We create strategic, measurable advertising for savvy businesses who want to simplify their marketing and see amazing, real-time results.
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The Menu
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At Pepper Advertising, strategy, creative and data are combined to produce advertising that performs.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
From day-to-day work to total rebrands, our talented design team is skilled in producing spicy creative that gets mouths watering for more.
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
We love building high-performance campaigns tailored to your specific business goals. Through data-driven creativity and planning, we’ll help you develop a strong digital presence, reach customers, generate leads, drive sales and achieve real business outcomes – not vanity metrics.
MEDIA BUYING
Is there anything more delicious than seeing or hearing your brand in the wild? We think not. Our media buying team is well-seasoned in identifying where your advertising will achieve peak performance. We use our years of experience to build strong media strategies based on your business goals and fresh data to analyse your results in real-time.
WEBSITES
Your website is the foundation of your online presence. As well as being user-friendly and functional, we believe it should reflect your brand’s unique personality and clearly explain what you offer. We’ll work with you to carefully customise and shape your site to match your brand and business goals.
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
If you’re missing flavour, looking for something spicier, or want to kick the heat up to Carolina Reaper level, add a dash(board) of Pepper to the mix. We’re about delivering tasty results, fresh and often.
Performance is our speciality.
No buzz words, no bull sh**.
We focus on having straight-up, honest conversations about what works for you and your business and creating strategic, measurable advertising that performs.
At the end of the day, your bottom line is what matters to us most.
Our approach is based on two things: data-driven creativity and getting real results. We use stone-cold data to create spicy advertising that achieves real business outcomes – not vanity metrics.
Our live reporting dashboards help you track your campaigns and goals by day, week or month. Log in and see your advertising in action, get the information that matters in real-time, and drive real change for your business.

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Articles
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Versus Expert Hands-On Google Ads Management
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Google Ads now uses AI to help make advertising easier and faster. These tools promise to save time and improve results. While these AI tools are helpful, we find that combining them with hands-on management by real people gives the best results.

McCallum Enterprises – It’s What We Do.
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McCallum Enterprises launches new brand campaign, It’s what we do, with Pepper Advertising McCallum Enterprises, a leading social enterprise employing people with a disability in the Ballarat region, has launched …

Are Hashtags Dead? Here’s What You Should Be Doing Instead.
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Once upon a time, hashtags were the golden ticket to boosting your post’s reach and engagement on Instagram. Add a few trending ones and you’d see the likes, follows and …

Celebrating Character, Compassion and Community with St Patrick’s College
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We’re proud to partner with St Patrick’s College Ballarat to create a bold new brand campaign that puts the school’s core values, Character, Compassion and Community, front and centre.

Raptor Powers Up: Inside the Launch of a Smarter Motorcycle Battery
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Motorcycle batteries don’t usually get the spotlight however the latest Predator Raptor campaign developed in partnership with Pepper Advertising shifts the narrative, spotlighting an uncommonly advanced product engineered with obsessive …

Why Consistency Matters: A Cohesive Approach to Advertising & Why Your Advertising Needs to Play as a Team
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A perspective from Peter Humphrey, Head of Media, and Abbey Cartledge, Digital Advertising Manager. Advertising isn’t about ticking boxes or filling up media slots. It’s about making a real impact, …

O’Connors Launches ‘Power to Grow’ Brand Campaign
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O’Connors, Australia and New Zealand’s largest Case IH dealer network, has launched a bold new brand campaign, Power to Grow, in partnership with Pepper Advertising. The campaign reinforces O’Connors’ position …

Begonia Festival Water Bottle Design
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Our incredibly talented designer, Myanda, has recently designed a beautiful illustration for a limited-edition water bottle commission by Central Highlands Water (CHW) for the 2025 Ballarat Begonia Festival. Myanda’s design …

Instagram’s Switch to a 4:5 Grid Ratio
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Following multiple previous attempts in 2022 and 2024 with wild backlash, Instagram has made the permanent change to a 4:5 grid ratio in 2025. The roll out began mid January …

4 Reasons your business should advertise?
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The most obvious question I encounter time and time again is, does advertising work? The answer is simple: if you approach advertising with clear measurable objectives, then develop a strategy focused on those objectives; it works.
