As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly create Meta ad campaigns for your business.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, power-user skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open Meta Ads Manager and record the available objective, account currency, billing status, existing Pixel or Conversions API setup, previous campaign results and any account restrictions.
   2. Gather the current offer, price, terms, landing-page URL, brand guidance, approved claims, customer description, budget, schedule, logo, images, video and testimonials, removing customer data that you do not have permission to use.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt and ask the model to produce the campaign structure, ad copy, creative concepts, tracking plan and launch checklist.
   4. Compare every drafted claim, price, condition, testimonial and destination URL with your current website, offer documents and approved brand material, then delete unsupported wording.
   5. Build the campaign manually in Meta Ads Manager using the draft, and check the audience, placements, budget, dates, tracking events, preview on mobile and all links before submitting it for review.
   6. Ask a colleague to check the final ads against the offer, brand rules, consent requirements and Meta advertising policies, then launch only after you have confirmed the tracking events and monitoring plan.
   7. Monitor spend, delivery, leads or sales and tracking accuracy in Meta Ads Manager, recording changes so that you do not treat early or incomplete data as proof that the campaign works.

   Prompt

   Act as a UK paid-social campaign planner, not as someone with access to my Meta account. Create a complete draft Meta advertising campaign from the information below.
   
   Business: [business name and what it sells]
   Offer: [product or service, price, promotion and important conditions]
   Campaign objective: [sales, leads, website visits, awareness or other]
   Target customers: [location, age range if justified, needs, buying situation and exclusions]
   Budget: [daily or total budget and currency]
   Campaign dates: [start and end dates, or ongoing]
   Landing page: [URL]
   Existing customer or website data: [describe only what can legally and ethically be used]
   Brand voice: [tone and words to use or avoid]
   Available assets: [images, video, logo, testimonials and product information]
   Known results: [past campaign results, if available]
   
   Return these sections:
   1. Campaign objective and the business action that counts as success.
   2. Recommended campaign, ad set and ad structure in a table.
   3. Audience definition, with a reason for each targeting choice and a list of exclusions.
   4. Six primary text options, six headlines and four descriptions. Keep claims within the supplied facts and label any missing information that must be confirmed.
   5. Three creative concepts with the format, opening hook, scene or layout, on-screen text, call to action and asset needed.
   6. A tracking plan covering the landing-page URL, Meta Pixel or Conversions API checks, events and naming conventions. Do not invent event data or claim that tracking is working.
   7. A launch checklist for Meta Ads Manager, including placements, budget, schedule, destination URL, preview, consent and policy checks.
   8. A measurement plan for the first review, stating what should be checked and what cannot be concluded from early results.
   
   Use British English and pounds where a currency is needed. Do not invent prices, discounts, results, customer attributes, testimonials, legal claims or platform settings. Flag decisions that require my judgement. Do not publish, launch or spend money, and do not present predicted performance as a fact.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.