Analyze competitors' Meta video ads with AI automatically

Finds top-performing Meta video ads in your niche and breaks down their hooks, scripts, and structure.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; runs once per one per video ad.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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A stepRuns once per itemA personEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market IntelligenceFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Meta Ads LibraryApifyGoogle GeminiGoogle DriveGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Figuring out what makes a competitor's video ad work usually means watching it over and over and taking notes by hand. Doing that across dozens of ads to spot a pattern eats up a full day, and by the time you're done the trends may have already moved on.

Who it fits

A marketer or advertiser who wants competitive intelligence on video ad strategy without manually reviewing every ad.

How it works

  1. You set your search criteria for the Meta Ad Library
  2. The automation scrapes matching video ads and their details
  3. Each video is analyzed by AI to extract the hook, transcript, and structure
  4. Videos are saved to Google Drive and the breakdown is written to a Google Sheet
What you get

Ad strategies you can study anytime

You get the top-performing video ads in your niche broken down by hook, script, and structure.

What you get

A Google Sheet of analyzed competitor video ads, with transcripts and structure breakdowns, plus saved copies of the videos.

What you need

An Apify account, a Google Gemini API key, and a Google account for Drive and Sheets.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

Let's Talk Strategy

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