DNG OPS Digital Negative Book a teardown

A digital negative is the file before anyone makes it good.

That's what you send us. Product photography, campaign footage, whatever's sitting in your catalog export. What comes back every week is twenty to eighty finished ads built for outdoor and performance apparel. One flat fee, and you own all of it.

We are accountable for throughput. Never for your ROAS.

Anyone who promises you a ROAS number is guessing, and probably knows it. Too much of that number belongs to your product, your pricing and your margins for us to take credit for it. What we can put a number against is the thing your account is actually starved of — enough new creative, every week, to find the winners. Then we go into your ad account and tell you which of ours worked. Including the ones that didn't.

Two production lines, one house style.

Everything starts from material you already own. Forty ads a month isn't forty shoots. It's one body of footage re-hooked forty ways, and that's the whole trick — it's why the price works.

Catalog enrichment

Your product feed, turned into branded dynamic product ads. Frames, technical callouts, price and offer treatments — built once as a template, then applied across every SKU. It scales with your catalog rather than with our hours, which is why a 400-SKU brand doesn't cost four times what a 100-SKU brand does.

  • Branded DPA frames across the full feed
  • Technical spec callouts and rating overlays
  • Price and offer badge system
  • Three placements generated per product

Variant production

Existing photography, campaign footage and customer video, re-cut into volume. We pull the hooks straight out of your reviews — your customers describe the product better than we can, and the performance data backs that up every time.

  • Hook testing across one body of footage
  • Static variants in seven format types
  • Captioned vertical video
  • Iteration on whatever proves out
800 × 1000
4:5Feed
1080 × 1080
1:1Carousel
1080 × 1920
9:16Story and Reels

One design, laid out per placement. Never cropped to fit — squeezed type in a 9:16 is how you spot an agency cutting corners. Every static carries four things: a hook in the upper third, the product, one piece of proof, and a small offer and mark.

0:00–0:03The hook

Carries roughly eighty per cent of the performance. Nothing after it gets delivered if this fails.

0:03–0:10The problem

The condition the garment was built for, in the customer's own words.

0:10–0:20The proof

Construction, materials, measured ratings, or a real review on screen.

0:20–0:30The offer

One action. A drop date, remaining sizes, or the direct commit.

We don't use synthetic on-model imagery. Apparel is where generated figures fall apart — hands, seams, drape, fit. Someone always notices, and it's usually a customer. Every variant comes from real footage and real product photography, which sidesteps the problem instead of betting nobody looks closely.

Apparel creative fatigues faster than any category in paid social.

It's aesthetic, it's trend-tied, and it decays in weeks rather than months. The bottleneck isn't ideas and it isn't budget — nobody serious is short of either. It's production time, and you can see it sitting in the numbers below.

What a finished ad asset costs, by source. Third-party figures are published market rates.
Where brands buy creativeTypical cost
Freelance editor$150 – 700 per video
Production studio$300 – 1,000 per video
Studio shoot day$2,500 – 8,000 per day
Agency retainer$3,000 – 25,000 per month
DNG Ops, Essential$100.00 per asset
DNG Ops, Growth$87.50 per asset
DNG Ops, Scale$68.75 per asset

Ours is just arithmetic — the monthly fee divided by the assets that fee guarantees. You won't find a claim anywhere on this page about what your ads will return. That number lives in your account, not in our marketing.

Published research on creative volume in paid social.
FindingFigure
Share of ads that become winners5 – 8%
New creatives launched weekly, top-quartile accounts8
New creatives launched weekly, average account4
Concurrent ads at leading apparel brands100 – 300
Return on enriched dynamic product ads4 – 8×
Return on plain catalog feeds1 – 2.5×

Test twenty creatives, find roughly one winner. Test fifty, find three. That arithmetic is the entire argument for a retainer instead of a project fee, and it's the reason one brilliant video won't save an account.

Flat monthly. Card on file, charged in advance.

No commission on your ad spend, no hourly billing, no line items you didn't see coming. You're buying a guaranteed number of finished assets every month. That's the whole model.

EssentialGrowthScale
Monthly fee $2,000per month $3,500per month $5,500per month
Finished assets per month204080
Cost per asset$100.00$87.50$68.75
Catalog enrichmentFull feedFull feedFull feed
Static variants, all placementsYesYesYes
Video variants and hook testingYesYes
Iteration on proven winnersYes
Drop campaign supportYes
Original music and sound design+$450 / moIncluded
Performance report from your ad accountMonthlyMonthlyMonthly
Expected winners per month1 – 22 – 34 – 6

Onboarding is a one-time $1,250 to $2,250 depending on catalog size, and covers the brand deep-dive, the angle and hook library, an audit of your current ad account, and the first batch. Full original scoring for long-form brand films is quoted per campaign, $750 to $2,000. Expected winners are the published 5–8% rate applied to your monthly volume, not a guarantee.

The terms, before you have to ask for them.

Every line here is a constraint on us, not on you. They're on the homepage rather than buried in a contract because the brands worth working with read them and relax.

Billing
Card on file, charged in advance of work
Delivery
Weekly, asynchronous, on a fixed day
Revisions
Two rounds per batch
Availability
Weekdays, 11am–1pm and 4pm–6pm ET
Ad account
Read-only partner access, never your login
Initial term
Three months, then month to month
Ownership
Final assets are yours on payment
What we keep
The right to show the work in our portfolio

Two partners. Every number has one name against it.

There are two of us. You should know which one picks up, and when.

Grigori

Client side and original audio

Does the ad-library digging, builds the speculative work, and takes the calls. Also writes the original music and sound design in house, which comes out of ten years in music production and audio engineering rather than a stock library subscription. Accountable for new clients signed.

Dom

Production and delivery

Runs onboarding, the weekly batch, and quality control. Holds the response windows, and writes the monthly report against your ad account. Accountable for retention and for delivery landing on time. He also drew the mark at the top of this page.

Twenty minutes on the ads you are running now.

Before we talk, we pull your live ads out of the Meta Ad Library — how many you're running, how long each one has been up, what's gone stale. Then we tell you where the gap is. If the honest answer is that you don't need us yet, we'll say that. Costs you nothing either way.

grigori@dngops.com (609) 200-1769 Weekdays, 11am–1pm and 4pm–6pm ET

Before the call

We do the homework. Nothing to fill in beyond your brand name.

On the call

What is running, how long it has been running, and what that is costing you.

Afterwards

We name the tier that fits and then stop talking. No drip sequence, no chasing.

If you start

Brand brief, onboarding, then your first weekly delivery inside two weeks.