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Short video as an acquisition channel, not a trend: native creatives, hook tests and acquisition cost calculated the same as in any other advertising.
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TikTok AdsWhat AURA does in this area

TikTok Ads

Short video as an acquisition channel, not a trend: native creatives, hook tests and acquisition cost calculated the same as in any other advertising.

  • individuallyScope
  • MarketingArea
  • 6 hours – 2 daysLaunch

Who this is for

B2C brands, e-commerce, education and beauty.

Problem

Hard to reach younger customers. Material that works elsewhere — product photo and slogan — here looks like an ad and gets scrolled past before anyone can read it. B2C brands, e-commerce, education and beauty see their audience there, but have nothing to say to them because no one in the company makes videos.

What we do

We treat TikTok as an acquisition channel, not a place for one viral video. Creatives are native — they look like platform content, not a spot from another channel.

  • Concepts and scripts for short video materials
  • Native creatives and TikTok Ads campaign setup
  • Testing hooks, audiences and acquisition cost

What's included

Four stages repeated cyclically — this is not a one-time work at launch:

  • Concepts
  • Video
  • Tests
  • Optimization

Timeline

Campaign launch with first creatives takes 6 hours – 2 days. That's our work time, not result time: after launch, the campaign goes through a learning phase on the platform side, and only after it can acquisition cost be compared week to week. We can't speed up this phase with faster implementation and we don't pretend otherwise.

Production rhythm is calculated separately. Short videos burn out faster than search ads, so new materials come out cyclically — frequency is agreed at launch: it's what, not account setup, that determines work in the following months.

Cost

Two things have to be kept apart, because they are confused most often. The media budget you pay directly to TikTok from your card and you see every złoty spent — it does not pass through us. Our work is something else: how many videos a month have to be shot and edited, how often creatives have to be replaced so they do not burn out, and how many campaigns run in parallel. Our fee does not grow because you raise the budget — otherwise it would pay us to advise spending more.

What you get

Cheap reach and a new acquisition channel — billed the same as the others, i.e. cost per inquiry, not number of views. Plus a stock of short materials that also work outside the campaign: on the site, in the offer and in other channels.

How to calculate cost per enquiry

There is one number worth arguing about: cost per enquiry = (media budget + our fee) ÷ the number of enquiries from this channel. The media budget is the money paid directly to TikTok from your card. Our fee is the cost of our work on this channel — the part counted together with everything else AURA runs for you. The number of enquiries means messages, calls and completed forms that can be attributed to the campaign, not the sum of views and likes. The second formula is even shorter: break-even = cost per enquiry ÷ the share of enquiries that end in an order. Neither number can be given in advance, because both come only out of your data: out of the price of what you sell and out of how fast somebody picks up the phone.

When this channel does not pay off

Some businesses we talk out of starting, and we say so before signing rather than a quarter later. If you sell a service that one person in a large company decides on after a long procurement process, short video will mostly reach people who will never be your customer. If nobody in the company will step in front of a camera or show the work on film, production turns into buying stock footage — and on this platform that looks exactly like an advert and gets scrolled past. If you serve one street and already have orders booked two weeks out, a business profile and search are the cheaper move, not a new channel. And last: if nobody answers messages in the evening or at the weekend, the campaign will deliver enquiries precisely when there is nobody to take them.

How it differs from search ads

Short video and search advertising solve two different problems, and confusing them is the most expensive budgeting mistake there is. In search you reach somebody who is already looking. Here you reach somebody who was not thinking about you, so the material has to give a reason to stop first.

  • Search: the person states the need themselves, the campaign answers their query, and the bid rises with competition for the phrase
  • Short video: the need has to be shown, the campaign catches somebody mid-scroll, and cost depends on whether the material holds attention
  • Search: one good text ad works for a long time, because a new person with the same query sees it each time
  • Short video: the same material stops working as it keeps running, because the same audience sees it — production is part of the channel, not a launch cost
  • Search more often brings enquiries ready to talk about dates; video more often still needs an answer about price and scope

This does not mean one channel replaces the other. It means we settle both by the same number — cost per enquiry — and only move budget once both have had time to show that number.

What you prepare on your side

Our part starts with yours, and it is not about finished materials. It is about access, about agreeing what we show, and about somebody on your side answering what the campaign brings in.

  • A TikTok For Business ad account opened in your company name and on your card, with partner access for us
  • Agreement that a real person, product or workplace appears on screen, not just a card with a logo
  • Somebody answering messages and comments in the evening too — traffic here does not stop at five
  • A current price list or range, so the material does not have to dodge the money question
  • An agreed boundary: what we do not show and do not talk about on camera

What you do not need: a studio, a camera operator or equipment. Material shot on a phone is the rule here, not a concession — and that is exactly why filming fits inside the ordinary work on this channel instead of being a separate undertaking with its own production budget.

The most common launch mistake

The most common mistake is one creative and patient waiting. A single film gets made, goes into the campaign, the result is weak and the conclusion is that the channel does not work. But you did not test the channel — you tested one idea for the first three seconds. The second version of the same mistake is porting a finished spot from another channel: material built for television or for a banner has a different pace, a different frame and a different opening, so it gets scrolled past before it says anything. The third is changing everything at once — new audience, new budget and new creative in one week, after which nobody can say what worked. So we test hooks on their own and leave the rest untouched for as long as we can.

How to check that it worked

Not by feel and not by view count. What worked is what can be shown in numbers that existed before the campaign too — only then is there something to compare against.

  • Enquiries tagged with a source: a message, call or form marked as coming from this campaign
  • Cost per enquiry compared week to week, not day to day — daily swings on this platform say nothing
  • The share of enquiries that ended in an order — a cheap contact with no order is not cheap
  • The result of a specific hook: which opening holds attention and which does not, with the rest of the film unchanged
  • Traffic that came back on its own later: direct visits and searches for the company name during campaign weeks

The last item is the hardest to attribute, and we say so plainly: part of the effect of short video does not return by the road it left. So we treat it as background and base budget decisions on the first three items on the list.

What this service does not do

We do not run your profile as a medium: this is not a service of daily posting, community building or answering comments for you. We do not buy followers and we do not work on making a video «take off» — organic reach is sometimes a side effect of a good ad creative, but it is not part of the agreement, because it does not depend on us. We do not appear on camera instead of you and we do not hire actors for you — that is a cost on your side, if you decide to bear it at all. We do not take calls from people who wrote after watching the material. And we do not use this channel to fix the site the ad points at: if the site cannot take an enquiry, the campaign will only show faster what that costs.

Account, footage and data stay yours

The ad account is opened in your company name and on your card, and we get partner access to it. That means that on the day the work ends we take nothing away: the account stays with its full campaign history, the audiences built during the work stay, every piece of footage stays in its source files, and the knowledge of which hooks worked stays too — because it is written down in reports, not in somebody's head. The footage keeps working outside the campaign as well: on the site, in offers sent by email and in other channels, with no permission needed from us. We also take no percentage of the media budget, so we have no reason to push you towards spending more than the numbers justify.

What you get

  • Concepts and scripts for short-form video
  • Native creative and TikTok Ads campaign setup
  • Tests of hooks, audiences and acquisition cost

When the problem lies elsewhere

If your problem sounds different, neighbouring areas of the same system stand right next to it — AURA connects them to each other rather than selling them separately:

  • SEO and maps — Visibility in Google and maps exactly where the client is looking — within a few streets.
  • Google Business Profile — Google Maps listing as a store window: categories, services, photos, posts, reviews and contact buttons.
  • Remarketing — We return to people who were already on the site and left without contact — second and third time, for a fraction of the first touch cost.
  • Analytics and BI — You see where clients really come from and how much one inquiry costs. Report with conclusions, not a table of numbers.

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