AI Creative Effectiveness (ACE) | MMA / Marketing + Media Alliance
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AI Creative Effectiveness (ACE)

Score and Optimize Your Creative Before Launch
AI Creative Effectiveness (ACE) uses artificial intelligence to analyze creative performance patterns and provide pre-launch scoring and recommendations. By learning from your past campaigns, ACE extracts brand-specific success drivers and applies them to new assets—checking brand/platform compliance, predicting performance, and suggesting edits before you go live. This pre-optimization approach helps teams prioritize high-potential assets and fix issues early, reducing costly revisions and improving campaign outcomes.

Research Objective

Validate that AI scoring correlates with in-market performance and that AI-guided revisions improve outcomes.

ACE aims to demonstrate that:

  • AI scores accurately predict creative effectiveness (CTR, CVR, ROAS)
  • Assets revised per AI recommendations outperform originals
  • Pre-launch optimization reduces production cycles and rework
  • The process integrates smoothly into existing creative workflows

Research Questions

  • Which visual, copy, format, and layout attributes most influence predicted effectiveness?
  • How do AI scores compare to expert/human evaluations and to pre‑test norms?
  • Can AI guidance systematically improve results by audience cohort (e.g., segment‑specific variants)?
  • How much production time/cost can be reduced by closing the loop before launch?
ACE Flowchart

Methodology & Approach

Modeling The AI is trained on your brand's historical creative assets and their associated performance data to learn your unique drivers of success.
Process
  • Import: Upload your ad accounts or new creative assets.
  • Analyze: The AI uses Computer Vision, OCR, and ML+LLMs to analyze assets and extract your winning brand criteria.
  • Score: New creative is scored, and actionable recommendations are provided.
  • Validation: We run live experiments comparing buckets of creative: (1) 'expected winners' per AI, (2) assets revised per AI feedback, and (3) original assets. We then measure the in-market KPI lift.

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