DL

Creative Lead / Meta & TikTok / UGC Strategy

MrBeastStore

Creative performance had plateaued. The account leaned entirely on MrBeast-fronted, creator-centric ads: strong on awareness, but increasingly inefficient on acquisition.

One of the account's best-performing ads featured kids wearing the apparel, not MrBeast. Cross-referencing that signal with audience data surfaced a question the account had never asked:

“What if the real buyer is the parent wanting to bring joy to their kid?”

Repositioned the product through a parent lens: unboxing moments, emotional parent-child reactions, gifting occasions, everyday family scenes. Native, UGC-style, and built to speak to the person actually making the purchase decision.

0 Hook rate
0 Avg. view duration
0 Retention past 0:07
0 ROAS, up from 5x

The biggest performance gains come from uncovering who's actually making the purchase decision, not who the brand assumes is buying.