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Hafiz @fizznatics
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I used to rely a lot on Meta Ads Library and product research tools, and I kept running into the same frustration: it felt like I couldn’t find anything worth testing.

My process was pretty simple (and probably very common). I’d open Ads Library, type in broad keywords, scroll through ads, and try to spot “winning products” — basically looking for something that looked new, different, or obviously selling. When that didn’t work, I’d jump to another tool and do the same thing again.

After a while, everything started to look the same. Lots of generic discounts, free shipping claims, countdowns. Nothing stood out, and it made me feel like either I was missing something obvious or everything was already saturated.

What changed my thinking wasn’t finding a better tool. It was realising that Ads Library isn’t really useful as a place to discover products. It’s more useful as a place to understand how products are being sold.

Instead of asking “what product is this?”, I started paying attention to things like:
how long an ad has been running, how often the creatives change, and what angle the ad is actually pushing. Not because I wanted to copy it, but because it gives clues about what’s working enough to keep spending on.

That shift helped a bit. I stopped trying to hunt for something nobody else had and started thinking more about whether I could test a similar angle or offer on something I already understood.

Still curious how others here approach this.
When Ads Library and spy tools keep showing the same things, how do you personally turn that into something you’d actually test? Do you start from the product, or from how it’s being positioned?
2:49 PM · Mar 26, 2026
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