Madhippie · Clean beauty and skincare · Performance creative · 2026
How Madhippie kept a paid account stocked with thumb-stopping creative
Skincare is the most saturated creative category on social. The first second is the whole battle.
50+
assets produced monthly
from 25+ creators
The results, up top — every number is in the strip below
50+
assets produced monthly
continuous supply
25+
content creators whitelisted monthly
paid from creator handles
30%+
thumbstop rate on top performers
quality measured, not judged
Always-on
performance creative
never short of new work
Volume + quality
both held
the usual trade-off refused
01 — The challenge
A paid account starved of new creative.
Madhippie needed a steady pipeline of thumb-stopping assets that could feed paid campaigns without sacrificing creative quality — the trade-off most volume programmes end up making.
Cheap volume fatigues an audience faster than no volume at all.
“We could get volume or we could get quality. Every agency told us to pick one, and picking either one was going to cost us.”
So the programme was built to hold both, with thumbstop rate as the gate.
02 — Our approach
25+ whitelisted creators, 50+ assets a month, screened on thumbstop.
Twenty-five-plus content creators were whitelisted monthly, producing more than fifty assets a month — enough for the account to always have fresh work entering.
Quality was enforced through a measurable gate rather than taste: top performers held a thumbstop rate above 30%, and that threshold decided what scaled.
More on this work: UGC.
03 — What we did
What the campaign actually consisted of.
The working parts behind the Madhippie numbers above.
25+ whitelisted creators
Creator handles, monthly
Creators were whitelisted so paid ran from their own accounts.
50+ assets monthly
Steady, not bursty
Monthly output kept the account continuously supplied.
Thumbstop as the gate
Quality measured, not judged
A 30%+ thumbstop rate on top performers decided what got budget.
Volume with quality
Both, not either
The programme held creative standards while producing at volume.
04 — The results
50+ assets a month from 25+ creators at a 30%+ thumbstop rate
The stack we ran it on
Meta Ads Manager
Paid social
TikTok Ads Manager
Paid social
Creator sourcing
Casting
Spark Ads & whitelisting
Amplification
Frame.io
Creative review
Canva
Creative
GA4
Analytics
Looker Studio
Dashboards
National Consumer Panel — UGC-driven acquisition & paid media
CPI −30% · CPA −20%
National Debt Relief — UGC, performance creative & influencer strategy
CVR +25% · CAC −30%
New Balance — Casting, post-production & influencer marketing
7 athletes · 750k audience
"Their transparency, attention to detail, and collaborative approach made them feel like an extension of our own team."
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