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Everyone starts somewhere

A launch campaign for a running app aimed squarely at people who do not consider themselves runners.

Pace — LaunchPace

Everyone starts somewhere.

A running app built for the first mile, not the marathon.

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Client
Pace
Category
App launch campaign
Industry
Consumer app
Year
2026

The brief

Pace was entering a category dominated by elite imagery — sub-three marathons, mountain trails, people who already run. The launch had to reach the far larger group who own a pair of trainers and no confidence.

The approach

We made the first mile the hero. One coral field, black type, and product screens rebuilt as designed frames rather than screenshots. The film is ten seconds of an ordinary evening — door, street, done — and every static in the set is a variation on a single sentence, so the campaign scales without the idea drifting.

The creative

Launch filmApp store creative22 static variationsVertical and square masters
Hook 01Pace

Your first run is tomorrow.

Pace picks the route, the distance and the playlist.

Get started
Meta feed — 4:5
Hook 02Pace

Slow is still a pace.

Pace
Instagram — 1:1
Motion cut
Pace
Lace.
Leave.
Log.
10 second vertical cut
Stories & Reels — 9:16
Proof framePace

1

Mile. That is the entire first week.

Retargeting — 1:1
Hook 04Pace

No one is watching.

Which is exactly the point.

Start week one
Display — 3:2

PACE

Start somewhere
End card
Film end card — 16:9
The system

One screen, four placements

The app is rebuilt as a designed frame rather than a screenshot, then re-composed per placement so the interface stays readable at every crop.

1:1Pace

Week one.

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Feed
4:5Pace

Week one.

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Feed — tall
9:16Pace

Week one.

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Stories
16:9Pace

Week one.

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App store

The result

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