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Teardowns of live ads

We take a brand’s public ads from Google’s Ads Transparency Center and Meta’s Ad Library, follow them to the page they send people to, and write down what works, what we’d change and what we’d test next.

SourcesPublic ad libraries and live pages
Client dataNever used
LatestSimba, 10 November 2026

Simba’s Black Friday small print, from ad to page

Discounts that match the page and a price promise in plain English, with five gaps in the small print: six footnote marks with no key in the ad, everything defined as mattresses, biggest ever measured by product count, a mark with no entry and a key that disagrees with itself.

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Grind’s advent calendars, from ad to page

Calendar ads that open the calendar they show and a pod calendar that gives its count, with four details that pull against each other: 12-day calendars sold as every day, three delivery promises, a code the terms rule out and a summer sale on a missing page.

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Gymshark’s payday push, from ad to page

Creators at scale and ads that land on pages built for them, with four details that leak: July’s summer ads still running, a sale bigger than its ads, an Australian detour and two delivery prices on one page.

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Snag’s 25% sale, from ad to page

A strong fit story and a simple offer, with four details that pull against each other: the wording of the offer, the size range, a discount code in two versions and the products the ads name.

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These teardowns use public ads

Long View does the same from inside your account: the ads, the landing pages and the numbers behind both.