A UGC Ad Agency That Also Runs the Ads.

Impact Origins is a creator-led UGC ad agency in Los Angeles. We cast the creators, write the angles, produce and edit the videos, and run Meta and TikTok in-house, so the creative and the media buying answer to the same number.

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The Footage Is Cheap.
The Judgment Isn't.

Every route to UGC gets you videos. What they don't get you is someone accountable for whether the videos sell anything.

Creator marketplaces

You get footage. Nobody decides what to say, nothing is tested against your account, and a bad video and a good one arrive looking identical.

Freelance creators

Fine once you know your angle. Before that you are casting, briefing, chasing revisions and editing yourself, and every creator starts from zero.

Full-service agencies

Strategy decks and a production calendar, priced for brands with a media budget to match, and the creative is usually made by the same pipeline everyone else uses.

Creator posts that
ran as ads

On these campaigns the brand asked for boost codes or bought usage rights, so the creator's own post could run as a TikTok ad.

The Hook Makes a Promise.
The Account Settles It.

A video isn't good or bad in a review. It's good or bad in your ad account, against your audience, at your cost per acquisition. Split creative and media across two vendors and that verdict never reaches the person who could act on it.

Creative shops

Measured on delivery

Assets shipped on time, to brief. Whether the account did anything with them is somebody else's report.

Media buyers

Measured on what they're handed

They can change budgets, audiences and placements. They cannot change the first three seconds, which is where most of the result lives.

Impact Origins

Own both

What wins in the account becomes the next brief, and what a creator finds becomes the next test. One team, one number to answer for.

Everything Between
the Brief and the Result.

The work below is in every UGC ads engagement. How many creators and videos depends on what your account can test.

Creator casting

Creators matched to the product and the audience from a network built over eight years, briefed and managed end to end. You approve, you do not coordinate.

Scripts and angles

Hooks and angles written as testable variants rather than one polished idea, so a month of content tells you something instead of just filling a calendar.

Production and editing

Shot, edited and delivered in the formats Meta and TikTok actually reward, including the cutdowns and hook swaps that make one shoot into several tests.

Creative testing

Variants run against each other with kill and scale criteria agreed in advance, so the winner is decided by the account and not by taste.

Paid media, in-house

Meta and TikTok campaigns run by the same team that made the creative, which is what lets a losing hook be replaced in days rather than next month.

Raw files and usage rights

You keep the raw footage and unlimited usage rights on everything produced. Your ad accounts and pixels stay yours; we are added as admins.

Eight Years of
Creator Marketing Behind It.

The creative engine built for Anker, eufy, Soundcore, Dreame, SHEGLAM and Genshin Impact, run for brands and apps growing in the US.

50+brands served
210M+views delivered
9,000+creator network
8+years in creator marketing
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Campaigns Where the
Posts Became Ads.

Inside Your Team,
Not Outside It.

Where

In your own Slack or Teams, next to whoever owns growth. No monthly deck to wait for.

Access

Ad accounts and analytics, so what we recommend comes from your numbers rather than category averages.

Ownership

Raw files, unlimited usage rights, and your company holding every account and pixel.

Term

A short initial term, then month to month. We stay because it is working.

Victor Xu
Who leads your account

Victor Xu, founder

Impact Origins has run creator campaigns since 2020 for Anker, eufy, Soundcore, Dreame, SHEGLAM, Genshin Impact and 50+ brands in total. I lead the strategy on every account, and our team handles casting, creator management, production and delivery. The person setting the direction stays close enough to the work to see what your account is telling us. LinkedIn

Is This Right
for Your Brand?

If this is youThe answer
Consumer brand already spending on Meta or TikTok, short on creative that worksYes. This is the core engagement.
Running ads on the same three videos for monthsYes, and volume is the first thing that changes.
Consumer app, pre-launch or just launchedYes, but start at app launches, because the work runs past the install.
You want footage only, no testing and no mediaA marketplace will be cheaper and faster. That is a fair use of one.
B2B software sold through sales callsNo. We work where creators and paid social decide the result.

Common Questions.

What does a UGC ad agency actually do?

A UGC ad agency casts the creators, writes the angles, produces and edits the videos, and tests them as paid ads until something wins. The footage is the visible part. The work that decides the result is the testing structure around it: what gets tried, what gets cut, and what gets more budget. Impact Origins runs both halves, so the creative and the media buying answer to the same number.

Why not hire creators directly or use a marketplace?

Direct hiring works well once you already know the angle that converts. Before that, you are casting, briefing, chasing revisions and editing yourself, and each creator starts from nothing. A marketplace sells you footage with no opinion attached. The expensive part of UGC is not the filming, it is deciding what to say and proving which version works.

Do you run the ads, or just deliver the videos?

Both, and that is deliberate. Meta and TikTok are managed in-house alongside the creative. When an agency hands videos to a separate media buyer, nobody owns the gap between what the hook promised and what the account did with it.

Who owns the footage and the usage rights?

You do. Every engagement includes raw files and unlimited usage rights on what is produced, and your company holds the ad accounts, pixels and datasets. We work as admins on your assets, never the other way round.

How many videos does it take to find a winner?

More than most brands plan for, which is the real argument for volume. A handful of polished videos is a guess; a batch of deliberate variants is a test. We plan the month as variants of a few angles rather than a list of unrelated ideas. See how many ad creatives to test.

Do you work with apps?

Yes, and app launches have their own page, because the work continues past the install into onboarding, paywall and pricing. See app launches.

Talk About Your Creative.

Tell us what you're running and what isn't working yet. We reply by email within 24 hours.

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