About Us

Where creative met paid ads and blended perfectly

“Pulp” Digital is all about the extra value that turns a brand's story into something people actually believe and really feel.

Founded
2021
Based in
MELBOURNE
Brands scaled
150+

From one squeeze
to the full blend

Did you know Pulp wasn't planned as an agency? It started as an answer to the bad habits of the marketing industry, and a way to simply do what agencies were supposed to do: get brands like yours results!

  1. 2021

    The first squeeze

    Our founder Sam spent years watching brands hand their budgets to set-and-forget agencies that never once touched the creative. He knew there had to be a better way. So he built Pulp, a true agency where paid advertising and creative strategy are run by the same people, in the same room.

    That same approach helped Sam grow Pulp through his own founder-led socials, now with 850K+ followers. It also sparked the vision for Pulp as Not Your Average Agency.

    Sam Despo, founder of Pulp Digital
  2. 2022

    Adding the zest

    As Pulp grew into a leader in paid advertising, Sam spotted another gap in the market. Brands weren't using short-form content as an organic sales engine. So he founded Zesty, a creative agency showing brands how to go viral without experience, big budgets or guesswork.

    That was the turning point. Since then, we've consistently gone viral and generated 7-figure results for our clients (and ourselves).

    Sam Despo and Georgia Davies, who lead strategy and creative at Pulp Digital
  3. 2025

    The full blend

    Creative ads and strategic content have always shaped marketing and advertising. The brands that didn't keep up got left behind. From brands using TikTok and Reels to drive millions in revenue, to Meta's Andromeda update putting creative front and centre, one thing is clear. Creative isn't a nice-to-have. It's a must.

    So we made the call to blend Zesty into Pulp. The result is one recipe of creative ideation and profitable ads, built to turn good brands into great ones.

    The Pulp Digital team working together around the boardroom table
  4. Today

    The next

    Today we're a team of 13 specialists running paid media, creative production and organic worlds for 150+ brands, including Lucent Globe, Naked Harvest, Elite Eleven, Supré and many more.

    We've evolved with the marketing industry. Right now, that means being your fractional performance and creative team, working as one to grow your brand profitably. That's why we have no juniors running accounts and no specialists juggling 20+ brands. The difference is simple... we actually care about you, your brand and your results.

    A grid of brands Pulp Digital works with: Lucent Globe, Naked Harvest, Elite Eleven, Supré, Typo, Factorie, Mingle, Allkinds and KIC

Our values

What makes
Pulp different

What good is a creative growth agency without an acronym for its values?

People

Specialists who genuinely geek out over paid ads and creative. We live and breathe this world and are truly passionate about the brands we work with across all different industries.

Sam Despo, founder and director of Pulp Digital

A note from Sam

I kept watching great brands get stuck with average agencies. Big promises, set-and-forget ads, and account managers juggling 20 accounts.

So I built the agency I'd actually want to hire. Paid ads and creative under one roof, run by senior people who genuinely care about your results, and act as an extension of your team.

My promise is simple. We'll tell you the truth, even when the conversation is tough. And we'll get just as excited about your wins as you do. Sometimes even more.

Sam Despo

Founder & Director, Pulp Digital

A team of specialists,
not generalists

Meet the people you’ll actually be working with every single day.

Sam Despo
Founder & Director

Sam Despo

Created the methodology and the standard every account is held to. Started Pulp in 2021 to strip the fluff out of agencies.

Founder & Director

Sam Despo

Created the methodology and the standard every account is held to. Started Pulp in 2021 to strip the fluff out of agencies.

Georgia Davies
Head of Creative

Georgia Davies

Leads the creative team from concept to delivery, keeping every hook, angle and edit tied back to what actually converts.

Head of Creative

Georgia Davies

Leads the creative team from concept to delivery, keeping every hook, angle and edit tied back to what actually converts.

Marco Bombaci
Executive Performance Manager

Marco Bombaci

Owns paid media strategy across the roster, turning platform data into scalable, profitable campaigns.

Executive Performance Manager

Marco Bombaci

Owns paid media strategy across the roster, turning platform data into scalable, profitable campaigns.

Bella Dunkinson
Executive Performance Manager

Bella Dunkinson

Runs day-to-day account strategy and testing, translating results into the next round of creative and targeting decisions.

Executive Performance Manager

Bella Dunkinson

Runs day-to-day account strategy and testing, translating results into the next round of creative and targeting decisions.

Ciara Bennett
Senior Creative Specialist

Ciara Bennett

Bridges strategy and creative, briefing and shaping content that's built to perform, not just look good.

Senior Creative Specialist

Ciara Bennett

Bridges strategy and creative, briefing and shaping content that's built to perform, not just look good.

Hannah Hawker
Senior Performance Manager

Hannah Hawker

Handles campaign execution and optimisation day to day, keeping performance on track between strategy reviews.

Senior Performance Manager

Hannah Hawker

Handles campaign execution and optimisation day to day, keeping performance on track between strategy reviews.

Jamie Grantham
Paid Search Specialist

Jamie Grantham

Owns the Google side of the roster: Search, Shopping and Performance Max, so in-market demand converts profitably.

Paid Search Specialist

Jamie Grantham

Owns the Google side of the roster: Search, Shopping and Performance Max, so in-market demand converts profitably.

Johnny Duff
Performance Strategist

Johnny Duff

Runs his own book of accounts end to end, from build and budget to the weekly read on what to scale and what to cut.

Performance Strategist

Johnny Duff

Runs his own book of accounts end to end, from build and budget to the weekly read on what to scale and what to cut.

Moments we're proud of as a team

A few highlights that have shaped us as an agency over the years, always striving to do things differently.

Seventy-plus marketers gathered in a courtyard at Pulp Digital's coffee and yap community event

70+ marketers join for “coffee and yap”

As marketers we spend half our lives on social media but miss in-person connection. So we hosted a community event to put down our phones, meet somebody in our industry and have a proper chat.

A Pulp Digital team member appearing live on Sunrise, in a segment about the future of shopping

Apparently, I've never been on live TV before

After the success of our viral TikTok posts, we made it onto national television for a segment about the rise of new marketing channels such as live shopping, and the wider change in consumer behaviour.

The Pulp Digital TikTok profile showing 66.6K followers over a grid of the team's videos

We are the fastest growing agency on TikTok

Growing to 65K+ followers in no time, we quickly became the fastest-growing agency on TikTok. Our audience loved it so much we started a whole second channel: @pulpdigital to talk performance, @pulpgetscreative to talk creative.

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