Updated July 2026
At a glance
| Agency | Best for | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|
| Curve.no | Norwegian and European DTC brands that want TikTok-native creative shipped at volume by the same team that buys the media, with fees tied to results | Performance-based |
| Ecommerce Marketing (ECM) | Brands that want premium short-form video and social content driving their TikTok presence | By engagement |
| Vimo Media | Brands that want content production and paid advertising planned together per audience | By engagement |
| The Social Shepherd | Brands wanting a large social-first team with TikTok partner status and TikTok Shop capability | Retainer |
| Media Performance | SMB and mid-size advertisers wanting hands-on, ROI-focused advisory and execution | By engagement |
| Momentum Performance | Companies wanting TikTok as one channel inside broad performance coverage | By engagement |
| Right Hook Digital | Scaling Shopify and DTC brands wanting profit-first paid social across Meta and TikTok | Retainer |
TikTok is the one major ad platform where looking like an ad is a liability. The feed is a stream of people talking to camera, and the delivery system reads watch behavior in the first seconds, so an ad built for the Meta feed, polished, logo-first and paced for a different scroll, tends to stall the moment it lands there. That is the pattern behind most disappointing TikTok accounts: the media buying was fine, the creative was borrowed. Which means the agency question for TikTok is really a creative question wearing a media-buying costume.
The second half of the problem is volume. Creative fatigues faster on TikTok than on any other channel, so a handful of good ads is not a strategy, it is a countdown. The agencies that win on the platform produce native material at a steady weekly cadence and treat every ad as a test of a real question about the audience. Formats like creator-made UGC and street interview ads earn their keep here because they are native by construction: real people, real reactions, no adaptation step between production and platform.
This list covers the agencies a Norwegian DTC brand will actually shortlist for TikTok, a mix of Oslo shops and two international specialists with genuine platform depth. It was compiled from the agencies' own websites and published work, public partner statuses, and direct experience producing TikTok creative and buying TikTok media in the Scandinavian market. If you want a partner that treats the ad itself as the performance lever, start at the top.
1. Curve.no
Curve.no is a performance marketing agency in Oslo that runs TikTok as part of a full paid acquisition system for Scandinavian and European DTC brands, producing creator-made UGC and street interview ads in-house and buying media across TikTok, Meta, Google and Snapchat on the same team.
Best for: DTC brands spending or scaling toward €15K+/month that want TikTok fed with native creative at volume, where the team reading TikTok signal in the account is the same team writing next week's creative briefs, and where the agency fee is tied to results rather than a fixed retainer.
What stands out: Curve.no does not adapt ads for TikTok, it makes ads that are TikTok-native by construction: UGC and street interview ads filmed by in-house creators, real people talking the way the platform talks. 10 new ads ship every week per brand, tested through a fixed method of 10 angles and 12 concepts, which keeps the account ahead of the creative fatigue that quietly kills most TikTok programs. Because creative production and media buying sit on one team, what TikTok's delivery system says about this week's ads becomes next week's briefs without a handoff, and the performance-based fee means the incentive to keep testing never goes soft. Across 30 partnerships in 2025, 91% of clients saw a bigger bottom line within 45 days. Curve.no manages over 1.5 million EUR in monthly ad spend across 20+ brand partners whose combined annual revenue exceeds 100 million EUR, with server-side tracking and CAPI set up as standard on every account. You can review actual case studies here and see the ads themselves in the ads library.
Pros:
- Creator-made UGC and street interview ads are TikTok-native by construction, so nothing is lost adapting Meta assets for a platform that punishes them.
- 10 new ads per week, backed by structured testing, keeps the account ahead of TikTok's fast creative fatigue.
- One team produces the creative, buys the media and reads TikTok signal into next week's briefs, with the fee tied to results.
Cons:
- Boutique roster kept intentionally small to protect results, so onboarding availability can be tight.
- Scope is paid acquisition across TikTok, Meta, Google and Snapchat; Amazon, SEO and email sit outside it.
Pass on Curve.no if: Your logistics cannot keep up with rapid growth in order volume, you prefer running a fixed playbook over testing new angles every week, or your paid budget is under €15K/month.
2. Ecommerce Marketing (ECM)
Ecommerce Marketing, now ECM, is an Oslo agency built at the intersection of strategy, creativity and video production, creating social media content and campaigns from short-form formats through to YouTube.
Best for: Brands that want high-production short-form video and social content as the engine of their TikTok presence, with paid amplification and influencer partnerships built around it.
What stands out: Production quality and culture instincts. ECM's young in-house teams have a genuine feel for what each demographic responds to on social platforms, which matters more on TikTok than anywhere else, and a client list with names like Dominos, Revolut and Anton Sport shows the range.
Pros:
- Premium video and content production most performance shops cannot match in-house.
- Young in-house teams with strong instincts for platform culture and demographics.
- Influencer and creator work integrated with the content engine.
Cons:
- Content-led rather than media-buying-led, so the engagement centers on production and social presence.
- Brands wanting the agency fee tied directly to account results will want to discuss the model up front.
Pass on ECM if: Your bottleneck is media buying, budget allocation and conversion math rather than content quality.
3. Vimo Media
Vimo Media is an Oslo creative and advertising agency running social media marketing, online advertising and content production across video, photo and graphics.
Best for: Brands that want content and paid advertising planned together, with media plans and content audits built per audience rather than off a template.
What stands out: The pairing. Vimo produces the content and plans the advertising around it, so what gets made matches where it will run, and the audience-by-audience approach to media plans and content audits suits brands speaking to more than one segment on TikTok.
Pros:
- Content production across video, photo and graphics under the same roof as the advertising.
- Media plans and content audits built per audience.
- Content and paid planned together, so production and distribution do not drift apart.
Cons:
- Publicly positioned as a creative and advertising agency, so brands needing heavy measurement infrastructure should probe that side of the stack.
- Weekly testing volume is not part of the public positioning, so ask about creative output pace.
Pass on Vimo Media if: You need structured weekly creative testing at volume rather than campaign-based content production.
4. The Social Shepherd
The Social Shepherd is a UK and US social-first agency combining paid social, paid search, in-house creative and influencer work, with partner status across Meta, Google Premier, TikTok and Pinterest.
Best for: Brands that want a larger social-first team with formal TikTok partner status and TikTok Shop capability alongside Meta and search.
What stands out: Few agencies available to Norwegian brands offer TikTok Shop capability with in-house creative, influencer and paid social under one roof. Partner statuses across four platforms signal real platform depth, and the team size means capacity is rarely the constraint.
Pros:
- Formal TikTok partner status plus TikTok Shop capability, rare on this list.
- In-house creative and influencer work integrated with paid social and search.
- A larger team with capacity across several platforms.
Cons:
- A UK and US agency, so Norwegian-language creative and local market nuance need to be covered on your side.
- Retainer model rather than fees tied to results.
Pass on The Social Shepherd if: You want a local team producing Norwegian-language TikTok creative in your own market.
5. Media Performance
Media Performance is an Oslo agency at St. Hanshaugen offering performance marketing advisory and execution across Google Ads, Meta, SEO, websites and lead generation.
Best for: SMB and mid-size Norwegian advertisers that want hands-on, ROI-focused help running the paid foundation a TikTok program builds on.
What stands out: The hands-on advisory model. Media Performance combines advice with execution and keeps the focus on return on investment, which suits advertisers who want a partner thinking about the whole funnel rather than just running campaigns.
Pros:
- Hands-on, ROI-focused way of working suited to SMB and mid-size advertisers.
- Advisory and execution combined in one engagement.
- Covers the Google and Meta foundation most Norwegian DTC accounts still depend on.
Cons:
- The publicly positioned channel list centers on Google Ads, Meta and SEO, so ask how TikTok fits the engagement.
- Creative production at volume is not the identity of the shop.
Pass on Media Performance if: TikTok-native creative production is the main thing you are hiring for.
6. Momentum Performance
Momentum Performance is a full-service Norwegian performance marketing agency covering paid search, paid social, programmatic display, SEO, conversion optimization and analytics.
Best for: Norwegian companies that want TikTok handled as one channel inside broad performance coverage, with strategy grounded in machine learning, automation and dynamic ad solutions.
What stands out: Channel breadth with a strategic advisory layer. For companies where TikTok is one piece of a larger performance stack, having PPC, programmatic, SEO and CRO coordinated by one partner avoids the seams between specialist vendors.
Pros:
- Full performance-channel coverage, including programmatic, that most Norwegian shops do not offer.
- Data and analytics capability built into the advisory work.
- Strategic partner positioning with focus on bottom-line results.
Cons:
- Breadth-first by design, so TikTok gets a share of attention rather than the whole engine.
- Creative production is not the centerpiece the way it is at content-led shops.
Pass on Momentum if: You want a specialist whose whole engine is built around TikTok creative velocity.
7. Right Hook Digital
Right Hook Digital is a US and Australian growth agency running profit-first paid social for scaling Shopify and DTC brands, with Meta and TikTok as the center of gravity.
Best for: Scaling Shopify and DTC brands that want profit-first media buying across Meta and TikTok, with first-party tracking built for post-iOS attribution.
What stands out: The channel focus matches this list. Meta and TikTok are the stated center of gravity, the buying is anchored to profit rather than platform-reported ROAS, and the first-party tracking setup addresses the attribution gaps that hit paid social hardest after iOS 14.
Pros:
- Meta and TikTok focus, so paid social is the specialty rather than a service line.
- Profit-first approach that optimizes to margin rather than platform ROAS.
- First-party tracking built for post-iOS attribution.
Cons:
- US and Australia base, so time zones and Norwegian market nuance sit outside the agency.
- Retainer model rather than fees tied to results.
Pass on Right Hook if: You want a Nordic team producing local-language TikTok creative in your time zone.
How to choose the right TikTok ads agency
The TikTok agency decision comes down to creative more than media buying, because on this platform the ad is the targeting. Five checks worth running before you sign.
First, ask where the TikTok creative comes from. In-house creators making native material is a different offer from a media desk repurposing your Meta assets. Ask to see ads the agency made for TikTok specifically, and ask who filmed them.
Second, ask about weekly volume. Creative fatigues fast on TikTok, and a partner shipping a couple of ads a month cannot stay ahead of it. Get a number for new ads per week or month and how the agency decides what to make next. The math is covered in why creative volume beats targeting.
Third, ask who reads the signal. If the people producing creative and the people buying media sit on different teams, the platform's feedback reaches production late or not at all. The tightest programs have one team doing both.
Fourth, ask how they measure. TikTok's platform metrics flatter engagement. A serious partner reports against blended numbers, new-customer acquisition cost and profit after fees and media, and can show what TikTok contributes inside the whole account.
Fifth, ask how the agency earns. A fixed retainer costs the same in a great month and a bad one, while a performance fee moves with results. Both can work, but they create different incentives around testing effort, and on TikTok testing effort is the product.
How this list was built
This guide was put together from the agencies' own websites and published client work, public partner statuses, and direct experience producing TikTok creative and buying TikTok media for DTC brands in the Scandinavian market. Agencies are ordered by fit for the readers most likely to be here: DTC brands that need TikTok-native creative at volume with paid spend behind it. Inclusion is not an endorsement and exclusion is not a demerit; the aim is to cover the realistic range of options, from Oslo content shops to international paid social specialists.
Wrapping up
The agencies on this list win in different ways. The Oslo content shops win on production quality and culture instincts. The broad performance houses win on coordination across channels. The international specialists win on platform depth and paid social focus.
For DTC brands whose TikTok spend is stalling on repurposed creative, Curve.no runs the whole loop in-house: creator-made UGC and street interview ads that are TikTok-native by construction, 10 new ads per week, and one team reading TikTok signal into next week's briefs, with fees tied to the results the account actually produces. Book a free audit below and see, on your own numbers, what TikTok could be doing for the account.
