Paid search (Google & Bing Ads)
capturing buyers at the exact moment they're searching with intent to spend.
Marketing Service
Paid Advertising & Paid Media
A paid media agency that turns ad spend into profit, not guesswork. Paid search, paid social and more, Australian, founder-led, ROI-obsessed.
Certified partners across every platform we buy on
ShopifyPartner
KlaviyoPartner
MetaBusiness Partner
GooglePartner
TikTokMarketing Partner
Every dollar in should bring more back. Ours do.
You've dabbled in ads. Boosted a post, run a campaign, maybe handed a card to a "Google guy" who vanished with your budget and left you a dashboard you can't read. So now paid advertising feels like a gamble, money in, fingers crossed, hope for the best.
It shouldn't feel like that. Done right, paid media is the most predictable growth lever you own: put in a dollar, get more than a dollar back, then turn up the volume. We're the paid media agency that makes the maths work.
The problem: you're spending, not investing
Wasted ad spend is the most expensive kind of quiet. There's no error message when your budget lights on fire, just a slow drip of clicks that don't convert, a cost-per-lead creeping up, and a nagging sense you're funding someone else's yacht instead of your own growth.
The usual culprits: no clear strategy, sloppy targeting, weak creative, zero conversion tracking, and campaigns nobody's optimising day to day. At $500K+, you can't afford to keep guessing.
And "playing it safe" with a tiny timid budget? That's the most dangerous move of all. It's too small to learn from, too small to scale, and it convinces you paid doesn't work when the truth is you never gave it a real shot.
A Paid Ads agency with clients across Australia
Our paid media specialists have spent years managing serious ad budgets for brands right across Australia, and they treat every dollar as if it were their own. You work with seniors who live inside Meta and Google every day, not juniors learning on your account.
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Brisbane
- Gold Coast
- Newcastle
- Nationwide
What we do: paid media across every channel that pays
Paid social advertising
Meta (Facebook & Instagram), LinkedIn, TikTok. As a paid social ad agency, we build campaigns that stop the scroll and drive action, from cold reach to retargeting. (Building the brand organically? That's our social media management service.)
Performance creative
ads engineered to convert, not just look pretty. The creative is the targeting now.
Landing pages & conversion tracking
because sending traffic to a weak page is setting money on fire.
Full-funnel strategy
awareness to conversion to retention, mapped and managed so no budget leaks.
How it works: our approach
01
Audit & strategy
We dig into your numbers, your market and your margins, then build a paid strategy tied to profit, not clicks, not impressions, profit.
02
Build & launch
Campaigns, creative, targeting, tracking, set up properly from day one.
03
Optimise relentlessly
This is where most agencies quietly disappear. We don't. We're in the accounts, cutting losers, scaling winners, pushing cost-per-acquisition down week over week.
04
Scale what works
Once we find a profitable formula, we pour fuel on it, carefully, so returns hold as spend grows.
Why ThinkBox
We're a founder-led paid media agency in Australia that treats your budget like our own money, because that's the only way to run it. No vanity metrics, no hiding behind impressions, no set-and-forget. Just relentless focus on return on ad spend.
We do marketing for the bold, operators ready to invest properly and grow fast. We run paid campaigns across Australia. We build iconic. And iconic scales.
FAQ
How much should I spend on paid advertising?
Enough to learn fast and scale what works, too small and you're just donating to the platforms. The right number depends on your margins, goals and market. We'll model it with you and won't push you to spend a cent more than the returns justify.
What's the difference between paid search and paid social?
Paid search catches people actively looking for what you sell, high intent. Paid social puts you in front of the right people before they're searching. Most winning strategies use both, and we run them together under one roof.
Do you handle paid social advertising as well as Google Ads?
Yes, both live here. We run paid social (Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok) and paid search (Google, Bing) as one integrated programme. For organic social brand-building, that's our social media management service.
How quickly will I see results from paid ads?
Faster than SEO, data and early conversions within days to weeks. The real gains come from optimisation over the first 1–3 months.
Should I do paid ads or SEO?
Ideally both. Paid buys visibility now; SEO builds rankings you own long-term. We can run them together so they feed each other.
Proof, in the numbers
Real campaigns, real spend, real return. We lead with numbers because they carry themselves.
E-commerce · Meta & TikTok Ads
From 2.5× to 5.5× ROAS, profitably scaled
We found the real objection wasn’t sustainability, it was quality. New message, new creative, scaled spend without losing the brand.
5.5× ROAS (from 2.5×)
$110→$65 Cost per acquisition
5/day Sales, then scaled
$150/day Profitable ad spend
National brand · Paid Social Video
Creative that moves product, not just PR
Three paid-social creatives built specifically to perform, made for one of Australia’s most recognisable brands.
≈4× Return on ad spend
$15k→$60k Spend → new sales
3 Paid creatives
Studio hire · Google & Meta Ads
One studio became two
A growth engine across paid, content, social and email, creators feeding a paid-ads machine that keeps the calendar booked.
7.5× Return on ad spend
$50 Cost per booking
1→2 Locations
60–90% Capacity, both sites
ArtSHINE
Education · Paid Ads → CRM
$12k of ad spend, $230k in enrolments
Fix the foundation, then scale it: brand architecture first, then paid ads driving enquiries into a CRM nurtured toward a $10k course.
$12k→$230k Spend → revenue
500+ Course enquiries
23 Enrolments in 6 months
Ready to make your ad spend actually pay?
Let's find out what your accounts are really capable of. We'll show you where the budget's leaking and what a properly run paid programme could return.