Street interview advertising / Global production

    Street interview ad playing in a phone feed
    Presenter holding a soft toy sloth while speaking to a passer by on a Manchester street
    Handheld point of view shot walking up to a stranger on a sunny Los Angeles pavement
    Ryan Trevis presenting the Stradvert video

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    Jake's DOT Trading, Birmingham

    Street interview ads for brands scaling on paid social

    The street is your advantage.

    Plan my next campaign€289,525spent on five of our ads, 2.73 blended returnReal Mad Honey / Read the caseSee every result on the proof page

    As featured in

    • Net Influencer

    The UK's highest ranked street interview agency.

    The Brand Hopper ranked Stradvert 3rd of 8 worldwide in September 2026, above every other UK agency on the list. StoryLab placed Stradvert in its top 3. Down Social, listed.

    Filmed forReal Mad HoneyFundedNextLimeWireScribeJust PlayRoamlessPulse of PotentialDOT Tradingand many more

    # Real Mad Honey / Meta account

    Five ads. A third of the account.

    Meta, last 365 days. Reported in Motion, 7 day attribution.

    • €289,525 spent at 2.73 blended return

      Five street interview ads

    • €107,958 spent at 2.77 return

      Best performing ad, RMH603

    • 33.5% of €863,979.71

      Share of the whole Meta account

    Read the accounts
    Read the transcript

    Your CPA isn't climbing because of the algorithm. It's climbing because your audience has seen your one good ad eleven times, and they were done by the fourth.

    Every creative dies in about three weeks. Studio shoots, UGC, AI, all of it. So the fix isn't better ads. It's ads that can't get old.

    That's why we film street interviews. Real people, on real streets, reacting to one question about the exact problem your product solves. Every face is different, so one shoot day gives you a library of ads instead of one, which is what slows fatigue down.

    I stumbled on this format when COVID killed my career performing on cruise ships. Since then, one client's five street interview ads took €289,525 of spend in a single year at a 2.73 blended return. Spend and returns from their account, not views.

    And it's fully done for you. We handle concepts, filming, editing, delivered inside ten days. You just run the ads. So book a call below. We'll turn up with a free shoot concept built for your brand, and it's yours either way.

    / Signature sequence

    From street to scale.

    One campaign, followed from the pavement to the ad account. Real Mad Honey, published with permission.

    01 / The street

    A street moment.

    Filmed in public, in the middle of everything: a question about the product, put to camera on the pavement.

    Motion dashboard for the Real Mad Honey Meta account showing spend and return across its ads

    Motion, Real Mad Honey account, rolling last 365 days, 7 day attribution.

    Spend, five ads
    €289,525
    Blended return, calculated
    2.73
    Share of account spend
    33.5% of €863,979.71
    Read the full case study →

    / Selected work

    Winning creatives.

    Street interview ads for app and digital businesses and for physical product brands.

    Scribe

    LA street interview

    LimeWire

    Viral street interview

    DOT Trading

    Jake, Birmingham

    Real Mad Honey

    LA point of view

    Bitcoin Miner

    Birmingham

    Eyepic

    Annalise

    / Source ad account reporting

    Three accounts, with the screenshots.

    Spend, returns and cost per result, taken from client reporting and published with permission. Calculated figures are labelled.

    Motion dashboard card for Real Mad Honey street interview ad RMH603 showing 2.77 ROAS and €107,958 spend

    Motion, Real Mad Honey account, rolling last 365 days, 7 day attribution.

    / Case 01. Real Mad Honey

    €289,525

    Spend on five Stradvert street interview ads in one year, a third of everything the account spent on Meta.

    • · 2.73 blended return, calculated from the displayed figures
    • · 33.5% of the account's €863,979.71 total spend
    • · €107,958 behind the single highest spend ad, at 2.77
    Read the accounts →

    / Case 02. Pulse of Potential

    5 of 12

    Twelve ads filmed in one hour in Manchester. Seven were switched off. The five that survived carried €53,112.46 of spend at a 2.84 reported return.

    • · One hour shoot, Manchester
    • · Meta, cold prospecting
    • · 2.84 return on the surviving group
    Read the accounts →
    Meta Ads Manager screenshot for Pulse of Potential showing €53,112.46 spend and a 2.84 return against a grouping labelled 5 ads
    Meta Ads Manager screenshot showing the DOT Trading street interview ad at €0.44 cost per link click

    / Case 03. DOT Trading

    €0.44

    Cost per link click on the street interview ad, from 287,182 impressions and 7,826 link clicks.

    • · 15,071 reported purchase events across the campaign
    • · €1.41 blended cost per reported event
    • · One day shoot in Birmingham
    Read the accounts →

    "Meta decides where spend goes. If it pushes spend only to the street interview, we have to raise the budget until the rest of the ads get spend at all."

    Martijn, Real Mad Honey

    His account of why the spend concentrated on our creative, kept here as attributed client testimony from during the campaign.

    / The reshoot promise

    If you're unhappy after a fair test, we'll film again for free.

    We agree the testing period with you before launch. After that test, share your performance data, including CPA. If you're unhappy with the results, we'll use your package's included reshoot to film again for free.

    Test and Scale include one reshoot. Premier includes two.

    / Packages

    Pick your batch.

    Scale is the package most brands run. Test is the entry option, Premier is for larger requirements.

    1. 01

      CONCEPT

      We develop a UGC concept based on your product and audience.

    2. 02

      FILM

      We hit the streets and film real unscripted reactions.

    3. 03

      DELIVER

      You get edited, scroll-stopping UGC ready to run.

    01

    TEST

    Try the format

    3 concepts

    12 ads

    4 hooks per concept

    • · One brand
    • · Baked in captions, native vertical
    • · One included reshoot
    • · Unlimited edit revisions
    • · Delivery in 14 days
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    02

    SCALE

    Recommended

    Find a scalable winner

    8 concepts

    40 ads

    5 hooks per concept

    • · One brand
    • · Raw footage delivered
    • · One included reshoot
    • · Unlimited edit revisions
    • · Delivery in 14 days
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    03

    PREMIER

    Full creative engine

    20 concepts

    100 ads

    5 hooks per concept

    • · One brand, or split across two
    • · Full raw library and B roll
    • · Two included reshoots
    • · Priority booking
    • · Unlimited edit revisions
    • · First 50 in 14 days, all 100 by day 28
    Plan my next campaign →

    Every package includes organic engagement cuts and direct response versions with an end card. Those are versions of the same ads, not extra concepts, so the counts above are the counts you get.

    London and Manchester are our default production locations. Bali and Barcelona are available with additional production arrangements. We have filmed elsewhere before, and any other city is quoted separately.

    / We recommend the right scope on the call and send a tailored proposal. Longer commitments are optional and discussed on the call.

    / Client Voice

    Hear it from them.

    Then · Busking on the street
    Ryan Trevis in Singapore, 2026
    Now · Traveling the world, 2026

    / Founder

    Really filmed. no AI.

    Ryan Trevis

    Every face on our ads is a real person, filmed by a human crew on a real street, with a signed release for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, full paid usage rights across every platform.

    Nothing is generated. Nothing is synthetic. The internet is filling up with AI-generated fake street interviews and cheap "man on the street" clones. Ours are the real thing, filmed on high-footfall streets, with the raw reactions to prove it.

    That's the whole reason street interview ads still convert cold traffic when everything else looks obviously fake.

    From broke beatboxer to 200+ brands.

    I beatboxed for a living. Holiday parks, schools, and when it was good, cruise ships. Then COVID hit and it all ended overnight. No stage, no income, no plan.

    Today we film on three continents for 200+ brands. The 2023 invoice still exists. Ask me on a call and I'll show you.

    Ryan Trevis, Founder

    Read Ryan Trevis's full story

    FAQ.

    / Real answers. On the call we go deeper.

    / Free · Written for your brand

    Get a free ad concept

    Leave your email and Ryan will write a street interview ad concept for your brand: the hook, the questions we would ask strangers and the street we would film on. He walks you through it on a short call.

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    / Get Started

    Stop strangers.
    start selling.

    A 30 minute call with Ryan about your current creative, the first test and the right scope.

    Plan my next creative test →