Demo UGC ads by the numbers
- Winning ads
- 358from 66 brands
- Median run
- 90 daysall winners: 85
- Median copies
- 5all winners: 4
- Proven (90+ days)
- 50%38% still live
358 ads. 30% link to an app store, 70% to a website. Median video length 28 seconds (99 ads with a length). Data as of 9 November 2026: 358 winning ads from 66 brands, first started 17 October 2024.
What the winning demo ads have in common
- They run for months, not days. The median demo winner ran 90 days (all 1,922 winners: 85). 50% passed 90 days and 16% passed 180.
- Brands make more than one version. The median winner exists as 5 copies in the Ad Library (all 1,922 winners: 4), and 51% reached 5 or more: new cuts, captions or sizes of the same video.
- The copy stays, the creator changes. 67% of these ads share their exact ad copy with another ad from the same brand (all 1,922 winners: 69%). Brands keep a line that works and run it under several creators' videos.
- A person is on screen. 82% show at least one person; 59% feature a woman and 22% a man.
- The ad copy is plain. The median caption is 143 characters, 35% mention an offer (free, % off, gift, sale), 15% cite social proof (stars, reviews, "#1", "viral") and 60% use emoji.
- They are not only in English. 19% are in another language, led by Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
- Demos last. 50% of demo winners ran 90+ days against 46% across all formats.
- The hands are the actor. 18% show no face at all, just hands and the product or screen, against 10% across all winners.
Brands behind these ads
| Brand | Winning ads | Median run | Longest run | Median copies | Top format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halara | 55 | 106 days | 588 days | 5 | Demo |
| Praktika | 35 | 92 days | 199 days | 4 | Demo |
| Wispr Flow | 24 | 81 days | 133 days | 6 | Demo |
| Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor | 21 | 83 days | 114 days | 4 | Demo |
| ReciMe | 19 | 88 days | 151 days | 8 | Demo |
| Breeze | 18 | 104 days | 362 days | 5 | Demo |
| Hello Nancy | 17 | 157 days | 410 days | 5 | Demo |
| Goli | 14 | 84 days | 202 days | 5 | Demo |
| Reading.com | 12 | 91 days | 264 days | 1 | Demo |
| Suno | 11 | 102 days | 237 days | 8 | Demo |
| Meshy | 11 | 56 days | 105 days | 7 | Demo |
| Cal AI | 8 | 53 days | 84 days | 13 | Demo |
| AiApply | 6 | 123 days | 168 days | 13 | Demo |
| Wanderlog | 5 | 165 days | 166 days | 4 | Demo |
Download this table as a CSV file (CC BY 4.0, link to this page). Brands with a linked name have a full UGC Brands page on how they run their creator program.
How we picked these ads
A winning ad here is a UGC-style video ad from the Meta Ad Library (Facebook and Instagram) that the brand ran for at least 45 days, that sits in the top 10% of that brand's video ads by impressions, and that the brand either scaled to 3 or more copies or kept running past 60 days. Proven winners ran 90 days or more. Each ad is checked as the brand's own: run by its verified page and linking to its site or app.
The Ad Library shows no spend, clicks or sales, so the signal is behaviour: a brand that keeps paying to run a video for months, and copies it into new versions, is telling you it works. "Copies" counts the near-identical ads the library groups under the same creative. Format (talking head, demo, POV text and so on), who is on camera and language are labelled from each ad's poster frame and copy by a model, then spot-checked; treat them as approximate.
Data as of 9 November 2026: 358 winning ads from 66 brands, first started 17 October 2024. Run days for live ads are counted to the export date, so they will grow. This page shows a sample picked for variety (the brand's longest-running ads first, a cap per brand and one version per line of copy). We never show the creator's name or handle; each card links to the public Ad Library entry.
These are observations about ads brands kept running, not proof that a format causes results. A brand that runs talking heads will have talking-head winners. Compare shares with the "all winners" figures before drawing conclusions.