Core ConceptsCreative Intelligence

Creative Intelligence

What your best performing creative has in common, read from the ads that actually ran.

What it does

Hotline watches every creative in your library, classifies what it is made of, and compares those attributes against what the ads actually did.

The question it answers is not "which video won". You already know that. It is "what did the winners have in common", which is the only part that tells you what to brief next.

Intelligence lives in Hub, then Intelligence. It is brand side, on Growth and Agency.

What gets classified

Every analysed creative is tagged on four dimensions:

DimensionWhat it captures
HookHow the first seconds get attention
AngleThe argument the video is making
FormatHow it is shot and assembled
VoiceWho it sounds like it is coming from

Tags land on the creative itself, prefixed so they are identifiable. A re-analysis replaces its own previous answer and never touches a tag a person typed by hand.

Reading the page

Coverage

The first thing on the page is how much of your library has been analysed, plus anything in progress, paused or failed.

Coverage is there to be read before the conclusions below it. "Your best hook is a question" means something very different coming from nine of forty videos than from thirty eight of forty.

What is working

Each attribute value, ranked, with the evidence attached: how many creatives it rests on and how much spend sits behind it.

The count is deliberately as prominent as the result. A brand with twenty videos spread across six hooks has three per hook, and a bare multiple next to one of them would be a confident claim about three videos.

Top creatives

The individual creatives, best first, each showing what it was made of. The attributes sit beside the numbers on purpose: the ranking tells you where to put more spend, and the attributes are what let you brief the next one.

How analysis happens

Analysis runs in the background. The library analyses itself and the page never asks you to pick a video.

That is not only convenience. A page that averaged over whichever videos somebody had been curious enough to click would be drawing conclusions from the least random sample available.

A sweep runs hourly for anything new, and a failed analysis can be retried rather than waiting a day.

Monthly allowance

PlanAnalyses per month
StarterNot included
Growth300
Agency1,000

Reading it elsewhere

The same analysis is available outside the app: