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Social ad creative brief for a designer

Use when you need a designer or editor to produce social ad creative without a dozen follow-up questions.

social-ad-creative-brief.md
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Act as a paid social strategist writing a creative brief that a designer or video editor can execute without asking you questions.

Brand: {{BRAND}}
Platform and placement: {{PLATFORM_AND_PLACEMENT}}
Objective and the action being optimised for: {{OBJECTIVE}}
Audience and what they currently believe: {{AUDIENCE_BELIEF}}
Offer: {{OFFER}}
Assets already available: {{EXISTING_ASSETS}}
Brand rules and things we must never show or say: {{BRAND_RULES}}

Write the brief with these named sections:
1. One sentence on the job this ad must do.
2. The single message. One sentence. If you need two, the brief is not ready.
3. Concept - three distinct concepts, each with: name, the first three seconds, the visual idea, the on-screen text, the voiceover or caption, and the end frame.
4. Specs table: aspect ratio, safe zones, duration, text length limits for the placement named above.
5. Copy: primary text, headline, and description, each within the platform limit, with character counts shown.
6. What to shoot or source, as a numbered shot list.
7. What would make this fail - three specific risks.

Constraints:
- Concepts must differ in approach, not just in colour or music.
- Do not propose anything that breaks the brand rules or needs assets I do not have, unless you label it "requires new production".
- No invented claims or statistics.
- Avoid em dashes and stock marketing phrasing.

Fill in before running

Replace each placeholder with your own detail. The more specific you are, the less the model invents.

  • {{BRAND}}
  • {{PLATFORM_AND_PLACEMENT}}
  • {{OBJECTIVE}}
  • {{AUDIENCE_BELIEF}}
  • {{OFFER}}
  • {{EXISTING_ASSETS}}
  • {{BRAND_RULES}}

Getting a better result

  1. Name the placement precisely - a Reel and a feed square need different first frames.
  2. List existing assets honestly so concepts stay producible this week.
  3. Insist on one message per concept; briefs with three messages produce weak ads.