Hi!! Just redid my portfolio and SO PROUD, ive been working un updating my video examples as i get better at them. Hoping this new portfolio will seal the deal! Would love to get feedback on what you think!
https://ugcsonialowrie.my.canva.site/
Let me know your thoughts
I do fiverr ugc. The girl requested a video and gave me general talking points, I made it, and she says she'd like to make edits to the script I used. She dropped in a whole different script with nothing too different than the original I did. This has happened before and I don't really get what to do because it means I have to start over from scratch. sacrifice another afternoon and get camera ready, re-record the whole thing, edit the whole thing, send it over. What's worst is that this is video has to be done with another person. Do I just say no, sorry, thats now how it works? I am here if you want me to edit the video but I can't redo the whole thing for no extra money. I don't get it, I want to keep the clients happy but this makes it not worth the money.
Do I let brands know once I’ve received their products in the mail and give them a heads up that I’ll get started soon? Or do they know when you’ve received it and it’s just an unnecessary email for them?
Hey y'all. I'm plotting out a seasonal campaign (for the 4th of July) and need to source a handful of folks for some good UGC. I'm new to this, so go easy on me.
I want to keep the project as simple and easy as possible. Is there one go-to platform that acts as THE standard for marketplace-style UGC? I didn't know if there was one huge platform that everyone uses.
On the flip side, I'm also open to handing this off to a managed partner or agency if these self-serve platforms are just ghost towns of low-quality content. Does anyone have a recommendation for an agency that specializes in this kind of short term UGC campaign? I don't need a massive enterprise agency either, just a team that knows how to source quality creators in a timely fashion.
Sorry if this is a boring ask, but would love any thoughts.
Hello fellow UGCers :)
I’m a newer creator in the travel/hotel niche and would really love advice from creators who’ve dealt with this before.
I travel often and usually create content for my travel/UGC page and portfolio. I recently got my portfolio fully set up and I’m currently trying to land my first paid collaboration, so I’m still very new to the business side of all of this.
A couple weeks ago I stayed at a Hyatt property and made a 20 second room tour reel that’s honestly one of the best pieces of content I’ve made so far. I was quite proud of it and posted it on my instagram page.
Hyatt just commented asking permission to use it for future marketing campaigns through their #sharemyhyattpic terms. At first I was excited because it’s obviously a huge brand and having them repost or use my content could potentially help with exposure and credibility while I’m still small.
But after reading the terms more carefully, it seems like they want very broad rights to use, edit, and distribute the content forever without compensation, which made me pause a little since I’m trying to eventually turn this into a real source of income.
At the same time, I also don’t want to overplay my hand as a small creator by trying to negotiate a paid deal and potentially losing the opportunity altogether, especially when they have a huge audience and I’m still trying to grow.
Other hotels have reposted/shared my reels before, but this feels different because it involves formal long-term usage rights beyond just an Instagram repost.
Would you allow it in this stage of your creator journey, or would you hold off unless compensation was involved?
I attached a screenshot of the terms. I’d love insight from creators who’ve navigated this before.
Hey everyone,
I'm running a small news content team (5 people) making 60-second vertical explainer videos with AI avatars. Right now each video takes about 30 minutes of manual work writing scripts, generating avatars, making infographics, stitching everything together.
We're trying to hit 80 videos/day and the current process just doesn't scale.
What I'm trying to build:
Basically a workflow where I can give it a news topic (like "RBI credit growth" or "startup funding trends") and it spits out:
A script
Voice audio
Avatar lipsync video
2-3 infographic/cutaway images
Edit timeline with exact timings
Right now I'm doing all of this manually across different tools and it's delaying us.
What I have:
I already have Claude Pro, and I've been experimenting with chaining prompts, but I'm not a developer so I'm hitting walls with the automation part. I can get Claude to write great scripts and storyboards, but then I still have to manually paste prompts into 5 different tools.
What I need help figuring out:
Can this be done entirely through Claude with MCP servers? (I saw Higgsfield has an MCP connector, not sure what else)
Should I be using API calls + some kind of script to chain everything?
Is there a no-code way to automate this that I'm missing?
Are there better tools I should be using instead?
I don't need it to be perfect. I just need something that reduces the manual copy-paste hell and gets us from 30 minutes to like 5-10 minutes per video.
The videos are pretty formulaic:
Indian avatars speaking to camera (20-25 seconds)
2-3 infographic cutaways (35-40 seconds total)
We add text overlays manually in the editor
Has anyone built something like this? Or know if Claude + MCP can actually handle this end-to-end? Open to any suggestions just trying to figure out the simplest path that actually works.
Not trying to hire an agency or spend months on a custom build. Just want something scrappy that works so we can scale up production.
Any ideas?
Been doing UGC for about 4 months. Started after I got laid off from a marketing coordinator role earlier this year. I don't have a big following, around 3k on ig. My strategy is to sign up to as many platforms as I can and keep applying. And I just hit my record month! So I wanted to share where I got my money from :)
Total: about $2830 for the month.
So excited to keep doing ugc cause I am finally getting some results!
Happy to answer anything if it helps.
Hello,
I am wondering how I can find UGC creators for a product.
Thanks!
Hey guys!
I’m an international student who recently moved to the US from India. I love creating content and want to monetize it while I'm here, but I have no idea how the UGC market operates in the States.
Back home, I used to cold DM brands on Instagram to land deals, and it worked pretty well. Do US brands actually respond to DMs, or should I be reaching out differently?
Also, I've been seeing a lot of UGC platforms mentioned online. Are they actually genuine, or should I avoid them?
Any quick tips on how to get started with pitching US brands would be highly appreciated. Thanks! :)
I had someone reach out to me about a Canvas UGC opportunity, which at first they said would be RPM. I countered and said I could do it for a base pay, giving my rates. They followed up and said it was "beyond their budget", which is interesting to me.
It has me curious as to why these people who do these type of gigs claim they have creators making "thousands" per month, yet don't have the budget for a base pay? Is it because they're inadvertently admitting these opportunities are bs and don't actually get you stable income? Just had to share this revelation lol.
I’m working with a brand who want 9:16 and 16:9 for the same video. I’m assuming I should just film wide and crop for the vertical video. My worry with this is that the footage will drop in quality when cropped that much. Has anyone got any suggestions/advice? Ideally I don’t want to film everything twice.
Thanks!
If you can please work with the brand /company directly as agencies take a cut and offer way lower pay for the same amount of view
Every single request for UGC that I have gotten has asked for complete ownership of video but unwilling to negotiate in price. Is that normal?
I used to treat TikTok as hit-or-miss post something, hope it goes viral, maybe get a few sales.
Lately I changed how I approach it. Instead of focusing on views after posting, I started watching what keeps showing up in my feed:
Then I just adapt those patterns to my niche instead of trying to come up with something new every time.
The result:
It’s not fully passive in the beginning, but once a few posts catch the right pattern, they keep bringing in traffic without much extra work.
Biggest takeaway for me consistency + timing beats chasing viral ideas.
I'm trying On Bento this month and I already sent 150 mails,
I only got 2 free products from there and any money .
Im also a new creator, so I have my portfolio but maybe not super reliable .
But I don't know if is worthy to keep paying and investing my money on this .
Let me know how your experience was .
Thanks !
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Had a call with a brand last week. Lovely people, solid product, decent engagement on their ads. Then I sent my rate card and got the classic:
"We love your content but our budget is really tight right now."
Cool. I checked their Facebook Ad Library out of curiosity. They're running 14 active ads. Some have been live for 3+ months, which in ad world means they're performing.
So the money is there. It's just not for the person making the content that feeds the machine.
I'm not even mad about it anymore. I just find it genuinely fascinating how "we don't have budget for creators" has become the default response even at brands doing serious revenue. The ads don't shoot themselves. Someone made those. Probably for less than they were worth.
If you're newer to UGC and a brand tells you they have no budget, check their ad library before you discount your rate. You might be surprised what you find.
Not saying every brand is lying like bootstrapped small businesses are a real thing and I'll happily work with them differently. But a scaled DTC brand crying poor to a creator? Come on.
Rant over. Thanks for reading lmao
Hi everyone! I’m new to the UGC space and to SideShift, so I wanted to ask if this is standard practice or if I should be careful
I got a message on SideShift from “Live Translator” saying they’re looking for creators to collaborate with. Their message basically says:
Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I assumed all communication for collabs would stay within SideShift, especially at the beginning. So I’m a little unsure about being asked to move the conversation to WhatsApp right away/download WhatsApp before there’s even been any actual discussion.
Is this normal on SideShift? Has anyone worked with Live Translator specifically?
Would love to hear if this is common 🙏
I kept seeing people talk about UGC like it was a simple side hustle — just film a few videos on your phone and get paid by brands.
So I decided to try it myself.
What I didn’t expect is how different it feels once you actually start trying to get results instead of just learning about it.
The biggest things I got wrong at the beginning:
I thought better video quality was the main thing that mattered
I didn’t realize how important structure is (hooks, pacing, and how ads are built)
I was copying trends instead of learning how UGC content is actually used by brands
I didn’t understand that positioning yourself matters just as much as the content itself
The biggest shift for me was realizing this:
UGC isn’t just about making “good videos” — it’s about making content that already feels like it belongs in an ad.
Once I started thinking about it that way, everything started to make more sense.
If you’re in that early stage where it feels confusing, you’re probably not bad at content — you just haven’t learned how it’s supposed to be structured yet.
I ended up writing a lot of this down for myself because I kept forgetting what actually helped me improve.
If anyone is also figuring this out, happy to talk about what’s worked so far in the comments.