Platform / Weibo

Four lanes, one Weibo brief. AIGC, in scale.

Content. Ad creative. Topic. Avatar.

We make four kinds of work for Weibo. Organic posts for the feed and the nine-image grid. Paid creative for Fan Tong and the open-screen splash. The visual kit behind a Hot Search or topic campaign. And avatar presenters for Weibo video that your brand owns.

One brief covers all four lanes. One signed-off direction becomes the fifty variants a market rollout needs. AIGC inside a working production company, not in place of one.

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

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Why it matters

What we ship
into Weibo.

Four service lanes, and we run all of them, start to finish. Organic content for the feed and the nine-image grid, written by native Mandarin hands. Paid creative for every Weibo ad surface. The visual kit behind a Hot Search or topic campaign. Avatar presenters for Weibo video that the brand owns outright.

One creative direction runs across all four. The hands that retouch the hero image, the one frame everyone signs off on, finish every variant after it, so the last cut looks like the campaign and not a thinned-out copy of it.

A wide editorial shot of two designers at a daylit studio table, four laptop screens lined up showing a Weibo feed post, the Weibo advertising creative library, a Weibo topic page and a Weibo video post, one per service lane.
Four lanes, one creative direction

One brief, four lanes, the same hands on every frame. A signed-off master becomes the fifty-plus variants a market rollout needs, and on short-form work the first cut is back inside two days.

0 Lanes we ship Content, ad creative, topic, avatar
0+ Variations per concept From one signed-off master
0h Brief to first cut On feed posts and Fan Tong

The work, defined

Four lanes, one brand line.

A phone held in both hands, the screen filled with a Weibo feed post, a circular profile avatar and name at the top, a short caption, a nine-image grid below it and a repost, comment and like row along the bottom of the card.
Content surface

Surface

Content. The feed, the nine-grid, long Weibo.

Editorial-grade organic content for the Weibo feed, written and produced by the studio.

We write and produce the organic side of a Weibo account. Short posts with an opening line strong enough to survive the scroll. The nine-image grid built as one composition, not nine crops that happen to sit together. Long-Weibo image essays. Video posts. The festival and trend pieces a brand needs to look present rather than absent.

Native Mandarin writers handle the copy. They post on Weibo themselves, every week, so the voice stays current instead of reading like a translated English draft. The grid gets finished image by image, retouched by the same hand that finished the campaign hero, then handed over ready to schedule. The posting cadence can climb without the brand line wandering off somewhere.

In scope

  • Short posts
  • Nine-image grids
  • Long Weibo
  • Video posts
  • Festival editorials
  • Trend-reactive posts
  • Repost-chain assets
  • Always-on calendar
A wide monitor showing the Weibo advertising creative library, a grid of Fan Tong in-feed and open-screen splash ad variants lined up in the placement preview panel.
Ad creative surface

Surface

Ad creative. Built for Fan Tong.

Performance creative for every Weibo ad surface, produced at the volume the buying actually wants.

Fan Tong ads that sit in the timeline like a post, not an interruption in it. Open-screen splash built for the one second after a user opens the app. Fan Headlines units, search creative, in-feed display. Each one is briefed against the placements your media team is buying, with the format range the auction rewards and the file names the reporting downstream can read.

Conversion frames, carousel cards, hook tests, retargeting cuts: they all go through the same studio pass. The last variant in a set still looks like the first one, not a faded photocopy of it.

In scope

  • Fan Tong in-feed
  • Open-screen splash
  • Fan Headlines
  • Search creative
  • In-feed display
  • Carousel cards
  • Hook A/B testing
  • Retargeting variants
A phone screen showing a Weibo topic page, a wide banner header with a hashtag title and a follower count, a ranked Hot Search list along the side and a feed of posts running down the page.
Topic surface

Surface

Topic. Hot Search and hashtag pages.

The visual identity and content kit for a Weibo topic push, built to land in the trending conversation.

A Hot Search push lives or dies on the kit behind it. We design the topic-page banner, the hashtag lockup and the pinned hero post. Then we build the seeding kit: dozens of on-brand posts in different voices and crop scales, so the conversation reads like people talking and not like a brand talking to itself. Every asset is cut for Hot Search timing and for the Super Topic page running alongside.

It is a volume problem as much as a design problem, and we staff it that way. Our writers are in Shanghai, on the same clock as the trending board, so if a moment breaks mid-campaign the reactive post can be drafted, finished and back with you the same afternoon.

In scope

  • Topic-page banners
  • Hashtag lockups
  • Pinned hero posts
  • Seeding content kits
  • Super Topic pages
  • Creator-style posts
  • Hot Search timing
  • Trend-reactive drops
A phone screen showing a Weibo video post, an AI avatar presenter speaking to camera inside the post card, a video scrubber bar across the clip and a repost, comment and like row beneath it.
Avatar surface

Surface

Avatar. Spokespeople you own.

An avatar your brand owns outright, built to present on Weibo video and nowhere else.

We build and train it from scratch: a founder twin, a brand spokesperson, a product expert, or a cast with a different face for each market. The avatar presents to camera in Weibo video posts, hosts the clips inside a topic campaign, and narrates the long-Weibo explainers. One avatar covers every language Weibo serves.

Lip-sync is studio-tight, the look holds inside the brand book, and the rights sit with you for good. Refreshing a campaign never means another shoot, and a new market does not send you back to casting.

In scope

  • Founder twin
  • Brand spokespeople
  • Product expert
  • Weibo video hosts
  • Topic-campaign clips
  • Multi-language video
  • Localized casts
  • Always-on avatar feed

Contact sheet

Selected frames.

Feed posts, Fan Tong ads, topic-page stills and avatar video frames produced through the studio pipeline. Every frame is authored work, sized for the surface it ships on.

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Content · Weibo feed
A phone screen showing the Weibo timeline, a sponsored brand post with a wide image, a small gray promoted label under the advertiser name and a call-to-action button along the lower edge of the card.
Ad creative · Fan Tong
A phone held vertically, the screen filled by a Weibo open-screen splash ad, a single bold brand image with a small skip-countdown button in the top corner of the interface.
Ad creative · Splash
A phone screen showing a Weibo topic page, a wide banner header with a hashtag title and a follower count above a ranked trending list and a feed of post cards.
Topic · Hashtag page
A phone screen showing a Weibo video post, an AI avatar presenter speaking to camera inside the post card, the video scrubber and the repost, comment and like row visible in the interface.
Avatar · Weibo video
A producer at a wide reference monitor showing the Weibo advertising creative library, four columns of Weibo ad variants tagged Content, Ads, Topic and Avatar.
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1 brief Four lanes, every surface, every market

Partnership

Authored creative, AI volume.

The Weibo brands that compound their results are not the ones with the biggest tool stack. They are the ones running an authored creative process with AIGC sitting inside it.

We work in the gap between the technical and the creative: a real studio, with directors, writers, retouchers and colorists, next to the AIGC engineers and the model-training pipeline. Every variant carries the same brand discipline as the hero, 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 has to live. The models we train on your brand stay your property, and you can take them with you if you ever go.

We step in where you need us, and step back where you do not.

How a Weibo campaign runs

One brief,
every surface.

Feed posts, Fan Tong ads, topic kits and avatar video share one brand line and one process. The format shifts from lane to lane; the discipline underneath it does not. A campaign is won in the direction, long before the launch.

Get the first two steps right and the rest is mostly execution.

A creative director and a brand lead at a studio table, a laptop between them showing the Weibo advertising dashboard alongside printed Weibo feed posts and a topic-page mock.
Where it is won

Discovery and brief.

One working session. We lock the goal, the audience, the Weibo surfaces in scope, the brand truth and the things you never want to see. You leave with a one-page strategic brief and an asset map, sorted by surface and by service lane.

A storyboard wall with four columns of frame sketches labeled Content, Ads, Topic and Avatar, each column anchored by a printed Weibo phone mock.
Where it is won

Creative direction across the four lanes.

References locked, tone agreed, the posting voice set for the feed. We pick the AIGC and avatar models per surface. Content, ad creative, topic and avatar each get their own treatment. This is the step where a campaign becomes yours and not anyone else’s.

A motion designer at a calibrated workstation, the main monitor showing a single Weibo nine-image grid post, the side panel showing the Weibo advertising creative library grid of variants.
The rest is execution

AIGC generation and authored finish.

Generation runs lane by lane across the surfaces we agreed. Every output clears the studio retouch and the brand check before a media plan or a posting calendar ever sees it.

A media buyer at a daylit studio desk, the calibrated monitor showing the Weibo advertising campaign dashboard with Fan Tong placements live.
The rest is execution

Launch. Per-surface, per-market.

You get the assets in the formats Weibo actually serves: nine-image grids ready to schedule, Fan Tong and splash ads named for the ad platform, topic banners cut to the hashtag page. Tracking and creative naming are built so the reporting holds up later.

A colorist at a calibrated grading suite, the main reference monitor showing a warm Weibo video frame paused on a product still, the Weibo interface elements visible at the screen edges.
The rest is execution

Adapt. Variants, refresh, season.

Once the hero is signed off, the variant cascade lands in days. New audiences, new cities, new festivals, the next Hot Search moment. The brief does not change; the variants just keep coming.

Four lanes, one studio. Content is the organic feed: short posts, the nine-image grid, long Weibo and video. Ad creative is the paid side: Fan Tong in-feed, open-screen splash, Fan Headlines and search, all built for the Weibo ad platform. Topic is the visual kit behind a Hot Search or hashtag campaign. Avatar is the synthetic presenters, owned by your brand, for Weibo video. All four share one creative direction and one finishing pass, which is why the long tail looks like the hero.

Native Mandarin writers who use Weibo themselves and post on it every week, not translators working off an English document. A Weibo post is written for the scroll from the first character: an opening that survives the feed, a grid composed as a set, a caption that fits the platform’s rhythm. The English brief sets the strategy. The post is written in Chinese, for a Chinese reader.

It covers the creative kit behind a trending push: the topic-page banner, the hashtag lockup, the pinned hero post, and a seeding kit of on-brand posts in a range of voices. It doesn’t cover the media booking. We build the assets and time them for Hot Search; whoever runs your account places the paid promotion and briefs the creators. Plenty of brands want exactly that split.

Yes, and volume is really the point here. One hero shoot or one AIGC sprint produces the master, and the variants land per audience and per city inside days. What costs money is the first variant; by the fiftieth you’re basically getting them for free. LoRA models trained on your brand keep every frame and every grid on-brand.

The hero concept is signed off once, in the direction step. After that, every variant in every lane runs the same retouch pass, the same color grade and the same brand-safety check. The studio is the thing that keeps feed content, ad creative, topic kits and avatar video reading as one campaign instead of four that drifted apart.

Short-form work for an existing brand runs 24 to 72 hours, brief to first cut. A new brand or a new product needs a one-time onboarding to lock the treatment, the LoRA models and the avatar; after that, a weekly drop at production-grade quality is the normal tempo. When Hot Search demands it, a reactive piece can turn around inside a day.

Pricing follows the lanes you take, the volume per month and whether avatar work is in scope. Most engagements run as a monthly retainer across one or more lanes, with project rates for one-off campaigns. Send the brief and a scope outline with an indicative cost comes back inside 48 hours, before anything is committed.

Every output goes through a studio retouch pass: dodge and burn, a grain pass, slight chromatic aberration, a color grade in Lightroom or Capture One. Our image style guide lists the tells we hunt for: poreless skin, identical bokeh, melted product detail, text that is almost a word. A human signs off the final file before any media plan or posting calendar sees it. That pass is the gap between an AI image and a campaign image.

Yes. A good share of our Weibo work runs under agency brands, white-label, with the collaboration kept confidential. The agency holds the relationship and the client conversation. We supply the production capacity behind it.

You do: every finished asset, every master, and any LoRA, fine-tuned or avatar model trained on your IP. Commercial-use rights for AIGC outputs run through enterprise tiers that grant commercial use. For the full legal detail, see our Copyright and AI guide .

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You get a surface-by-surface recommendation, a scope outline, a rough timeline and a few free feed or topic frames, so you can see the thinking before any budget moves.