Portfolio

Finished work, the thinking behind it, and what it did.

Each piece below was made for Stille's own feed, with no paid reach. What follows is not a showreel. It is the strategy and the result behind every post, so you can see what the same approach can do when it is pointed at your product.

1.2M+

Organic views across selected reels

3.7K+

Shares from selected reels

3.3K+

Saves from selected reels

10.27–13.05s average watch on 16–25 second reels. All organic.

Current audience

Small audience. Outsized distribution.

From Jun 25 to Jul 25, 2026, Stille's content reached far beyond the follower base. Riders did not just watch. They saved, shared and sent the work on.

367K

Reel views in 30 days

195K

Accounts reached

4.6K

Saves

4.3K

Shares

22

Reels published

+5700 followers

87.8% women

Core age: 35–54

Top markets: US, UK, Sweden, Australia, Ireland

A mature, international rider audience, with strongest follower concentration in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia and Ireland.

Case 01

Five minutes of walk is not a warm-up

The Horse. Conditioning.

Objective. Take a topic riders scroll past, the warm-up, and make it travel. Build authority on conditioning, the ground that gear, supplement and therapy brands sell into.

Results

448K views·117K reached·10.27s average watch
2K shares·556 saves·3.8K likes·182 reposts·39 comments

What it did. Turned a conditioning correction into 2,000 shares and 556 saves.

Strategy. Led with a correction, not a tip. The hook named a habit most riders defend, then backed it with physiology: muscle is well supplied with blood and warms fast, tendon and ligament are not and need time. Specific, correct, and a little uncomfortable to read. That discomfort is what made riders send it to someone who needed to see it.

Why it worked. Correction hook + physiological proof + a claim riders wanted to send on.

For your product. This is the register a technical product needs. Placed inside content like this, a boot, supplement or therapy product gets explained, not just shown.

Case 02

130 is not 120 jumped bigger

The Course. Showjumping.

Objective. Reach past the follower base and pull new riders in, by challenging a belief most of them hold about moving up a level.

Results

297K views·122K reached·12.84s average watch
621 saves·599 shares·5.7K likes·77 reposts·31 comments

What it did. Reached past the existing audience by challenging a belief riders already had about moving up.

Strategy. Argued against the obvious. Most content about stepping up shows a bigger fence. This said the height is the easy part, then named what actually changes: shorter distances, tighter turns, no margin for the half-stride you got away with last month. A contrarian, specific claim holds attention, and a 12.8 second average watch on a 25 second reel is close to full completion.

Why it worked. Contrarian angle + specific detail + high completion.

For your product. This is discovery working the way you want it to. Your product reaches an audience that is not yet yours, inside content they choose to watch, rather than through an interruption they skip.

Case 03

The direction you wrap matters

The Horse. Equipment.

Objective. Prove that Stille can make a single piece of tack, a stable bandage, hold six figures of attention. The clearest test of the promise a gear brand cares about.

Results

153K views·57K reached·13.05s average watch
395 saves·169 shares·718 likes·14 reposts·8 comments

What it did. Made a simple equipment detail worth saving, checking and discussing.

Strategy. Took an everyday product and found the detail most riders overlook: the direction of the wrap, and why it matters for the tendon underneath. The result was the highest average watch in the set, 13 seconds. It closed on a question, "How do you wrap?", which turns a passive viewer into someone checking their own habit in the comments.

Why it worked. Everyday product + overlooked mistake + clear practical consequence.

For your product. If you sell wraps, boots or bandages, this is your proof. Stille explains the gear that needs explaining, so a buyer understands what your product does long before they reach the price.

Case 04

What actually gets you to 130

The Course. Series.

Objective. Engineer saves. Build a piece riders file away and return to, and open a series they follow for the rest.

Results

145K views·57K reached·11.67s average watch
1.1K saves·521 shares·1.8K likes·31 reposts·24 comments

What it did. Engineered saves by giving riders a concrete exercise they could return to.

Strategy. Gave one concrete, repeatable exercise, two raised rails at 17 metres, instead of vague inspiration. Framed it as part one, so the save is a reminder to come back and the follow is for the next instalment.

Why it worked. Saveable exercise + series framing + concrete setup.

For your product. Saves are the metric closest to buying intent. When your product lives inside something a rider keeps to use, it borrows that intent every time they open it again.

Case 05

Two verticals. One stride. No oxer to help you.

The Course. Carousel.

Objective. Convert reach into profile action. Prove the carousel as a growth and consideration engine, not just a save format.

Results

33.3K views·1,023 profile actions·567 saves·304 shares
1,042 likes·19 reposts·10 comments

What it did. Turned 33K views into 1,023 profile actions, with 567 saves from one carousel.

Strategy. Took one difficult exercise and built it as an argument across slides: the combination that punishes excess, why it rides short, what the horse is missing, how to fix it. Each slide earns the next swipe, and the depth is what sends a reader to the profile to find more.

Why it worked. Technical problem + carousel depth + profile-worthy teaching.

For your product. This is the format for a launch, a product page or a technical product that needs explanation before action. Here, that action happened more than a thousand times.

Case 06

Five words between you and the next level

The Course. Carousel.

Objective. Grow the audience and move riders from a saved post into profile activity.

Results

22.2K views·571 saves·464 shares·500 profile actions
287 follows·199 profile visits·14 link taps·731 likes·27 reposts·2 comments

What it did. Turned a 22K-view carousel into 500 profile actions and 287 follows.

Strategy. Built a reference, not a lecture. Five technical terms, one per slide, positioned as the vocabulary between a rider and the next level. Reference content earns saves because riders want to keep it. The depth of the terms is what moved people beyond the post, into follows, profile visits and link taps.

Why it worked. Reference format + simple vocabulary + next-level aspiration.

For your product. A carousel like this carries your product and your link in the same piece. It gives riders something useful to keep, while moving them toward the brand behind it.

Case 07

The boot that protects can trap the heat

The Horse. Care and conditioning. Carousel.

Objective. Prove that Stille can make a product category feel worth understanding, not just worth looking at.

Results

17.2K views·155 profile actions·134 shares·100 saves
316 likes·20 reposts·18 comments

What it did. Turned a product-category tension into shares, comments and profile action.

Strategy. Built the carousel as a short argument. Slide one names the tension: the boot that protects can trap the heat. Then the mechanism. Then the risk. Then the reframe. The point was not to decorate a product category, but to make riders understand it.

Why it worked. Product tension + education-led explanation + buyer relevance.

For your product. Proof this works on gear, not only on riding theory. If your product sits in a category buyers half understand, content like this does the explaining before the sale.

Audience response

The response was not just praise. It was product curiosity.

After the product-education carousel, riders did not only react to the post. They started asking what to look for, what to buy, and which product details matter.

This is a really important issue. Could you recommend some of the most ventilated boots on the market?

I'm on the look out for some boots with my horses.

Really well explained. So many of us need to understand the why behind everything.

When riders understand the mechanism, they start asking better product questions.

Carousel performance

Carousels do not just get saved. They move riders into consideration.

Across three selected carousels, Stille turned practical rider education into profile action, saves and shares.

72.7K

Views

1,678

Profile actions

1,238

Saves

902

Shares

Selected further work

The horse jumps 1.30 the same way it jumps 1.00

116K views · 12.36s average watch

Why the small fences are the ones that teach.

Road to 130 — patience over power

69K views · 445 saves

A practical exercise riders kept for their next course session.

You don't need bigger fences to jump better

41K views · 352 saves

Part of Road to 130, a recurring series riders follow week to week.

The hour after jumping is not downtime

13K views · 108 shares

Cold hosing and tendon recovery, sent on to the rider who needed it.

Every piece starts with a rider problem.

We don't begin with the product.

We begin with the question, mistake or habit riders already care about.

That is why the content is watched, shared and saved.

The product becomes part of the solution, not an interruption.

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