Dropped $200 on an AI ad optimizer that basically just wrote gibberish

I thought I was being smart and bought into one of those AI ad platforms that promised to triple my ROI with zero effort. After three months of watching it serve nonsense headlines to the wrong audiences, I went back to writing my own ads for free. Has anyone else had better luck with a specific tool that actually understands your brand voice?

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spencer19918h ago

I've been through the same thing with a few of those tools. The one that actually worked for me was a much simpler setup where I feed it my top performing past ads and it writes variations based on those. Still have to edit the output to keep the brand voice consistent. Trialing a bunch of free trials is the only way to find one that doesn't just spit out buzzword soup. Most of the flashy platforms are just repackaged GPT with expensive subscriptions. The key is finding something that lets you control the tone with examples, not just generic settings. Took me about six months of testing to land on one that made my workflow faster instead of creating more work cleaning up garbage.

ivan8218h ago

Bought a "smart" coffee maker once. Still makes burnt sludge.