Red Antler-owned Creator Studio Wants to Fight AI Slop With UGC

Fat Earth Studios is a bid to capture shifting budgets as influencer content outperforms on social

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As social media platforms flood with AI-generated “slop,” brands need to bring more humanity to their content in order to stand out.

For the past year, brand design agency Red Antler Group has been quietly building an answer to that problem: a creator content studio within its performance marketing arm, Fat Earth.

Fat Earth Studios aims to scale user-generated and influencer content from end-to-end, matching clients with the right creators, briefing those creators on how to position the message in an authentic way, and boosting that content across social.

“In some cases, we actually say [to the creators], ‘No notes, please do your thing.

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Christopher Cicchiello

Christopher Cicchiello is ADWEEK's agencies reporter. Previously, he was on the breaking news assignment desk at NBC News in Washington D.C., where he earned an Emmy nomination for his 2024 election coverage. His byline has appeared in NBC News, TODAY, Quincy News, The Times Union, and The Daily Orange.