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Your growth, taken personally.

Elephant Room is a Sydney growth partner for retail and DTC brands. Since 2014 we have run acquisition, retention and measurement as one plan, for brands that want a team who treats their numbers like their own.

Elephant Room
Founded in 2014. Fifty-plus retail brands grown. $750M of GMV influenced. A senior team of 50, the systems we built to make them faster, and one way of working that has not changed: own the outcome, and treat every brand like the only one.
WHO WE ARE02 / 03

WHO WE WORK WITH

We work best with brands spending $50K+ per month in paid media or $5M+ in annual revenue.

$95M

Media managed

$750M+

GMV influenced

50+

Retail brands

PLATFORM PARTNERSHIPS

Tier-1 certified across every major platform.

GooglePremier Partner
MetaBusiness Partner
TikTokMarketing Partner
KlaviyoMaster Elite
OkendoPlatinum
YotpoPremier
ShopifyPlus Partner

Every test, every learning, every creative insight feeds back into the next cycle. A 12-month engagement compounds because knowledge does not expire at the end of a retainer period.

Knowledge does not expire at the end of a retainer.

WHAT WE FIX

The problems most agencies leave you with.

01PLATFORM METRICS

Your ad accounts mark their own homework.

Meta and Google each claim the same sale, so on paper you're paying for every conversion twice. We report one blended number across every channel, reconciled back to the revenue that actually landed in your bank. You see what growth really cost.

02BUSINESS-FIRST

ROAS looks good on a screenshot. Profit pays the bills.

A 4x return on brand search is mostly demand you'd have won for free. We optimise to MER and contribution margin, net revenue over total spend, not the in-platform numbers that flatter a report.

03A PROFIT LENS

Media judged against your margin, not a spend target.

Every dollar carries a cost-of-sale ceiling set by your economics, not our monthly goals. We scale where the next dollar is still profitable and pull back where it isn't. By market, by channel, by product.

04WHO RUNS IT

No junior account managers between you and the work.

The senior specialist who builds your strategy runs your accounts. No pod of juniors relaying screenshots, no queue for a second opinion. The person on the call is the person doing the work.

05THE SYSTEM

AI-native, so decisions land in hours.

One measurement layer, live forecasting, and always-on execution across media, creative and retention. It doesn't replace senior judgement. It makes the best calls happen faster, and repeat. That's the difference between a report and a result.

LIFE AT ER

A working week, in fragments.

Studio photo
A specialist mid-brief at the plywood desk
Whiteboard, three cups of coffee, mid-strategy
Front door, brass numerals, elephant on the shelf
Friday demo wall — printouts and sticky notes
Espresso machine by the window
Bluey, head of greetings
Studio photo
The team, together for an agency portrait
Two specialists deep in a brief by the window
Heads down at the desks, Sydney skyline behind
A specialist, always one call from the next update
Working from the rooftop, Sydney skyline behind
Studio photo
A specialist mid-brief at the plywood desk
Whiteboard, three cups of coffee, mid-strategy
Front door, brass numerals, elephant on the shelf
Friday demo wall — printouts and sticky notes
Espresso machine by the window
Bluey, head of greetings
Studio photo
The team, together for an agency portrait
Two specialists deep in a brief by the window
Heads down at the desks, Sydney skyline behind
A specialist, always one call from the next update
Working from the rooftop, Sydney skyline behind

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FAQS03 / 03

FAQS

Working with Elephant Room.

MARRICKVILLE.
Sydney, NSWEst. 2014

TEN YEARS OF COMPOUNDING CRAFT

Talk to a strategist about what this could look like for your brand.

A response within one business day.

50+brands
$750M+GMV
10+years