★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What clients say
"Our Reels went from 2k average views to 80k in three months. Crescent rebuilt our hook formula from the ground up."
Amelia Cross
Founder, Cross & Cane Apparel
"They turned our boring product demos into short-form content people actually watched to the end. Sales followed."
Daniel Reeve
Marketing Lead, Fielder Coffee Co
"Crescent is the only UK studio that understands platform pacing. They edit for the algorithm, not for awards."
Hannah Whitfield
Brand Director, Saltmarsh Bath
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Crescent Creative

Short-form video production for D2C brands

London, United Kingdom · TikTok creative + UGC at scale

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Categories: Content agencies Video production Paid ads agencies
60+
Clients served
4
Years active
3.8x
Average ROI
$22M+
Revenue generated
180k+
Leads delivered
22
Active retainers

About Crescent Creative

Crescent Creative ships high-volume short-form video for D2C brands. The team operates a vetted creator roster and a daily-throughput pipeline that turns product briefs into shipped TikTok ads in 72 hours.

What sets them apart

Crescent runs short-form like a factory, not a studio. They keep a roster of 280+ pre-vetted UK and EU creators with signed usage rights, a hook-library of 1,200+ tested openers tagged by vertical, and a 72-hour brief-to-delivery SLA. Every concept ships in 6-8 variants so paid teams can run statistical creative tests on day one. The result is a steady drumbeat of fresh creative that beats CPM decay instead of fighting it.

Industries served

  • D2C
  • Beauty
  • Apparel

Services

  • UGC production
  • Hook scripting
  • TikTok Shop ads
  • Creator vetting

Case studies

Real client engagements with measurable outcomes.

4.6x ROAS for UK skincare brand after 90-day creative volume push

Beauty / D2C

Client: Lumi Skin

4.6x ROAS
-41% CPM
+212% add-to-cart

Challenge

A premium UK skincare brand was stuck at 1.8x ROAS on TikTok with rising CPMs (£18+) and 3 ad variants running for 6 weeks straight. Creative fatigue was killing performance and the in-house team could not produce fast enough.

Approach

Crescent shipped 32 UGC variants per week across 4 hook angles (problem-aware, derm-led, before/after, ingredient-deep). Used TikTok Spark Ads with whitelisted creator handles and ran a 5-day creative tournament weekly to scale only the top quartile by 3-second view-through and add-to-cart rate.

Result

Blended ROAS climbed from 1.8x to 4.6x in 90 days. CPMs dropped 41% as the algorithm rewarded creative diversity. Brand cut hero-creative dependency and now runs 18 concepts in parallel.

$1.4M TikTok Shop GMV in Q4 for emerging apparel label

Apparel / D2C

Client: Halfpace Apparel

$1.4M GMV
6.1% LIVE CVR
60 creators activated

Challenge

A 2-year-old streetwear label had zero TikTok Shop presence going into Q4. Competitors were already running affiliate-driven LIVE shopping events and the brand had no creator pipeline.

Approach

Onboarded 60 micro-creators (10k-80k followers) under TikTok Shop affiliate. Produced 4 LIVE shopping sessions per week with a rotating host roster, plus 80 short-form product demos optimized for the Shop tab feed. Layered Spark Ads on top-performing organic posts.

Result

$1.4M in TikTok Shop GMV across 11 weeks of Q4. Affiliate creators drove 62% of GMV with a 6.1% average conversion rate on LIVE sessions.

3x video completion rate for clean beauty challenger

Clean beauty

Client: Kindred Beauty Co.

3x completion rate
-38% CAC
+325% CTR

Challenge

A clean-beauty brand had strong organic but paid TikTok was burning cash with 8% video completion rate and 0.4% CTR. Creative was studio-shot and felt like a commercial inside a feed of native UGC.

Approach

Replaced studio creative with raw UGC shot vertically on phone by 14 mid-tier creators. Built a hook system around derm-credentialed talking heads and ingredient demos in real bathrooms. Tested 24 hooks against the same body and offer.

Result

Video completion rate jumped from 8% to 24%. CTR rose to 1.7%. CAC fell 38% and the brand reallocated 60% of its Meta budget to TikTok.

Meet the team

The people who'll be running your account. Names with are Inflowave-verified.

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Oliver Hartwell

Founder & Creative Director · 9y exp

Built Crescent after five years editing short-form for UK lifestyle brands. Obsessed with the first 1.5 seconds of every Reel.

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Priya Shah

Head of Short-Form Strategy · 7y exp

Former content lead at a London DTC skincare brand. Writes the hook frameworks Crescent uses across every client account.

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Jamie Okonkwo

Senior Editor · 6y exp

Cuts 40+ Reels a month for Crescent clients. Background in music video editing for indie UK labels.

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Qualifications & certifications

TikTok

TikTok Marketing Partner

TikTok · 2024

Meta

Meta Business Partner

Meta · 2024

TikTok

TikTok Shop Partner

TikTok · 2025

Inflowave

Inflowave Verified Agency

Inflowave · 2026

Notable clients

  • Lumi Skin (UK)
  • Halfpace Apparel
  • Kindred Beauty Co.
  • Northbar Supplements
  • Verde Activewear

Want to work with Crescent Creative?

Reach out directly at hello@example-crescent.com or visit their website to start a conversation.

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