A few months ago, I watched a mid-size beauty brand burn six weeks trying to “get serious” about TikTok. They hired a social coordinator, gave... Read More
I’ve seen this happen more than once: a brand hires a solid full-service agency, the team builds a clean strategy deck, they repurpose a few... Read More
I’ve seen this happen more than once: a brand spends three weeks getting “TikTok-ready,” approves a polished creative brief, hires a few creators, launches ads,... Read More
A brand spends three weeks polishing a 30-second TikTok ad, gets legal approval, color-corrects it, adds captions that look like they came from a Super... Read More
A skincare founder once showed me two TikTok videos for the same product. One was shot in a bright studio, clean lighting, polished copy, brand... Read More
A few months ago, I watched a brand spend real money on TikTok content that looked expensive and landed flat. Nice lighting. Clean edits. A... Read More
A few months ago, I watched a beauty brand spend real money on a TikTok campaign built around glossy studio footage, polished voiceover, and captions... Read More
A few months ago, I watched a skincare brand reject a creator video because it looked “too homemade.” They wanted cleaner lighting, a tighter script,... Read More
A skincare founder I know spent $18,000 on polished vertical video last fall. Clean lighting, nice set, pro editor, all of it. The ads looked... Read More