KING STREET MEDIA
Creative Powerhouse · Toronto

Story-Led
Creative. Built
To Perform.

For national brands and the teams that run them. We build creative that works fast and drives business results.

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The ModelCreative + Performance
The SpeedDays, Not Quarters
The StandardNational Brand
Brands we've made work for
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01 — Why creative is the variableMoney. Time. Scale.

The Creative Decides
Whether The Budget
Performs.

Three variables decide whether a brand's creative function performs against the business. Most agencies optimize the one the platforms already automated. We optimize the one that still moves the number.

Money
~50%
Of digital ad ROI is driven by the creative itself

The creative is the largest determinant of paid social and search performance. Most agencies still optimize for media buying that Meta and Google have automated.

Time
Days
Not weeks, from concept to learning

Brands extend the life of underperforming creative because the next concept takes weeks. The system collapses that timeline to days.

Scale
12–19
Fresh creatives a week from top performers

The median ships six or seven. The gap shows up in CPM, in audience fatigue, in lost momentum. Volume is now the price of entry to the auction.

Sources: Nielsen Catalina · Motion Creative Benchmarks 2026 · Meta auction data.

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Paid advertising, landing pages, email, organic content. The campaign moments and the always-on. Video, static, copy, design, and the story underneath all of it.

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We run brand workshops.

We sell positioning sprints.

We produce decks of decks.

We make the work. It runs. We measure what performed. We make better work.

In-market creative · KSM
03 — The systemOur Creative Operating System

Six Phases. One Continuous Loop.

We run a brand's creative function as a continuous cycle. Performance from one cycle becomes the input to the next. Internally we call it Loop. Clients see the output.

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01
Research

Audience signal, category mapping, and the performance read from prior cycles.

02
Ideation

Concepts, hooks, and story shape — the standard set at the idea level.

03
Planning

Calendar, briefs, and channel-by-channel blocking against business goals.

04
Production

Talent, design, copy, and edit — executing the standard at velocity.

05
Distribution

Deployment across paid, organic, email, owned. Scheduling and pacing.

06
Promotion

Paid amplification, media planning, and performance pacing into market.

Built On

Airtable as the workspace. Claude as the intelligence layer. A two-year-old prompt library and a framework that only KSM uses.

What It Moves

Money: stronger return on every dollar of media. Time: shorter cycle to a performance signal. Scale: more on-brand variations into market per week.

04 — Proof in marketCase Studies

The Work, Measured.

Brita
20 Launch Assets, Ideated To Delivered In Three Weeks.
Challenge

Brita needed 20 photo and video assets for a launch campaign, three weeks out. The content had to carry social, the website, and email at the same time.

Approach

A hero product and a tight brief gave us a clear target. We turned creative ideation in one week and produced all 20 assets within three.

Outcome

High-performing content across every channel: social, web, and email.

20
Assets — Photo + Video
1wk
To Creative Concepts
3wk
Concept To Delivery
3
Channels — Social, Web, Email
Stacked
100+ Pieces Of Creative A Month, Every Month.
Challenge

Stacked, one of Canada's fastest-growing restaurant franchises, needed dozens of evergreen pieces every month across website, email, social, and paid. Pulse-period limited-time offers stacked on top.

Approach

A monthly shoot feeds the whole machine. We research what the top U.S. restaurant brands produce, ideate high-res and low-res creative built to perform, then handle planning, production, and post on a continuous test-and-iterate loop.

Outcome

Over 100 pieces of creative per month, live across their full digital presence.

100+
Pieces Of Creative Monthly
1000s
New Organic Followers / Mo
¼
Cost, Site Traffic vs. Benchmark
4
Channels — Web, Email, Social, Paid
NutriCanine
2x Ad Efficiency, Scaled To Seven Figures In Two Months.
Challenge

Heading into a heavy pulse period, NutriCanine set out to spend 5x more on media than they ever had. Before pouring money into that, they needed to know exactly what would convert.

Approach

We built the testing infrastructure first. Over a 2-to-3-month sprint we set five key messaging themes and tested each against multiple topics and formats, with predefined control variables. New content shipped weekly.

Outcome

Lower cost per acquisition, 2x more efficient ad spend, and spend scaled past seven figures inside two months. That strategy now guides millions in customer acquisition for years out.

2x
More Efficient Ad Spend
7fig
Spend Scaled In 2 Months
5x
Targeted Media Increase
Wkly
New Content Shipped
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Five Positions, Defended

Hold The Standard.

Process is what agencies sell when they can't sell the work. AI runs the production. People hold the standard. We use one to make more of the other.

05 — Why brands move to KSMThe Position

Indie Velocity. Holdco Standard. Neither's Price Tag.

Holdco
What They Sell
  • Real scale on national brands
  • Six-month creative cycles
  • Multi-million-dollar retainers
  • Process-heavy, deck-heavy
Typical Indie
What They Sell
  • Fast cycle, fast turnaround
  • Capacity constraints at scale
  • Mid-market retainers
  • Personal but inconsistent
KSM
What We Sell
  • The standard of national creative
  • Cycles measured in days, not quarters
  • 30–50% of holdco scope
  • The system holds the standard at velocity

A typical KSM engagement runs 30 to 50 percent of a comparable holdco scope, for the same output and faster cycles. The math is auditable on request.

01
Briefs are usually the problem, not the brand.

We write fewer, sharper ones, and let the system carry the rest.

02
Process is what agencies sell when they can't sell the work.

Ours stays invisible to the client. The work is the proof.

03
Storytelling holds a brand together across every channel.

Without it, paid spend is rented attention.

04
Bigger is not better. Faster is.

We'd rather put a B+ idea in market in a week than wait a quarter for an A.

05
AI runs the production. People hold the standard.

We use one to make more of the other.

06 — The teamPartners And Operators

The People Behind The Standard.

Watch Intro · 0:30
Mark Simone, CM
Partner, Director of Growth Strategy

Built KSM from a one-person practice into a national-brand creative agency. Owns the agency's commercial direction and senior client relationships.

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Nathaniel Valentine
Head of Growth Marketing

Runs paid media and performance across the roster, turning the creative the system produces into measurable pipeline, revenue, and scaled spend for every brand.

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Liam Zalitach
Head of Creative Strategy

Sets the creative standard and the story behind every campaign, translating brand and business goals into work built to stop the scroll and perform.

Plus a broader team of strategists, producers, designers, and engineers. Full team and credentials available on request.

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The Next Conversation

Let's Talk.

There is no end of the campaign. There is the next cycle. Bring us the budget and the brand. We'll bring the work that makes it perform.

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