"roas dropped overnight, is meta broken?"
i get some version of this every week
before you touch anything, check these in order
takes about 15 minutes
> the hook
compare hook rate on your top 3 ads with last week
if it fell, the ad got tired
> frequency
best ad above 3 or 4 on prospecting means most people have already seen it
> cpm
cpm jumped while ctr stayed flat
that's the auction getting more expensive, normal when a big season starts
> the page
clicks holding, conversion rate down
check the site, a broken discount code or a slow checkout can tank a whole day
> the offer
a competitor launched a bigger deal this week
the market moved around your ad
if none of those moved, zoom out to 7 days
2 bad days happen to every account
the most common fix is also the worst one
turning everything off and relaunching
you reset learning and lose the ads that were still working
diagnose first, then change one thing
most retargeting setups are still a maze of ad sets sliced by day windows with $5 budgets
meta re-catches your visitors inside broad anyway now
what's left to win is the message a warm person sees right before they buy
they visited, maybe added to cart, then left
usually one unanswered objection is standing in the way
the setup i'd run
> one retargeting campaign, visitors + engagers + add to carts, buyers excluded
> 5-10% of total spend
> same kill rule as cold, if it doesn't clear break even it goes
> new creative once frequency passes 4-5
> links with the discount already applied
then 4 messages that close warm traffic, starting with the objection killer
wrote it all up with live bofu ads for each one
link in the comments
here's the retargeting & bofu playbook, the setup + the 4 closing messages
rural-lifeboat-196.notion.si…
bofu retargeting messages board app.gethookd.ai/share/board/…
gave ai 50 of our reviews and asked what people actually love about the product
better angles than our last 3 briefs honestly
this menopause ad has been live 224 days
first line: "i was 49 when i just started feeling a bit off"
most brands run fear hooks with no fix
cheap cpm, then the funnel dies because nobody trusts the brand
every fear ad that scales runs the same arc
> fear
> "not your fault"
> the real cause
> the fix
the "not your fault" line is the part people skip
it's what turns a scary hook into a buyer instead of a bounce
this one hits all 4 beats in the first 20 seconds, then shows the product
put together how to find the fear ads winning in your niche and rebuild them for your product, all live ads
link in the comments
here's fear-based ads, ad angles vol. 01
rural-lifeboat-196.notion.si…
and the menopause board the ad in the video is from
app.gethookd.ai/share/board/…
cloudsole's ad opens with "WARNING: Fake Insoles Everywhere"
caption just says "copy us"
they took the knockoffs and made them the hook
if people copy you, you're probably the real one
running since feb 28
every brand with a decent product has copycats and almost nobody puts that in an ad
link in the comments for the ad + their 100 longest running ads
the ad → app.gethookd.ai/ads/81920311
cloudsole's 100 longest running ads → app.gethookd.ai/share/board/…
cpms keep going up and most stores are still on a $35 aov
i've worked with 60+ ecom brands and the ones that don't panic when cpms jump usually have a higher aov
same traffic, same ads
the offer decides what you can pay for a customer
muravai has had a "black friday" buy 1 get 1 running since feb 2025 lol
601 days
minus sells 3 jars by showing "after 30 days"
live 391 days
the 3 levers, in order
> post-purchase upsell
> tiers + bundles
> subscription
wrote the full playbook with the upsell flow, the page copy and the numbers to check first
rt + comment "AOV" and i'll send it
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971 ads live for one belt
vittelo's ugc in this video has been running 350 to 575 days
3 different people, same 3 points every time
> no holes
> perfect fit
> the click
someone wrote those lines into the brief
most ugc rounds flop because the brief is 3 sentences and nobody wrote the hook
put the whole ugc system in one doc
> where to find creators + 2026 rates
> the brief that roughly doubles your usable videos
> usage rights before you pay
> where ai ugc actually fits
rt + comment "UGC" and i'll send it
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everyone says ads need to be 15 sec now
beauty pie has a 1:50 makeup tutorial running since july 12
makeup artist with 25 years of experience doing a full before and after
no fast cuts, no trending sound
so much for attention spans lol
link in the comments for the full ad + more before/afters
the ad → app.gethookd.ai/ads/12041126…
before/after board → app.gethookd.ai/share/board/…
Henry retweeted
a nail sticker brand has 2,868 ads running on meta right now
this one's been live since dec 2023. 1,038 days
> no influencer
> no face
> just the wraps on the sheet + a voiceover
meanwhile we're all spending 3 weeks on one "perfect" ad lol
an animated ad used to cost $3-5k from a studio
now it's $3-6 in ai credits and under an hour once it's set up
and they're running. 3 cgi / cartoon doctor ads in health live 228, 234 and 238 days right now
the boring mechanism bit ends up being the best part of the ad
> claymation villains
> x-ray inside the body shots
> pixar style characters
wrote up the formats, a full teardown and every prompt for the 7 steps
rt + comment "ANIMATION" and i'll send it
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most of the ai image ads i see in ad accounts right now are burning money
you can spot them instantly, too shiny, too perfect, nothing like a real winning static
the problem isn't the tool. people just ask it for "a nice ad" instead of starting from ads that already make money
we wrote a superprompt that starts from real winners
rt + comment "IMAGE" and i'll send it
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the brands using ai well arent making more ads, theyre killing bad ideas faster
I've spoken with a few guys using jev to evaluate ads and it works extremely well
the fastest way to find a winning angle is to steal the map from a competitor who already paid for it
targeting didn't die, it moved into the creative. if all your ads are one angle with different first lines, facebook reads them as one ad and you hit a ceiling no matter the budget
the big spenders don't run campaigns anymore, they run portfolios. resilia runs ads through at least 4 different pages and one of them has 1,658 ads live
so i x-ray competitors instead of guessing. 12 prompts you paste into claude with the gethookd mcp, one product url in, their whole angle map out, then rebuilt for your product
rt + comment "INTEL" and i'll send it
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most founder ads are boring, someone smiling at the camera saying "hi i started this brand in my kitchen"
betterwild did the opposite
"BetterWild Founder Exposes Big Secret"
the founder isn't telling you their story, they're spilling something. and people will sit through gossip a lot longer than a pitch
it's been running since aug 13
i'd test this before another "my story" ad
link in the comments for the ad + 324 other founder ads
the ad → app.gethookd.ai/ads/14466233…
324 founder ads → app.gethookd.ai/share/board/…




