Success on TikTok Shop is a pure volume game. Unlike other platforms with higher creative hit rates, TikTok Shop requires a massive amount of content—at least 1,000 videos monthly—because only about 1 in 200 videos is likely to go viral.

The largest advertisers on platforms like Meta launch over 10,000 new creatives a year, equating to more than 40 per workday. This massive scale of experimentation is manually impossible for most companies, creating a clear market need for AI platforms that automate and scale video production.

To create high-performing videos, don't invent from scratch. Find viral content in your niche and replicate its structural elements—the on-screen headline and the first few seconds of the spoken hook. Then, deliver your own unique insights within that proven format.

Acknowledging that "relevance" is subjective shouldn't lead to creating generic, one-size-fits-all campaigns. Instead, it demands a high-volume creative strategy that produces dozens of distinct assets, each tailored to be hyper-relevant to a specific consumer segment or "demand state."

The most effective way to scale on TikTok is not by constantly generating new ideas, but by identifying your own top-performing videos and remaking them. Re-recording your "greatest hits" multiple times a month consistently drives views and growth for your account.

Ridge automates ad creation using a custom GPT and N8N, producing 500 static ads daily. Even if 90% are unusable, the remaining 50 ads provide a constant stream of testable creative, increasing the chances of finding winning variants for personalized campaigns at scale.

Instead of testing individual ad variations, advertisers can use the "Dynamic Creative" (for leads) or "Flexible Creative" (for sales) toggles. This allows combining multiple top-performing images, videos, headlines, and text into a single ad unit, which Meta’s algorithm then mixes and matches to find the optimal combination for different users.

Top creators like Mr. Beast relentlessly A/B test thumbnails and video intros to maximize views. AI video platforms now bring this data-driven experimentation to SMBs, allowing them to rapidly test variations of spokespeople, demographics, and creative elements to optimize ad performance.

Escape the content creation treadmill. An effective strategy is to produce a small number of high-quality, high-performing pillar assets. These core ideas can then be endlessly remixed into different formats and angles, maximizing their impact and reducing the need for constant net-new creation.