Platform / RedNote

Four lanes, one RedNote brief. AIGC, at scale.

Notes. Ad creative. KOC. Avatar.

We make four kinds of work for RedNote. Organic photo and video notes for the feed and for search. Ad creative built for both auctions. Creator-style KOC notes at volume. And brand-owned avatar hosts for video notes and live shopping.

One brief covers all four lanes. One signed-off direction turns into fifty market variants. The AI work sits inside a working studio, not in place of one.

Hong Kong + Shanghai / RedNote-native creative under one director

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Why it matters

What we ship
into RedNote.

Four lanes, all handled in one place. We produce the organic notes that build a RedNote account, week after week. We build the paid notes that run in the feed and in search results. We make KOC content that reads like a customer posted it, not a brand. And we run avatar hosts that front video notes and live sessions.

One creative direction runs across all four. The same people who retouch the hero cover also finish the last variant, so the hundredth note still looks like the brand and not a tired copy of it.

A wide editorial shot of two designers at a daylit Shanghai studio table, four laptop screens lined up showing the RedNote discovery feed, an open photo note, a RedNote search results page and a vertical video note, one per service lane.
Four lanes, one creative direction

One brief, four lanes, every surface RedNote sells. The same studio hands finish all of it. Fifty-plus variants come off a single concept, and short-form work goes from brief to first note inside forty-eight hours.

0 Lanes we ship Notes, ad creative, KOC, avatar
0+ Variations per concept From one signed-off master
0h Brief to first note On photo and video notes

The work, defined

Four lanes, one brand line.

A phone held in both hands, the screen filled with an open RedNote photo note, a large editorial product image with a row of swipe dots beneath it, the title and body text in Chinese and the bottom interaction bar of the app visible.
Notes surface

Surface

Notes. Photo and video, built to be saved.

Organic photo and video notes for RedNote, written and produced inside the studio.

We script, shoot and finish the organic side of a RedNote account. Photo notes that earn the tap in a crowded feed. Video notes that hold past the cover. Swipe sequences where the second image is worked as hard as the first. On RedNote the cover is what people click, so we treat it like the campaign still it really is.

Titles and body copy are written in Chinese from scratch, tuned for search as much as for the feed. Nothing is carried over from an English caption. A creative director signs off every note, and the same retoucher who handled the campaign hero handles the note. The calendar gets busier. The work does not get worse.

In scope

  • Photo notes
  • Video notes
  • Cover frames
  • Search-led titles
  • Swipe sequences
  • Brand-book grids
  • Native Chinese copy
  • Always-on calendar
A wide monitor showing a RedNote ad creative library, a grid of in-feed sponsored notes and search-result notes lined up in a placement preview, each carrying a small paid-placement label.
Ad creative surface

Surface

Ad creative. Built for feed and search.

Paid creative made at the volume RedNote's feed and search auctions reward.

RedNote runs on two engines: the discovery feed and search. A paid note has to win on both, and it has to do that without ever feeling like an ad. We brief, generate and finish the work around whatever placements the media team is buying, whether that is in-feed sponsored notes, search-led notes or splash frames. The auction learns from variety, so we keep the covers coming.

Conversion notes, shoppable-note creative, keyword-targeted variants: all of it goes through the same studio finish. The paid work ends up looking like the organic feed, not like an ad campaign bolted onto it. File names and aspect ratios match what the buying tools expect, so nothing breaks downstream.

In scope

  • In-feed notes
  • Search ads
  • Splash frames
  • Cover A/B testing
  • Keyword-led notes
  • Shoppable note creative
  • Conversion notes
  • Retargeting variants
A phone screen showing a RedNote photo note shot in a creator hand-held style, a product held up in soft bathroom light, the like and save counts visible on the bottom interaction bar.
KOC surface

Surface

KOC. Creator notes at studio scale.

Creator-style notes for RedNote, built without the seeding-list chase or the rights cleanup.

RedNote grew up on the creator note: the honest-looking review, the haul, the get-ready clip, the before-and-after, the running list of things someone actually bought. We make all of it, start to finish. The footage moves the way a real creator shoots, hand-held and a little loose, because that is the look that works. It is finished in the studio, so the brand owns the masters and the usage rights from the first cut.

Volume is the whole point. Thirty creator notes for a single launch. Ten fresh angles a week on an always-on account. Separate edits cut for separate audiences. There is no seeding list to chase and no rights to clean up later, and the tenth note costs a fraction of what the first one did.

In scope

  • Review notes
  • Hauls
  • Before-and-after
  • GRWM notes
  • Dupe comparisons
  • Founder POV
  • Wishlist round-ups
  • Always-on KOC
A phone screen showing a RedNote video note paused on an AI avatar presenter speaking to camera in neutral knitwear, the progress bar and the heart, star and speech-bubble rail visible in the interface.
Avatar surface

Surface

Avatar. Spokespeople you own.

Brand-owned digital presenters that appear only on your RedNote account, on-brand in every cut.

We build and train avatars the brand owns outright: a digital twin of the founder, a brand spokesperson, a product expert. They talk to camera in video notes, host live shopping sessions and narrate tutorial swipes. One avatar can carry the whole account, and nobody has to work around a creator's calendar to get a video shot.

The lip-sync is tight, the Mandarin is native, and the styling stays inside the brand book. You own the avatar for good. A seasonal refresh never means another shoot, and keeping the account live never means recasting.

In scope

  • Founder twin
  • Brand spokespeople
  • Product expert
  • Video-note hosts
  • Live shopping hosts
  • Tutorial notes
  • Localized casts
  • Always-on avatar notes

Contact sheet

Selected frames.

Photo notes, video notes and ad covers, all made through the studio pipeline. Every frame is original work, sized to the surface it ships on.

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Organic · Photo note
A phone screen showing the RedNote discovery feed, a two-column staggered waterfall of lifestyle note cards, the lead card carrying a small paid-placement label over a sand-toned cover photo.
Ad creative · In-feed note
A phone screen showing RedNote search results, a rounded search field at the top and a two-column grid of note cards below, the lead card a boosted product note with a small paid label.
Ad creative · Search note
A phone held vertically in a creator hand, the screen showing a candid hand-held RedNote photo note of a cosmetics product held up to a bathroom mirror, the save and like counts visible on the bottom bar of the interface.
KOC · Photo note
A phone screen showing a RedNote video note paused on an AI avatar presenter speaking to camera in neutral knitwear, the progress bar and the heart, star and speech-bubble rail visible in the interface.
Avatar · Video note
A producer at a wide reference monitor showing a RedNote ad creative library, four columns of photo and video notes tagged Notes, Ads, KOC and Avatar.
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1 brief Four lanes, every surface, every market

Partnership

Authored creative, AI volume.

The brands pulling ahead on RedNote in 2026 are not the ones posting the most. They are the ones with an actual creative process, and they use AI to handle the volume inside it.

hubStudio sits between the technical side and the creative side. Directors, retouchers and colorists work in the same building as the AI engineers and the LoRA-training pipeline. Every note ships to the same standard as the hero image, because the same people sign it off.

  • Private GPU infra
  • NDA & DPA
  • EU AI Act
  • Data sovereignty

Everything runs on private infrastructure. Hosting sits in mainland China, Hong Kong, the EU or the US, depending on where your data needs to live. The LoRA models we train for you stay your property, and you can take them with you if you ever leave.

We pick up where you need us and step back where you do not.

How a RedNote campaign runs

One brief,
every placement.

Notes, ad covers, KOC and avatar all run through one process. The surface changes from job to job, but the way we work holds steady. Most of the outcome is decided early, in the direction, long before anything launches.

The first two steps are where it is won or lost. The rest is execution.

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Where it is won

Discovery and brief.

One working session to settle the goal, the audience, the RedNote surfaces in scope and the things the brand will not do. You walk away with a one-page brief and an asset map broken out by surface and by lane.

A storyboard wall with four columns of frame sketches labeled Notes, Ads, KOC and Avatar, each column anchored by a printed RedNote photo-note phone mock.
Where it is won

Creative direction across the four lanes.

We lock the references, set the tone, design the cover-frame system and pick the AI and avatar models for each surface. Notes, ad creative, KOC and avatar each get their own treatment. By the end of this step, the campaign could not belong to another brand.

A motion designer at a calibrated workstation, the main monitor showing a single RedNote photo-note cover frame, the side panel showing a grid of cover variants.
The rest is execution

AIGC generation and authored finish.

We generate per lane, across the surfaces we agreed on. Every image goes through the studio retouch and a brand check. Every title gets a separate search pass. Nothing reaches a media plan before all of that is done.

A media buyer at a daylit Shanghai studio desk, the calibrated monitor showing a RedNote ad campaign dashboard with in-feed and search placements live.
The rest is execution

Launch. Per-surface, per-keyword.

The media team gets the assets in the formats RedNote actually runs. Cover frames, titles and keywords are matched to the feed and to search. Aspect ratios are set for in-feed and splash placements. File names are built so the reporting downstream stays readable.

A colorist at a calibrated grading suite, the main reference monitor showing a warm RedNote video-note frame paused on a lifestyle still, the note interaction rail visible at the screen edge.
The rest is execution

Adapt. Variants, refresh, season.

Once the hero is signed off, the variants land within days. A new audience, a new city, a festival, a change of season: each one is a fast turn off the same brief. The brief stays put while the library keeps growing.

Four lanes, one studio. Notes is the organic work: photo and video notes for the feed and for search. Ad creative is the paid work: in-feed sponsored notes, search-led notes and splash frames built for the RedNote auction. KOC is creator-style content at volume. Avatar is brand-owned digital presenters for video notes and live shopping. All four run off one creative direction and through one finishing pass, which is what keeps them looking like one brand.

We write the brief, build the creator profile, shoot the takes in the studio and finish them to the same standard as the hero. You get the hand-held look and the product-in-hand framing without booking anyone, chasing a seeding list or cleaning up rights afterward. The masters and the usage rights are yours from the first cut.

We build and train a digital presenter the brand owns: a twin of the founder, a brand spokesperson or a product expert. It talks to camera in video notes, hosts live shopping and narrates tutorial swipes. The lip-sync is tight and the Mandarin is native. Because the avatar does not age or quit, the account can stay live without another shoot.

On RedNote, the cover is the ad. It is the one image that wins or loses the tap, in a crowded feed and in search results, before anyone reads a word. So we treat every cover as a campaign still. We A/B test the cover on its own, separately from the note behind it, and it is the first thing the retouch pass touches.

Yes. Mandarin copywriters write the titles and the body copy in Chinese from the start. Nothing is translated over from an English caption. RedNote works as much like a search engine as a feed, so a title has to be findable, not just readable. We write it with the words a real shopper would type.

Yes. One hero shoot, or one AIGC sprint, produces the master. After that the variants land within days, cut for each audience and each city. For a brand we already know, brief to first note runs 24 to 72 hours. A new brand needs a one-time onboarding to lock the treatment, the LoRA models and the avatar, and after that the normal pace is a weekly drop. When something is trending, a reactive note can turn around in a day.

We make the creative for them, not the media buy. The ad creative lane is briefed around the in-feed and search placements your media team is buying, with the range of covers the auction wants and the file naming the reporting needs. The buying itself stays with whoever runs your RedNote account. If you do not have anyone, we can point you to a partner.

Every image goes through a studio retouch pass: dodge and burn, film grain, a little chromatic aberration, a color grade in Lightroom or Capture One. Our image style guide bans the usual AI tells, the poreless skin, the matching bokeh, the melted product detail, the text that is almost but not quite words. A person reviews the final file before any note goes live. That review is the difference between an AI image and a campaign image.

Yes. A good share of our RedNote work runs under agency brands, white-labeled and handled in confidence. The agency keeps the client relationship and all the client contact. We are the production team behind it.

You do. You own the finished notes, the masters and any LoRA, fine-tuned or avatar model trained on your IP. Commercial rights for AIGC output run through enterprise tiers that grant commercial use. The legal side is laid out in full in our Copyright and AI guide .

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You get a surface-by-surface recommendation, a rough scope, a timeline and a few free photo-note covers, enough to see how we think before you commit a budget.