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How to Make Paid Social Ads Feel Native

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The best advertising emulates the platform on which it appears.

If you want to increase conversions on social, lower CPAs, and build brand trust, it’s important that your paid social ads feel real and authentic.

Study your audience’s tastes.

  • Create a TikTok account to explore content through your customers’ lens.
  • Ask AI tools like ChatGPT for suggestions on top creators in your niche (e.g., beauty, skincare).
  • Follow and engage with creators, analyze content trends, and evaluate which videos resonate most.

Start with sound.

  • Lead your concepting with sound for vertical ads (TikTok, Reels) to significantly improve performance.
  • Custom sounds lowering CPAs by up to 50%.

Mimic the content on the medium.

  • UGC always wins.
  • The “fake podcast” ad format works well on TikTok, because podcasting is also a sound-first medium.

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