Boutique digital advertising and creative partners, based in Australia.
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Who are we?
Stop and Stare was founded by two freelancers, Aliyah and Dani after years of working across both in-house and agency advertising roles, where one problem kept surfacing: creative direction and strategy getting lost between brand and paid media team.
We built Stop and Stare to close that gap.
For the past five years we've specialised in Meta and TikTok advertising, managing $500k+ monthly budgets and supporting international scale for some of Australia's largest fashion and lifestyle brands. Our experience spans the full picture, from product buying strategy through to scaling paid performance and growth strategy, working closely with in-house teams on content creation and creative, providing content and digital asset design for paid channels, and collaborating directly with brand designers to sharpen briefs and build ad content that performs.
SPECIALISING IN
BRANDS
Content and Digital Asset Creation.
Meta & Tiktok Advertising.
Growth and Creative Strategy.
Our services
Most paid media specialists understand data. Most creative strategists understand the story. Even few understand both. Stop and Stare sits at the intersection of creative strategy and paid media, specialising in fashion and lifestyle brands Meta and Tiktok Advertising.
Full management of your Meta and TikTok ad accounts. This isn't just budget allocation and reporting, we optimise and scale with your top-line business metrics in mind.
Every decision is made with a creative strategist and media buyer working as one. We know why an ad works, not just that it does, and we act on that daily.
Speciality: Meta Advertising, TikTok Advertising.
Additional platforms: Google Advertising, Pinterest Advertising, Snapchat Advertising.
We start with what you already have. Before a single new asset is briefed, we audit your content bank, build a structured testing framework, and systematically extract performance from existing creative. Repackaging, reframing, and iterating until it's genuinely exhausted.
When new creative is needed, we brief it properly. Concepts, formats, scripts, and references built around what the data is telling us and what we know stops a scroll for your customer. We manage the brief through your internal team or production partner and traffic every finalised asset directly into Meta and TikTok.
B-roll, organic content, paid content, raw content, events, BTS. iPhone content & photography available.
Advertising & Creative Partners
How we work together
Collaboration & strategic review
Growth looks different for every brand. That's why we start by understanding yours. We uncover what's working, what's not, and where the biggest opportunities sit. From there, we collaboratively define the direction and build a strategy tailored to your brand, goals and audience. Because no two brands are the same, and neither are the paths to growth. We focus on what moves the needle and create the foundations for sustainable growth. The right channels. The right systems. The right product. The right message.
Creative strategy & iteration
We build a structured testing framework that works through your asset library, repackaging, reframing, and iterating on what already exists before briefing anything new. We work collaboratively with your in-house and external content partners to brief content that is structured, designed and briefed for paid media platforms. We offer graphic design services and basic video editing using exisiting and new brand imagery and video.
Paid Media & Creative Management
Management of your Meta and TikTok ad accounts and other paid platforms. Every decision from creative selection to budget allocation to bid strategy is made with both the media buyer and the creative strategist brain running in parallel. No siloing. No separate teams. No guesswork.
