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• [Legend] Black dot: Ongoing planning & execution *ads are consistently active
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Day 1-30, Day 31-60, Day 61-90, Day 91-120, Day 121-150
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A purple bar spanning the entire timeline with black dots at approximately day 15, 45, 75, 105, 135.
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A pink bar spanning the entire timeline with black dots at approximately day 7, 22, 37, 52, 67, 82, 97, 112, 127, 142.
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"So what we're looking at here is a set plan that everyone in your org can come back to when you're talking about the type of creative that's going to be produced."
Slide #31 — What is the ideal cadence?
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What is the ideal cadence?
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• Two important buckets to align on internally and externally:
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Testing
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Performance Creative Creation
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"So what I mean by that is to determine the spaces between the different sprints that we're running, we're answering two major questions."
Slide #32 — Ideal Cadence Details
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What is the ideal cadence?
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• Two important buckets to align on internally and externally:
01 Testing
• How are long are we live in the ad account for? • Spend dependant (typically ranges from 7 to 30 days)
02 Performance Creative Creation
• How long does it take the develop the creative? • New concept: 14 - 45 days • Iteration: Allocate 3 - 10 days
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"So we're answering the testing question and we're answering the creation question."
Slide #33 — Research
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Research
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"So the first bucket that we're ultimately going to care about is our research bucket that we can see here."
Slide #34 — Building Personas
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Building Personas
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• **Where to start?** • Brand value props / selling points • Understand past purchasers characteristics • Review historical performance across channels • Explore social channels • Review comments across website and channels • Explore tagged posts on social
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"And to build out these characters, essentially there's just a set of questions that you can answer from a most basic standpoint to be able to find out."
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"So some of the examples that I like to highlight is you can just jump right into your social media comments even to start to understand what's going on there."
Slide #36 — Community Spotlight: Sarah Levinger
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"Character personas over scripts, always. We're directors, not the screenwriters."
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"I like Sarah Levinger, she always talks about when you build your characters or personas, personas over scripts, we're directors, not the screenwriters."
Slide #37 — Community Spotlight: Patrick Gatterbauer
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"Review tagged posts to see how people are really talking about you."
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"Another good friend of mine, Patrick. So Patrick always talks to me about reviewing tagged posts. He's like, these are how people are actually talking about you."
Slide #38 — Ideation
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"Now, after we have an idea of who we want to go after in the world, it's important to figure out the necessary look and feel to match that audience."
Slide #39 — Community Spotlight - Competitor Inspiration
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Community Spotlight - Competitor Inspiration
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Shared group chat
Screenshot of a chat with messages "Check this out!" and "This is really cool" next to an image of a pizza.
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Screenshot of a spreadsheet tracking ad performance with columns for Ad Name, Thumbnail, ROAS, CTR, etc.
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"So the first thing is just talking about different ways you can share look and feel amongst your teams."
Slide #40 — Leverage your own data
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Leverage your own data
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Inspiration can come from recent performers, past performers, and promotional events
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"And then the last thing that I'll note... is it's great to look elsewhere... but please, please, please do not neglect your own data."
Slide #41 — Granular Data Analysis
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Granular Data Analysis
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"Now's the point on the call when I wanted to really appeal to our marketers in the house."
Slide #42 — Data points to measure performance
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Data points to measure performance
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Engagement
• CTR (all) • CTR (outbound) знаменитостей • Thumbnail Retention (video plays/impressions) • Hook Rate (3sec view/impressions) • Hold Rate (Variety of options) • Hook Rate Clicks (outbound clicks / 3s view) • 25% View plays • 50% View plays • 75% View plays • 100% View plays
Bottom of Funnel
• ROAS/CPA/CPL • CVR • ATC • Outbound Clicks/LP Views
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"So whenever I'm talking to creative team members or people running these creative sprints, I really like to hone in on the importance of your top and middle of funnel of metrics and how they apply to the bottom of funnel metrics."
Slide #43 — Thumbnail Performance
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Thumbnail Performance
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What's working: Strong thumbnail retention + strong thumbstop
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Thumbnail Retention (Video plays/impressions) vs Thumbstop Ratio (3s View / Impressions)
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Last 14 Days: Sep 21, 2022 - Oct 4, 2022
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A series of colored bars representing different thumbnails, with values for Thumbnail Retention (e.g., 91.96%, 91.34%) and Thumbstop Ratio (e.g., 36.44%, 28.76%).
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"So let's start with our thumbnail performance. And before I get into actually analyzing this data, let's talk about the thumbnail retention metric and let's also talk about why thumbnails are important."
Slide #44 — Hook Performance
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Hook Performance
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What's working: Strong thumbstop, strong CTR
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Thumbstop Ratio (3s View / Impressions) vs CTR (Outbound Clicks)
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Last 14 Days: Sep 21, 2022 - Oct 4, 2022
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A series of colored bars representing different hooks, with values for Thumbstop Ratio (e.g., 52.29%, 36.44%) and CTR (e.g., 0.71%, 1.09%).
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"The next stage of this is now diving into our hooks."
Slide #45 — Post 3sec Storytelling
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What's working: Strong CTR, strong 100% play rate
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CTR (All) vs 100% video plays (rate)
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Last 14 Days: Sep 21, 2022 - Oct 4, 2022
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A series of colored bars representing different videos, with values for CTR (e.g., 3.60%, 3.57%) and 100% video play rate (e.g., 5.63%, 3.35%).
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"So in this report, what I'm comparing to talk about metrics once again... is that we're able to compare our click-through rates... versus our 100% video play rate."
Slide #46 — Creative vs. Landing Page
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Creative vs. Landing Page
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What's working: Strong CTR, strong CVR
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CTR (All) vs Click to Purchase Ratio
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Last 14 Days: Sep 21, 2022 - Oct 4, 2022
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A series of colored bars representing different creative/landing page combinations, with values for CTR (e.g., 3.60%, 3.57%) and Click to Purchase Ratio (e.g., 3.53%, 9.18%).
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"And the final step in this process is creative versus landing page."
Slide #47 — Briefing
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Persona Focus
Young people between the ages of 18 - 35 who enjoy a combination in the city while being connected to nature.
Value Prop Focus
Sustainability in the city.
Hypothesis
Building new assets around this specific persona while leveraging image success will allow us to generate more dollars.
Example of Brief
• Dimensions • Look and feel • Deliverable: Images
Goal
Achieve target CAC of $50.
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"And I'm going to get to the details and nitty-gritty of this entire flow in a bit, but what I first wanted to do is to continue to level set in terms of what a creative sprint actually includes."
Slide #48 — Content Creation & Launch
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Content Creation & Launch
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"So once these data points are understood, you're diving into content creation and launch."
Slide #49 — Creative Analysis - Retrospective
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"The big part that starts to happen is we need to analyze what's gone down."
Slide #50 — Retrospective - Iteration
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Retrospective - Iteration
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Validation of Hypothesis
Increasing thumbstop ratio and maintaining conversion rate will lead to additional sales.
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V2: True, V3: False
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• A bar chart comparing "Thumbstop Ratio (3s View / Impressions) vs Click to Purchase Ratio" for three different ad versions. • A video player showing a creative asset.
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The "Validation of Hypothesis" section is highlighted.
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"So the first step to be able to memorialize it is actually being able to say, we created a hypothesis when we initially launched that, launched the assets. Was it true? Was it false of what we wanted to achieve?"
Slide #51 — Community Spotlight - Test Tracking
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Screenshot of a more detailed Google Sheet for test tracking, with color-coded cells (red/green) for performance metrics. • Two headshots with Twitter handles: @therahulissar.
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"But another place is like when I highlight some of our community, Rahul and this is Connor not Rahul doubled up, but but these two guys have some really good templates out there that you'll be able to access and click into where you're able to say these are the tests we ran, this is where it can live."
Slide #52 — Creative Analysis - Additional Opportunities
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"The last piece that I like to highlight is when we're doing analysis, it's great to think of iteration as basically using the data and making creative changes, but what I also like to showcase here is for any marketing managers in the room, for any CMOs in the room, or just business owners in the room, you can use these creative analysis points to actually dive into so many deeper elements."
Slide #53 — Iteration - Influencers
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Iteration - Influencers
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Hypothesis
Investing into a particular Creator/Influencer will drive additional dollars.
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The "Hypothesis" section is highlighted.
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"So what that means is where I can actually start is with influencers. So instead of looking at granular creative and granular creative changes, what we can look at in my case with influencers is I can understand which influencers are actually making us money on paid social."
Slide #54 — Iteration - Creative vs. Landing Pages
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Iteration - Creative vs. Landing Pages
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Hypothesis
Creating cohesiveness between our creative and landing page will lead to additional sales.
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CTR (Outbound Clicks) vs Click to Purchase Ratio
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A bar chart comparing CTR (lighter bars) vs Click to Purchase Ratio (darker bars) for several creative/landing page combinations.
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Blurred thumbnails are shown below each bar.
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The "Hypothesis" section is highlighted. The first two bars on the left are circled in red.
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"And the final thing that I wanted to highlight is... being able to make decisions beyond just even like inventory, creative, and all of that. What we can start to find out is if we have things like creative problems or landing page problems."
Slide #55 — Summary
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"So, said a lot of words in a short amount of time."
Slide #56 — Detailed steps to approaching a creative sprint
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Detailed steps to approaching a creative sprint
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• 01 Research • 02 Build personas • 03 Develop inspiration from other places + your own data • 04 Translate findings into a brief (build hypotheses & set goals) • 05 Develop the required creative assets • 06 Launch the assets into the ad account(s) • 07 Recap and memorialize findings against the goals • 08 Determine opportunities beyond just creative • 09 Repeat!
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"But from a summary perspective, you're going to be able to see these dedicated steps like I had spoken about."
Slide #57 — Takeaways
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Hypothesis approach
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Structure in place to continuously test creative
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"The very first place that I like to recommend to start is literally if you're making a new creative, like just build a hypothesis out, what are you looking to test? And then once you've built out your hypothesis, try your best to come back to say, was I right or wrong in what I thought?"
Slide #58 — Embedded into your day-to-day
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Embedded into your day-to-day
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A grid of 8 tweets from various users praising MotionApp.
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• Tweet from Alexander Piacentini (@iampiacentini) • Tweet from Lauren Labeled (@LaurenLabeled) • Tweet from Marin Ivezic (@IvezicMarin) • Tweet from Dara Denney (@DenneyDara) • Tweet from Sarah Levinger (@SarahLevinger) • Tweet from Barry Hott (@binghott) • Tweet from Phil Kiel (@Phaxcel) • Tweet from Audur (@thebankisedit)
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"These are people who are online on Twitter, if you're a big Twitter following, so follow us if you want to see how people are talking about us."
Slide #59 — Where can Motion help?
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Where can Motion help?
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A circular flow diagram with 8 steps. Steps 1-3 and 6-7 have checkmarks next to them. 1. Research 2. Ideation 3. Briefing 4. Content Creation (grayed out) 5. Evaluation (grayed out) 6. Launch 7. Creative Analysis 8. (Arrow back to Research)
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"We like to help with every stage of this."
Slide #60 — 20% off for 3 months
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20% off for 3 months
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• Code: MH20 • [email protected] to take an advantage • @evmklee
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"And of course, just as a quick reminder, if this was interesting to anybody... you can always explore Motion. We have that 20% off using MH20 like I had mentioned."
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  • Report date range "Sep 21, 2022 – Oct 4, 2022" shown across thumbnail, hook, storytelling, and creative-vs-LP reports (30:47–39:49).
  • BFCM 2022 image report data range "Nov 21, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022" (28:14).
  • Spend vs CTR report "Aug 30, 2022 – Sep 13, 2022" (27:55).
  • Influencer report "Jan 27, 2022 – Feb 9, 2022" (47:24).
  • Retrospective report "Jul 28, 2022 – Aug 10, 2022" (43:52).
  • "Chelsea's ad iteration in December provided the foundation to kickoff 2023" — Evan Lee, 43:18.
  • Article referenced: "Using Creative Strategies To Win at Facebook Ads in 2022" (03:38).
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Evan Lee: Perfecto.

Slide with Motion logo. Title: "Optimizing Media and Creative for More Effective Ads". Speaker: Evan Lee, Head of Creative Strategy, Motion. Twitter handle: @evmklee. A photo of Evan Lee is on the right. A small video of Evan Lee speaking is in the top right corner.

Evan Lee: Okay, everybody. Uh, super, super, like I said a million times and you can expect me to say it more and more, is I'm happy to have you all here. I want to make sure that I can also see the chat for when um, uh, any questions might ultimately roll through.

Evan Lee: But what um, I wanted to start off with was essentially, like Yousef had mentioned, my name is Evan Lee. I am the head of creative strategy here at Motion. Um, and that's just a fancy way of saying I get to work with the best brands, the best agencies, whoever it might be, literally every single day on creative strategy. Now, I know that term is something that we'll define in a little bit, but before we get into all things creative strategy, I just wanted to cover some high-level pieces first. So what I wanted to do first is I wanted to talk a little bit about Motion. I want to get into some housekeeping, and then ultimately, learn some about you.

Evan Lee: So perfect. When we're talking about Motion at a high level, the way that we think about ourselves is ultimately being the hub for creative strategy. So all of the details that we'll get into today.

Slide with black background. Title: "Creative analytics and reporting". Subtitle in a box: "The Creative Strategist's Hub". On the right is a screenshot of the Motion app dashboard titled "Last Week's Top Creative" showing various video and image ad creatives with performance metrics like ROAS and Spend.