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Sexual wellness / Regulated · TikTok

BlueChew

One of the hardest categories on the internet to advertise. We ran it on TikTok with 10 creators who never showed the product, only sparked curiosity, and drove everything through a tracked link. Breakeven by month three, roughly 3.4x by the rerun.

3.4x
Return by the rerun
790
Sales across the run
10
TikTok creators
230
Sales to breakeven
Tracked-link attribution · every sale traced to a creator

01 · The rules

Sexual wellness is about as restricted as advertising gets.

Meta, Google and TikTok all gate this category hard. You cannot show the product, you cannot make a performance claim, and an ad account that pushes it gets throttled or pulled fast.

So we did not try to run an ad. We built content that lives inside what the platform allows and lets curiosity do the work:

  • Never show the product. No pill on camera, no packaging hero shot. The creators talk around it, not at it.
  • Curiosity, not claims. Reactions, hints and “wait, what is this” energy. Zero language about what it does.
  • No ad account to lose. Organic creator posts, so there is nothing for review to disable.
  • One tracked link. Every creator drove to a single tracked link, so we could see exactly who converted.

02 · How we ran it

Ten creators, all curiosity, all trackable.

We put BlueChew in front of TikTok through 10 creators whose whole job was to make people lean in without ever spelling it out. Reaction videos, unboxings, knowing looks, the product just out of frame.

Because we could only use a link, tracking was clean: no guessing at attribution, every sale tied back to the exact creator and post that produced it.

TikTok
@mariomirante1.3M views · reaction / unboxing, product never shown
TikTok
@itslaurensummerCuriosity-led, talks around it not at it
+8
more creators

Same brief: spark curiosity, drive the tracked link.

03 · The math

Breakeven by month three. Then we doubled down.

By month three the tracked link had driven 230 sales, enough to put the whole campaign at breakeven. Most brands would call that fine and stop.

We did the opposite. We reran it for month five and put the budget behind the top-performing creators only. That rerun drove an extra 560 sales, landing the campaign at 790 total, roughly 3.4x the point where it first broke even.

Month three

230 sales off the tracked link. Campaign at breakeven.

The rerun (month five)

Doubled down on the winners. +560 sales, 790 total, about 3.4x.

Regulated category · zero ad account, all creator-driven

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