Content · Marketing · PR · Creative direction

JAYLIN
PINASCO

A creative with a background in content creation, marketing, PR and creative direction. I make the work, from short-form video to campaign shoots, and build the strategy that gets it in front of the right people.

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Jaylin Pinasco, full-length black-and-white portrait
Worked with
Princess PollyEdiktedScuffersSoleil LuneDo or DrinkViral StudiosIntro BoutiqueThe Digital Rolodex

01DO OR DRINK / VIRAL STUDIOS

Content & marketing intern · Video production & editing · Packaging design

Brand work · 2025–26

Short-form video, packaging and launch content for a party-game brand that grew from TikTok into Target.

50.5M
post views across 5 TikTok accounts
1.04M
likes
51K
shares
253K
profile visits

VIEWS BY TIKTOK ACCOUNT

May 21, 2025 – May 20, 2026 · TikTok Analytics

The largest account alone reached 15M+ unique viewers. 91–99% of views came from the For You feed, so the reach was earned by the content, not by followers.

THE BRIEF

The games go viral on TikTok, but a 15-second clip doesn’t teach anyone how to play. Each piece had to sell the game, explain it, and still work on Amazon and in a buyer’s pitch deck.

WHAT I DID

  • Gameplay shoots: planned and directed gameplay shoots, then edited the footage to highlight real reactions, build engaging transitions, and add captions and on-screen graphics.
  • Tutorials: creative direction and editing for how-to videos that explain each game in seconds, written to work on TikTok and on Amazon listings.
  • Creator marketing: led influencer and creator outreach for TikTok Shop, and tracked performance across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
  • Amazon storefront: listing tiles with card previews, stat callouts and brand messaging.
  • Retail launch: pitch decks and launch materials that helped move games into stores.
  • Packaging & design: worked on the packaging and design for the full game line, from box art to card layouts.

TikToks I worked on

@doordrink 1.3M views · 15.8K likes
Catfished: “Cemical” workersWatch on TikTok
@viralstudios 117K views · 1.2K likes
I Can Name: “Moose??”Watch on TikTok
@reviewthisgame 141.3K views · 2.2K likes
A to Z: Halloween costumesWatch on TikTok

How-to tutorials

Wizards Tavern
¿Cómo Se Dice?
Anxiety
ChainLink

Gameplay content

Amazon storefront tiles

ChainLink Amazon tile
ChainLink
Do or Drink Win or Blackout Amazon tile
Do or Drink
I Can Name Amazon tile
I Can Name
¿Cómo Se Dice? Amazon tile
¿Cómo Se Dice?

Retail launch

10+
games now in Target, Walmart and Spencer’s

In-store launch content gave the TikTok audience a reason to look for the games on the shelf, connecting online attention to retail sales.

The game line · packaging & design

21 GAMES, ONE SHELF

  • Do or Drink Win or Blackout game box
    Do or DrinkWin or Blackout
  • Do or Drink Date Night game box
    Do or DrinkDate Night
  • Do or Drink Girls Night game box
    Do or DrinkGirls Night
  • Do or Drink Naughty Edition game box
    Do or DrinkNaughty Edition
  • Do or Drink Litmas Edition game box
    Do or DrinkLitmas Edition
  • Do or Drink Redneck Edition game box
    Do or DrinkRedneck Edition
  • Do or Drink Blackout Tower game box
    Do or DrinkBlackout Tower
  • ChainLink game box (word race)
    ChainLinkWord race
  • Anxiety game box (party game)
    AnxietyParty game
  • Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? game box (inside-joke game)
    Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?Inside-joke game
  • Scrambled game box (dice word game)
    ScrambledDice word game
  • Wizards Tavern game box (strategy drinking game)
    Wizards TavernStrategy drinking game
  • Catfished game box (party game)
    CatfishedParty game
  • Split Decision game box (party game)
    Split DecisionParty game
  • Who In Our Family? game box (family party game)
    Who In Our Family?Family party game
  • Know Your Worth game box (affirmation cards)
    Know Your WorthAffirmation cards
  • I Can Name… game box (party game)
    I Can Name…Party game
  • Don’t Copy Me game box (party game)
    Don’t Copy MeParty game
  • A to Z game box (word game)
    A to ZWord game
  • Spit It Out game box (party game)
    Spit It OutParty game
  • ¿Cómo Se Dice? game box (family party game)
    ¿Cómo Se Dice?Family party game

Brand context

Viral Studios makes party and card games, including the Do or Drink line, and has sold 2M+ products with 1.3M+ followers across platforms. The brand grew on TikTok, so most people meet a game through a short video before they ever see the box. The challenge was turning that attention into lasting sales: teaching people how to play, giving every new release packaging that stands out on a crowded shelf, and carrying the same energy from TikTok to Amazon and into Target, Walmart and Spencer’s.

What I learned

Short-form content has two jobs: stop the scroll, then make the game make sense. The clips that pulled the most views, like the 1.3M-view Catfished video, were built on real reactions, so I learned to plan shoots around the moment people laugh, not around the product shot. I also learned to make one piece of content work in several places. A clip with clear captions and the rules up front could run on TikTok, sit on an Amazon listing and support a buyer pitch, which made every shoot more valuable to the business.

What I’d do next

With five accounts posting the same games, there’s room to test more deliberately: run different opening hooks for the same game across accounts and compare watch time and shares, then turn the best-performing tutorial format into a template for every new release so launches move faster.

02SOLEIL LUNE

Marketing strategy · Co-creative director · Stylist · Model

Brand work · 2026

Marketing strategy and creative direction for one of an independent apparel brand’s first big releases: finding the audience, then producing and testing the Meta ads that sold the Henley Hoodie pre-order.

Jaylin in the Soleil Lune Henley Hoodie
190
orders from Meta ads
$17.1K
revenue on $4K of ad spend
4.3×
return on ad spend (break-even was 1.6×)
302.8K
Instagram views during the 30-day ad run, 88% from non-followers
Role
Marketing strategy, co-creative director, stylist, model
Team
With founder Nick Schottenfeld
Channels
Instagram, Meta ads, email, website
Product
Henley Hoodie · $90 pre-order (reg. $120)

THE GOAL

Soleil Lune makes heavyweight basics from hemp and organic cotton. This campaign launched the Henley Hoodie, one of the brand’s first big releases, at $90 on pre-order.

As a new label, we had no existing customer base to sell to. We needed to find our audience on Instagram, build awareness and real interest in the product, and turn that interest into purchases on a small budget.

The campaign also had to grow the email list. Visitors were offered 15% off their first order for signing up, so people who weren’t ready to buy could be reached again through email campaigns and automated flows.

Just as important, we wanted a repeatable approach. What we learned about the audience, the creative and the spend had to carry into the next launch.

WHAT I DID

Marketing

  • Audience: helped define who we were selling to, 18–38-year-olds on Instagram, and shaped the campaign around how that audience discovers and shops for clothing.
  • Campaign planning: planned the ad campaigns around clear conversion goals: get people from an ad to a pre-order, or at least onto the email list.
  • Creative testing: set up the photo vs. video A/B test, with four creatives in each set, so results rather than assumptions decided which direction to scale.
  • Meta campaigns: worked with the founder on the Instagram-only campaigns, using a sales objective through the pre-order launch and the follow-up rounds.
  • Performance review: read results by creative, including cost per purchase, reach and return on ad spend, and used them to decide which looks to keep and which to cut.

Creative

  • Paid social creative: developed the concepts for the Meta ads and produced the photo and video assets, directing locations, palettes, styling and posing with the ad format and the sale in mind.
  • Brand look: styled and modeled in the campaigns and kept the visual direction consistent across ads, social and the site.

Campaign photography

THE LOOKBOOK

  • Model in the Soleil Lune Henley Hoodie against a white wall
  • Polaroid portrait in the Henley Hoodie
  • Two portraits in the blue Soleil Lune hoodie
  • Three models in hoodies and cream pants
  • Full-length hoodie and jeans, front and back
  • Poster and outdoor portrait in the hills
  • Lineup of model poses against a blue wall
01/ 09
Henley Hoodie hero shotWhite-wall studio set

The A/B test

PHOTO OR VIDEO: WHICH SELLS MORE HOODIES?

Two Meta ad sets with the same audience (Instagram only, US, ages 18–38) and the same offer. One ran photos, one ran video, four creatives each. Meta moved budget to whichever ad converted.

A · PHOTOS

$403 spent
Purchases
23
$17.52
per purchase
21.2K
people reached
Winning photo ad: one model, hands behind her head
Winner · 23 sales
Group photo ad with three models
Group · 0
Photo ad, model laughing
0 sales

B · VIDEO

$1.80K spent
Purchases
94
$19.17
per purchase
77.4K
people reached
Winning video ad: one model in a beanie leaning toward camera
Winner · 94 sales
Group video ad with three models
Group · 0
Video ad, model smiling full-length
0 sales

A TIE ON EFFICIENCY

Both formats sold at about the same rate per 1,000 impressions (0.66 vs 0.63). Photos were 9% cheaper per sale.

VIDEO WON ON SCALE

Video earned 4× the impressions, so it brought 4× the buyers: 80% of all purchases.

ONE LOOK LED BOTH SETS

In the photo and video sets alike, every purchase came from the creative with one model looking straight into the camera. The group shots spent under $6 each before delivery stopped, so they never got a real chance to sell. It’s a strong signal worth retesting, not proof that eye contact drove the sales.

Return on ad spend by campaign

Dashed line: break-even at 1.6× ($57 gross profit on a $90 hoodie). Every campaign cleared it by more than double.

Every Meta campaign

CampaignOrdersSpendPer orderRevenueROAS
Photo vs. video test117$2,209$18.88$10,5304.8×
Photo-only follow-up32$821$25.65$2,8803.5×
Third creative round41$964$23.50$3,6903.8×
Total190$3,994$21.02$17,1004.3×

Revenue assumes one hoodie per order at the $90 pre-order price.

30 DAYS OF ADS: STORE & INSTAGRAM

During the 30-day Meta ad run · Shopify & Instagram Insights
$14K
total store sales, up 116%
9,905
store sessions, up 138%
9.9K
Instagram profile visits, 1.2K link-in-bio taps
$84.69
average order value, up 25%

Henley Hoodie sell-through by size

The Henley Hoodie brought in $11.5K, up 123%. Two sizes sold out completely.

Where the traffic came from

  • Instagram drove 6.5K sessions, up 116%, and $4.4K in direct social sales.
  • 88% of Instagram views came from non-followers, so the content was reaching new people, not just the existing audience.
  • Top cities: Los Angeles, New York, Brooklyn, Seattle and Denver.
  • 4 influencer placements with 118K–335K followers each.

What I learned

Testing beats guessing. We didn’t know whether photos or video would sell the hoodie, so we ran them side by side with the same audience and offer. Per 1,000 impressions they converted at almost the same rate, but Meta’s delivery leaned into video, giving it about four times the impressions, and that’s where most of the purchases came from.

The bigger lesson: the platform doesn’t split budget evenly. It shifts spend toward whatever gets results early, so a creative can lose before it has really been tested. Reading results ad by ad, including cost per purchase, reach and how each creative held up as spend grew, told us far more than campaign totals, and it shaped how we planned the follow-up rounds.

What I’d do next

Start the next launch with research instead of a blank page. I’d use Meta’s Ad Library and TikTok’s Creative Center to study how comparable apparel brands open their ads, show product and present offers, keeping in mind that the Ad Library shows what’s running but not how it performed.

From those patterns I’d write a few clear hypotheses to test, such as single-model video vs. a creator-style try-on, and give each creative enough spend to be judged fairly, for example by testing in separate ad sets. Then I’d put the email list to work with a welcome flow for new subscribers and retargeting for people who visited but didn’t buy, so the next drop starts with a warm audience.

03DYSON HAIR

Social media strategy · Content direction · Copywriting

Spec concept

A spec project: I redesigned what Dyson Hair’s Instagram could look like if it had its own beauty-first account, separate from fans and purifiers.

Spec concept, not affiliated with or endorsed by Dyson.

THE PROBLEM

Dyson’s hair tools share a feed with fans, purifiers and engineering close-ups, and most posts are polished product shots. It looks premium but feels repetitive, with little storytelling, personality or sense of the people who use the tools. That gives followers few reasons to stop, relate or engage. The opportunity was to make Dyson Hair feel native to Instagram, built around routines, results and personality instead of products on a clean background.

THE INSIGHT

77%of U.S. Gen Z consider social media a trusted source for beauty information. Mintel, 2025

MY APPROACH

I planned the grid around a mix of post types: getting-ready moments, finished-hair payoffs, product close-ups and a polished ad-style graphic. I wrote playful first-person captions to give the account a voice. The goal was a creator’s grid, not a catalog.

Concept Dyson Hair feed with GRWM moments and finished styles
Current Dyson feed mixing hair content with fans and purifiers

THE FEED, BEFORE & AFTER

Before · current feed

Hair content mixed with fans, purifiers and engineering shots.

After · my concept feed

Product close-ups, GRWM moments and finished styles, in a beauty-first voice.

Use the buttons, or drag the handle across the phone.

Voice post: sorry, my Dyson and I have plansVoiceA relatable getting-ready moment that makes Dyson part of the routine.
Ad-style post: pink graphic with the styling toolAd-styleA polished graphic that shows range beyond lifestyle content.
Payoff post: Good Hair from every anglePayoffThe finished style in a mirror selfie: proof the tool delivers.
Product styling post: Good Morning with the AirwrapProduct stylingA calm morning moment to balance the playful posts.

The outcome

The concept shifts the feed from showing products to showing what they do for people. Product shots are still there, but they sit between relatable getting-ready moments, finished-hair payoffs and a playful first-person voice, so scrolling the grid feels more like following a stylist than browsing a catalog. That answers the original problem: every post has a reason to stop, whether it’s a joke, a transformation or a result worth saving, while Dyson’s products stay at the center.

What I’d do next

As a spec project, this has no live performance data yet. The next step would be to test it: run the relatable, people-first posts against the existing product-led style and compare saves, shares and comments to see which approach earns more engagement with Dyson’s audience.

04THE GARDEN & THE FOREST

Styling director · Model

Editorial · Academic

Styling director and model for a classmate’s 2000s-inspired fashion magazine that pairs fashion with Impressionist art.

The magazine has three sections, the pond, the garden and the forest, each drawn from works by Monet, Morisot and Pissarro. The challenge was making each look read as its painting at a glance while still feeling wearable and true to a 2000s mood. I art-directed the styling, built each look and modeled for the shoot.

Garden look one, pastel green and pink
Garden look one, portrait
Garden look one, full-length
Garden look two, teal and sage with a woven cap
Garden look three, pale blue
Garden look three, fringe scarf detail
Garden look three, silver heels
Garden look three, upside-down pose
Forest look, jumping
Forest look, side view with mustard bag
Forest look, wide stance
Forest look, hand in hair
Forest look, profile
Forest look, three-quarter portrait

THE GARDEN

Monet, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny, 1900
Monet, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny, 1900

Soft pastels, flowing silhouettes and ribbon-like movement for a garden-party feel. Look one pairs pastel green and pink, loose and layered. Look two brings in teal and sage with a woven cap and ruffled underlay. Look three closes in pale blue with a fringe scarf, layered bangles and silver heels.

THE FOREST

Monet, Wood Lane (The Hollow, Autumn)
Monet, Wood Lane (The Hollow, Autumn)

Drawn from Monet’s “Wood Lane,” Morisot’s “Julie Daydreaming” and Pissarro’s forests: a brown asymmetric skirt, sequin top and mustard bag in an earthy autumn palette, with layered textures and playful poses for a 2000s feel.

What I learned

Turning a reference into wardrobe is a strategy exercise as much as a styling one. I worked from each painting’s palette and mood first, then silhouette, then details, which kept every look recognizable and gave the shoot a clear system to follow. It’s the same skill behind a consistent brand campaign: translating a creative brief into specific choices a team can execute and an audience can recognize.

My channel · TikTok

@JAYZZONMYFEETT

Fashion and lifestyle content I plan, shoot and edit myself: fit checks, hair, travel and brand partnerships.

View on TikTok
20.2K
followers
770.5K
total likes
1.8M
views on my top post
233K
views on my Princess Polly partner post
Black-and-white portrait of Jaylin

About me

HELLO! I’M JAY

I’m a creative with a background in content creation, marketing and PR, with a soft spot for fashion, beauty and camera rolls full of inspiration.

Inspiration comes from just about everywhere: a really good outfit, an old magazine, a random TikTok, something I noticed walking down the street. My camera roll is basically a never-ending mood board.

Whether I’m dreaming up a brand campaign, styling a look or making a video that ends up in the group chat, I want the work to feel fresh, thoughtful and a little unexpected.

At the end of the day, I think good content should look good, make people feel something and have a little fun along the way.

Skills

Short-form videoContent strategy & planningCreative directionStylingEditingInfluencer marketingCreator partnershipsCopywritingSocial media designPaid social

Toolbox

CREATEInstagram · publishing & communityTikTok · short-form videoCapCut · editing & captionsYouTube Shorts · cross-posting
DESIGNCanva · graphics & layoutLightroom · photo color & edits
SELLAmazon · launch photos & videoTikTok Shop · shoppable contentMeta Ads · paid social
MANAGEGoogle Sheets · content calendarsSlack · team communicationMuck Rack · press trackingMeta Business Suite · schedulingMetricool · scheduling, analytics & ad reporting

EXPERIENCE

Intro Boutique · Social Media Manager
Social content, posting and community for a boutique in Turlock, California.
Now
The Digital Rolodex · Freelance Content Creator
Short-form content for small businesses through a San Luis Obispo marketing agency: on-site filming, editing, social media management and support on digital ad campaigns, tailored to each brand’s identity and audience.
2026
Do or Drink / Viral Studios · Content & Marketing Intern
Short-form video, packaging and design, content strategy, Amazon storefront, creator outreach, TikTok Shop.
2025–26
California’s Children’s Vision Now Coalition · Director of PR & Media Intern
Media strategy and outreach to 200+ California legislative offices for a children’s vision care bill.
2025–26
Yosemite Pathology Medical Group · Marketing & Media Intern
Social content and partnerships with local schools, hospitals and businesses.
2025–26
Envy Fine His & Hers Clothing · Media Content Creator
Social and ad content for a fashion boutique.
2019–22

EDUCATION

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
B.A. Communication · 2022–2025
Merced College
70 units alongside high school · Valedictorian
Cal Poly Week of Welcome
Orientation Leader · 2023
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