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Worked with

  • Google
  • Meta
  • PlayStation
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Generator Hostels
  • Eye Club
  • The Goods Agency
  • PrecisionBiotics
  • UpSkill Digital

What we do

Big-brand experience, founder-led speed.

Clear scope, fixed price, quick turnaround. Pick one, or combine a few.

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Series

Claims about marketing, checked against the evidence

One subject a month: what people assume, what the rules and the platforms actually say, and a verdict on each.

This month

Marketing myths, checked.

September 202612 claims

Verdicts: 1 true4 partly true7 false. 1 true, 4 partly true, 7 false.

Twelve claims you hear all the time, checked at the source. Take the quiz, or just read the verdicts.

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How it works

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    30 minutes on where you are, what you want and what's getting in the way.

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    A short plan with a clear scope and price. No retainers unless you want one.

  3. Delivery

    Weekly updates, everything handed over at the end, and the numbers that show if it worked.

Introduction to the founder

Rob Oxborough, founder of oXo Creatives

You work with me directly, not a junior account team.

I'm Rob Oxborough. I founded oXo Creatives in 2013 and run it full-time. Until 2026 I ran it alongside senior in-house roles at Google, NatWest, King, PlayStation and Meta. The person on the first call writes the plan and does the work.

See the work

Work I led for Generator Hostels, alongside their agencies, won two Drum Awards and was nominated for a third.

Insights

Latest thinking

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Rob OxboroughStrategy5 min read

AI isn't the problem, humans are

Everyone is anxious about having the right AI tools. The better question is where AI fits into work you already do, and what you do with the minutes it gives back. We went looking for evidence on AI and wellbeing at work, and most of the figures in circulation did not survive checking. What did, and what to do with it.

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Rob OxboroughAnalytics8 min read

GA4 tells you nothing useful? Set up key events, step by step

If your analytics shows plenty of visitors and no enquiries, the usual reason is that nothing has been marked as a key event, the name GA4 now uses for what it once called conversions. What the names mean in 2026, how to turn an enquiry into a key event with or without touching your website, how to test it, and how it connects to Google Ads.

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Rob OxboroughPaid ads8 min read

Google Ads spending without returning? An audit checklist, in the order to look

When an account spends money and the enquiries do not follow, the temptation is to change the ads. Start somewhere else. Who controls the account, whether tracking counts the right thing, what changed and who changed it, where the ads are really showing, which searches you are paying for, and whether the sums could ever work. In that order, with a printable checklist.

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