competitive-ads-extractor · Competitive Ads Analysis
A skill that extracts competitors' ads from the Facebook Ad Library, LinkedIn, and other ad libraries: it captures screenshots and analyzes the problems they highlight, the use cases they target, and the copy and creative patterns that resonate — distilling "what's working."
Supports deep dives on one competitor, multi-competitor comparisons, industry benchmarks, and trend tracking. Output: analysis reports, archived ad screenshots, and a pattern library you can borrow from.
Example invocation: "Pull Notion's active ads from the Facebook Ad Library and analyze which pain points its copy is hitting."
Full brief
Positioning
competitive-ads-extractor is an intelligence and analysis tool for competitor advertising: it pulls competitors' live ads from public ad libraries, analyzes their angles, pain points, and creative patterns, and feeds inspiration and evidence back into your own campaigns.
Core capabilities
- Ad extraction: pulls live competitor ads from the Facebook Ad Library, LinkedIn, and similar sources.
- Screenshot archive: saves visual copies of every ad into a browsable library.
- Messaging analysis: identifies the problems, use cases, value props, and audience segments each ad targets.
- Categorization: groups ads by theme, audience, or format.
- Winning-pattern detection: finds recurring high-frequency themes and creative formulas, with explanations of why they likely work.
- Recommendations: test directions for your own ads, derived from competitor patterns.
- Advanced: trend tracking (same competitor across quarters), multi-competitor comparisons, industry benchmarks, video-vs-static format analysis.
Workflow
- Name the competitors and platforms (one or several)
- Extract live ads from the ad libraries and save screenshots
- Analyze messaging: problems, use cases, value props, CTA patterns
- Categorize and surface recurring winning patterns
- Output the analysis report and recommendations
Inputs & outputs
| Input | Notes |
|---|---|
| Competitor names | Required — one or several |
| Platforms | Optional — e.g. Facebook Ad Library / LinkedIn / TikTok |
| Analysis angle | Optional — focus on a pain point, format, or audience |
Output: a Markdown analysis report, an archived screenshot library organized by competitor, a CSV detail sheet (copy/CTA/themes), and an optional pattern library and slide deck.
Boundaries with adjacent skills
- skill-campaign-planner: plans a full campaign of your own; this skill analyzes competitors for inspiration — the intelligence work that precedes planning.
Fit
- Researching competitors' ad strategies and market positioning
- Finding copy and creative inspiration for your own ads
- Spotting use cases and pain-point gaps competitors don't cover
- Market reconnaissance and benchmarking before planning a media buy
Before you start
- Have your competitor list and target platforms ready.
- Research and inspiration only — don't lift copy or designs directly; respect intellectual property.
- Scrape the same competitor set regularly (e.g. monthly) to enable trend tracking.
competitive-ads-extractor is part of the Aiglade Skill library. Invoke it from the Aiglade chat box in plain language.