On-demand events

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Panel interview

Accelerating growth with data-driven creative strategy

We sit down with three marketing leaders at high-growth DTC brands to learn how the role of creative strategy can improve marketing efficiency and accelerate growth.

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AMA

Ad creation strategy, production, & iteration

Mirella Crespi, the performance marketing veteran has worked with 200+ brands to build creative strategies that help foster deeper connection with audiences, and maximize profit and scalability.

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AMA

AI & Creative Workflow: 2024 Trends

John Gargiulo, co-founder of the digital agency Ready Set, teaches you how to use AI in your ad production and creative workflow.

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AMA

Applying DTC principles to B2B advertising

Worlds collide as the leading DTC marketer teaches B2B marketers how to capture attention and make winning ads at scale.

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AMA

Black Friday Creative Reports AMA

Join us for an AMA on creating, tracking, and analyzing your Black Friday ad creative.

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Sprints with Evan

Bridging the gap between media buyers and designers

Shahbaz Khokar and Cem Verghese from Venture Beyond explain what it takes to bridge the gap between media buyers and designers, and the importance of data to drive creative decisions.

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Series

Build & scale your performance creative team for next level growth

Performance marketing guru, Dara Denney shares how to build and structure high-performing creative teams, the role of a creative strategist and its impact on creative project lifecycle, plus how to build roles and hire based on friction points. Includes free resources.

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AMA

Building a flywheel to 10X creative diversity

Learn how to nail down a winning process for ad creation and analysis — while expanding your reach to new customers.

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Sprints with Evan

Building an influencer program in 2024

Learn how to scale your winning DTC ads by fostering a high-performing creator influencer program.

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Sprints with Evan

Building the optimal creative team

Marketing maven, Brendan Bannister shares why UGC scripted creative is the future, how to collect creative data and utilize those reports, shares advice for creators, and a lot more.

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AMA

Chew On This & Motion Present: 8-figure creative secrets & live ad tear-downs feat. Ashvin Melwani & Ankit Patel

Join Ankit Patel and Ashvin Melwani—co-founders of health & wellness brand Obvi—for a direct response advertising masterclass. Obvi has used Facebook ads to grow to $40M in sales.

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Sprints with Evan

Creative strategy for media buyers

As creative continues to take center stage among growth teams, it's more important than ever for media buyers to play an active role in creative strategy. Here's how to start and ensure success.

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AMA

Creative strategy with HG Performance Creative

Lauren, Nicole, and Sarah have countless years of experience working with DTC brands and unlocking growth through psychology-based creatives.

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AMA

Creative strategy workflow with Dara Denney

Join this AMA with Dara Denney, a Senior Performance Marketing Director and paid social expert, as she breaks down creative strategy and shares her workflow template to help you optimize your next campaign.

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Sprints with Evan

Creative testing best practices

Learn the entire process of what it takes to successfully launch new creative tests and how to evaluate success with Patrick Gatterbauer.

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AMA

Ecosystem Thinking: Expanding your Meta strategy into TV and traditional media

Learn how to turn your success with Meta ads into winning TV placements.

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Sprints with Evan

Facebook creatives & building a successful team

Motion’s Head of Customer Success, Kyra Richards, breaks down Facebook creatives, strategies for launching ads in 2023, and what it takes to build a successful marketing team.

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AMA

Faris vs Bachman 🥊 Creative Testing Showdown

Watch the creative strategy fight of the century — two DTC heavyweights, Jess Bachman of FireTeam vs. Andrew Faris of AJF Growth, go head-to-head on creative testing methodology.

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Sprints with Evan

From bootstrapped to $150M in sales—Quad Lock’s ads strategy revealed!

Adrian Rafter, Head of Performance Marketing at Quad Lock, teaches you the ads strategy that catapulted one of Australia’s most successful startups from obscurity to category domination.

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Panel interview

Fundamentals of creative analysis

Whether you’re new to creative analysis or know a few tricks yourself, this session with creative experts will provide you with the best methods to run data-driven ad campaigns.

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AMA

High-Converting Creative for BFCM 2025

Discover the high-converting hooks and ad formats that will help your brand dominate the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

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Sprints with Evan

How to build, scale, and test an unstoppable creative library ft. Kevin Kovach

Attn Agency expert, Kevin Kovach explains how to ramp up ad accounts, adjust your attack with real-time data, and fight creative fatigue at every stage of the funnel.

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AMA

How to Configure Motion for Andromeda

Update your Meta Ads creative strategy with Andromeda-inspired workflows.

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AMA

How to Configure Motion for Andromeda

Update your Meta Ads creative strategy with Andromeda-inspired workflows.

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Sprints with Evan

How to create ads that Gen Zs can’t resist

Gen Z can be hard to understand as a demographic and resist traditional marketing approaches. In this event, we chat with the Lauren Labeled co-founders to learn how they nailed advertising to Gen Zers and helped 80+ brands achieve growth with top-performing ads.

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AMA

How to create winning AI ads

A virtual, hands-on event exploring the top workflows for creating ads using AI.

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AMA

How to do Creative Strategy in 2025 AMA

Learn how to create content ecosystems where every piece of creative builds on the last.

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AMA

How to make ads for services & experiences

Get creative inspiration for marketing services, experiences, apps, and anything else that doesn’t quite fit into the typical DTC box.

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Sprints with Evan

How to make high-production ads that actually convert

Fraser has generated millions in revenue for brands like Solawave and The Protein Works, producing in-studio ads. Join this session to see Fraser’s creative workflow for high-production ads, how he vets creators, when he uses AI for productions, and a lot more.

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Sprints with Evan

How to make TikTok creatives that convert

TikTok experts Olly Hudson and Loukas Hambi explain how to build a creative foundation on TikTok, conducting research, building personas, and a lot more in this session.

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AMA

How to run the perfect creative strategy meeting

Get more value from your weekly creative strategy meetings. Learn the ideal meeting structure, which metrics to review, and how to assign tasks.

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Series

How top brands and agencies develop ads that convert

Dara Denney explains how to conduct creative strategy research and build campaigns based on customer journeys and past analytics. Review ad examples that will inspire your next set of creatives. Download free resources designed by Dara.

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AMA

How winning ads really get made: Inside The Social Savannah's studio

Get a behind-the-scenes breakdown of how winning ads actually get made, from first idea to final output.

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Sprints with Evan

Jumpstart your creative sprint process

What makes up a successful creative sprint? Motion experts share a step-by-step process of creating an effective framework for your next creative sprint.

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AMA

Marketing Operators LIVE: Creative Testing AMA

Go down the creative testing rabbit hole with the team behind the Marketing Operators podcast — DTC powerhouses Cody Plofker of Jones Road Beauty, Connor MacDonald of Ridge, and Connor Rolain of HexClad.

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Series

Maximize creative performance: round up of top trends and formats

In this final session, Dara Denney gives a live breakdown of which ad formats are working with dozens of examples of ecommerce ads, B2B ads, and her personal swipe file of effective creative. We also do an extended Q&A with top-voted questions from the audience.

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AMA

Meet the Expert Agents

Get an introduction the minds behind Motion’s Expert Agents at this unique panel event.

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AMA

Motion & Foreplay Present: Building Facebook ads live with Alex Cooper

Get into the nitty gritty of ad creation with DTC marketing expert Alex Cooper, Co-founder of the direct response creative powerhouse, Adcrate. Watch Alex build ads live for a real DTC brand.

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Tech partner

Motion & Replo: Full-funnel creative strategy with HexClad

How do you build a creative strategy that reaches millions of customers? HexClad’s Head of Growth, Connor Rolain, shares tips behind HexClad's incredible full-funnel creative strategy and how they landed a partnership with Gordon Ramsay.

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Tech partner

Motion & Varos: How creative strategy became the cornerstone of paid ads with Coast Digital

Max Finke from Coast Digital shares his creative strategy lessons from running ads for Barstool Sports, SiriusXM, and the Call Her Daddy podcast.

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Sprints with Evan

Optimizing media and creative for more effective ads

Find out how creative strategy provides the steps needed to create harmony between data and creative teams, plus learn metrics and strategies for implementation.

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Panel interview

Performance Creative 101

With the impact of iOS 14.5 and increased competition in feeds, producing creative that stands out and converts is more important than ever. In this panel, we learn about how to create performance creative that is laser focused on driving conversions.

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AMA

Secrets of high-converting ads feat. Savannah Sanchez

One of the most sought-after TikTok and Meta creative producers, Savannah Sanchez, reveals her secrets for high-converting ads in 2024.

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AMA

The science behind winning TikTok ad formats

Discover the science behind the best-performing TikTok ad formats — what works, why it works, and how to make it work for your brand.

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AMA

The winning creative strategy workflow in 2024 ft. Mirella Crespi

Mirella Crespi is the founder of Creative Milkshake, one of the largest performance creative studios in Europe. She's revealing the end-to-end creative strategy process her team uses to produce over 2,000 profitable Facebook & TikTok ads every month.

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Sprints with Evan

Tips for making high-performing ads on TikTok

Power Digital Marketing experts explain how to prioritize your initial creation, the different roles responsible for iterations and variations, and much more in this panel discussion. Check out their strategies and tips that you can start implementing today

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Tips to ace creative strategy using analytics

Dara Denney explains how to bring analytics into creative decision-making. Learn how to differentiate between primary and storytelling KPIs and see how she runs reports to compare creative types, asset classes, formats, and performance. Dara holds nothing back in this top-requested training session.

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Sprints with Evan

UGC creative strategy for profitable growth

With 5x exits and 1x IPO, Micah Whitehead and his team truly understand the fundamentals of growth marketing and how to utilize creative strategy to land top performing creatives faster.

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