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Start with the category studies below, then browse the latest Q4 2026, creator marketing and creative operations reports.

Flagship reportBeautyD2C Beauty & Skincare Industry Intelligence Report 2026

The full read on beauty creative: which formats carry longevity, eight hook structures quoted verbatim, the replenishment gap, and compliance as a creative constraint rather than a legal footnote.

500+ top ads · 30+ named brands · 13 sections

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Planning reportFashionThe Fashion Ads Shakeup: Q2 2026 Planning Report

Six shifts that changed fashion media between mid-2025 and Q1 2026, and what each one means for the next planning cycle rather than the last one.

12-month lookback · Zara, Nike and Snitch

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24 studies

ReportBeauty & supplementsNew · 2026

Beauty and Supplement Creator Rates 2026: What Brands Actually Pay

Confirmed-rate data for beauty and supplement creators, the claims premium, and why published rate cards sit at the ceiling. Industry report.

2026 · Creator rates, claims and brand briefs

ReportFashion creatorsNew · 2026

Fashion Creator Rates 2026: Gifting, Casting and What Brands Pay

Fashion creator rates, gifted-product post rates by tier, and the casting decision behind 70% of apparel returns. Industry report.

2026 · Creator rates, gifting and casting

ReportJewelry creatorsNew · 2026

Jewelry Creator Marketing 2026: Tier Data From 11,400 Campaigns

Micro creators returned 5.96% engagement on jewellery against 1.21% at mega. The gift, find and amplify model, and the fifteen-week season.

2026 · Creator tiers, gifting and campaign planning

ReportAI creativeNew · 2026

AI Ad Creative: What Works and What Still Breaks

Which AI ad creative shots hold up and which still break. Hands, skin, sizing and product fidelity, with the one check per category that catches each failure.

2026 · AI production limits and checks by category

ReportCreative fatigueNew · 2026

The Creative Fatigue Benchmark 2026

How fast ad creative dies, how much you need to replace it, and why fatigue is a supply problem. Built on 578,750 ads and Meta's own exposure research.

2026 · Ad lifespan, replacement volume and testing

ReportCreative operationsNew · 2026

The Creative Capacity Gap 2026

Creative demand outgrew creative capacity. Headcount, cost per asset, turnaround and burnout benchmarks for US in-house creative teams.

2026 · US in-house creative teams

ReportBeautyNew · 2026

Q4 Beauty Ad Creative Report 2026

What US beauty brands run in Q4 and what converts. Ten brand teardowns, the 2025 discount ladder, format data, and the four briefs the quarter actually needs.

Q4 2026 · US, with India festive-market context

ReportFashionNew · 2026

Q4 Fashion Ad Creative Report 2026

What US apparel brands run in Q4 and what converts. Ten brand teardowns, the 2025 discount ladder, the returns tax, and the four briefs the quarter needs.

Q4 2026 · US, with India festive-market context

ReportJewelryNew · 2026

Q4 Jewelry Ad Creative Report 2026

Jewelry's season runs Thanksgiving to Valentine's. The 2025 discount ladder, ten brand teardowns, and what lab-grown did to the category.

Q4 2026 to Valentine’s · US and India

ReportElectronicsNew · 2026

Q4 Electronics Ad Creative Report 2026

What US electronics and accessory brands run in Q4 and what converts. Ten brand teardowns, the 2025 discount ladder, and a season five days shorter.

Q4 2026 · US, with India festive-market context

ReportUGC & creatorsNew · 2026

Sourcing UGC Creators at Scale 2026

What it actually costs to find, vet and brief UGC creators. The hidden half of the rate card, the fraud numbers nobody verified, and the market driving it.

2026 · Creator costs, vetting and operations

ReportBeautyUSUKIndia

D2C Beauty & Skincare Industry Intelligence Report 2026

Why the formats brands run most are the weakest converters, with eight hook structures quoted verbatim and compliance treated as a creative constraint.

500+ top ads · 30+ named brands · Jan to Mar 2026

2.4xCTR index on structured demo-first UGC
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ReportHaircareUSUKIndia

D2C Haircare Industry Intelligence Report

Eight hooks with saturation mapped by market, the routine-build gap, and the scalp category almost nobody has claimed.

500+ live ads · 30 brands · Jan to Mar 2026

3.5xdemo-first UGC over static product shots
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ReportPersonal CareUSIndia

Formula for Scale: Personal Care Creative Intelligence

The UGC asymmetry between the US and India, and the modular framework that takes an ad from fourteen days to ninety.

40+ brands · five categories · 20 ads dissected

73%of top US ads are UGC, against under 25% in India
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ReportFashionUSUKIndia

D2C Fashion & Apparel Ad Creative Playbook

Six hook types with their opening lines, the enriched-catalogue gap, and why a drop calendar moves faster than any shoot list.

400+ live Meta and TikTok ads · 10 brands · Mar 2026

8.1xpeak ROAS on enriched DPA in live tests
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ReportFashionUSIndia

The Fashion Ads Shakeup: Q2 2026 Planning Report

Six structural shifts to plan against: the Chinese-advertiser pullback, catalogue formats taking over, CPMs back up, and a creative half-life of one to two weeks.

12-month lookback · Zara, Nike and Snitch spotlighted

7-14 daysperformance half-life on fashion creative
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ReportJewelryUSUKIndia

D2C Jewelry Industry Intelligence Report 2026

Where the revenue actually comes from, the format problem behind it, the discount trap, and five mistakes with the brands named.

1,500+ active Meta ads · 30 brands · Q4 25 to Q1 26

60-70%of bottom-funnel conversions from enriched DPA
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ReportMass LuxuryItalyIndiaUSUK

Mass Luxury Accessories Ad Creative Playbook 2026

Six creative archetypes with CTR benchmarks, a published India hook library, and an Italy-to-India entry plan in three phases.

10 brands · four markets · six archetypes

73%of accessories ads fail inside three seconds
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ReportHealth & WellnessUKUSIndia

D2C Health & Wellness Ads: Cross-Market Creative Intelligence

A full format share table, hook saturation by type and market, and the personalisation white space nobody is using.

500 top ads · 30+ brands · four platforms

44.2%product demo share, the dominant format
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ReportFMCGUSUKIndia

FMCG Ad Intelligence Report 2026

The three-market divide, media mix by market, a format saturation matrix, and why retail media is the most under-bought lever.

30 brands · seven categories · 2026 edition

1.8xretail media performance against standard digital
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ReportHome & LifestyleUSIndia

The Marketplace Decade: D2C Home & Lifestyle Electronics

The marketplace owns the conversion, quick commerce became an ad format, and variant velocity is what holds ROAS past month three.

30+ brands · six categories · ads pulled May 2026

60-80%of the selling done by the Amazon listing
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ReportB2B SaaSUS

The Committee Decade: B2B SaaS Ad Creative Report

How buying committees changed the brief, what LinkedIn and Meta reward differently, and the review-site channel most teams leave unbought.

30+ brands · seven verticals · 2025 to 2026

15-30creative variants a month that winning teams ship
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ReportProfessional ServicesUSIndia

The Regulation Line: Professional Services Ad Creative

Seven practice areas read across the US and India, where the advertising rules themselves differ, and why directories carry demand paid cannot touch.

20 teardowns · seven practice areas · June 2026

70-90%of Indian legal and CA demand comes via directories
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ReportCross-category

The ROI of Creative, Independently Measured

Eight independent research sources on what creative quality is worth, from WARC and System1 to Kantar, each finding attributed to the firm that measured it.

Eight research sources · third-party measured

8independent research sources synthesised
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Every figure on this page is the linked study's own and describes the ad set that study analysed. None of it is a forecast for your account. GIVA and Fashion Nova are teardowns of public ad libraries, not Quickads clients.

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What is in this library?

Four kinds of thing, and the tag on each card says which. Industry reports are category-level reads of live advertising across a named brand set. Brand teardowns take one advertiser apart from its public ad library. Swipe files are hooks and scripts written out for you to adapt. The one case study covers ads we made ourselves, with the brief and the outcome attached.

What is a creative intelligence report?

A category-level read of live advertising. Each report analyses the ads a named set of brands are actually running in a given market and period, then reports what the formats, hooks, messaging and channel mix look like across that set. It is descriptive research on a defined sample, not a forecast.

How are these researched?

Each one starts from a defined ad set pulled from the Quickads ad library, sized and dated in the study itself, and a named brand list. Ads are analysed by format, hook, messaging and placement, then cross-read by market. Every figure describes that sample and the page states its scope.

What is the difference between a teardown and a report?

Sample size and intent. A report reads thirty or more brands to find the pattern in a category. A teardown reads one brand closely to show how that specific machine is built. The GIVA and Fashion Nova pieces are teardowns of public ad libraries, not client work, and neither brand is a Quickads client.

Are the benchmark figures comparable across studies?

Only within a category. Sample sizes, periods and markets differ from study to study, so a CTR index in beauty and one in jewelry are measuring different sets. Read each figure against the scope line printed next to it rather than against another study.

Are they free to read?

Yes. Every study is a public page you can read end to end without an email address, and nothing is paywalled. A couple of the reports also offer a PDF of themselves in exchange for a work email, but that is an extra, not a gate - the full text is on the page either way.

Can I cite these?

Yes. Cite the study by name with its scope line, since every figure is specific to the ad set it analysed. Quoting a figure without the sample it came from will misrepresent it.

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