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Mavera Surfaces


What Value Does Mavera Add?


When to Use This

  • Quarterly competitive review: what creative strategies are competitors using?
  • Pre-campaign: before building your next ad, see what’s already in market.
  • Client pitch: show up with data on the competitive landscape.
  • Creative team onboarding: give new hires a data-driven view of the competitive environment.
Where to find competitor ads: Meta Ad Library, TikTok Creative Center, YouTube channels, or screen-recording public content. This playbook assumes you already have the video files locally.

What You Need


The Flow

1

Collect competitor ads

Download 3–8 ads from public sources. Organize by competitor: nike_hero_30s.mp4, adidas_brand_45s.mp4.
2

Upload all ads to Mavera

Files API uploads with competitor name auto-extracted from filenames.
3

Run Video Analysis on each

Batch create + poll with a competitive-analysis-oriented goal prompt.
4

Build comparison matrix and ask Mave

Group by competitor, compute averages, feed into Mave: “What are our competitors doing better in their video creative?”

Stage 1 — Upload Competitor Ads

Use consistent naming: competitorname_adtype.mp4 (e.g., nike_hero_30s.mp4). The pipeline auto-extracts the competitor name from the prefix before the first _ or -.

Stage 2 — Video Analysis (Batch)


Stage 3 — Build the Comparison Matrix

Group by competitor. For competitors with multiple ads, compute averages.

Stage 4 — Mave Competitive Intelligence


Running the Full Pipeline


Example Output


Variations

Name your ads with an ours_ prefix. They’ll appear in the matrix for direct comparison.
Save each matrix to JSON for trend analysis over time.
After Video Analysis, run a Focus Group showing the top competitor ad vs yours for simulated audience preference.
Tag files by platform (nike_tiktok_hero.mp4) and add platform as a grouping dimension in the matrix.
Use a manual COMPETITOR_MAP dict if filenames don’t follow the competitor_type.mp4 convention.

Credits Estimate

Prioritize quality over quantity. 2 ads from each of 3 key competitors gives more actionable intel than 1 ad from 8 competitors.

See Also

Ad Creative Audit

Audit your own ads instead of competitors’

Hook Analysis Sprint

Deep-dive into hook strategies across variants

Video + Focus Group Double

Layer competitor analysis with synthetic audience reactions

Competitive Ad Analysis Pipeline

Head-to-head pipeline with Focus Group and Mave report

Video Analysis

Metrics reference and chunk configuration

Mave Agent

Research agent for synthesis and recommendations