Creative strategy · for Chad
We read all 148 of your live ads and 208 frames from eight accounts around you, one picture at a time. None of the litter accounts argues against the old plastic box. You do, on 16 of 105, on smell, scrubbing or waste, and once against a machine; never on money or the people in the house. Two arguments in that lane are still open, and your own site and reviews already make both. So we built them.
01 · Your live ads now
Nearly half of your 105 creatives show how the box works; five are review cards and twelve more are your "One star." parody-review joke. Sixteen put an old box in the frame as the thing to leave (fifteen a plastic tray, one a machine), eleven of them live in the last 15 days, and that group is the lane this page is about.
148 ads live on 8 September, checked in two places; the same picture on more than one ad counted once, 105 distinct creatives. The oldest went live on 16 Jun, 73 of the 105 in August or later, and every frame opens in the Ad Library.
What the 105 creatives are doing
25 of 105 look shot on a phone in a real room.
Old-box row by eye; it overlaps the smell and scrubbing rows.
How they are made
Your 103 creatives by what the picture argues, oldest 4 of each row, days live on each (two third-party advertorial frames not reproduced)
16 of 105
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17 of 105
12 of 105, 4 of them in the old-box row
7 of 105, 4 of them in the old-box row
4 of 105
1 of 105
1 of 105
4 of 105
02 · The accounts around you
What the picture says, not the caption. Per account: what the frames are doing, the oldest 4 of the 40 we pulled (the rest behind a button), days live as of 8 September 2026. Most of an account's 40 launched together, so we compare across accounts, not inside one. Every frame opens in the Ad Library.
What the frames are doing
24 distinct frames read, from the 39 we pulled.
What the frames are doing
26 distinct frames read, from the 40 we pulled.
What the frames are doing
29 distinct frames read, from the 40 we pulled.
What the frames are doing
30 distinct frames read, from the 40 we pulled.
The oldest 4 of the 40 we pulled
What the frames are doing
30 distinct frames read, from the 38 we pulled.
The oldest 4 of the 38 we pulled
Why no numbers here
Once duplicates are removed, this account is 11 distinct frames from the 40 we pulled, most launched on 27 Aug. Too few to put a percentage on. Frames only.
What the frames are doing
30 distinct frames read, from the 40 we pulled.
What the frames are doing
28 distinct frames read, from the 39 we pulled.
03 · What we make of it
197 distinct frames across 7 accounts; Tidy Cats is frames only, too few to count.
Half the automatic box's frames are a cat in the machine, and its oldest of the 40 we pulled has run 154 days with no headline.
cat-only frames: automatic box 15 of 30 · three other litter accounts 22 of 79 · you: 4 of 105
Litter tracked across a floor, water poured on it, a finger pointing into a used machine: the category films it and you design it.
phone-shot: 144 of 208 peer frames · litter accounts 99 of 139 · you: 25 of 105
Six of the eight accounts open by saying who the ad is for ("Cat parents in small spaces." "I have 9 large cats."); you do it twice, both to the scrubber.
six of eight accounts, by eye · you: 2 of 105
The biggest litter account prints "$149" on 5 of 30 frames and the toilet paper subscription puts "$56 for 4 months" on a sticky note; the box never prints a number.
a dollar figure on the frame: litter 8 of 150, never per month · the toilet paper brand 9 of 28 · you: 0 of 105
You put the old tray in the picture as the thing to leave on 16 of 105 (fifteen a plastic tray, one a machine), 11 of them live in the last 15 days, on smell, scrubbing or waste and once a machine, never on money or the people in the house.
old box in the frame as the thing to leave: litter peers 0 of 150 · you: 16 of 105, opened one by one
The biggest litter account points into the other machine and lets a customer say the name in a comment reply, no logo; your site has a whole page against the machine and your ads do not.
a rival on the frame: litter at least 4 of 150, all one account, by shape or a customer's words · the two analogues 6 of 58 · you: 0 of 105
The one-line read. The other litter brands sell the new box. You are the account that argues against the old one, and so far only on what it holds. The money and the people at the door are the two arguments left in your lane, and you already make both everywhere except in an ad. The two statics below are those two arguments, in your look.
What we did not count: what happens inside a video after its first frame, and any ad outside the 40 Meta returned per account. Every "none" above means none of the frames we opened.
04 · The angles
05 · The ads, made
Two statics. The lane you are building, two arguments it has not carried. Your split, your palette, your numbers. No offer on either; the 30% stays where it is.
Five from the creative department, made blind
A litter box is not supposed to last ten years.Durability as the flaw.
Not one of them has ever been scrubbed.No old box on the frame at all.
We don't sell litter boxes. We sell the hour you spend on one.
"It always comes just in time." Paula, 5-star review.
Email support before your next box. No fee. That's the whole process.Our nervous one. Needs your word on the cancel flow.
Five from the creative department, made blind
Nobody's hallway smells that much like vanilla.Our nervous one.
Five cats. Guess how many her guests counted.
You're allowed to have people over again.
"I walked by and didn't immediately know a litter box existed in that bathroom at all."
We have a cat. You'll have to take our word for it.Woven on a real doormat, cat's paws at the edge.
06 · The videos, with scripts
Phone, no crew, no set, no music. A customer or creator with her own cat, her own bathroom, her own front door. Captions in your sentence case.
Two ways to make these
Shot: a phone, a real hallway, a real cat, one afternoon.
AI commercial: the same script, the rooms and the cat generated, cinematic light, no shoot. We can do either, or one of each to test.
It smells nice in here.
Thanks.
Wait. You have a cat?
Two, actually. This is the box. Nobody can tell. That's the whole point.On screen at 9s: Nobody can tell.
It comes every four weeks, full. When the month's up, I tape it shut and it goes out with the recycling.On screen: Every 4 weeks. Full. then Tape it. Recycle it.
I have people over now. That's new.
Five openings from the creative department, made blind
House tour. We're starting in the bathroom. That's where the litter box is.
So you don't have the cat anymore?
I do. She's behind you.
I've been told I don't smell like a cat. I'm choosing to take it as a compliment.
Don't tell her we have a cat. Let's see how long it takes.A timer in the corner.
Since when do they have a cat?Our nervous one; needs the guests' consent.
She stopped using her box last winter.On screen: Her old box had a wall she couldn't climb anymore.
I thought it was her. It was the wall.On screen at 4s: 8.75 inches. At 7s, as the strip comes away: 5.25 inches.
That was the whole fix.On screen: That was the whole fix.
Five openings from the creative department, made blind
Everyone said she'd got fussy. She hadn't. The wall had got tall.
Most people never tear this bit out. Here's who it's for.
This is the only litter box I've ever been allowed to take a piece off. On purpose.
Third go. Okay. I'll fix it.The little one, on the way in.
Our door is 8.75 inches high. That's too high for some cats. So we built a second door into the first one.Our nervous one; needs Chad on camera.
It's box day. Watch.On screen: Box day.
No store run. No bag. No scrub.On screen at 15s: Litter's already in it.
Two minutes. Once a month. That's the whole chore.On screen: Two minutes. Once a month.
Five openings from the creative department, made blind
Nobody has ever cleaned this litter box. Nobody's going to.
That was the litter box.Shot from the front step.
I don't own a calendar. I own this. When it's box day, it's been four weeks.
Fresh start.Whispered at 4 seconds, shot like a bed being made.
Day 1 ... Day 28. Nothing happened.Our nervous one; a slow open on purpose.
07 · What we would test first
Two questions. Each answers something about your buyer that the library cannot.
That is the strategy
For the deeper read, we are happy to work with access to your Ads Manager and build the next batch on what is actually winning in your account, not on what we can see from outside.
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