For DTC brands & agencies spending  $5k–$500k/mo  on Meta

Plunder ads that
already work.

Your competitors spent a fortune finding out what converts. PirateAds keeps every Meta ad in your category forever, with how long it really sailed — including the ones Meta sank. Take what survived. Leave what drowned.

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1,190 ads Meta scuttled — still on our shelf 29 brands, raided nightly 30 days free, no card, no parley · from $59/mo
Stop paying to learn what’s already knownEvery competitor ad with its real run time — a winner is the one they kept paying for. Months of their testing, read in a minute. Arr, that’s the whole trick.
Know your next ad before you make itProven angles in your category turned into three briefs you can hand a designer today. Less squinting at the horizon.
See which of your ads actually fills the chest In Meta reviewHook, hold and store-true ROAS beside Meta’s number — live on the founder’s account, yours once Meta approves the connection.
LIVE FROM THE SHELF
8,888ads tracked, never deleted
29brands stocked and ready to add · more every day
1,190ads saved after Meta erased them
24dmedian age of a live ad

Computed live from the shared library · as of Aug 13, 2026

BRANDS WE TRACK — NOT CUSTOMERS, NOT ENDORSEMENTS · FULL LIBRARIES, REFRESHED DAILY
WHY WE BUILT IT · THE FOUNDER'S OWN NUMBERS

Meta said $13,536.
Our store said $6,518.

Real numbers from Root'd — the founder's own DTC brand, same 90 days, same ads. Every ad dashboard reports the bigger one. We built PirateAds because we needed the smaller one — and because the only way to stop paying for bad tests is to see which ads your competitors kept paying for.

Meta-reportedwhat the ad platform claims it drove
$13,536
Store-trueorders your Shopify actually recorded
$6,518
2.1× apart. Neither number is a lie — Meta counts a sale when someone saw or clicked the ad and bought inside its attribution window; your store counts that sale once, against whatever touched it last. But only one of them pays your bills, and only one of them should decide which ad you scale.

So every card in PirateAds shows both, side by side, labelled. We never quietly pick the flattering one — not for you, and not for ourselves.

Root'd · 90 days ending Aug 14, 2026 · real, unedited

REAL ADS · REAL RUN TIMES · LIVE DATA

Somebody already spent six figures learning
what works in your category.

Nobody keeps funding a loser. Every tile below is a real ad from the live shelf with its actual run duration — tap a card to play it right here, or tap the brand name for its full haul. Every account sees every brand on the shelf — star the ones you’re hunting and one switch narrows everything to your marks. Missing a competitor? Add any brand, in seconds.

Join the crew — free Their winners are public record. You just need the receipts.
WHY JOIN NOW, NOT IN SIX MONTHS

Never rebuild a winner
from memory again.

Meta’s Ad Library forgets an ad the day it stops. We started hoarding in June 2026, and the hoard only grows — every day, more winners, more wrecks, more receipts.

1,190 ads already rescued from deletion — full run histories Meta no longer shows anyone.
Your archive starts the day you add a brand. It will never be shallower than today.
Run duration is the closest public proxy for ROAS — and it only exists if someone was recording.
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Ads visible: the shelf vs Meta's Ad Library
Jun '26Aug '26→ compounding
On the shelf (kept forever)Still visible on Meta
YOUR ADS · REAL CARDS FROM THE PLATFORM

Know which of your ads
is actually paying the crew.

Not a dashboard screenshot — the actual card, with every number we compute and the source labelled, so you always know whether Meta or your store is talking.

Status: live today on the founder's account (Root'd). Connecting your account is submitted to Meta for App Review — the shelf, the archive and the briefs work now; this card unlocks the day Meta approves.

Real creative, Root'd · illustrative numbers

▶ 47 days live
Problem-first
"Tired of choking down 12 pills?" — UGC hook
▲ Scale — top decile hold rate
Spend · 30d$4,180
Store ROAS SHOPIFY3.4 ▲ +0.6
Meta-reported ROAS4.9 optimistic
Cost per purchase$28.40 ▼ −$4.10
Purchases · revenue147 · $14,212
Link CTR1.9%
34%Hook
41%Hold
62Convert
Why it's winning: hook rate is 2.1× your account average and the angle — problem-first — is the longest-surviving play on the shelf. Two competitors just launched the same angle.
Store-true ROAS beside Meta's. Meta says 4.9. Your Shopify orders say 3.4. We show both and never quietly pick the flattering one.
Hook and hold, per ad. How many people made it past 3 seconds, and how many of those finished — the two numbers that tell you whether creative or targeting is the problem.
A verdict, not just data. Scale, watch or kill, with the specific number that triggered it.
The angle, tagged automatically. So "what's working" stops meaning one ad and starts meaning a repeatable play.
Market context on your own ad. Your winner, checked against every competitor ad running the same angle.
Join the crew — free 30 days free, no card. Your numbers stay yours — read-only, encrypted, never shared.
TIME TO YOUR FIRST REAL ANSWER

Winning angles by lunch.
Not next quarter.

No implementation, no data warehouse, no onboarding call. Add the brands you compete with, connect an ad account, and the analysis starts immediately — then deepens every night while you sleep.

0minutes

Add your competitors

Type a brand name. If they're already on the shelf, their full history — including ads Meta deleted — appears instantly.

2minutes

Connect your ad account In Meta review

Paste a read-only token and your own creative lands beside theirs. Nothing is ever written to your account.

10minutes

Read the verdicts

Every ad scored on hook, hold and store-true ROAS. Every angle ranked by how long it survives in your category.

Day 1and compounding

Brief the next three

Pick a proven angle, get three concepts written against the hooks that actually held attention. The archive deepens daily.

PUBLIC BENCHMARKS — CITE FREELY

We publish the shelf’s numbers.
Judge the loot before you trust the pirate.

Computed live from the shared library. Sample currently skews DTC supplements, wellness & beauty — and we say so.

42%of the ads running today are past day 30 — the test-to-winner line
10%of the ads running today are past day 90 — the core-winner tier
24dmedian age of a live ad in the sample
35%of 90-day survivors are video — vs 32% of all live ads
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PLAYS WELL WITH YOUR STACK

Integrations — including your own AI.

Every account ships with a personal connector URL, so Claude or ChatGPT can work the shelf for you — analyze brands, pull strategies, add new ones — scoped to your account. A first mate who never sleeps.

ClaudeLive
Ask Claude to analyze the shelf, pull a brand's full strategy, or add brands — direct backend access via MCP.
OpenAI · ChatGPTLive
The same connector works in ChatGPT — search and read the entire library from a chat.
Meta · Business ManagerLive
Ad Library tracking is built in — every brand archived daily, no tokens. Business Manager connect for your own spend and ROAS is rolling out (+3 trial days). Creating and publishing your own ads to Meta from PirateAds: coming soon.
ShopifyComing soon
Store-reported revenue next to Meta-reported numbers — connecting will add +5 trial days.
Google AdsComing soon
Your Google creative and spend on the same shelf as Meta.
GA4Coming soon
Site-side truth — sessions and conversions beside your ad spend.

You already have the data to make
a better ad this week.

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The Weekly Edition is free · plans from $59/mo · founding pricing locked for life · most crews here replace $300–$750+/mo across 2–3 tools · see plans