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Campaign teardown · Douyin · Looks · Jul 2025

How Ulike used drama creators to seed its Air4 hair removal device on Douyin

Ulike put its Air4 device inside relationship, comedy and family storylines rather than beauty reviews. Eighteen creators used conflict and plot twists to frame at-home hair removal as an alternative to costly, painful salon routines.

Illustration: Ulike turns a dramatic everyday complication into a calmer home-care moment.
Illustration · unrandom
Creators18Head Anchor Drove It
Posts18Video-led · 100% video
PeriodJul 11 – Sep 8, 2025No Specific Peg
Comments64,923On the campaign's posts
The idea

Let an immersive life drama carry the product pitch

From July 11 to September 8, 2025, Ulike ran 18 video posts with 18 Douyin creators through Xingtu. Beauty-salon spending traps, relationship betrayal, friend gatherings and family or marriage scenes supplied the conflict. Creators played multiple roles or used plot twists, then introduced Air4 at the story's solution point. The product story centred on sapphire ice-cooling and three experience cues: cool on skin, no pain and thorough hair removal, with lasting results also included. The sustained, head-weighted placement used entertainment to reach beyond the beauty vertical.

The audience was young urban women, including office workers and Gen Z students, who follow relationship and general entertainment content and want convenient at-home hair removal without high salon spending or the pain associated with traditional methods. There was no discount, urgency device or explicit conversion prompt; the drama-led seeding was designed to encourage search.

At a glance
Objective
Product Seeding
Occasion
No Specific Peg
Funnel
Awareness
Messaging
Nostalgia · Value for Money · Love and Romance · Family Warmth
Scenes
Couple Scenario · Daily Life at Home
Formats
Character Roleplay · Comedy Skit · Plot-twist Drama
Activation
Controversy Bait
Discount
No Discount, Pure Brand Push
Against 56 Douyin Looks campaigns

What set it apart

ChoiceShare of campaigns
Distinctive
Nostalgia3.6%1 in 28
Controversy Bait8.9%1 in 11
Plot-twist Drama13%1 in 8
Family Warmth16%1 in 6

Share of the 56 Douyin Looks campaigns in the unrandom archive that made the same choice. Counted Nov 4, 2026.

Casting

A head-led, female-dominant cast of 18 drama and comedy creators

Follower range

314K–7.89M

18 creators with a public follower count

Casting

Head Ignite, Mid-tail Volume Pyramid

Top Heavy

Lean

Female Dominant

Playbook

The first step to copy

  1. 1
    Start with entertainment creators, not beauty reviewers

    Cast head-tier relationship, comedy and family-story creators. Use one performer in several roles or a plot twist to build conflict around salon cost, razor pain or hair-removal cream allergies; introduce Air4 only when the story reaches its solution.

  2. 2+
    More steps in the full teardown

    story conflict, experience-led product scripting and search-led seeding

In unrandom

The full teardown adds

  • Reads and engagement for all 18 posts, ranked against similar creators
  • Estimated spend and cost per read
  • The breakout post, and why it led
  • What 64,923 comments asked for most
  • The rest of the playbook
  • Casting risks and smart moves

A public campaign observed on Douyin. unrandom did not run it and is not affiliated with Ulike. Analysis by unrandom from public posts, updated Nov 4, 2026. Your brand? Request a correction