QLEADS.
Ad Studio · Creative Production

Creative Is the Bottleneck. We Removed It.

Most agencies ship two static ads a week and call it a campaign. We ship four to ten. UGC, video, motion, AI-generated, every angle, every format, every test. Built in-house, evidence-based, and engineered to feed Meta's Andromeda algorithm what it actually wants.

The Industry Bottleneck

Most Agencies Ship Two Statics a Week.That's Not Creative. That's Surrender.

Walk into any digital agency in 2026 and ask how many creatives they shipped last month. The honest answer is usually four to eight. The dishonest answer is wrapped in jargon.

The reason most agencies underproduce is they can't produce. They don't have UGC creator rosters. They can't shoot interviews. They can't film founder content. They've never edited high-production AI-generated environments. So they default to what they can do: static images with text overlays, week after week.

Static ads aren't bad. Static-only is. Meta's algorithm rewards creative volume and concept diversity. Agencies that can't supply it get punished by performance, then blame the platform.

What the industry ships per month

Most agencies

8 statics. Same template, different copy.

QLeads

16-40 mixed assets. UGC, video, motion, AI.

Every Format, In-House

Twelve Formats. Built for Meta.

Different concepts demand different vehicles. We don't have ‘one style’. We have a full toolkit, used per campaign, per audience, per awareness stage.

UGC Confessional

Talking head in personal setting

Walk-and-Talk

Talent moving through real environment

Evidence Hold

Talent holding physical proof to camera

Reaction Style

Response to question or stat

Before / After

Transformation reveal

Testimonial

Real client story, named subject

Two-Person Convo

Overheard dialogue format

Phone Screen

Process or message-thread reveal

Voiceover on B-Roll

No face required, pure audio + footage

Text-on-Screen

Silent-scrollable, hook-first

AI High-Production

Billboard, OOH, scenes impossible to film cheaply

Static + Carousel

Image-led, used surgically not by default

Live Work

Real Ads. Real Spend. Real Results.

A sample of creative we've shipped for clients across housing disrepair, tenancy deposit refunds, and other regulated verticals. All running on real budgets.

UGC · 9:16
STATIC · 1:1
AI-GEN · 4:5
UGC · 9:16
CAROUSEL · 1:1
STATIC · 4:5
UGC · 1:1
AI-GEN · 9:16

[ Harry will replace placeholder visuals with real ad stills and muted video clips ]

The Testing Method

We Don't Throw and Hope. We Test and Compound.

Every creative campaign starts with a batch launch. We ship multiple concepts simultaneously, each engineered around a specific winning angle pulled from preproduction research.

Then the rules take over. Underperforming creative gets paused. Winning creative gets scaled. Winning concepts get iterated: same angle, different format, different hook. The library grows. The data sharpens. The next batch is smarter than the last.

We refresh the lineup every week. Not because we're chasing novelty, because Meta's algorithm rewards consistent creative volume, and stale ads cost you more than fresh ones earn.

Weekly

Refresh cycle

Batch launch

Winner-iterate

Evidence

Based, every test

Winner hit rate

Industry average10%

1 in 10 ads scales

QLeads campaign (TDR / X15)24%

4 winners from 17 creatives

Out of 17 creatives shipped on a recent tenancy deposit campaign, 4 became scalable winners. More than double the industry benchmark.

How We Measure Every Ad

Three Numbers. Three Decisions.

We don't measure ads on impressions or vanity engagement. We measure them on the three points where attention either holds or leaks. Each number tells us what to iterate next.

Hook Rate

First 3 seconds

What percentage of viewers stay past the opening. Tells us whether the hook is working. If it's low, we change the opening, not the rest of the ad.

Hold Rate

Through to 75%

What percentage make it to the offer. Tells us whether the body is keeping attention. If it's low, the hook worked but the middle's losing them.

CTR

Click on offer

What percentage of holders actually click. Tells us whether the CTA itself is compelling. If it's low, the CTA, not the creative, is the problem.

Three numbers. Three precise places to iterate. No guesswork.

AI-Augmented Production

AI Where It Earns. Humans Where They Earn More.

AI doesn't replace UGC creators or interview talent. It replaces the production cost of things humans physically can't film cheaply: billboard mockups, full OOH scenes, complex environments, multi-location shoots.

We use AI to produce creative that would cost 300 to 600 times more if shot conventionally. Concept-to-final asset in hours, not weeks. Then the high-converting AI angles get iterated by human UGC creators where the human element matters.

AI-generated creative is included as standard in every QLeads campaign. UGC creator production is the paid add-on, used surgically, when the data says human-shot will outperform.

300-600×

Cost reduction

AI included

UGC paid add-on

Hybrid

By default

Same creative concept · two production paths

Conventional

Location scout

Crew & equipment

Talent

Editor

Post-production

£3,000 - £8,000

QLeads AI

Concept

AI generation

Edit + finish

Under £30

Per concept. Same brief. Same testing rigour.

Every Touchpoint, Evidenced

Every Ad. Logged, Reviewed, Signed Off.

Every creative we produce flows through our bespoke approval system. The client receives a personalised email with live preview links and access to their private portal.

They approve, deny, or request iteration, with reasons logged. Once approved, the creative is signed off with a timestamped signature, ready to push to ad accounts.

Compliance review sits in the same loop. The authorised representative at the regulated firm signs off every asset before it goes live. The system holds the full audit trail: every concept, every iteration, every approval, ready if a regulator ever asks.

One-touch

Approval target

Email + portal

Delivery

Full audit

Trail by default

Approval flow

01

Creative produced in-house

02

Email sent to client with preview

03

Approve / iterate / decline (with reason)

04

Compliance review by authorised rep

05

Signed off → ready for ad account

Personalised portal. Live links. Signature on file.

Meta · Andromeda · 2026

Creative Is the New Targeting.

Meta's Andromeda algorithm rewards two things above everything else: creative volume and concept diversity. The agencies winning in 2026 are the ones supplying both. The ones losing are still targeting interest groups manually and shipping a static a week.

Volume

4-10 creatives / week

Andromeda's learning phase needs fresh signal. Stale creative tells the algorithm nothing, and it stops spending. We feed it constantly.

Diversity

Different concepts, every batch

The same hook, format, or angle stops working when it's repeated. We approach the same problem from new angles every week. That's what the algorithm uses to find new audiences.

We do deep preproduction research before every campaign. Winning angles from competitor libraries, audience psychology, awareness stages. All of it shapes the next batch. The ads aren't lucky. They're earned.

See the Work

Want to See What Three QLeads Ads Look Like for Your Vertical?

Tell us your vertical. We'll send you three sample ads built for your audience, your compliance framework, your conversion goal. No commitment. No pitch. Just the work, so you can see what we'd ship for you.

Sent within 5 working days. Compliance-aware, vertical-specific, yours to keep.