We source creator partnerships and produce UGC built specifically to feed your paid creative pipeline, not content that just sits on social feeds for engagement’s sake.
Build creative people believeThe problem
Polished, studio-produced ad creative is expensive to keep refreshing, and audiences on Meta and TikTok have developed real pattern recognition for what “looks like an ad”, content that reads as native and authentic, like something a friend shared, consistently earns lower cost per click, even when it’s objectively less polished. A brand relying entirely on studio creative faces an accelerating production cost problem, since ad fatigue sets in faster on polished creative and each replacement costs a full production budget.
Many brands treat influencer and UGC content as a separate social media initiative disconnected from paid media, missing the fact that this content type is often the highest-performing creative available for actual ad spend. The team managing influencer relationships and the team managing paid media frequently don’t coordinate at all, meaning genuinely strong UGC never makes it into the paid creative rotation where it would perform best.
Usage rights also get handled poorly more often than not. Content gets produced or sourced without clear agreements about paid amplification, leaving brands unable to actually use their best UGC in ads even after it’s been created, or facing rights disputes after the fact.
How we approach this
Creator content is sourced, briefed, and tested as part of the paid system from the beginning.
Not organic-only social content, briefing creators toward content that will perform as an ad, with usage rights secured upfront as part of the agreement.
No separate silo between influencer/UGC sourcing and paid media, content flows directly into the creative testing pipeline.
The specific hooks, pacing, and structure that work in a paid feed, which can differ from what makes content perform well organically.
Clear agreements covering paid use, so there’s never a rights gap preventing the best-performing content from actually being used in ads.
What you get
A continuous pipeline of authentic-feeling creative that typically lowers cost per click compared to studio-only creative, with usage rights secured so the content can actually be used in paid campaigns.
What we actually measure
Cost per click and conversion rate of UGC/influencer creative directly against studio creative in the same campaigns, a real head-to-head comparison rather than treating organic engagement as a proxy for paid performance.
Whether authentic-feeling creative earns more efficient attention than studio-only ads.
How UGC and influencer assets turn paid visits into customers in the same campaign.
A direct head-to-head test, not organic engagement used as a proxy for paid performance.
How this fits the bigger system
Influencer & UGC content is a direct input into DTC Performance Marketing’s creative testing process, sourced with paid performance as the goal, not organic reach alone.
Start with the creative pipeline
We’ll map the creator brief, usage rights, testing plan, and paid-media handoff before the next asset is commissioned.
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