Stop running Paid Ads to find your winners.
We manage high-volume UGC for consumer brands which avg 20M views + 100K signups per campaign at 10x lower CPM than paid ads.
organic views across campaigns
eCPM, vs $20-35 paid CPM
hook tests running at any point
you own every account and asset
01
Paid UA budget is doing two jobs. It should only be doing one.
Every campaign without organic data does two things at once: testing creative and buying users. Paying platform CPMs to learn which hook lands is an expensive way to run experiments. At $20-35 CPM, you are paying for learning and distribution at the same time.
We flip the order. Organic proves which hooks convert, for about $20-35 a test. Paid scales only the winners, entering Spark Ads with social proof already attached and CPM dropping 30-60% as a result.
Cost to prove one winning hook
02
10x lower CPM. Here is how the math works.
Run 10 creator accounts. Each creator posts 14 videos a week, cross-posted across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. At $20,000 a month, the effective CPM is $2.28. Paid channels often sit around $20-35.
These are not the same type of CPM. Ours is spend divided by organic views. Theirs is what you pay to reach someone who did not ask for it - The gap is 10x.
Effective CPM by channel
Liftoff and AdEspresso benchmarks for paid channels. Adworkly: proprietary campaign average.
03
Why TikTok? The engagement gap matters more than the audience size.
TikTok's average engagement rate is 2.80%. Instagram Reels: 0.65%. YouTube Shorts: 0.30%. More signal per post means faster learning. Faster learning is the whole game.
Studio-produced content performs 47% worse than native UGC on TikTok. The algorithm learned to tell the difference between an ad and a recommendation.
TikTok average engagement, versus 0.65% on Instagram Reels
average time before a viewer decides to stay or scroll
worse performance of studio content versus native UGC
Average engagement rate by platform
TikTok shares per post grew 45% year over year in 2025. Shares are now the highest-weighted signal in the ranking algorithm.
04
Finding what converts is a numbers game. Most teams are not playing at the right scale.
Most in-house teams run 3-5 creative tests per week. That is 12-20 a month. By the time a pattern shows up, three months have passed and a third of the budget is gone.
We run 10-20 micro-creators, each posting 14 videos a week across platforms. At the start of every week, each creator gets a new brief drawn from our 500K+ hook database. That puts 90-250 live format tests running at any given time.
Live creative tests per week by team type
05
Organic proves it. Paid scales it. In that order.
- 1WEEK 1:
Creator sourcing
We recruit 10-20 micro-creators matched to your ICP niche. Contracts name you directly. Accounts register under your brand login from day one.
- 2WEEK 2:
Warmup
Fresh accounts post watch-time-friendly content to establish algorithmic standing. No product posts yet.
- 3WEEKS 3-14:
Format testing
14 videos per creator per week, cross-posted across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Winners are flagged within 48 hours.
- 4ON SIGNAL:
Spark Ads
When a format proves itself organically, it moves to paid with existing social proof attached. CPM drops because the market already validated it.
- 5ONGOING:
Permanent library
The creator contacts, posting history, content library, and learnings stay with you after the engagement ends.
CPM: cold post versus Spark Ads on proven organic
Index where cold dark post = 100
The algorithm already validated the content. The audience already proved it is real. When it runs as a Spark Ad, it does not look like an ad, because it is not one.
06
Why micro-creators? And why niche alignment beats reach at every conversion metric.
The instinct is to go bigger. More followers, more reach, more downloads. It does not work like that at the conversion layer.
A creator with 500K followers in general wellness gets a different audience than one with 20K posting exclusively about calorie tracking apps. The second creator's audience is your exact ICP.
| Tier | Followers | Engagement | Niche fit | Cost / video | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | 1K-5K | 3.5-6.0% | High | $30-50 | Fast |
| Mid-tier | 50K-500K | 1.5-3.0% | Medium | $300-800 | Moderate |
| Macro | 500K+ | 0.5-1.5% | Low | $1,000+ | Slow |
07
The operating model is simple: own the account network, then compound the learnings.
organic views across campaigns
eCPM, vs $20-35 paid CPM
hook tests running at any point
you own every account and asset
Follower Tracker App19.4M+ views180K+ installs$0.35 CPM
Challenge: Demand was strong, but the app was not capturing users already searching for follower tracking.
Solution: Ran 8 high-volume creators around one hook: who follows and unfollows you.
Result: 19.4M+ organic views, 180K+ installs, and 7 videos over 1M views with zero paid spend.
A16Z-Backed Fintech10M+ views70K+ installs
Challenge: Paid media could not reach niche non-English communities at meaningful scale.
Solution: Built a multilingual creator roster across 6 languages with native hooks for each market.
Result: 10M+ views and 70K+ installs across communities previous channels failed to reach.
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