Aug 2024 – Oct 2024 · Remote
Creative Marketing Specialist.
See the creativesOverview
BetterMe is a health and wellness company building apps for workouts, meal plans and mental health. Growth there runs on paid social, which makes the creative itself the product that has to perform.
The role sat on the creative side of that engine: concepts for ad creatives, the hooks that open them, the briefs the designers worked from, and the reasoning behind why each one worked.
Some of my favourites
Muscle anatomy hook
Muscles as the hook, used in two ways. In some ads the anatomy takes the lead: a bold render of the target muscles opens the video and becomes the hook itself. In others, a creative that was already working stays as it is, and the muscles light up on screen as the person trains them.
A highlighted muscle stops the scroll faster than one more workout clip, and seeing exactly which muscle each move works makes the result feel real.
Make it a habit
A text hook over a split screen, rebuilt with a different woman in each version. One variant swapped the hook for a price objection: if you want to build muscle, but personal trainers are too expensive.
The script and structure stayed fixed while the casting changed, so each version spoke to a different part of the audience.
The song as the hook
Built around an audio track instead of a voiceover, so the song carries the pacing of the edit.
Sound is what stops the scroll in an autoplay feed, and a track sets the rhythm of the cuts before any copy has to do the work.
Capsule wardrobe
Static ads built around a capsule wardrobe: a handful of pieces laid out as one outfit, with the color palette they share set beside them.
Swapping the pieces and the palette turns one layout into many variations, and the swatches let someone check at a glance whether the look fits the colors they already wear.




Illustrated life scenes
Short animated stories starring our illustrated characters, which had already performed well. Each one plays out a scene from everyday life that feels close to the audience: a tense talk between partners, a third date, a quiet evening at home.
People recognise their own relationships in the scene before they register it as an ad, and familiar characters let one proven format carry many new stories.
40 minutes a day
A concrete time commitment in the hook, set against the most striking shots of a fit body, so the two become linked in the viewer's mind.
The number makes the commitment feel small and specific, and the visuals give those 40 minutes an aspirational feel without promising a particular result.