Co-founder & CEO, Sprites.ai
Siamak is a 2x founder and CEO of Sprites.ai (YC) and runs its own Meta, Google, LinkedIn and AEO channels on the platform he builds. He writes about what actually moves paid and organic performance for startups- both founders and marketing teams thinking big.
Emergent's affiliate terms ban bidding on its name. 459 other accounts do it anyway, while Emergent spends its own budget on Replit, Lovable and Base44 - and opens countries with celebrity cash contests.
Captions is made by a company that builds AI actors, and its ads don't use them. Its AI-twin ads died in 16 days; the 176 live Meta ads put real people on camera.
ManyChat sells comment-to-DM and has 2,254 Meta ads live, and its own page almost never asks you to comment. 110 creators run the trick for it, 54 different keywords at a time.
Attention is the most-purchased AI-First GTM vendor in Ramp's October 2026 data, at 34% of buyers. Its Meta account is 23 ads and one headline on 26 of 27.
Anthropic's ads run on three rails: a creator program measured by personal clau.de links, a Google account with a page for every task, and LinkedIn campaigns named after the deal stage they chase.
Ramp says ElevenLabs is the most-purchased voice AI vendor, bought by 77% of its category. On Meta it runs 2,511 live ads, written like SEO title tags, selling a creator app.
Ramp's most-purchased inference vendor puts 10% of its LinkedIn ads on inference. 67% sell training, Forge and customers who trained a model, and Google carries the model launches.
Granola has 1,889 Meta ads live and almost all of them say one of two sentences. In August it deleted its competitor from its ads. Now other people's faces carry most of them.
Intercom does not advertise Intercom. It advertises Fin, on fin.ai: 1,550 Meta ads that come down to 25 creatives, with the ad objects turning over every 3 days.
Midjourney runs two funnels. 74 Meta ads launched in one day, all to the logged-out gallery with no tracking. Prices live only in search, and some search ads are written from its help center.
Companies buy Perplexity for search, but 85% of its live Meta ads sell Computer. Comet was given away. Computer is sold, one task lander at a time.
Pinecone runs no Meta ads. Its 175 LinkedIn ads spend 43 slots on one fight: leave your OpenSearch cluster.
Profound sells a meeting, not a trial. 91 of its 232 Meta ads say "Book a Free AEO Audit Call for Your Company". A one-week test of 119 ads picked the winners, and the 113 that followed run a median 32 days.
Runpod, the most-purchased Neocloud on Ramp at 44%, runs its paid on LinkedIn: 126 ads with one body rewritten per persona. On Google, 99 advertiser accounts send traffic to runpod.io and none is Runpod's own.
Profound reads Google Ads into its Agents. Meta Ads Manager runs Meta campaigns, and eDesk runs support. The job each system owns in an ecommerce stack.
One prompt, three angles, one plain background. Five real sheets from ChatGPT, the wording that makes them, and what the sheet does for every image and video after it.
One pug detective, one reference sheet, four scenes. The prompts, the real API requests, and what the same character looks like when you leave the sheet out.
The formula behind Tralalero Tralala and Tung Tung Tung Sahur, eight original characters made in ChatGPT with their prompts, the naming pattern, and how to make one move.
The free plan, the three paid packages, why no paid price is published, what happens to the bill as GMV grows, and what to buy instead if the price is the problem.
Attribution depth against a Shopify operating view, ad-spend pricing against GMV pricing, and the campaign work both leave on your plate.
Agentic marketing is AI agents that read your data, decide what to change and act once you approve. Here is where it works today, the guardrails that matter and how to evaluate an agent.
Every Ahrefs plan, the limits that matter, what users and add-ons add to the bill, and which plan fits a solo marketer, a consultant or a team.
An AI marketing agency can mean an agency that uses AI, an AI-run service or software you run yourself. Here is how they differ, how they are priced and what to ask before you sign.
CPM and CPC are two views of the same auction, linked by click-through rate. Here are the formulas, the break-even CTR and worked examples for choosing a billing model.
Facebook ads cost whatever budget you set, with typical US CPMs of $8-$20 in 2026. How Meta prices the auction, its minimum budgets, and a worked $30-a-day example.
A fractional CMO owns marketing strategy part time for a fraction of a full-time executive's cost. Here is what they do, what they typically charge and when another option fits better.
What Framer handles for SEO, CMS metadata variables, redirects and their plan limits, canonical rules, JSON-LD and the content that drives non-brand traffic.
Google Ads has no minimum spend; what you pay comes down to cost per click, which runs from about $1 to about $99 by US industry. Full CPC table and budget math.
What belongs in a Google Ads report, and how native reports, Data Studio, PPC reporting tools and an AI agent that reads the account compare.
Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and prominence. This checklist covers every Google Business Profile field you control, and the mistakes that cost rankings.
Google Local Services Ads charge per lead and now carry one Google Verified badge. How verification, lead charges, credits and the 2026 move into Google Ads work.
Google Shopping ads are built from your Merchant Center feed. Feed requirements, fixes for common disapprovals, Standard Shopping vs Performance Max and how to bid.
How Instagram scheduling works: native scheduling in Meta Business Suite, the API rules every scheduler follows, the main tools and their prices, and best practices.
LinkedIn's minimum is $10 a day, and typical US clicks cost $5-$15 in 2026. How LinkedIn prices CPC, CPM and message sends, why B2B costs more, and a worked $100-a-day example.
LLM SEO is how you get retrieved, quoted and cited in AI answers. Here is how LLM-powered search picks sources, what to change on your site, and how to measure it.
Microsoft Ads puts search ads on Bing, Yahoo, AOL, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and inside Copilot. Here is where the ads run, what they cost, how the Google import works and when it pays off.
Review management software asks for reviews, monitors sites and helps you reply. Here is how to choose, six tools with published pricing, and when a Google-only setup is enough.
What Shopify does for SEO out of the box, the duplicate URL issue in collection-aware links, and how to write collections and products that rank.
A social media scheduler queues and publishes posts from one calendar. Here are seven options with verified prices and supported networks, and how to choose.
The WordPress settings to fix once, Yoast SEO vs Rank Math from their own feature lists, sitemaps, speed and the content habits that rank.
50 creators a month is about 46 hours a week of work. Nobody's job description says that.
Hims is the cheapest pill. BlueChew sells the biggest combo. Ro has the brand names and Megan Fox.
The most-watched new ad character of September 2026 was selling a memecoin.
Megan Fox is the drug. That is the whole brief.
Ro sells prescriptions it cannot show working. So it sells faces: Serena, Barkley, Trisha Paytas and now Megan Fox, each with their own ads, URL and lander.
Viktor runs 828 live Meta ads. Wispr Flow runs 1,226. Same feed, opposite operating systems - a cloned creative factory against a pay-per-conversion creator marketplace.
Lovable raised $400M at $13.3B with 1,079 Meta ads behind it. I read all of them, measured 215 videos and walked the funnel from the ad to the credit wall.
Muse ships with no ad platform among its connectors. Seven steps to connect Google Ads, Meta, GA4 and Search Console through one custom connector, grant the right permission, and put a weekly report on a schedule.
I pulled 560 Speak Meta ads, measured the top videos, opened the start.speak.com onboard shells and read the LinkedIn B2B lane. Locales build the brand. The store takes the install.
I pulled 607 Suno Meta ads, measured the top videos, resolved the paid redirect and walked the pricing ladder. Artist partners build the brand. /go/paid takes the money.
Clay hit $200M ARR and a $7.1B valuation in the same week. I pulled every live Meta, LinkedIn and Google ad, the signup flow and the pricing ladder.
Wispr Flow raised $280M at $2B. I read the whole account and built a real survival curve: since the round, median ad life has fallen from 20 days to 11.
The best AEO tools in 2026, sorted by the job you are hiring them for: grade, track or fix. Sprites, Profound, Peec AI, HubSpot, Otterly, Semrush, Ahrefs and more, with current prices.
The best Conductor alternatives in 2026, with the prices Conductor, BrightEdge and seoClarity do not publish, and an AI agent that does the work instead of reporting it.
An honest Peec AI review for 2026: every plan and price, what a prompt really costs, what Peec does well, and the one job it declines to do.
Profound pricing in 2026: a free seven-day trial, a custom Enterprise contract, and the retired $99 and $399 plans every other review still quotes.
Profound vs Peec AI in 2026: enterprise contract against a $95 self-serve tracker, compared on price, engines, data depth and whether either one writes the fix.
AdCreative.ai makes on-brand ad variants fast. It does not read your ad account or run the campaign — which is exactly where teams outgrow it. An honest review.
Atria charges by how much ad spend it will analyse, not by headcount. The full ladder, what each tier unlocks, and why the entry price is twice the category norm.
Six carousel patterns pulled from live ads, not mock-ups — what each one is for, the card counts that work, and where to check how long each ran.
The spec table every guide prints, plus the half nobody does: which shapes advertisers actually run, shown with live ads at each ratio.
Foreplay runs $59 to $459 a month with a seven-day trial and no card. The annual switch is not really a discount — it lifts a cap. Here is the whole ladder, and the job the product never does.
Viktor AI went 0 to $50M ARR with paid as the primary engine. I studied all 875 live Meta ads, the campaigns, the landing pages and the funnel.
The Meta Ads Library is free but slow and analysis-free. The best Facebook Ad Library alternatives in 2026, from a free ad library to BigSpy, AdSpy, Minea and Foreplay, compared by price and use.
The six ChatGPT ad layouts that actually serve, the two creative types behind them, exact specs with the character-limit confusion resolved, and every targeting control from context hints to custom audiences.
What ChatGPT ads cost in 2026: the $25 daily minimum in all 21 currencies, the $3 to $5 CPC guidance, reported CPMs from $60 to $15, pacing and billing rules, cross-channel benchmarks and three test budgets.
ChatGPT ads and Google Ads compared on cost, CTR, conversion, targeting, formats, measurement, brand safety and audience, with sourced 2026 numbers, a vertical-by-vertical verdict and a 14-day dual test plan.
Yes, ChatGPT shows ads to Free and Go users since February 9, 2026. Who sees them, what they look like, the Ads-Free option, personalization controls, countries, and what is next.
Yes, you can advertise on ChatGPT. Eight steps from eligibility to your first two weeks of data: account setup, objectives and budgets, context hints instead of keywords, ad specs, the pixel, and what to spend.
Every r/PPC thread on ChatGPT ads, read and paraphrased: the CTRs and CPCs people report, the $34K niche test, the context-hint mistake, the oppref tracking fix, the audience-quality debate, and what OpenAI has shipped since.
Sydney Sweeney’s Novig campaign makes its most interesting move after the film ends.
A six-step workflow: find a competitor’s longest-running ads, break them into hook, angle, format and destination, categorize the hooks, and generate a testable batch of your own.
Both analyse ad creative and, since June 2026, both launch ads. What actually separates them is channel coverage, where the analysis starts, the approval model and price.
How the Whop affiliate program works for affiliates and sellers: the 30% default commission, recurring vs first-payment terms, the dashboard, the 30-day payout wait, fees, and the risks on both sides.
How Whop clipping and Content Rewards campaigns work for clippers and for Whop businesses, what campaigns pay, what Reddit reports, and when paid ads or an affiliate program make more sense.
How Whop Content Rewards campaigns work, the September 2026 fees and minimums, a step-by-step setup checklist, troubleshooting for brands, and what Reddit reports.
An AI visibility score is a 0–100 measure of how well ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini know and recommend a brand. The four components, why engines differ, what the bands mean and what moves the number.
Base44’s Instagram integration reads and posts content; it does not run ads. The seven-step setup for Instagram and Meta ads on a Base44 app, and where an ad automation agent takes over.
Nine AI PPC management tools ranked by execution model, from rules engines and suggestion tools to agents that act under approval: Sprites, Optmyzr, Opteo, Adalysis, Bïrch, Madgicx, Skai, Marin and Google’s own AI, with September 2026 prices.
Canva makes the creative, Meta runs the ad. The specs, the native Canva features that matter for ads, the seven-step launch, and the handoff to automation.
Genspark drafts ads well and cannot run them: no ad-platform connection, no tracking, no performance loop. The capability map, the browser-agent trap, and what a dedicated ad automation agent does differently.
Lovable has no ads integration, and that is fine: here is the pixel-to-campaign setup for running Meta and Google ads for a Lovable app, plus the point where automation makes sense.
What programmatic advertising software is, how DSP buying works, programmatic vs PPC vs paid social, eight platforms compared, who should use it, and where AI ad agents fit.
The best AI tool for visibility depends on where you want to be seen: Google organic (AI SEO tools), AI answers (AI visibility tools), or both (one agent). Which is which, and how to tell your problem.
The eight problems behind most “Wix Facebook ads not working” threads, each with the fix, followed by the clean pixel-to-campaign setup for a Wix site.
How to use the Google Ads Transparency Center to check competitors’ Google ads in 2026: search by advertiser or domain, filter by format, region and date, read Search, YouTube and Display creatives, and what it will never show you.
How to find and see competitors’ ads on Facebook and Instagram in 2026: the Meta Ads Library step by step, keyword operators, EU reach and targeting data, a free ad library, and a competitor ads analysis you can finish in twenty minutes.
ChatGPT writes the ad. It cannot launch it, read yesterday's CPA or pause the ad set losing money. The five gaps — and the one that closed in 2026.
Siloed marketing tools are costing teams speed, intelligence, and money. Here's why a cross-channel AI ad & SEO copilot beats fragmented stacks and agencies.
LinkedIn is the B2B ad channel. How AI agents handle targeting, Sponsored Content, Lead Gen Forms, and ABM without living in Campaign Manager all day.
Nine AI tools for Facebook Ads, ranked by what they actually do. Creative generators, copy tools, and full AI marketing agents — when to use each.
AI marketing agents do not describe the change, they make it. What they are, what they automate across paid and organic, and the questions worth asking before you trust one with a budget.
Sprites.ai is an AI keyword research tool that finds opportunities, clusters by intent, generates content, and tracks rankings — all in one automated SEO workflow.
Discover how AI SEO automation handles keyword research, content writing, and publishing in one workflow. See how Sprites.ai replaces Semrush, writers, and your CMS.
Eighteen AI visibility tools compared on the five layers of the category, engine coverage, collection method and first-party price: Sprites, Profound, Peec, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Semrush, SE Visible, Scrunch, HubSpot and more.
Learn how to measure your AI visibility score across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Step-by-step guide with tools, benchmarks, and tips to improve your score.
Performance Max vs Search campaigns compared for ecommerce and fintech. Learn when to use each, real pros and cons, and how AI changes your Google Ads strategy in 2025.
Learn what generative engine optimization is, how it differs from SEO, and which GEO strategies and tools help your brand appear in AI-generated answers.
Discover how AI marketing automation helps fintech companies run compliant paid ads and SEO at scale. Cut CPAs, build trust, and stay within regulatory limits.
Discover the 15-point Google Ads optimization checklist every advertiser needs — and how Sprites.ai handles all of them automatically to save time and boost ROAS.
Discover how AI is transforming DTC Facebook ads strategy — from creative testing to ROAS optimization. Tactical playbook for DTC brands spending $10K–$500K/month.
Discover how AI automation for small businesses works, what you can automate in marketing, and how Sprites.ai helps lean teams run ads and SEO without a full team.
Learn how AI workflow automation helps marketing agencies manage multiple clients, scale capacity, and automate campaigns, reporting, and content with one AI agent.
Ranked on what each one actually executes rather than what it claims: the ad platforms covered, whether writes are gated, and the point at which each falls short.
The AI tool stack Shopify founders use in 2025 — ad generation, competitor research, content repurposing, and Reddit-driven growth workflows.
Learn how to set up your first Google Ads campaign for ecommerce. A practical beginner's guide covering Shopping campaigns, keyword research, ad copy, and optimization strategies.