novoads

chatgpt-image-ad

Generate one or more standalone Meta image-ad creatives via ChatGPT Image 2 (gpt-image-2) through the Novoads API. Locks the model, auto-strips platform chrome, enforces edge-safe layouts and glyph-safety inside body text. Use when the user asks for a "gpt-image-2 ad", "ChatGPT Image ad", "Image 2 ad creative", "make a static image ad with GPT", or anchors on a need for typography-heavy / dense-text / UI-mimicry ad creatives (chat threads, comparison tables, fake search results, iOS dialogs, Slack snapshots, ChatGPT-conversation ads, Apple Notes lists). Does NOT trigger on Nano Banana cues — use nano-banana-image-ad for those.

nano-banana-image-ad

Generate one or more standalone Meta image-ad creatives via Nano Banana Pro through the Novoads API. Locks the model, auto-strips platform chrome, enforces edge-safe layouts. Use when the user asks for a "Nano Banana ad", "Gemini image ad", "nano-banana-pro ad creative", "make a static image ad with Gemini", or anchors on a need for photoreal / lifestyle / multi-reference / handheld-object / clay-texture ad creatives (sticky-note flatlays, held-whiteboard signs, lifestyle portraits, ingredient collages, OOH photography). Does NOT trigger on ChatGPT Image cues — use chatgpt-image-ad for those.

novoads-api

Generate AI video ads and image ads through the Novoads REST API (api.novoads.ai). Use when the user wants a UGC video, a product video, a talking-head ad, an AI actor holding a product, a TikTok or Reels or Shorts ad, a static image ad, or asks to "make me an ad", "generate a video", or names a model (Seedance, Seedance 2.5, Seedance Mini, Omni Flash, Veo 3.1, Sora 2, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Reve). Handles upload, dialogue approval, cost confirmation, generation, polling, QA, and download. A product photo lands here when it SEEDS a new scene; when the picture itself should move, unchanged, that is novoads-image-to-motion. Not for editing an existing video file and not for publishing to an ad platform.

clone-video-ad

Clones a VIDEO ad end to end for a different product or offer, on the Novoads API. The deliverable is a finished rendered MP4 — the WHOLE ad, not its opening, and not a template. Reads the source's style, pacing, camera work, dialogue and tone, adapts it into a Seedance 2.0 prompt, prices it, renders it, files the source beside the clones and diffs each clip's transcript against the approved script. Use for "clone this video ad", "recreate this video for my brand", "make this ad but for my product" when the source is a video, "clone my competitors' VIDEO ads", or a video ad handed over with a product photo. **Among cloners the source's medium decides, not the wording**: "clone this ad" plus a video lands here; a still, or nothing attached, is clone-image-ad. Three neighbours it is NOT: a STATIC IMAGE ad is clone-image-ad, rebuilding only the first few seconds is a hook skill, and animating a still as-is is novoads-image-to-motion. If it does not move, wrong skill.

broll-overlay

Overlays silent b-roll cutaway clips onto a finished base video — the base audio keeps running underneath while the picture cuts away and returns, and the final duration always equals the base duration. Use when the user asks to add b-roll, add cutaways, or overlay clips on a video: "add b-roll to this", "cut away to a product shot here", "overlay these clips on my UGC ad". Entered from an approved base video plus its transcript, which comes from POST /v1/transcripts and needs no local install; it never generates the base itself and it never extends a video.

meta-ad-builder

Publish finished creatives as live Meta (Facebook/Instagram) ads via the Meta Marketing API, plus research and ad-copy support. Uploads an image or video, builds a multi-variant creative (5 bodies / 5 titles / 3 descriptions in an asset feed), and creates a PAUSED ad in an existing ad set. Also pulls top-performing ads (ranked by ROAS) and competitor ads from the Ad Library to inform copy. Use when the user asks to deploy / publish / launch a creative as a Meta or Facebook ad, build a Meta ad, push a video or image into an ad set, pull their top ads, or research competitor ads. Not for generating creative (use the image/video skills) and not for writing AdTable/Airtable rows (use adtable-light).

music-mix

Lays a music bed under a finished video — the music is trimmed and faded to the video's exact length and ducks beneath the voice, while the video stream is copied untouched. Use when the user asks to add music, add a background track, add a music bed or soundtrack, or asks for something like "make a lofi mix of this": "put music under this ad", "add a background track", "give me a couple of music versions". Entered from a finished cut — captions already burned is the preferred input, not a problem. It never edits the picture and never changes the video's length.

generate-youtube-thumbnail

Generate high-CTR YouTube thumbnails using Nano Banana Pro via the Novoads API. Handles reference image upload, character likeness alignment, proven CTR-tested prompt formulas, and bounded batch generation. Use when the user asks to create a YouTube thumbnail, video thumbnail, A/B test thumbnail variations, or refers to thumbnail design with their face, brand assets, or product photos.

novoads-pixar-ad

Builds a stylized 3D animated ad on the Novoads REST API as a STORYBOARD: four to six beats, each rendered from its own key frame, narration laid into the gaps, a music bed, captions burned on, assembled locally with ffmpeg. Carries the genre's beat formulas (anthropomorphized problem character, protagonist reveal, mascot mechanism scene, composited end card) and produces a product read, cast sheet, beat board, per-beat still and clip, and the exact curl calls. Use for ANY Pixar-style, Disney-style, 3D animated or animated-film-look ad at ANY length: "Pixar style ad", "3D animated ad", "animated movie look", "cute 3D character ad", "a quick animated ad", "15 second animated ad", "30 second animated ad", "storyboard ad", "several scenes", "animated ad with a voice-over", "little mascots", or a product URL or photo for an emotional animated spot. No one-call tier, so ffmpeg is required. Not for stop-motion clay (use novoads-claymation-ad), talking-head UGC (novoads-api), video cloning, or static image ads.

caption-video

Burn timed, styled captions into a finished video on the local machine, without re-rendering the source. This is the manual fallback to the API's captioning endpoint, POST /v1/captions, which stays the default path: come here when the style the user wants is outside the API's presets, when the wording has to be hand-corrected before it is burned into the pixels, or when the source was rendered with audio disabled and the API refuses it. Transcribes the audio with Whisper, groups words into reading phrases, renders the captions in a real browser via HyperFrames, and composites them over the source with ffmpeg using a real alpha channel. Use when the user has an MP4 with speech and asks to add captions, subtitles, burned-in text, TikTok-style captions or word-by-word text to it, and the API path has been ruled out. Runs out of band, so it costs no credits and works on any video file whoever generated it. Not for generating video (use the video skills) and not for a separate .srt/.vtt sidecar file.

analyze-video

Analyze a reference video and reverse-engineer its style into a reusable Seedance 2.0 prompting template for the Novoads API. The output is a new formula file — like seedance-2-ugc.md — that captures the video's structure, pacing, camera work, edit style and tone so it can be recreated with any product, any person, in any setting. Use this whenever someone provides a video they want to use as a style reference, says "I want to make videos like this", "deconstruct this video", "turn this into a template", "analyze this style", or drops a video file and wants to recreate that format repeatedly.

clone-image-ad

Clones a STATIC IMAGE ad into finished ads for your own product, into a reusable prompt TEMPLATE, or both — the template is what makes the ads and the ads are what prove the template. Round-trips the frame through gpt-image-2, nano-banana-pro or reve-2.1 until it reproduces, replaces every brand-specific with a {placeholder}, then fills it with your product pinned to a real photo. Use for "clone this ad for my product", "rebuild this competitor's ad for us", "make me ads like this", "reverse engineer this ad", "make this ad reusable", "add this to my prompt library", or "clone my competitors' ads" with NO file attached — it sources one via spy-competitor-ads rather than asking which. **Among cloners the source's medium decides**: a still, or nothing attached, lands here; "clone this ad" plus a VIDEO is clone-video-ad. NOT for generating an ad from a brief (chatgpt-image-ad, nano-banana-image-ad), nor animating a still as-is (novoads-image-to-motion). Refuses to render your product without a real photo of it.

novoads-claymation-ad

Builds a hand-sculpted stop-motion CLAY ad on the Novoads REST API as a STORYBOARD: five to eight beats, each rendered from its own key frame, a storyteller narration laid into the gaps, a music bed, captions burned on, assembled locally with ffmpeg. Carries the genre's arc (named protagonist, inciting moment, social beat, quiet despair, sculpted clay infographic, discovery, transformation, resolution card), and also recreates a found clay ad by reading the reference video locally with ffmpeg and Whisper. Use for ANY clay or stop-motion ask at ANY length: "claymation ad", "stop-motion ad", "clay ad", "a quick clay ad", "plasticine characters", "make an ad like this clay one", or a reference video with sculpted clay characters in it. There is no one-call tier here, so ffmpeg is required. Not for the smooth 3D animated look (use novoads-pixar-ad, which covers every Pixar-style length), talking-head UGC (novoads-api), or a static image ad.

spy-competitor-ads

Downloads a competitor's live ad creatives — the actual MP4s and JPEGs — from the Meta Ad Library into a local swipe folder, through the Novoads API. One sweep per competitor, priced by a live estimate before anything is charged, media pulled the moment the response lands because the CDN links expire, and every ad carried with its permanent Ad Library URL, the page running it, and how many audiences the creative is running against, closing with the three most established and why. Use when asked to spy on competitors, find what ads a brand is running, pull a competitor's video or static creatives, build or refresh a swipe file, check who is outspending you on Meta, or source a reference ad to recreate. It finds, ranks and files ads; it does not rebuild them — a static becomes your own ads, or a reusable template, via clone-image-ad. It writes no craft analysis and no creative brief. A sweep that finds nothing is a result, never an apology.

novoads-image-to-motion

Turn any still image into a professional motion graphic through the Novoads API on Seedance 2.5. Covers how to read a reference image, motion vocabulary for any image type — UI, marketing hero, flat-lay, key art, collage, product, character — the prompt clauses that control camera, timing, frozen regions and text fidelity, and the upload mechanics. Use whenever the user supplies an image and wants it animated, moving, or turned into video — including "animate this", "turn this into a motion graphic", "make this move", "この画像動かして", "モーショングラフィックにして", "I want the cards to pop in", "I want the bars to slide up", or when they describe motion beats for a static image. Also use when asked to write a Seedance prompt for an existing image. Do NOT use for text-to-video with no source image, restyling existing footage (this API takes no video input), cloning a reference video (use clone-video-ad), or a product photo that should seed a new scene rather than move as-is (use novoads-api).

change-voice

Replaces the voice in a video or audio file with one from the Novoads voice catalog, over the REST API. Converts the SPEECH in the source to a voice you pick, keeps the original timing so lip-sync survives, and returns audio that gets muxed back over the untouched picture locally. Casts by MEASURING the source voice against auditioned candidates instead of reading labels, refuses a source with no speech before anything is charged, fences sound effects and music so they survive from the original track, and verifies the finished file by transcribing it. Use when an actor's voice sounds robotic, flat, thin or simply wrong, and for "change the voice", "voice swap", "swap the voice on this ad", "re-voice my ad", "the actor's voice sounds bad", "make him sound human", "different voice for this video", "speech to speech", "same video better voice". Not for narrating a silent clip (that is a voice-over), not translation, and it changes neither pronunciation nor accent.

image-ad-clone

Clones a STATIC IMAGE ad into a reusable prompt TEMPLATE. The deliverable is a parameterized library entry — placeholders, variables and per-model notes, appended to the shared image-ad library — not a finished ad. Reads the frame structurally, round-trips the draft prompt through gpt-image-2, nano-banana-pro or reve-2.1 until it reproduces, then replaces every brand-specific with a {placeholder} and proves the generalized version still renders on a different brand. Use when asked to "clone this ad as a template", "reverse engineer this ad", "turn this ad into a prompt", "extract a template", "make this ad reusable", "add this to my prompt library", or "study this ad and make a template". Two neighbours it is NOT: generating a finished image ad from a brief or an existing template is chatgpt-image-ad or nano-banana-image-ad, and cloning a VIDEO ad is clone-ad. If the source is a still and the user wants one finished picture rather than something reusable, they do not want this skill.

clone-ad

Clones a VIDEO ad end to end for a different product or offer, on the Novoads API. The deliverable is a finished rendered MP4 — the WHOLE ad, not its opening, and not a template. Reads the source's style, pacing, camera work, dialogue and tone, adapts it into a Seedance 2.0 prompt, prices it, renders it, files the source beside the clones and diffs each clip's transcript against the approved script. Use when asked to "clone this ad", "clone this video ad", "make this ad but for my product", "recreate this video for my brand", or when handed a video ad plus a product photo with a request for something similar. Two neighbours it is NOT: a STATIC IMAGE ad is image-ad-clone, and rebuilding only the first few seconds — where the hook ends and why it works — is a hook skill, not this one. If the source does not move, this is the wrong skill.

novoads-claymation-storyboard-ad

Build a 40 to 70 second hand-sculpted stop-motion CLAY ad as a STORYBOARD — five to eight separate beats, each rendered from its own key frame, with a storyteller narration laid into the gaps, a music bed under it and captions burned on, assembled locally with ffmpeg. Carries the genre's narrative arc: a named protagonist, an inciting moment, a social beat, quiet despair, a sculpted clay infographic, discovery, transformation and a resolution card. Also recreates a found clay ad: hand it a reference video and it reads the video's own beats with analyze_ad before writing the board. Produces a cast sheet, a beat board, a per-beat still, a per-beat clip, a per-gap voice-over line, and the exact generation calls in order. Trigger on "claymation ad", "stop-motion ad", "clay ad", "plasticine characters", "make an ad like this clay one", or a reference video with sculpted clay characters in it. Do NOT use for the smooth 3D animated look (use novoads-pixar-storyboard-ad, or novoads-pixar-ad for a single 15-second sho

novoads-pixar-storyboard-ad

Build a 30 to 60 second stylized 3D animated ad as a STORYBOARD — four to six separate beats, each rendered from its own key frame, with narration laid into the gaps, a music bed under it and captions burned on, assembled locally with ffmpeg. Carries the genre's beat formulas: an anthropomorphized problem character that speaks the pain in first person, a protagonist reveal, a mascot mechanism-of-action scene, and a composited end card. Produces a cast sheet, a beat board, a per-beat still, a per-beat clip, a per-gap voice-over line, and the exact generation calls in order. Trigger when the user wants a MULTI-SHOT animated spot: "a 30 second animated ad", "a storyboard ad", "several scenes", "a longer Pixar-style ad", "an animated ad with a voice-over", "an animated ad with the [object] character", "show how it works with little mascots", or hands you a product and asks for something with an arc rather than a single shot. Do NOT use for a single 15-second animated shot (use novoads-pixar-ad, which is one call