Guides & Cheatsheets

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10 min read

Win/Loss Creative Readout Sheet

A scoring sheet for creative tests: sample-size floors, win/loss/inconclusive bands by metric, what to scale vs kill vs iterate, and the one-page readout the next sprint actually uses.

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TikTok Spark Ads Cheatsheet

Spark Ads as a lookup sheet: authorization codes, post-first rules, inherited social proof, CTA overlay, expiry bands and QA versus cold in-feed uploads.

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Shopify Pixel + CAPI Checklist: EMQ, Dedup and Event QA

A Shopify-specific Meta Pixel and Conversions API checklist: channel settings, standard events, shared event_id dedup, user-data for EMQ, consent, and Events Manager pass/fail.

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Product-URL-to-Ad QA Checklist

Pass/fail QA for URL-to-ad generation: scrape fidelity, claims and price match, image/B-roll use, avatar and voice, captions and specs, and the landing-page gate before you spend.

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Multilingual Ad Localization Cheatsheet

A localisation lookup sheet: translate vs transcreate, character-expansion and caption budgets, currency and claims by market, casting/voice rules, and the native QA gate before you buy traffic.

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Meta Advantage+ Setup Cheatsheet

Advantage+ shopping setup as lookup tables: pixel floors, catalogue QA, creative diversity, existing-customer cap, learning rules and AI UGC load — not a targeting essay.

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Looker Studio Ad Dashboard Cheatsheet

A Looker Studio cheatsheet for paid-social ads: page map, metric formulas, blend keys, date windows, filters that lie, and the scorecard a founder can read in five minutes without a 20-tile mural.

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Google Demand Gen Asset Specs Cheatsheet: Images, Video, Text

Demand Gen asset specifications: logo, image and video ratios and pixel sizes, duration and file caps, text character limits, placement eligibility and asset-group composition.

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Google AI Max Asset Checklist

Asset, pin, feed, URL-expansion and claims checklist for AI Max on Search — plus the PMax/Demand Gen files AI Max will not invent for you.

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Gemini + Google Ads Workflow Cheatsheet: RSA, Demand Gen, QA

A Gemini-to-Google-Ads operating sheet: input pack, RSA character maths, Demand Gen asset copy, pin rules, policy QA and the upload order so generated text does not break the auction.

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Frequency & CPM Diagnostic Sheet

A diagnostic sheet for rising CPMs: frequency bands (cold fatigue 2.5–3.5), mix-shift detectors, auction-vs-creative isolation tests, and the scale / refresh / wait / rollback action grid.

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Founder-Led Ad Script Cheatsheet: Beat Maps and Line Templates

Beat-by-beat founder-to-camera scripts — origin, contradiction, floor demo, honest caveat — plus clone-consent rules and a test matrix that is not a UGC skeleton with the job title swapped in.

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Founder's First 90 Days of Paid Social: Operating Sheet

A 90-day operating sheet for founder-led paid social: tracking and offer gates, budget bands, account structure, creative volume, kill rules, and the week-by-week scorecard from day 1 to day 90.

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Cold Traffic Hook Benchmarks Cheatsheet: 30%+ vs Under 20%

Cold-only hook-rate bands by platform and opener type, first-frame diagnostics, sample-size floors, warm-bleed checks and recut rules — good is 30%+, weak is under 20%.

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Claude Brand-Voice Prompt Sheet for Ads: Voice, Claims, QA

A Claude system-prompt sheet for ad copy: brand-voice fields, calibration examples, claim-safe rewrites, script generation and a compliance pass with pass/fail codes.

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ChatGPT Prompt Library for UGC Ads: Hooks, Scripts and QA

Copy-paste ChatGPT prompts for UGC ads: input pack, hook batches, timed scripts, variation grids and a claim-safe rewrite pass — with output schemas you can brief or render from.

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ChatGPT Ads Creative Specs Cheatsheet

Chat card specs, context-hint rules, image sizes and QA bands for OpenAI Ads Manager — confirm live fields on the day you build; this sheet is the working reference.

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AI UGC vs Human UGC Decision Sheet

A decision sheet for AI UGC versus hired creators: cost and cycle-time bands, when humans still win, hybrid split by job, rights/disclosure, and the kill criteria that stop you using the wrong tool.

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AI Overview & GEO Checklist for Brands: What to Do and Ignore

An operational GEO checklist for brands: eligibility, unique content, ecommerce/local feeds, measurement in Search Console, and the hacks Google says to ignore — not a ranking-magic playbook.

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Agency–Client AI UGC SLA Cheatsheet

The agency–client SLA for AI UGC: volume by spend, turnaround and revision caps, approval windows, disclosure ownership, kill-rule authority, and the artefacts that make a retainer measurable.

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Creative Fatigue Audit: The Weekly Diagnostic Sheet

Weekly fatigue diagnostics with numeric triggers, frequency bands (including 2.5–3.5 on cold), a decay-curve table, and refresh-versus-rebuild rules.

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Pre-Launch QA Checklist: 45 Checks Before You Spend a Dollar

Forty-five pass/fail checks covering creative specs, copy and claims, tracking, campaign structure, landing page and launch gates — with numeric thresholds, not vibes.

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Offer & Angle Grid: 30 Angles Mapped to Offers and Audiences

Thirty creative angles mapped to offer type, audience temperature and the metric each angle should move — a testing grid, not a brainstorm list.

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The AI UGC Ad Launch Cheatsheet: Benchmarks, Specs & Checklists

A complete reference sheet for launching AI UGC video ads — performance benchmarks, platform specs, testing budgets and pre-launch checklists in one page.

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Objection-Handling Matrix: Every Common Objection, Answered On Screen

A lookup matrix of common ad objections with a spoken rebuttal, the proof asset to show, the script beat it belongs in, and the funnel stage that needs it.

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B-Roll Checklist for Product Ads: The 40-Clip Shot Bank

A 40-clip B-roll shot bank for product ads: universal hero and pack shots, hands-in-use, texture and proof inserts, lifestyle cutaways and vertical add-ons, with duration, lighting and cutaway-ratio rules.

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Shot List Templates for UGC Ads: Ready-to-Brief Sheets

Five ready-to-brief shot lists for unboxing, demo, talking-head, lifestyle and comparison ads, each shot specced by framing, angle, duration, prop and lighting.

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UGC Script Skeleton Library: 10 Structures with Timings

Six named UGC script skeletons — PAS, unboxing, 3-reasons, myth-bust, day-in-the-life and testimonial — each broken into second-by-second beats you can brief or generate directly.

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Jewellery Ads Cheatsheet: AOV Tiers, Trust Signals and Benchmarks

Fashion, fine and bridal jewellery economics with distinct CPM, CTR, CPA and AOV bands, trust-signal templates, macro shot lists and the occasion calendar this vertical actually spends on.

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CTA Library for Video Ads: Wording, Timing and Placement

Spoken, on-screen and button CTA lines organized by intent, plus timing marks for 15s/30s/45s ads and an urgency ladder with expected CTR impact.

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Info Product & Course Ads Cheatsheet: Funnels, Benchmarks, Compliance

Funnel types, observed CPA and AOV bands by ticket, creative formats — and the income-claim landmines that get courses banned, refunded and charged back.

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Hook Formula Library: 40 Fill-in-the-Blank Openers

Forty fill-in-the-blank hook templates organized by archetype, each with the vertical it fits, the funnel stage it's built for, and a target hook rate to test against.

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Local Services Ads Cheatsheet: Radius, Lead Costs and Creative

Radius rules, observed lead costs by trade, creative that books jobs — and a hard warning against fake local-customer avatars that get accounts banned and jobs disputed.

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Blended vs Platform ROAS: The Attribution Maths Cheatsheet

MER, aMER and platform ROAS formulas, attribution-window comparisons and the reconciliation workflow for spotting a normal reporting gap versus a broken pixel.

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Creative Volume Per Spend Level: How Many Ads You Actually Need

New creatives per month by daily spend, starter batch composition (3 hooks × 2 avatars), hook-to-body ratios and refresh cadence as budget rises.

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SaaS Ads Cheatsheet: Trial Funnels, CAC Maths and Creative Specs

Trial-funnel maths, observed CAC and payback bands by ACV, creative specs for founder vs product vs customer ads, and the kill/scale gates we use on Meta and LinkedIn for B2B SaaS.

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LTV-to-CAC Thresholds: The Decision Sheet

LTV:CAC bands by business model, payback windows, repeat-rate multipliers and the allowable-CAC formula that turns lifetime value into a kill, tolerate or scale call.

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Fitness & Equipment Ads Cheatsheet: Benchmarks and Claim Rules

Observed CPM, CTR, CPA and AOV bands for fitness accessories, home equipment and machines, plus the claim swaps, demo shot lists and January/BFCM calendar this vertical actually runs on.

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Break-Even ROAS Table by Gross Margin

Break-even ROAS from 20-80% gross margin, contribution-margin haircuts for COGS, shipping and fees, and a target ROAS ladder by growth goal.

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Pet Brand Ads Cheatsheet: Hooks, Benchmarks and Shot Lists

Vertical-specific hooks, shot lists, seasonality and observed CPM, CTR, CPA and AOV bands for pet food, treats, supplements and durables — plus the claim lines that get ads rejected.

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Budget Scaling Increments: When and How Much to Raise

Percent increments by budget tier, the signals required before a raise, cooldowns, horizontal vs vertical rules and rollback triggers.

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CPA-to-Daily-Budget Calculator: The Rules Sheet

How to turn a target CPA into a daily budget: the minimum vs recommended multiplier, the 50-conversion learning-phase rule and ad-set count math.

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Home & Kitchen Ads Cheatsheet: Demo Formats and Benchmarks

Demo-led formats for home and kitchen ads, observed CPM/CTR/CPA bands, second-by-second skeletons, problem-framing rules and a vertical seasonality calendar.

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Creative Testing Budget Formulas: How Much to Spend Per Ad

Spend-per-creative formulas by target CPA, minimum conversions for statistical confidence, a test-duration table and concurrency rules for how many ads to run at once.

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Apparel & Fashion Ads Cheatsheet: Catalog, Creative and Benchmarks

Apparel-specific CPM, CTR, CPA and return bands, catalog and DPA notes, hybrid creative templates, and why AI cannot fake garment drape — film on-body, generate the opinion layer.

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Seasonal Ad Benchmark Calendar: CPM, CVR and Budget by Month

A month-by-month index of CPM and CVR, creative lead times per key period, a week-by-week BFCM ramp table, and peak months by ecommerce vertical.

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Skincare Ads Cheatsheet: Before/After Rules, Benchmarks and Hooks

Before/after rules for beauty ads, observed skincare CPM/CTR/CPA bands, routine and texture hooks, hybrid demo mix and shade-casting notes for paid social.

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Retargeting & Warm Audience Benchmarks Cheatsheet

CPA, CTR and CVR bands for 10 warm audience types, frequency ceilings before fatigue, and how to split budget between cold, warm and retention.

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Ad Benchmarks by Budget Tier: $50/day to $5,000/day

What to expect at each spend tier — sustainable creative count, learning-phase speed, CPA variance and account structure, from $50/day to $5,000/day.

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Supplement Ads Cheatsheet: Benchmarks, Angles and Claim Limits

Observed supplement-ad CPM, CTR, CPA and AOV bands, the angles that survive review, claim limits, hybrid shot mix and seasonality — plus the kill rules for miracle hooks.

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CPM Benchmarks by Country, Placement and Objective

Our observed Meta CPM ranges across 8 countries, 7 placements and 6 objectives, plus the multipliers that explain a sudden CPM spike.

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Music, Voice & Likeness Rights Cheatsheet for Paid Ads

Licence types by use, why trending TikTok sounds are not usable in paid ads, AI voice and face consent, commercial-use rules and a takedown-risk table for UGC ads.

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CPA & ROAS Benchmarks by Vertical: The Reference Table

Observed first-order CPA and ROAS ranges by vertical and AOV band, plus blended return and payback windows so you stop comparing unlike businesses.

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Health & Supplement Ad Claims: The Substantiation Cheatsheet

Claim tiers, banned-to-compliant phrase swaps, evidence-file requirements and typicality rules for health and supplement ads — not legal advice; the advertiser owns compliance.

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CTR Benchmarks by Funnel Stage, Platform and Format

Outbound vs all-clicks CTR bands by cold, warm and hot audiences, plus platform, format and CTR-to-CVR pairing rules.

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AI Disclosure & Synthetic Media Checklist for Ad Creative

Pre-upload checklist for AI UGC ads: when disclosure is required, platform toggles, on-creative wording, metadata, avatar/voice consent records — with the advertiser owning compliance.

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Hook Rate & Hold Rate Benchmarks: What Good Looks Like

Observed hook-rate and hold-rate bands by platform, vertical and funnel stage, plus the diagnosis matrix for which half of the ad to recut.

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TikTok Ad Policy Checklist: What Gets Rejected and Why

TikTok ads rejection checklist: native-format traps, claim and overlay rules, restricted categories, music and Spark limits, synthetic-media disclosure, and observed review timelines. Not legal advice — the advertiser owns compliance.

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Static & Carousel Ad Specs Cheatsheet for Meta and TikTok

Image resolutions, headline and primary-text character limits, carousel card counts, sequencing rules and file-type limits for static and carousel ads on Meta and TikTok.

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Meta Ad Policy Checklist: The Pre-Submission Review Sheet

A pre-submit review sheet for Meta ads: personal-attribute traps, banned-phrasing swaps, restricted-vertical gates, landing-page match, AI disclosure and the appeal path. Not legal advice — the advertiser owns compliance.

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Thumbnail & Cover Frame Specs: The Full Reference Sheet

Exact thumbnail and cover-frame resolutions per platform, how each surface auto-crops or lets you override it, text-overlay rules, and the QA thresholds we check before a first frame ships.

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Creative Asset Handoff Checklist: Brand -> Editor -> Media Buyer

The brand-to-editor-to-media-buyer handoff: deliverable manifest, file naming, folder tree, approval gates and SLA table so a 6-creative batch can launch without a Slack archaeology project.

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Video Export Settings: Codec, Bitrate & File Size Reference

The export settings reference sheet for social video ads — codec and container by platform, a bitrate ladder by resolution, keyframe interval, audio LUFS targets and max file sizes.

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UTM Schema Cheatsheet for Paid Social

A paid-social UTM schema: parameter-by-parameter values, dynamic macros for Meta, TikTok and YouTube, casing rules, GA4 field mapping and the QA checks that catch stripped query strings.

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Caption & Subtitle Specs Cheatsheet for Social Video Ads

Exact font sizes per aspect ratio, words-per-card limits, reading-speed budgets, contrast rules and burn-in vs SRT guidance for captioning social video ads that get watched on mute.

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Creative Naming Conventions: A Schema You Can Actually Report On

A reporting-ready creative naming schema: field order, allowed values, delimiter and casing rules, worked examples, and the parsing checks that keep Ads Manager exports pivotable.

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Safe Zone Map for Vertical Video Ads: Pixel-Exact UI Margins

Pixel-exact safe zones for TikTok, Instagram Reels, Stories, Snapchat and YouTube Shorts on a 1080×1920 canvas — where UI covers your frame and where captions and logos actually stay visible.

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Meta Ad Account Structure Cheatsheet: Campaigns, Ad Sets, Budgets

Campaign, ad-set and budget templates by spend, CBO versus ABO rules, consolidation thresholds and the exclusion map that keeps testing, scaling and retargeting from colliding.

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Aspect Ratio Matrix for Paid Social: Which Ratio, Which Placement

A decision matrix for 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9 in paid social: which ratio fits which placement, how much frame you lose converting between them, and how many exports you actually need.

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The Monthly Creative Sprint: A Week-by-Week Operating Sheet

A 4-week creative operating cadence with owner, output and gate per week, capacity maths by spend tier, and a sprint scorecard you can run without a 12-person team.

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Video Ad Specs by Platform: The 2026 Master Cheatsheet

Every video ad spec you need in one place: aspect ratio, resolution, duration, bitrate, file size and caption rules for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and Snap.

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