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.
"Our Reels went from 2k average views to 80k in three months. Crescent rebuilt our hook formula from the ground up."
"They turned our boring product demos into short-form content people actually watched to the end. Sales followed."
"Crescent is the only UK studio that understands platform pacing. They edit for the algorithm, not for awards."
Short-form video production for D2C brands
London, United Kingdom · TikTok creative + UGC at scale
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.
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.
The people who'll be running your account. Names with are Inflowave-verified.
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.
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.
Senior Editor · 6y exp
Cuts 40+ Reels a month for Crescent clients. Background in music video editing for indie UK labels.
TikTok Marketing Partner
TikTok · 2024
Meta Business Partner
Meta · 2024
TikTok Shop Partner
TikTok · 2025
Inflowave Verified Agency
Inflowave · 2026
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Client: Lumi Skin
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.
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.
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.
Client: Halfpace Apparel
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.
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.
$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.
Client: Kindred Beauty Co.
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.
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.
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.
Crescent Creative works on a creative retainer (£6k-25k/mo, 24-60 variants/mo) model. Most tiktok marketing engagements in London run as monthly retainers — request a quote for exact numbers based on your goals.
Crescent Creative is a London, United Kingdom agency specializing in TikTok creative + UGC at scale. They serve D2C, Beauty, Apparel.
Crescent Creative works best with D2C, Beauty, Apparel brands and has served 60+ clients. If you need ugc production, hook scripting, tiktok shop ads, they're worth a conversation.
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