Paid Ads (Marketing Skills) — guide skill for ads & UGC

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Paid-ads strategist: campaign structure, targeting, budgets, kill/scale rules and search-term cleanup across platforms.

• Type: Guide · Ads & UGC
• Slug: marketingskills-paid-ads
• Status: live
• Publisher: Corey Haines (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/main/skills/ads
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
• Adoption: 57,270 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-29)

What it does

The ads skill from coreyhaines31/marketingskills covers Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and X campaigns: when to run ads, structure, audiences, budgets, retargeting, Performance Max, negative keywords and when to kill an ad. Know-how only; pair with an ads MCP to act on accounts.

Use when

• plan a paid campaign
• is this campaign working
• should I kill this ad

Not for

• making creatives

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill ads -a claude-code
• Codex: npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill ads -a codex
• Cursor: npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill ads -a cursor

More ads & UGC skills

• Ecommerce video ad skills for Claude Code and AI agents: Product videos that sell on TikTok, TikTok Shop, Reels and Meta: angle, hook, format, script, rules, variants.
• Turn a product into scroll-stopping video hooks: The first 3 seconds of a product video: frame, line and text that agree, from a 70-line hook bank.
• Open-source alternative to Arcads: AI UGC ads: AI UGC ads with an AI actor holding your real product: face, voice and label locked, labelled.
• Turn one winning ad into a creative testing plan: How many ads to test, what to change, when to judge, kill or scale — concepts Meta sees as different.
• Turn a product into a dropshipping guide reel: The faceless "comment GUIDE" reel: product hook, a marker pointing at cost and price on a laptop, a skyline ending.
• Turn product photos into a viral product hook: Find a hook that already sells, then remake it with your product as phone or security-cam footage on Seedance 2.5.