Upstream Creatives

Paid demand

Paid demand that is managed against leads, not clicks.

Paid advertising in South Africa: Google Search and Performance Max, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), and AI ads on platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini. Campaign setup, ongoing optimisation, conversion tracking and reporting treated as one system.

The challenge

Ad accounts often spend because they exist. Broad keywords, a weak landing page and no conversion tracking — so nobody can say if the budget is working.

Our approach

We aim spend at the work you actually want, send it to a page that can convert, and track calls and forms so we can cut waste instead of reporting it.

What changes

Campaigns you can judge by enquiries and cost per lead — not by clicks that go nowhere.

On us

Free ads review

Google Ads, Meta, social or the lot — we will look at the account and say what is wasting spend before you scale it.

Paid demand

Google, Meta and YouTube — on the devices the click actually happens.

Search, feed and video treated as one system, judged by enquiries rather than leftover budget.

Laptop, phone and tablet showing Google, Instagram and YouTube ads, with a campaign performance dashboard.
  • Google Search
  • Facebook & Instagram
  • YouTube

What’s included

The work, named. Not a menu of extras after the quote.

On us

Free ads review

Google Ads, Meta, social or the lot — we will look at the account and say what is wasting spend before you scale it.

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Google Ads

Search, Performance Max and remarketing built around the services you actually want to sell.

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Meta Ads

Facebook and Instagram campaigns for demand that lives in the feed, not only in the search bar.

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AI ads

Paid placement and demand on AI platforms — ChatGPT, Gemini and similar — where people now ask before they Google.

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Ongoing management

Search terms, audiences, bids and creatives reviewed on a rhythm, so wasted spend is cut rather than reported after the fact.

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Conversion tracking

Forms, calls and key actions measured properly. Without this, optimisation is theatre.

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Landing-page alignment

Ads and destination pages say the same thing. If the site cannot convert, we say so before scaling spend.

Questions we hear first

Next step

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