What Makes a Winning Ad? Full Breakdown — Transcript
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- 0:00the creation of the ads. So, I typically
- 0:03recommend people start out on either
- 0:04Facebook or TikTok ads because there's
- 0:06kind of a general structure that you can
- 0:08use for both that works very, very well.
- 0:10I want to break down the various parts
- 0:12of an ad for you because when I say ad
- 0:15and when I say creative, they're
- 0:16actually not synonymous. And if you
- 0:18don't understand the various parts of
- 0:19the ad, then it's going to be pretty
- 0:20hard for you to ever make a successful
- 0:22one. So, in order of importance, these
- 0:24are the various parts of the ad. So, the
- 0:26first is the actual creative itself.
- 0:28Now, when I say creative, I mean this
- 0:30right here, which is actually the image
- 0:32or the video that is associated with
- 0:34your ad. If you don't get that right,
- 0:36then nothing else is going to save it. I
- 0:38promise you 100,000%. If you get the
- 0:40creative right, you can mess up
- 0:42everything else, everything else, and
- 0:43you'll still destroy it because a
- 0:45winning ad trumps basically everything.
- 0:48If it's really that good, it'll trump
- 0:49basically everything. Number two, in
- 0:51order of importance, is going to be
- 0:52what's called the primary text. Now, the
- 0:54primary text on Facebook and Instagram,
- 0:56on Facebook, it would actually be
- 0:58there'd be a little section right up
- 0:59here and it'd be right above the ad. On
- 1:01Instagram, it's like right below. This
- 1:03is the second most important part of the
- 1:04ad cuz this is what's called like the ad
- 1:06copy, right? This is what goes along
- 1:08with the creative, but again, when's the
- 1:10last time you looked at an ad and you
- 1:12specifically read every single word of
- 1:13the primary text? Doesn't happen very
- 1:15often. You typically just watch the
- 1:17video, look at the image, and click.
- 1:19That's also what 99% of your customers
- 1:21do as well. So, keep that in mind. The
- 1:22third part of the ad is going to be the
- 1:24headline, which on Facebook is going to
- 1:27be down here right at the bottom, this
- 1:28initial line kind of right there. And
- 1:31then you right below that you have the
- 1:32description, which is right below the
- 1:34headline, right there. And then last but
- 1:36not least, you have the CTA, right? The
- 1:38call to action, which is this little
- 1:39button right there. Most of these, in
- 1:42fact, these three are basically
- 1:44worthless. Like, I've actually spent a
- 1:46lot of time split testing all of these.
- 1:48Primary text maybe makes up, you know,
- 1:5010% of your success unless you're
- 1:52running an image ad, in which case it
- 1:54would be higher. But if you're running a
- 1:55video, that really is 90 to 95% of your
- 1:58success on ads. It's like this variable
- 2:00alone makes up by far the majority of
- 2:02your success in e-commerce in general.
- 2:04If you can make good ads, like you are
- 2:06going to have an easy easy time scaling
- 2:08your business. That's why I say run more
- 2:10ads.
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