Stefan Williams Stefan Williams

Better Looking Ads Drive Engagement & Brand Cudos

Why settle for boring ads that simply don’t impress when technology exists to deliver that wow factor. Propelr Social & Digital ads are built to impress from spectacular video ads, to more ad sizes and placements so you dont get ads that look like square pegs in round holes… Read more…

When you’re on social media and websites, you see plenty of ads nowadays. When our founders created AIM seven years ago, simply having real estate ads on Social Media and Google was innovative, but its much easier to find suppliers capable of delivering property and agent ads into these platforms. This means there is more competition for eyeballs and engagement, which is why its so important to ensure your ads look impressive. Most solutions produce just one or two ad sizes, which look ok in some situations but often end up looking very unimpressive in feeds, and even absent from stories and reels on social media. This is bad for brand, because the ads simply don’t look good, lacking properties that drive engagement.

Propelr is different, we recognised that the gold standard for social media ads are video form ads, and we also know that you need many many different ad sizes and types to ensure your ads can be placed in more locations on websites and social sites - looking good in all placements. Take our video ads, built from your photos. These arent just dull slideshows, but real 3D moving videos that look like they were professionally taken by a videographer. Our frontier-model AI lets us build ads that look far more impressive in all locations on social media. We produce many ad sizes and variants also for placement on websites, games & more via the Google Display Network.

Our ads strongly represent your brand, and are not co-branded with a portal’s (or anyone else’s) brand. This means our ads look better, reflect your brand more powerfully and consequently they simply work better at getting attention. Real estate is an attention business - you need the attention of buyers and also sellers to keep your business pipeline running. Highly engaging digital and social ads are more important than ever - and agencies who adapt, who embrace newer, better looking ad solutions will be seen as the frontier agents that are simply better at their job.

So, even if you’re locked into a portal contract for digital marketing, there is no reason why you shouldnt augment with amazing ads that also drive traffic to your website - as part of a slow divestment from the dependence on increasingly expensive property portals.

If you’re ready talk about evolving your marketing -

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Stefan Williams Stefan Williams

Propelr’s AI First Approach Explained

Build ground up as an AI first solution - Propelr Digital really pushes the AI boundaries to achieve spectacular results.

It’s hard to find a company nowadays that doesnt talk up thair AI game. Talk is cheap, and so its easy to be sceptical or unimpressed by such claims when they are unprovable or have no benefit to the customer. When we decided to build Propelr Digital, we took a ground-up AI inclusive approach, but also ensured that our clients would experience real service and support from real humans when it matters.

So how exactly are we using AI? Let’s start with code and platform creation. We’re unburdened by old legacy code and infrastructure, so day one we designed our solution to be highly adaptive, on the most modern and secure infrastructure. Our human developer team uses Claude Code, Gemini and ChatGPT extensively to boost their productive capacity and code quality. Our marketing team uses AI to create content from AI music to visuals, video and more. Our operations team uses AI to monitor and adjust ad campaigns far faster and with more nuance than ever before… And thats just the start.

Where AI really shines is how we use it to make your ads better. We use an advanced AI video model to turn your photos into moving 3D video footage, so you’re not just watching a boring slideshow. We use AI to analyse your proeprty’s text and photos to ensure we have more text, heading and description options that fit better in ad placements. We use AI to help select which photos to use, so we avoid repetitive images that lack visual interest on some ads. And, we use AI to analyse your property’s features to augment ad targeting. We expect to grow our AI utilisation within our product development in the months and years ahead to keep Propelr and our clients in the lead.

Having the ability to do this ground-up means a no compromises approach to this 4th generation solution, and we couldnt be more excited.

If you’re ready to have better looking, more modern ads that will help differentiate your brand, and your listings - Team Propelr would love a chat.

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Janelle Williams Janelle Williams

Do The Real Estate Portals Own Your Marketing Strategy?

Are you to blame for property portals being so expensive and pervasive? And what can you do about it?

In real estate, brand consistency and data and user traffic ownership are becoming strategic assets.

Yet many franchise groups still rely on third-party advertising products that place another company’s brand between them and their agents. Real estate portals are notorious for this - as well as being increasingly expensive.

That model made sense when digital marketing was new. Today, it creates limitations and over time guarantees your dependence, locked into yearly pricing increases with no end in sight.

The Problem with over reliance on property portals for Marketing

Of course you need them for most properties, but let’s be honest, they really are just a searchable list of current listings. Geniune buyers refine their search and there isnt a page 10 for your listing to be on… Furthermore, geniune buyers will look at every matching listing to see the photos and description. Many agents are questioning the value of spending so much to appear on page 1 with slightly bigger images - yet they mistakenly believe this is because future vendors wont see them otherwise. What if your face, brand and listings were seen widely on social media, websites and more - places people visit far more often than they visit property portals?

some agents and agencies have even agreed to pay these portals to run ads on social and elsewhere that direct traffic back to these very same portals… And these ads have many issues that brands should be mindful of:

  • Limited branding control

  • Driving up website traffic to portals - used to justify price rises

  • Landing traffic on a website you don’t own that has all your competition present on.

  • Restricted access to campaign data

  • Generic reporting

  • Minimal customisation

Sure, use the portals for their intended purpose… but invest your (and your vendor’s) money in digital marketing beyond these portals so that you capture and grow your own traffic, brand and data. Propelr is built to do just that.

Why Traffic and Branding Ownership Matters

Using a platform like Propelr to promote your listings, brand and agents on Social Media and Websites has so many benefits:

  • Deliver a fully branded experience

  • Consolidate campaign and lead data from your own website

  • Grow your websiote traffic so you build this asset into something powerful and valuable

  • Enhanced reporting that isnt ‘the same portal report every agent gives their vendor’

  • Conversation point in closing a Vendor that your marketing is exceptional and beyond what other agents do

  • Build long-term intellectual property

Instead of renting technology, you create a strategic asset.

Your Brand. Your Platform. Your Data. propelled.

This principle sits at the centre of modern property marketing.

A proprietary platform strengthens your market position while reinforcing your brand at every stage of the campaign journey.

The Role of AI in Property Marketing

Artificial intelligence adds a new layer of intelligence to marketing operations.

AI can help real estate groups:

  • Predict campaign performance

  • Recommend budget adjustments

  • Identify winning creative

  • Benchmark properties against similar campaigns

  • Generate plain-English reporting summaries

This turns campaign data into actionable insight.

A Competitive Advantage That Compounds

Technology ownership creates a flywheel effect:

  1. More campaigns generate more data.

  2. More data produces better insights.

  3. Better insights improve performance.

  4. Improved performance attracts more agents and vendors.

The longer you own the platform, the stronger the advantage becomes.

Why Propelr

Propelr is the AI-powered white-label property marketing platform built specifically for real estate.

Created by the team behind Campaigntrack and AIM Digital, Propelr gives franchise groups and agencies a smarter way to automate campaigns, track ROI, and deliver a fully branded experience.

Final Thoughts

Real estate groups that own their marketing technology gain more than operational efficiency.

They gain control.

Control of their brand.

Control of their data.

Control of their future.

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Janelle Williams Janelle Williams

Why White-Label Digital Marketing Platforms Matter in Real Estate

Propelr offers White Labelled solutions so you can promote your advanced digital marketing as an exclusive offering from your office or brand.

In real estate, brand matters.

Agencies invest heavily in reputation, market presence and client relationships.

Yet many still deliver digital marketing obviously third-party platforms that many others can use. This means it’s not a point of differentiation that it could be when competing for listings.

That is a missed opportunity.

What Is a White-Label Digital Marketing Platform?

A white-label platform allows your business to deliver sophisticated technology under your own brand, whilst negating the need to develop expensive technology directly.

Your agents and clients see your logo, your colours, your product’s name and your reporting experience.

Behind the scenes, the white-labelled technology does the heavy lifting.

Why Branding Matters

Every interaction with a vendor is an opportunity to reinforce trust.

When reports and dashboards carry your brand, you strengthen your positioning as the expert advisor.

When they feature another company’s brand, some of that equity is lost. Of course you own your agency brand, and personal brand, but you can also own the branding of powerful add-ons like white labelled digital marketing, and speak of them in your listings presentations as cometitive advantage.

Benefits of White-Labelling

Stronger Brand Ownership

Keep your business at the centre of the client experience, owning another unique piece of your market differentiation.

Better Client Retention

Proprietary tools create stickier relationships.

Data Ownership

Retain access to valuable performance insights because the right white labelled solution will drive your own website traffic, data and enquiries.

Competitive Differentiation

Offer a platform competitors cannot replicate because you will own the brand name of the white labelled solution product.

Scalable Technology

Deploy advanced capabilities without building from scratch. Technology is expensive, and also its not your core business, but white labelled approach can give you the best solution right now with naming rights.

Why Franchise Groups Benefit Most

White-label platforms are particularly powerful for franchise groups because they allow:

  • Consistent branding across offices

  • Standardised best practice

  • Centralised reporting

  • Network-wide visibility

This improves both governance and marketing performance.

White-Label + AI = Strategic Advantage

When AI is added to a white-label platform, the benefits increase further.

AI can:

  • Predict performance

  • Recommend budget changes

  • Explain results

  • Benchmark campaigns

Your business delivers advanced intelligence under your own brand.

Propelr’s Approach

Propelr was built from the ground up as an AI-powered white-label property marketing platform.

It gives agencies, franchise groups and developers a branded solution for campaign automation, lead attribution and ROI reporting.

Final Thoughts

The most valuable technology is not always the one you build.

It is the technology you can control, brand and leverage as a long-term strategic asset.

That is why white-label platforms matter.

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