How To Create Viral Meta Ads with AI (IN 5 MINUTES!)

Ready to discover how to create crazy, high-converting, viral ads in just a few minutes, all powered by AI? Whether you’re hustling with your own eCommerce brand or running campaigns for clients, I’m about to break down the exact, step-by-step process I use. We’ll dig into tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and some awesome ad libraries to help you pull off real marketing magic. Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe a healthy ginger shot, inside joke, you’ll get it soon) and let’s get right into it!

Who Am I & Why Trust This Guide?

Hey, I’m Vincent! I’ve been in the ad game since 2016. Back then, I scaled an eCommerce store from $50K to $150K a month, all with Facebook and Google Ads. Fast-forward, and I run Chipper, an agency where we help eComm brands and course creators scale to six and seven figures per month.

In this post, I’ll show you a repeatable, AI-first process for creating killer ads, no expensive designers or copywriters needed. Let’s get straight to the computer and break it down.

Table of Contents

1. Overview: What You'll Need

2. Step 1: Extract All the Gold from Your Brand Data

3. Step 2: Deep-Dive Research with ChatGPT

4. Step 3: Supercharge Ad Creation with Claude

5. Step 4: Hook, Headline, and Visual Generation

6. Step 5: Creating Scroll-Stopping Ad Images

7. Step 6: Stealing Inspiration From the Best (Ethically!)

8. Step 7: Rapid Ad Optimization and Final Touches

9. Why This Process Works So Damn Well

10. Bonus Tips & Tricks

11. Ready to Explode Your Ads?

Overview: What You'll Need

Before you start, gather these tools and assets:

• ChatGPT 4.0 (or Free Version): For research and idea generation

• Claude AI: For writing and ads creation (Claude shines at headlines, hooks, and creative strategies)

• Your Brand Assets: Website URLs, Facebook page, Instagram, product images, and if possible, your ICP breakdown (ideal customer profile)

• Canva: For quick image adjustments and tweaks

• Facebook Ad Library, AdNova, or Foreplay: To get ad inspiration from the top brands

• A Notion onboarding form for client/brand info (optional but recommended)

You don’t need anything fancy, just a willingness to try, tweak, and optimize.

Step 1: Extract All the Gold from Your Brand Data

This is where most people screw up—they don’t use all the info right in front of them! Here’s what you do:

1. Gather Your URLs and Social Links

   • Grab your main website URL, Facebook page, Instagram page, and any other relevant social handles.

2. Grab Your Product/Landing Page

   • This is usually your main sell page or product page. Paste that URL too.

3. If Available, Pull Together Client Onboarding Docs

   • Have anything that details your ideal customer, brand values, tone of voice, or unique selling points? Use it!

   • Don’t have it yet? No worries! You can create it using ChatGPT or automate it from onboarding forms if you run an agency.

Here’s an example Notion onboarding form for new clients:

“They fill out a whole onboarding sheet which is a pretty long form, and we just automate it to ChatGPT—it makes a good form out of it with all the data as well.”

Pro Tip: Automate this! The more you bake into your process, the less manual work you’ll ever do again.

Step 2: Deep-Dive Research with ChatGPT

Okay, time to put AI to work. We start with ChatGPT (or the free version if that’s what you have). Why? It’s awesome at digging deep into multiple data sources and giving you everything you need:

• Demographics

• Income

• Pain points

• Emotional hooks

• Audience breakdowns

How It's Done:

1. Data Extraction Prompt
   Copy the data extraction prompt and paste it into ChatGPT.
   (If you want my exact prompt, comment below—I’ll send you a copy!)

2. Paste Your URLs, Socials, and Any Docs
   The prompt tells ChatGPT to pull every piece of relevant info:

   • Website details

   • Facebook page & Instagram

   • Landing/product pages

   • Uploaded files (like Excel data, onboarding sheets, or ICP docs)

3. Review the Output
   ChatGPT will spit out a full breakdown including:

   • Your target audience

   • Main benefits

   • Pain points

   • Gaps in your funnel (like testimonials or ad data you’re missing)

   • Demographic details you can use for killer ads

“It creates a whole breakdown of the ideal client, the benefits, and those type of things. So you just click on it. Boom.”

Why use ChatGPT here?

• It’s free (mostly)

• Faster than manual research

• Gives a surprisingly detailed analysis

Step 3: Supercharge Ad Creation with Claude AI

Here’s where it gets fun. While ChatGPT is a beast at research, Claude is next-level when it comes to actually writing your ads, especially headlines, hooks, copy, and visual ideas.

Why Use Claude Over ChatGPT?

"Claude is actually way better at writing hooks, visuals, headlines, etc. It’s a bit better in that aspect than ChatGPT. ChatGPT is good for image creation and ideation, those type of things."

Workflow:

1. Copy Over the Researched Data
   Take the juicy audience/brand data you just got from ChatGPT and paste it into Claude.

2. Prompt Claude to Take Charge
   Use a setup like:

   You are a marketing expert that is specialized in Facebook ads, Instagram ads, copywriting, and creating high converting ads. Now you act as the CMO for [Brand Name].Here is all the relevant data you need:[Paste your breakdown here]

3. Ask for What You Need
   Claude will create your entire marketing strategy, including campaign ideas, hooks, and creative strategies.

Step 4: Hook, Headline, and Visual Generation

Now’s the time to get to what matters: scroll-stopping hooks, punchy headlines, and snappy visuals. Here’s how to get Claude (or ChatGPT) to crank these out:

Why Focus on Top-of-Funnel?

“A lot of people target the 3% who are ready to buy, but you still have 97% that aren’t. Your ads need to stop people in their tracks and make them care.”

Examples Straight from Claude:

• Top-of-Funnel Headlines:

  1. “Your healthy ginger shot is 60% sugar.”

  2. “Why 90% of ginger drinks are secretly making you unhealthier.”

  3. “The Belgian secret to replacing morning coffee across Europe.”

  4. “Finally a ginger juice that is actually ginger.”

  5. “What happens when you stop drinking fake health drinks?”

Generating More Variations

You can ask Claude:

• Give me five more headlines for cold audiences

• Write five hooks in different styles

• Brainstorm five new ad ideas targeting X pain point

Step 5: Creating Scroll-Stopping Ad Images

Headlines in hand, you can now throw some killer visuals together using AI. Here’s the workflow.

Creating Facebook Ad Images with ChatGPT

1. Prompt ChatGPT for an Image
   Give it your chosen headline, ask for a high-performing Facebook ad image.

2. Upload a Reference Product Image
   Pull your product pic right from your store or Google Drive. Upload it for inspiration.

3. Borrow a Winning Layout from a Top Brand

   • Go to the Facebook Ad Library, AdNova, or Foreplay.

   • Find a similar type of product or niche.

   • Use their image layout as inspiration for your prompt.

4. Prompt for Specific Changes

   • "Make the bottle on the left, USPs and icons on the right, guarantee sticker here, use this color palette, replicate this style, etc."

Example Ad Flow

1. Claude/ChatGPT generates an ad image (headline, USP, icons, product, sticker).

2. Download the image.

3. Plop it into Canva for quick touch-ups.

"We upload the product image. Now what we’re going to do is go to the Facebook ad library, then look at highly converting ads... For example, we use Obvi—a brand that tests a LOT of different ads."

Step 6: Stealing Inspiration From the Best (Ethically!)

The best brands in your niche are testing dozens of creatives every week. Why not use their frameworks for your own AI-generated ads? Here's how:

Use the Facebook Ad Library

1. Search for Brands Similar to Yours

   • Type in your competitor, or a market leader, and see which ads are running.

2. Identify High-Performing Layouts

   • Look for ads with tons of engagement, or ones you see frequently (they're probably working!).

3. Screenshot or Save the Layout, Copy, and Structure

   • Focus on the layout, not the exact copy or product.

4. Prompt AI to Recreate or Adapt the Design

   • "Make me an ad in the style/layout of this image, with my headline and product image."

Example Prompt

"Just with a simple prompt, it creates a pretty damn good image."

Step 7: Rapid Ad Optimization and Final Touches

The crazy thing about AI ad building is that you can tweak a lot with just a few extra prompts.

Make On-the-Fly Changes:

• Swap Background Colors:
  "Use a dark green background instead of pink."

• Adjust Product Placement:
  "Move the guarantee sticker to the right."

• Change or Remove Design Elements:
  "Remove the cape. Make the USPs stand out more."

• Fix Font or Color Issues:
  "Use the same font as this reference ad."

You don’t need to hire a designer—you just give AI clear prompts and edit in Canva for polish.

“With just five prompts, you basically created a marketing agency visual creator for your ads. You extract all the relevant data, makes beautiful audience insights, USPs, etc.”

Proving the Process: Live AI Ad Creation Example

Let’s recap the whole workflow with a real-world Dr. Ginger ad:

1. Extracted all relevant brand/audience data with ChatGPT

2. Had Claude generate killer hooks, headlines, and top-of-funnel ideas

3. Used ChatGPT to create ad images (product left, USPs right, guarantee sticker, killer headline)

4. Put image into Canva, adjusted font/colors, and exported

5. Took cues/inspiration from top-performing competitive ads found in Facebook Ad Library

6. Made quick-swap tweaks using even more AI prompts

End result?A totally AI-generated, high-converting, professional ad image—ready to run.

“The only thing we did was take that headline, take the image, put it in Canva, and it automatically saw what type of font it was. We optimized it, and that way you still have control.”

Why This Process Works So Damn Well

1. Speeds Up Your Workflow
   No more staring at blank docs—get amazing copy and visuals in MINUTES.

2. Taps Into Real Brand and Audience Data
   No guessing. You’re using real data pulled by AI from your website, socials, and docs.

3. Template Stealing = Proven Results
   If the ad frameworks work for eight-figure brands—why reinvent the wheel?

4. Visual and Copy Tweaks Are Instantly Testable
   With AI + Canva, you can make 10 variations in 10 minutes.

5. Cost-Effective
   No need to hire dedicated copywriters or designers for every campaign.

“Nowadays you can just select the type of things you want to change... And as you can see, it’s already a crazy image. Ditch the sugar in your ginger shots. Perfect image. Literally.”

Bonus Tips & Tricks

• Refine Your Prompts
  The better your prompt, the better your result. Test, tweak, and A/B prompt for the best outcomes.

• Layer AI Tools
  Sometimes, Claude does headlines better; ChatGPT does visuals better. Mix and match.

• Always QA in Canva
  Quickly remove weird artifacts and optimize the colors/fonts for your brand.

• Save Top Competitor Ads as References
  Don’t outright copy, but use layouts that are already converting well.

• Automate Everything Possible
  For agencies: Automate client onboarding, data extraction, and reporting with a tool stack.

• Don’t Stress Over Perfection
  Sometimes your first AI-generated image will miss the mark. Keep prompting!

  “If it doesn’t look good, just keep on prompting it and keep on prompting it.”

Ready to Explode Your Ads?

If you follow this process, you can literally produce a full set of scroll-stopping, conversion-ready ads in under an hour—even if you’ve never designed an ad before.

And yes, AI-generated ads are working right now, even for big brands. Don’t sleep on this, or you’ll get left behind.

“If you want me to make a video on how you can create highly converting scripts with ChatGPT and Claude, comment it down below.”

If you liked this guide, let me know! Drop a comment, hit "like" if you’re reading this on Medium or Substack, and if you want my team and I to run your ads and set up our “identity hooking system,” book a call with me.

Good luck, and go make some viral ads! 🍀

P.S. If you create any awesome AI ads using this guide, send them over or tag me. I’d love to see what you come up with!

“With the right type of research, identity, and hooking, you can create ads even better than the big agencies. Don’t underestimate what’s possible with AI.”