The shoot and the ads, from one Cape Town team.
Photo, video, design, copy, motion graphics and the ads made from them. You talk to one person, and one team plans the work, makes it, runs the ads on Meta and Google and keeps what sells.
First, who buys it.
Then, where they look.
- Feed
- Stories
- Reels
- Search
- YouTube
Then, what makes them stop.
Now make the ad, then a few.
Let the numbers choose.
Version A
Version B
Orders for the same spend
B wins.
Then go again.
Start with a free 15-minute call.
A shoot, ads or both.
A shoot.
Photos and video, with the design, copy and motion graphics around them, for your site, your shop and social media, planned so they can run as ads too.
Ads.
We make your ads, run them on Facebook, Instagram, Google Search and YouTube, test versions against each other and put the budget behind the winners.
Both.
One plan for the shoot and the ads, so every photo and video is made to run as an ad, and the next shoot starts from what sold.
See what it costs on Prices and questions.
Less to manage.
What we've noticed with clients is that too many people get involved. Often it's account managers and different people looking after different parts, each with their own calls, and it gets a bit much. With us, you talk to Jo. Jo works with Sean Oosthuizen at Futurehouse Agency, and between them they cover the plan, the photos, the video, the design, the copy, the motion graphics and the ads. Everything is made to sell, and the numbers tell us what to keep.
Most ads get made backwards. Someone shoots something nice, posts it, boosts it and hopes. We start with the person who buys and work back to the ad.
- Boosted posts nobody can measure.
- A beautiful video that sold nothing.
- An agency quote priced for a much bigger brand.
Where to start.
A free 15-minute call.
What you sell, who buys it and what you've tried so far. The diagnosis happens on the call, so you leave knowing what we'd fix first.
A proposal.
The shoot, the ads or both, built around the budget you have set aside, with our advice on how to use it. The ad spend is billed to you directly.
Onboarding.
Access, brand files and the numbers to beat. Then we plan the shoot or start the first round of ads.
Then the work runs in rounds.
Every round runs the same five steps and starts from what the last round showed.
Who buys, why they buy, where they spend their time online and what makes them stop scrolling.
Built from your sales, reviews, comments and competitors, whatever you have, then written up as a profile you can argue with.
What to say, to whom, on which channel, and what to test first.
One page with the audience, the message, the formats, how the budget is split and what counts as a win.
The ads, in whatever the idea needs, from copy and design to photo, video or AI.
Several versions of every ad, so the test has something to choose between.
The versions run side by side and the numbers pick the winner.
You see what ran, what it cost and what it brought in, in plain words.
Keep what works, cut what doesn't and make the next round.
The winners get new versions, and the next round has to beat them.
One product, a different ad for each customer.
People stop for different things, so each customer profile gets its own version, made for where it runs, from the Facebook and Instagram feeds to Stories, Reels, Google Search and YouTube.
- Facebook feed
- Instagram feed
- Instagram Stories
- Reels
- YouTube
- Google Search
Victa Training kit
Southeaster Sparkling buchu and lemon
Bergwind Running kit made in Cape Town
Test plan
- Hypothesis
- First-timers are more likely to order when the free size swap is the first thing they see.
- Variants
- The size-swap offer against the first-season line, same audience, same spend.
- Metric
- Cost per first order.
- Win
- The line with the lower cost per first order.
Test plan
- Hypothesis
- Hosts buy by the case, so they may cost less per sale than solo buyers.
- Variants
- Customer A ads against Customer B ads, same budget, one week.
- Metric
- Cost per purchase.
- Win
- The cheaper customer gets next week's budget.
Test plan
- Hypothesis
- Gift buyers book further ahead than couples do.
- Variants
- Customer A ads against Customer B ads, Meta to inspire, Google Search to close.
- Metric
- Cost per booking.
- Win
- The cheaper booking gets next month's spend.
Test plan
- Hypothesis
- Customer B, the first-timer, buys the whole kit at once; Customer A, the club runner, buys one piece at a time.
- Variants
- Customer A ads against Customer B ads, same budget, two weeks.
- Metric
- Revenue for every rand of ad spend.
- Win
- The audience that brings in more for every rand gets the next two weeks of budget.
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Ads that are ready to run.
You get the whole ad: the idea, the words, the pictures and the setup on Meta and Google. We test versions and tell you which ones to keep.
Copy
Words that say what you sell to the person most likely to buy.
Design
Ads that look like one business made them, sized for every place they run.
Photo
Pictures of your product, your people or your place, taken or made with AI.
Video
A short video ad plus shorter edits, so you can test more than one version.
Motion
Movement added to a still ad, or a short animation that explains your product.
AI
AI images, video and voice for what a shoot can't cover, finished by hand.
Hold onto your hat.Southeaster, Customer A
Bring something better to the braai.Southeaster, Customer B
Start at one.Victa, Customer A
Give someone the sea.Tidehouse, Customer B
Made to do a job.
Some of our clients, and what we made for each. The tag says what it was: a shoot, ads or both.
Six campaign spots.
Both
- Brief
- The year's biggest campaigns for South Africa's largest daily deals site, Birthday and Black Friday among them.
- Made
- Six spots written for the feed: Birthday, Deal Verification, Suit Up, Spilling Tea, Eating Cake and JBL, each cut to the versions its channel needed.
- Ran
- Paid ads on Google and Meta, and OneDayOnly's own social channels.
- Did
- Every campaign hit its sales and marketing targets, measured on return on ad spend and cost per lead.
- Role
- Concept, direction, production and edit.
Life Artois campaign, six shorts.
Shoot
- Brief
- Show how people host at home for the Life Artois campaign, with celebrity chefs and influencers at the table.
- Made
- Dinner and games-night shorts with Chef Nti, Zanele and Bertus, shot over two days with a food stylist on set.
- Ran
- Media24's publishing titles and websites, and the campaign's own channels.
- Role
- Production, direction and edit with Media24's content team.
Brand film, 2025.
Shoot
- Brief
- Show the harvest and the hand-made side of Backsberg's winemaking to the people who buy and sell the wine, here and abroad.
- Made
- A three-minute film from the Paarl vines into the cellar, the winemaking team on camera, a voiceover carrying the year, and cut-downs for social.
- Ran
- Pitch decks and supplier meetings, local and international, with the cut-downs on the estate's social channels.
- Role
- Concept, direction, camera, edit and voiceover.
Brand film, with Futurehouse.
Shoot
- Brief
- Put the signature Peking duck in front of more diners, and show what it takes to make it.
- Made
- A one-minute film from the kitchen to the table.
- Ran
- The Red Room's own channels.
- Role
- Concept, production, camera and edit, with Futurehouse Agency.
Reels for DUSK and SALON, each cut to do one job in the feed.
SALON, the liquid nitrogen plate
Reel, with Futurehouse.
Shoot
Built to show the dish, layer by layer in close-up, ending in a roll of liquid nitrogen fog.
DUSK, a dessert from mould to plate
Reel, with Futurehouse.
Shoot
Built to make people stay for dessert. A spray gun appears within two seconds, and the finished dessert comes last.
SALON, the ingredients up close
Reel, with Futurehouse.
Shoot
Built to sell the menu, one ingredient at a time.
DUSK, from the coals to the cocktail
Reel, with Futurehouse.
Shoot
Built to fill tables. It shows the kitchen, the table and the bar in 28 seconds.
Brands Jo has made work for.
AI makes the versions. A producer picks what runs.
Testing needs versions, and versions used to mean another shoot. Now they usually don't. We make images, video and copy with AI, mostly Higgsfield and Claude, and nothing runs without our eye on it. When real light on a real product is what the job needs, we shoot it.
Nobody pays us for slop.
You work with Jo.
Jo-Ash Rajcoomar founded Howling Media in 2018 and launched the studio in 2020. Jo leads every job, from the first call to the ads.
At OneDayOnly, a South African online retailer, Jo worked on video ads that ran as paid ads and had to sell.
We make the ad creative for R.E. Cost Seg, a US tax firm, for its campaigns on Meta and Google. Its team runs them.
There's no account manager in between. The person on the call is the person making your ads.
AI in the rest of your business.
The tools that make the ads can also write the reports, answer the repeat questions, draft the proposals and sort the inbox. If you'd like your team working this way, ask about it on the call.
Start with a free 15-minute call.
Bring what you sell and who you think buys it, and tell us whether you need a shoot, ads or both. You'll leave knowing where to start, whether or not we work together.
Or send a few lines
Thanks, it's in.
You'll hear from Jo within a working day.
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