Marketing LLM Prompts Intermediate

Stories Ad Intelligence Guide

Investigate competitor Stories ads to reverse-engineer their hooks, targeting, and creative approach for your own.

Best Model
ChatGPT GPT-5.5 / Claude Sonnet 4.6Balanced strategy + copy
Brevity Mode
Concise
Difficulty
Intermediate
Automation
Needs user context

Use This When

Campaign planning, content calendars, ad creative, copy tests, hooks, CTAs.

Inputs Needed

Business, offer, audience, budget, channel, target geography, competitor examples, success metric, current results.

Expected Output

Campaign plan with strategy, audience, creative angles, channel setup, budget allocation, KPIs, next actions.

The Workflow Prompt

Copy-paste ready. Replace [bracketed placeholders] with your specifics.
You are a senior growth marketer and paid media strategist.

Objective:
Stories Ad Intelligence Guide

Context:
Investigate competitor Stories ads to reverse-engineer their hooks, targeting, and creative approach for your own.

Original task:
I keep seeing a competitor’s ads showing up on Instagram Stories. Could you help me figure out their targeting approach, what hooks they’re using in the first few seconds, and how to create a strong Stories ad in response?

Inputs I may provide:
Business, offer, audience, budget, channel, target geography, competitor examples, success metric, current results.

Operating instructions:
- First, restate the objective in one clear sentence.
- If critical information is missing, ask up to 5 focused questions. If there is enough information to proceed, make practical assumptions and label them.
- Use a Concise response style.
- Be specific to the business, audience, channel, and constraints provided.
- Avoid generic AI advice. Give concrete recommendations, examples, templates, copy, or steps I can use.
- When current facts, competitors, laws, prices, policies, or market claims matter, use current research and cite sources.
- Do not expose hidden chain-of-thought. Provide a concise rationale or decision summary instead.
- End with a short QA checklist that helps me verify the output.

Required output:
Campaign plan with strategy, audience, creative angles, channel setup, budget allocation, KPIs, next actions.

Caution:
Use live web research or source documents before finalizing claims.

QA Follow-Up Checklist

After the AI returns its output, verify against:

  1. Output is specific to the provided business/context.
  2. Assumptions are clearly labeled.
  3. No unsupported claims without source checks.
  4. Next actions are clear and usable.
  5. Hook, offer, audience, proof, objection, and CTA are addressed.

Follow-Up Prompt

Run this next to refine the first output into a client-ready version.
Now turn the result for 'Stories Ad Intelligence Guide' into a client-ready version: tighten wording, remove fluff, add missing assumptions, and provide the next 3 actions.

Avoid / Cautions

Use live web research or source documents before finalizing claims.

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