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The coat comes back
Our biggest lane by far — and the one where we make the most of the format that works least. The human hair-loss category is years ahead of dog on this, and it has already solved the problem we have with before-and-afters.
4 groups · 14 videos + 4 statics, every link opened and checked
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Where this angle stands for us
Videos carry this angle: 51 of the 67 orders, at a better cost per order than the statics. But the striking number is the style split. Demo is 2 ads for 6 orders and Review is 11 ads for 12 — both far better per ad than anything else we run. B/A is 54 ads for 19 orders, and Story is 13 ads for 2.
We are pouring production into before-and-afters and into stories, and harvesting from demos and reviews. That is not an argument for killing B/A — it still produces — it is an argument that the next ten assets should not all be B/A. Every reference below is a way of showing a result that is not a split-screen.
Five ways they show a result without a split-screen
The before-and-after is the most obvious format in this category and therefore the most crowded. These are the alternatives that are working elsewhere.
Make “after” an identity
Not a photo of an endpoint — a state you decide to enter. Removes the need to prove a transformation.
Nutrafol’s pinned campaign: Be An After
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The update, not the reveal
A creator returning at month three, mid-journey, unpolished. Reads as true because it is not finished.
“Hair regrowth update” — the most repeated format in human hair.
Name the day it stopped
Shedding stopping is easier to feel, and easier to believe, than regrowth.
Nutrafol and Vegamour both sell the end of shedding first.
Let the vet rank it
A listicle from a vet beats a claim from a brand, and it survives being screenshotted.
“My Top 5 DOG hair regrowth supplements.”
Show the ritual
The scoop, the pump, the chew. Demo is our single best-performing style and we have two of them.
Our own Demo ads: 2 assets, 6 orders.
The references
Human hair loss first, because the craft is further ahead there, then the dog brands competing directly with us.
Nutrafol
Hair supplementHuman hair lossThe category leader, and it has just spent a campaign arguing that the “after” photo is the wrong way to think about hair loss at all.
Why this brand
- Their pinned grid is three posts that read, across the row, Be · An · After.
An ‘after’ doesn’t mean everything has already changed.
They are deliberately dismantling the before-and-after while selling the same outcome.- Creator content is almost always an update — month three, postpartum, two years in — not a reveal.
- The strongest-performing post is unpaid:
my hair is growing like A WEED!!!! Not an ad.
What to take
- This is the fix for our B/A problem. 54 B/A ads for 19 orders says the format is tired; Nutrafol shows how to keep the promise and change the frame.
- “Update” framing suits our real dogs far better than a polished reveal.
- Shedding stops before regrowth shows. Sell the first thing the owner can actually notice.
“Let’s take a moment for Avery and her hair journey — this is your reminder that it doesn’t have to be complicated.”
Steal: the brand celebrating one customer by name. Warmer than a testimonial.
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“my hair is growing like A WEED!!!!! Not an ad”
Steal: unpaid enthusiasm outperforming the paid set. Worth engineering for.
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“Hair regrowth update — I started taking Nutrafol postpartum and I’m honestly so happy with the progress.”
Steal: the update format, plus a specific life trigger.
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“When I started my hair growth journey, I was concerned about shedding. After 2 years with Nutrafol…”
Steal: the two-year testimonial. Long time horizons make the claim safer and more credible.
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“My hair is growing back” — four words over a mirror shot.
Steal: the shortest possible version. No setup, no story.
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“An ‘after’ doesn’t mean everything has already changed.”
Steal: permission to post a result that is still in progress.
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“Your ‘after’ doesn’t start at the finish line.”
Steal: the campaign line. Reframes the entire category convention.
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“When you’re serious about your hair goals…” — the serum, shot as an object.
Steal: product photography that still carries a sentence of positioning.
■ openVegamour
GRO scalp serumHuman hair lossSells the scalp, not the hair — and leans almost entirely on creators posting month-three updates on their own hairline.
Why this brand
Hair thinning and shedding can start at the scalp
— they moved the problem upstream to somewhere you can act on.- Every high-performing piece is an update with a number of months attached.
Not sponsored! I’m so happy with my results!
— again, the unpaid one travels furthest.Hair thinning is real… but so are solutions
— acknowledge the fear, then relieve it, in one line.
What to take
- Our equivalent of “it starts at the scalp” is the skin under the coat. We rarely say it.
- Put a number of weeks in the caption. It makes a claim checkable and therefore believable.
- Two-part hooks — name the fear, then answer it — are cheap and we barely use them.
“…an update on my 3 months of using GRO hair serum on my thinning hairline!”
Steal: the three-month update with the timeframe in the hook.
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“Not sponsored! I’m so happy with my results!” — tagged #beforeandafter.
Steal: a B/A that works because the person is plainly not being paid.
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“Hair thinning is real… but so are solutions.”
Steal: fear named and answered inside one sentence.
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Our exact conditionOrganic / creatorsOwners of Alopecia X dogs are already posting transformations, writing e-books and answering each other. This is our customer, unpaid, doing our marketing.
Why this brand
my pomeranian’s alopecia transformation
— 15.7k likes, from an owner, with no brand attached.- She sells her own Alopecia e-book in the comments. There is demand for information, not just product.
- A Frenchie owner regrowing a bald patch with salmon oil pulls the same audience.
- A vet’s
Top 5 dog hair regrowth supplements
is the format owners actually search for.
What to take
- These owners are the people our Story ads are aimed at — and our Story style is 13 ads for 2 orders.
- The gap is not the audience, it is the format: they want information and ranking, not a narrative.
- An honest “what actually works for Alopecia X” explainer is the obvious untried asset.
- Watch the consent line carefully here — these are real dogs belonging to real owners.
“my pomeranian’s alopecia transformation” — 15.7k likes, and an Alopecia e-book in the comments.
Steal: our exact dog and condition, going viral without a brand. Study the comments.
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“How I helped my Frenchie regrow a bald patch!”
Steal: “how I helped” — first person, method, no brand voice.
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“My Top 5 DOG hair regrowth supplements!” — a vet ranking the category.
Steal: the ranked list. Owners search for this and we have never made one.
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Allergy & itch chewsDog — direct competitorOur closest direct competitor, running almost entirely on creator videos that open with the symptom rather than the product.
Why this brand
- Every hook is the behaviour an owner already watches: scratching, paw licking, the dog that will not settle.
POV: your pug can’t stop scratching
— the POV opener, aimed at recognition not persuasion.itching and paw licking doesn’t have to be your dog’s norm
— they attack the owner’s resignation.- Their own feed is products and retail news; the selling happens in creator accounts.
What to take
- Open on the behaviour, not the bald patch. Scratching is visible in a thumbnail; thin fur is not.
- “It doesn’t have to be normal” is a strong frame for Alopecia X, where owners are often told to accept it.
- They are winning on volume of creator assets, which is the one thing our method is built for.
“POV: Your pug can’t stop scratching, so you finally find something made to support healthy skin…”
Steal: the POV opener. Recognition before product.
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“itching and paw licking doesn’t have to be your dog’s norm..”
Steal: challenging what the owner has accepted as permanent.
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“If your dog is constantly scratching, you know the frustration.”
Steal: naming the owner’s feeling, not the dog’s symptom.
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National Dog Day — community posting, no claim.
Steal: note what is missing: no ingredient, no mechanism, no condition. Same static gap as the rest of dog.
■ openWhat to build from this
Six builds, all aimed at the same thing: a result that is not a split-screen. B/A stays in the mix, it just should not be the next ten assets.
“Be an after”, for dogs
Keep the promise, drop the split-screen. An “after” the owner decides to start, not a photo they have to believe.
from Nutrafol’s pinned campaignMore of our best-performing style
Demo is 2 ads and 6 orders — the best ratio we have. We have made two. Make ten.
from our own numbersWeek six, not the finished dog
An owner returning mid-journey, unpolished. Reads true precisely because it is not finished.
from Nutrafol · Vegamour“What actually works for Alopecia X”
The vet listicle owners already search for. We have never made one, and it survives screenshotting.
from @dr_lindsaybutzerSell the thing they notice first
Coat regrowth is slow; shedding stopping is fast. Lead with the change the owner can see in week two.
from Nutrafol · VegamourOpen on the behaviour
Scratching reads in a thumbnail; thin fur does not. Recognition in frame one, product later.
from Wuffes’ creator setTwo things to be careful with here
B/A is not broken, it is over-supplied. 54 assets for 19 orders still means 19 orders. The argument on this page is about what to make next, not about switching anything off — that is handled automatically by the CPO rule anyway.
The Pomeranian creators are real owners with real dogs. Their content is a study reference, not a source of assets. Nothing from those accounts should end up in an ad without written permission — we have already had one owner withdraw consent.
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