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The hook earns the CPM. Social Content & Video builds the hook.

Most social and video programs get graded on engagement. We grade on revenue. Hook-first briefs, weekly shoots, UGC pipelines, founder-led concepts, and a creative library your paid program can rely on week after week.

Hooks
The first three seconds decide whether a video earns its CPM. Every brief starts from a tested hook framework.
Volume
20 to 40 variants per month across concepts, hooks, and thumbnails. Named and tracked so the winners are obvious.
UGC
Creator sourcing, briefs, and usage rights handled end to end. You get delivered assets and clean paperwork.
Creative surfaces we produce for end to end
  • Reels Meta Reels · vertical short form
  • TikTok TikTok native · algorithmic feed
  • YouTube Shorts Shorts · discovery and retargeting
  • Meta Ads Feed, Stories, Advantage+ creative
  • UGC Pipeline Creator sourcing, briefs, rights
  • Founder-led On-camera founder and operator content
  • Reels Meta Reels · vertical short form
  • TikTok TikTok native · algorithmic feed
  • YouTube Shorts Shorts · discovery and retargeting
  • Meta Ads Feed, Stories, Advantage+ creative
  • UGC Pipeline Creator sourcing, briefs, rights
  • Founder-led On-camera founder and operator content
  • Reels Meta Reels · vertical short form
  • TikTok TikTok native · algorithmic feed
  • YouTube Shorts Shorts · discovery and retargeting
  • Meta Ads Feed, Stories, Advantage+ creative
  • UGC Pipeline Creator sourcing, briefs, rights
  • Founder-led On-camera founder and operator content
  • Reels Meta Reels · vertical short form
  • TikTok TikTok native · algorithmic feed
  • YouTube Shorts Shorts · discovery and retargeting
  • Meta Ads Feed, Stories, Advantage+ creative
  • UGC Pipeline Creator sourcing, briefs, rights
  • Founder-led On-camera founder and operator content
Why hire us on creative specifically

Where most creative agencies run out of runway.

Hooks come first, aesthetics serve them.

The first three seconds decide whether an ad earns its CPM. Most agencies deliver beautiful content with no hook in frame one. We brief from a tested hook framework and let the look of the piece answer to the hook, never the other way around.

Volume with discipline.

20 to 40 variants per month across concepts, hooks, and thumbnails. Every piece named, tagged, and tracked so the library becomes a data set the team can read. Winners scale, tired variants retire on a schedule.

Audit on your desk.

Within one business day.

24h
Audit response window, every time

Weekly shoot, weekly ship, weekly retire.

A production engine that does not wait on brand-team sign-off rounds. Mondays we brief concepts, Tuesdays we shoot, Wednesdays we edit, Thursdays we deliver, Fridays the paid team ships. Fatigued variants rotate out before they start costing you impressions.

Most social and video programs are graded on the wrong number.

Likes, reach, saves, and follower count look like progress until you try to pay for anything with them. Creative graded on engagement tends to drift toward safe, pretty, and on-brand in ways the feed quietly punishes. The algorithm keeps raising the price of impressions for content that does not earn them, and a library built for the brand book rarely holds up under paid pressure.

Our creative engagement starts with an audit of every concept in your ad account and every piece on your organic feeds, then rebuilds the pipeline around hooks, volume, and a tight loop with the paid team. Hook framework, weekly shoots, UGC sourcing, founder-led concepts, and a named library your buyer can scale into. Every piece graded on what it did inside an ad account.

Three principles

What makes creative earn its CPM.

01

Hooks come first.

The first three seconds decide whether a piece of creative earns its CPM. Aesthetics matter, but they serve the hook. Every concept gets briefed from a framework of hook structures mapped to your category, and the visual execution answers to the hook instead of the other way around. That single ordering is what separates creative that compounds from creative that decays.

  • Hook framework document tailored to your category
  • Every brief starts from a named, tested hook structure
  • Thumb-stop rate is the primary in-flight metric
Aesthetic-first brief
  • Mood board opens the brief
  • Hook decided after the shoot list
  • Frame one is a logo or a product shot
  • Every piece looks like the last one
  • Thumb-stop drifts down each quarter
Hook-first brief
  • Named hook opens the brief
  • Shot list built to land the hook in 3 seconds
  • Frame one is a pattern interrupt
  • Every variant tests a different hook
  • Thumb-stop holds as the library grows
Illustrative. Reordering brief to hook-first is the cheapest creative fix on the board.
Library velocity · shape of a healthy month
Format
UGC
Founder
Motion
Static
Concepts
3 to 4 named hooks
2 to 3 named hooks
1 to 2 graphic frames
Retargeting refresh
Variants
10 to 16
6 to 10
4 to 8
2 to 4
Fatigue window
3 to 5 weeks
4 to 6 weeks
2 to 4 weeks
6 to 8 weeks
The library carries the ad account. Volume without discipline becomes clutter fast.
02

Volume with discipline.

One concept a month is a prayer. Twenty to forty variants is the shape of a library that gives the feed enough to chew on and gives the paid team enough to test into. Each piece named, each hook tagged, each fatigue window tracked so nothing overstays its welcome and nothing promising dies quietly.

  • 20 to 40 variants shipped per month
  • Named concepts, tagged hooks, tracked fatigue
  • Weekly retirement rule for decaying variants
03

UGC and founder-led.

On DTC, real customers and a founder on camera tend to beat polished brand content at a steep discount. We run a UGC pipeline with real people, handle creator outreach, briefs, and usage rights, and coach your founder or operator through on-camera work so the brand voice stays recognizable. The loop from brief to shoot to ship to learn runs every single week.

  • UGC creator network sourced and vetted
  • Founder-led shoots scheduled monthly or bi-weekly
  • Every creator agreement signed to your brand
Brief
Hook + shot list + format
Shoot
UGC · founder · studio
Ship
Variants into the ad account
Learn
Weekly readout with paid
Illustrative. Brief on Monday, ship by Thursday, read the numbers Friday, feed the next brief.
Back of the envelope

Rough math on your creative velocity.

Three inputs, three numbers. Useful for framing how much of your paid-social spend is running against a creative library too thin to feed the algorithm, and how a proper shoot-and-ship pipeline changes the math. Directional only. Your real lift depends on category, offer, existing creative quality, and paid account maturity.

$ / mo
Paid-social spend specifically. Meta, TikTok, and anywhere else short-form video is doing the selling.
/ mo
How many distinct creative variants you are shipping into paid accounts each month today. Most brands sit between 2 and 8.
%
How much more of your spend a fresh creative pipeline can productively absorb. Industry-realistic range sits between 15% and 40%.
Directional only
Current scaled spend
~$25,000
Projected after fresh pipeline
~$31,250
Incremental attributed spend
~$6,250

The incremental number is the additional spend the platform can productively absorb once the creative library has the variety and volume to feed it. It is a framing number only. The real outcome depends on offer strength, landing pages, and how well the paid team reads the readout.

What you get

Six deliverables inside every creative engagement.

Every social content and video engagement ships with these six as the baseline. Additional scope layers on top depending on production volume, number of ad accounts feeding off the library, and the depth of the UGC program.

Creative review session with concept thumbnails and performance readouts
Every deliverable scoped before kickoff. Nothing billed that was not named.
01

Creative audit + hook framework

Two-week audit of every concept in your ad account and organic feeds. What earned its CPM, what died, and why. Deliverable is a named hook playbook mapped to your category.

02

Short-form video production

Meta Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. Scripted, UGC, and founder-led. Full shoot-edit-deliver cycle on a weekly cadence, built around the tested hook framework.

03

Ad creative libraries

Static, motion, and talking-head concepts built for paid placements. Delivered in every aspect ratio your platforms need. Named and tagged so every piece is tracked.

04

UGC sourcing + coordination

Creator outreach, briefs, shot-lists, quality control, and usage rights. You get delivered assets and clean paperwork. We handle the creator side end to end.

05

Organic social calendars

Where it pairs with the paid program, a complementary organic calendar that builds brand while the ad library sells. Scripted around the same hook framework.

06

Weekly creative readout

Paired with the paid team. What tested, what scaled, what retired, and what ships next week. The feedback loop that keeps the library compounding.

Process

How the first 90 days of a creative program go.

Phase 01 Week 1-2

Creative audit

What is in your ad account, what is working, what is dying. A brief on the content themes that have historically earned their CPM.

Phase 02 Week 3

Hook framework

A playbook of proven hook structures mapped to your category. Every concept after this gets briefed against the framework.

Phase 03 Week 4-6

Production engine

A monthly cadence of shoots, edits, and deliveries. We build the production system so velocity does not depend on last-minute scrambles.

What good looks like

Creative the paid team can rely on.

Specific numbers depend on category, offer, and how strong your creative baseline already is. What we commit to is the method and the cadence. Here is what clients feel, quarter over quarter, when the program is working.

Predictable.
Weekly shoots on the calendar. Variants delivered the same day every week. Paid team knows what is coming and can plan tests into the roadmap instead of scrambling.
Weekly delivery · named variants
Owned.
Your brand, your creator agreements, your raw files, your hook framework document. Every asset and every release signed to you. Day one.
Raw files · full usage rights
Defensible.
A named library of tested hooks and winning concepts. A playbook your team can brief against. Creative your buyer can point to and say why it scaled.
Hook framework · named library
Illustrative engagement

What a typical creative quarter can look like.

This is a generalized example to show the shape of the work. Every engagement starts with a creative audit, and the audit tells us what is actually realistic for your category, your offer, and how tired the current library has become.

What a two-week audit covers
  • Ad account audit across every live concept
  • Hook audit and category framework mapping
  • UGC pipeline and creator roster review
  • Shoot, edit, and deliver workflow review
Variants per month
4 20 to 40
Hook library
None named 40+ tested hooks
Creative review
Quarterly Weekly with paid
Creative review session with concept thumbnails on a laptop
Investment

Social content and video pricing that makes sense.

Monthly retainer sized to the production volume and the ad accounts the creative will feed. Hybrid engagements with internal creative teams are common.

Fixed-fee audit. Scoped in advance. Credited against the program if you proceed.
Monthly retainer sized to production volume. A straight fee tied to variants shipped and shoot cadence.
UGC pass-throughs at cost. Creator fees billed to you at the agreed rate, with no markup.
You own everything. Raw files, final cuts, creator agreements, hook framework. Day one.
Frequently asked

Questions we get asked every week.

  • Do I need to hire a separate creative agency?

    Not if we are running your paid program. The tightest loop between creative and media buying is one team. That is our default model.

  • Can you work with our existing creative team?

    Yes. We often come in as the performance-creative layer on top of brand creative. We brief, produce, and iterate on the assets that run inside ad accounts.

  • What production volume can you support?

    Typical brands we work with get 20 to 40 creative variations per month, mixing UGC, motion, and static. We can scale beyond that on request.

  • How do you handle talent and usage rights?

    Every creator we source signs a clear usage agreement before the shoot. You own the rights to use the content across your channels for the agreed term, typically 12 months with extension options.

Reviews

In their words.

Pulled from strategy calls, Slack threads, and end-of-quarter recaps. Names and companies anonymized, voice unchanged.

W
Wes P.
CMO, Ridge & Oak Outfitters
2 months ago

We had a brand shoot library our agency kept recycling and our CPMs kept climbing. They rebuilt the pipeline around hook-first briefs, started shipping weekly, and the feed finally stopped punishing us. Our retention is up and our buyer says the tests are easier to read.

L
Lena O.
Head of Growth, Northline Beauty
5 weeks ago

Our old creative was beautiful and dead. They replaced most of it with UGC and founder-led concepts built around tested hooks, and the library finally works on Meta and TikTok instead of just Instagram grid. The thumb-stop rate is a different animal now.

R
Ruth B.
Marketing Director, Foundry Home Services
3 weeks ago

Before this team our Meta ads were stock photos and a phone number. They got our owner on camera, built a UGC pipeline with real homeowners, and now our calls come in warm. The field crews can feel the difference.

V
Vince K.
Founder, Vermilion Supplements
a month ago

We were shipping one concept a month and praying it worked. They built us a proper library with weekly shoots, a hook framework, and a retirement rule for fatigued variants. We finally have enough volume for the algorithm to do its job.

Next step

Build a creative program that compounds.

A 30-minute call. We'll walk your actual numbers and tell you the three things we'd change first.