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Digital campaigns we've worked on.

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Paid media, re-engineered to perform.

Most paid advertising strategies are trapped in a cycle of mediocrity. Brands & agencies follow the same tired playbook: isolating paid ads from other channels, churning out generic ad creatives, and chasing short-term metrics while ignoring sustainable growth. 

The result? Wasted budgets, forgettable campaigns, and a nagging feeling that there must be a better way.
We found it.

At 5&Vine, we rewrite the rules of marketing so that you can rewrite the rules of your industry

We break the status quo with an experimentation framework that integrates paid ads into your holistic marketing strategy. No guesswork. No silos. Just measurable progress. 

You don’t need another know-it-all agency. You need a partner who replaces rigid tactics with collaborative experimentation–because real growth isn’t luck. It’s engineered. 

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Where smarter strategy meets scroll-stopping creative.

We don’t just make ads that look good. We craft them to convert. Our Challenger Brand System aligns every creative choice with clear strategic intent so your marketing doesn’t just get seen. It gets results.

Find the flaws in the status quo

We expose the cracks in your competitors’ playbooks — the emotional blind spots they’ve missed and the outdated category conventions they still cling to. By mapping frustrations and unmet needs, we craft an ad strategy that lets you capitalize on the white space.

Identify your 5 Stones & Slingshot

Instead of treating ads as standalone campaigns, we integrate them into a full-funnel strategy where all the pieces work together to amplify each other. We ideate fresh angles for your ads that break the mold and bring real results instead of chasing vanity metrics.

Strike with relentless precision

We pinpoint the advertising opportunities with the highest potential to win. Then, we test and refine the ads through rapid sprints and optimize them across audiences, creatives, copy & formats. Our campaigns have one goal: to move prospects from curiosity to action.

Before the Challenger Brand System

  • Running ad campaigns in silos from other marketing touchpoints
  • Playing it safe with tired digital advertising playbooks
  • Scattered, spray-and-pray approach to paid advertising
  • Chasing vanity metrics that look good on paper but don’t bring real business results
  • Bland ad creatives & copy that fit within the industry status quo
  • Wasted ad budget on campaigns that run forever and don’t deliver results

After the Challenger Brand System

  • Running ad campaigns that integrate & amplify your other marketing touchpoints
  • Breaking through industry norms with scroll-stopping ads
  • Intentionally designed and targeted ads that actually hit home
  • Strategic paid ad campaigns that drive real growth beyond just spreading brand awareness
  • Mission-driven ads that break the mold and stop the scroll
  • A growth-driven team that continuously tests, iterates, and refines your ad campaigns for better performance
Learn about our Challenger Brand System
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See how our Challenger Brand System outsmarts the status quo

Discover how we helped these brands uncover hidden ad opportunities, cut through the noise, and turn strategy into real results. More conversions. Smarter spend. Bigger growth.

Ads rooted in organic insights

Collage of LinkedIn posts promoting Employee Ownership Trusts, including a video featuring business cards labeled ‘Employee Owner’ and an announcement of the new employee-ownership.ca website.

Find the flaws in the status quo

Find the flaws in the status quo: When Canada introduced Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), it revealed a glaring gap: while business owners were drawn to the emotional promise of legacy preservation, the system offered little clarity around financial viability and transition logistics. We uncovered this tension and set out to transform excited skepticism into trust.

Identify 5 stones & slingshot

Identify your 5 stones & slingshot: Since the concept of EOTs sparked a strong emotional response among Canadian business owners, we built on this by creating a heartfelt ad showing an owner selling their business to their employees. We also identified one of EOT's key strengths: its partnerships with advisors and employee-owned companies. After identifying LinkedIn as a key complement to our paid ad strategy, we used it to share thought leadership content from the EOT leaders, advisors, and employee-owned companies for awareness around financial viability and the transition process.

Strike with relentless precision

Find the flaws in the status quo: When Canada introduced Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), it revealed a glaring gap: while business owners were drawn to the emotional promise of legacy preservation, the system offered little clarity around financial viability and transition logistics. We uncovered this tension and set out to transform excited skepticism into trust.

Read the full case study

Against the grain advertising

Pura Meta and Google Ads

Find the flaws in the status quo

Find the flaws in the status quo: When Pura launched exclusively with Walmart in the US, a flaw in the market became clear: eco-friendly baby care was seen as niche and regional, not mainstream. We uncovered an opportunity to challenge this perception by repositioning Pura around its 'no compromise' promise — making sustainability accessible to all American parents, everywhere. 

Identify 5 stones & slingshot

Identify 5 stones & slingshot: We took a holistic growth approach, combining paid ads with organic efforts and influencer/brand partnerships. Using insights from organic campaigns, we gathered insights to fuel our paid ads. We launched the first ads in cities with the highest density of Walmarts carrying Pura’s products to showcase ROI before expanding. Testing showed that less-produced ads performed best, so we doubled down on working with UGC creators to present messages from parents in a raw format. While the industry status quo was to advertise to moms, based on testing there was a significant opportunity to connect to all parents.

Strike with relentless precision

Find the flaws in the status quo: When Pura launched exclusively with Walmart in the US, a flaw in the market became clear: eco-friendly baby care was seen as niche and regional, not mainstream. We uncovered an opportunity to challenge this perception by repositioning Pura around its 'no compromise' promise — making sustainability accessible to all American parents, everywhere. 

Read the full case study
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Jeff Smith
CEO
5&Vine scaled our high-growth startup. They helped drive alternative pricing models, improved user engagement, evolved our creative, and drove revenue. They are great partners that adapted and grew alongside our business.
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Rishi Nayar
CEO
5&Vine are our trusted advisors and helped us build our Growth Marketing function. They provided actionable advice, tailored for our exact stage of growth. Even today, all of our marketing efforts rely on the strong foundation that we built jointly with their talented team.
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Amanda Richard
CMO
5&Vine launched our disruptive UK baby care brand into the US. The team was awesome to work with and packed a real punch in terms of quality of strategic thinking, creative approach and excellence in execution. There was instant rapport, partnership and trust. Their consumer insight helped us get a real understanding for the US market. Our US website has won awards and our paid channels have exceeded performance benchmarks. I would thoroughly recommend the 5&Vine team!
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Digital FAQs

A digital marketing agency is your partner in navigating the digital landscape to help your brand succeed.

5&Vine’s Challenger Brand Framework helps brands challenge category norms and win. Developed with first hand insight into the playbooks and blindspots leveraged by industry incumbents, alongside the successful (and often counter intuitive) strategies leveraged by challengers, we help you identify your unfair advantage, and win.

While our marketing strategies are customized to your specific needs, we assist clients in defining or refining their brand profile, voice, positioning, value proposition, Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) and target audience personas, brand pillars, manifesto, tagline, key marketing channels, strategic communications strategy, customer loyalty and partner experience, pricing, customer journey, and marketing funnel. These foundational efforts serve as a roadmap for the development of a digital marketing plan and guide all future strategic and marketing initiatives.

Once the digital marketing plan is in place, 5&Vine is well-equipped to support execution, including services like paid search, paid social, lead generation, content marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), and creative development.

We believe in the intersection between storytelling and data-driven marketing. Our approach to crafting paid ads is systematic yet designed to breed innovation.

A typical growth sprint involves creating and testing ad creatives, optimizing campaigns based on test results, and proposing new sprints based on analytics, curiosities, and inspiration. We document every step for future reference in the process of continuous improvement.

1) Impactful Brand First: We believe that holistic strategy is critical before delving into tactical execution. We always start by understanding your brand holistically and refining if needed before developing a paid advertising strategy.

2) Scientific Process to Iterative Testing: We embrace a scientific approach to testing and refining strategies, allowing us to uncover what truly works for your brand.

3) Sprint Process: We organize our efforts into growth sprints, each ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months. Before each sprint, we define what we're testing (e.g., creative, audience, goals, channels) and what we aim to learn from each test.

4) Active Daily Account Management: We actively account every business day for most of our clients, ensuring campaigns stay on track.

5) Reporting Insights, Not Just Data: Our reporting goes beyond raw data. We provide valuable insights that help you understand the performance of your campaigns.

Our growth sprints are tailored to our client's needs, however they do follow a general structure:

  • Duration: Sprints can range from 2 weeks to 2 months, depending on your scope.
  • Planning: Before each sprint, we determine what aspects we're testing (e.g., creative, audience, goals, channels) and what insights we hope to gain.
  • Creative Development: We create any necessary ad creatives for the sprint, either at 5&Vine, leveraging internal client resources or partnering with influencers/UGC creators.
  • Testing: We test creatives in a specific test campaign with no crossover to the performance campaign.
  • Optimization: Creatives that significantly outperform the performance campaign are graduated into the performance campaign where they replace underperforming ads, while others are kept in the hopper for future use when needed.
  • Analytics Review: We analyze test results and other noteworthy data to inform future strategies in an insight-driven dashboard tailored to each sprint.
  • New Sprint Brief: Based on past sprint results, curiosity, inspiration, and analytics, we propose new sprints to drive ongoing growth.

Optimization frequency depends on the scope of work. For most clients, we verify accounts once every business day, with more substantial optimizations aligned with the sprint schedule. This proactive approach ensures your campaigns remain finely tuned for maximum effectiveness.

We have collaborated with many impactful brands to create digital marketing strategies and run paid advertising campaigns including Pura, Fresh N’ Lean, Dialogue, Instant Financial, Honed and The Logic.

Explore our portfolio or reach out if you’re curious about our experience in a particular sector or service.

We work with clients of various stages from startups to Fortune 500 in the following industries: Fashion, Fintech, Food & Beverage, Medtech, Proptech, Retail, SaaS, Smarthome, Subscription and Sustainability. Explore our work.

Complete the Contact form and we’ll be in touch within 3-5 business days for complimentary 30-minute consultation on your brand’s next chapter.

Complete the Contact form and we’ll be in touch within 3-5 business days for complimentary 30-minute consultation on your brand’s next chapter.

Stop playing by the old
rules
 of paid advertising

We don’t do “safe” or “status quo.” We push boundaries to build paid ads that actually move the needle. Ready to cut through the digital noise with ads that get noticed? Fill out the form below to connect with Rahul, our Founder & CMO.

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