Build Meta, Reddit, and TikTok ad campaigns

Kite plans a separate campaign for Facebook and Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok, writes the ads and makes the images, videos, and landing pages for each one, hands your team a campaign ready to launch, and reads the results from your connected ad accounts to plan the next round.

Key Takeaways

  1. Facebook and Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok each need their own campaign. People use each platform differently, so the audience, the ad, and the page behind it should change from one platform to the next.
  2. Kite decides which platforms fit your offer, studies what your competitors are running, and plans each campaign with its objective, audience, budget, and settings named the way the platform names them.
  3. Kite writes the ads from what your customers actually say, makes the images and vertical videos, and builds the landing page each campaign sends people to.
  4. Your team launches each campaign in the platform's own ad manager from Kite's finished plan. Kite then reads the results from your connected Meta, Reddit, and TikTok ad accounts and writes the next round.
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What it takes to run ads on Meta, Reddit, and TikTok

Paid social is one of the fastest ways for a small team to put an offer in front of new people. The catch is that each platform asks for different work, and most teams don't have time to learn three ad managers well.

All three platforms build a campaign in the same three layers. The campaign sets the objective, such as sales, leads, or traffic. Beneath it, an ad set (Meta's name) or ad group (Reddit's and TikTok's name) sets the audience, budget, schedule, and bid. The ads sit inside that layer and carry the creative.

What changes is who you're talking to and how they want to be spoken to:

  • Facebook and Instagram reach almost everyone, and Meta's delivery system does much of the audience finding once it knows what result you want. The creative carries most of the weight, so you need several versions of your text and images for Meta to test.
  • Reddit lets you target specific communities, interests, and the topics people are discussing. Ads appear as posts in the feed, and people can comment on them, so an ad that sounds like a banner gets ignored or picked apart.
  • TikTok runs on full-screen vertical video with sound. An ad that looks like a TV spot gets swiped away, while one that looks like a post from a real person gets watched.

Each platform also has its own built-in AI. Meta's Advantage+ and TikTok's Smart+ automate targeting, budgets, and creative variations inside their own ad managers. Those tools help once a campaign is running. But they don't decide whether you should be on TikTok at all, what your ads should say, or whether the landing page will turn the clicks into customers.

That planning and making is where an AI marketer earns its keep. Kite is an AI marketer. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. Here's how it builds campaigns for all three platforms.

How Kite builds Meta, Reddit, and TikTok ad campaigns

Kite starts from what it already knows about your company. Its research on your positioning, customers, competitors, and brand lives in your team's knowledge base, so it doesn't need a long brief to begin.

From there, Kite works the way an experienced paid social marketer would. It decides which platforms suit your offer and audience, then studies the ads your competitors and your market are running. It plans a separate campaign for each platform, writes the ads, and makes the images, videos, and landing pages they need. Your team launches the finished campaigns in each platform's ad manager. Once the ads are running, Kite reads the results from your connected ad accounts, explains what's working, and brings you the next round of ads.

  1. Decide which platforms fit your audience and offer
  2. Study what's already running in your market
  3. Plan each campaign the way its platform works
  4. Write the ads for each platform's format
  5. Make the images, videos, and landing pages
  6. Hand your team a campaign that's ready to launch
  7. Read the results and write the next round

Decide which platforms fit your audience and offer

Kite chooses platforms based on where your buyers spend time and what your offer needs to show. A product with a visual payoff often belongs on Instagram and TikTok. A technical product for a specific profession often does better on Reddit, where its buyers already gather in communities about their work.

Kite also tells you plainly when a platform isn't worth the money yet. A brand-new company without any customer reviews or video footage may get more from one well-built Meta campaign than from three thin ones. Kite explains its reasoning, proposes how to split a starting budget, and agrees on the goal with you before it writes anything. That goal might be booked demos, free trial signups, or purchases, and it decides which objective each campaign uses.

Study what's already running in your market

Kite looks at what competitors are running before it plans your ads. Its built-in ad research shows a competitor's current and past ads, including the copy, images, video, landing pages, formats, and run dates. Kite can find a competitor's ads from its website address alone, or search Meta's Ad Library by keyword to see everyone advertising in your market. It can also search TikTok ads and organic TikTok videos in your category.

The ads that have run the longest are usually the ones that work, so Kite pays close attention to them. It sorts what it finds by angle, such as price, proof, speed, or outcome, and looks for the angles nobody in your market is using. That gap often becomes your strongest ad.

Plan each campaign the way its platform works

Kite plans each campaign separately, because the same audience looks different on each platform. Each plan names the objective, the ad sets or ad groups, the audience, the budget and schedule, and the ads that go in each one.

Take an invoicing app for freelance designers. On Meta, Kite might plan a campaign with a lead objective, a broad audience in the countries you serve, and interest targeting around freelancing and design software, with several ads for Meta to test. On Reddit, it might put one ad group in communities such as r/freelance and r/graphic_design, where designers talk about late-paying clients. On TikTok, it might plan a campaign around a short video of a designer chasing an unpaid invoice, because that's the moment the app solves.

When your Meta Ads account is connected, Kite looks up targeting options in Meta's own list of interests, locations, demographics, and employers. When your Reddit Ads account is connected, it looks up the communities and interests Reddit offers. That means every option in the plan uses the exact name you'll find in the ad manager, so building the campaign is a matter of following the plan rather than making new decisions.

Write the ads for each platform's format

Kite writes every ad from real customer evidence, such as reviews, testimonials, sales-call quotes, and comments on your past ads. Each line notes the source it came from, so you can check that the ad says only what your customers have said or your results show.

Kite writes three to five angles for each campaign, each one a different reason to click, and several versions within each angle so the platform has something real to test. Then it shapes the copy for each platform:

  • Meta shows one ad with several text options and learns which combination works. Kite writes two to five primary texts that make the same argument with different openings, plus two headlines with different jobs. It puts the hook in the first sentence, because the feed cuts the rest off behind "See more."
  • TikTok ad text can't carry links, @ mentions, or hashtags. Kite keeps it short and lets the video do the work.
  • Reddit ads read as posts. Kite writes the headline and body the way a member of that community would write about the problem.

A checker counts every Meta and TikTok line against the platform's limits before you see it. Kite also reminds you that Meta's own text enhancements can rewrite your options, so you'll want them turned off when you're testing which angle wins.

Make the images, videos, and landing pages

Kite makes the creative each campaign needs in your brand's colors, fonts, and style. It can generate new images, edit your existing ones, and remove backgrounds for product shots.

For TikTok, Reels, and Stories, Kite produces vertical videos fifteen to thirty-four seconds long unless you ask for something different. It drafts several creative directions from true details about your company and picks the strongest. It uses your own site's images and footage before generating anything, then adds generated people, voices, music, and sound where the video needs them.

Every ad needs a page that keeps the ad's promise. Kite builds a landing page for each campaign's audience, so the designer who clicked a Reddit ad about late payments lands on a page about getting paid on time. On a site Kite hosts, it publishes the page once you approve it. If your site runs on Webflow, it publishes through your connected Webflow account.

Hand your team a campaign that's ready to launch

Kite delivers each campaign as a complete package your team can launch in the platform's ad manager. You get the campaign plan, the ad copy as a reviewed file with its sources, and the finished images and videos. When you want to upload in bulk, Kite also lays the copy out in an import file with the campaign names, ad group names, and destination URLs filled in.

Your team creates the campaigns, sets the budgets, and presses launch in Meta Ads Manager, Reddit Ads, and TikTok Ads Manager. Since the plan already names every setting, that work takes minutes rather than an afternoon of learning a new interface. It also keeps the decisions that spend money with the person who owns the budget.

Read the results and write the next round

Once your campaigns are running, Kite reads their results from your connected ad accounts. In Meta Ads, it reads spend, reach, frequency, clicks, and results for every campaign, ad set, and ad, and can break them down by placement, age, or device. In Reddit Ads and TikTok Ads Manager, it reads the platform's performance reports for your campaigns, ad groups, and ads.

Kite explains what changed and why. For example, it might notice that an Instagram ad set's cost per lead doubled while frequency climbed, which means the same people are seeing the same ad too often. Or it might see that the Reddit ad group in r/freelance converts at twice the rate of the broader interest group.

Then it writes the next round. Winning angles get fresh wording, losing angles are retired, and one or two new angles go in to test. Kite records each round's winners and retired angles in your knowledge base, so every new batch builds on what your ads have already taught it. You can also put this on a schedule, such as a Monday report on last week's spend and results across all three platforms, delivered in the Kite web app, by email, or in Slack.

What you get

A platform plan

Which of Meta, Reddit, and TikTok fit your offer, why, and how to split your starting budget across them.

A research summary of your market's ads

The ads your competitors are running on each platform, the angles they lean on, and the angles nobody is using.

A campaign plan for each platform

The objective, ad sets or ad groups, audiences, budgets, and schedule, with every targeting option named the way the platform names it.

Ads ready to upload

Copy written for each platform's format and checked against its limits, with the customer source beside each line, plus images and vertical videos in your brand.

A landing page for each campaign

A page built for the audience that will click, published on a site Kite hosts or through your connected Webflow account.

Regular results and the next round

A readout of what's working on each platform, and a fresh batch of ads built from it.

How to get started

Start by telling Kite what you want from paid social, in plain language. You might say, "We want to start running ads on Instagram and TikTok to get more trial signups," or "Should we try Reddit ads for our developer tool?"

Kite uses what it knows about your business to propose the platforms, the goal, and a starting budget split. Once you agree, it researches your market's ads, plans each campaign, and brings you the copy, creative, and landing pages to review. You approve the landing pages before they publish, and your team launches the campaigns.

You can get a full campaign plan, ads, and creative without connecting anything. Connect your Meta Ads, Reddit Ads, or TikTok Ads Manager account when you want Kite to look up real targeting options and read your results. You can work with Kite in the Kite web app, by email, or in Slack.

Integrations used to build social ad campaigns

Kite's built-in research and creative tools cover the planning and making, so you can start without any connections. Your own ad accounts add what only they know: which targeting options exist and how your ads are performing.

Read your ad accounts and results

Meta Ads

Kite reads performance, campaign structure, ad sets, ads, and creative across your Facebook and Instagram campaigns, and looks up Meta's named targeting options when it plans a new ad set.

Reddit Ads

Kite reads your campaigns, ad groups, and ads and their performance reports, and looks up the communities and interests Reddit offers for targeting.

TikTok Ads Manager

Kite reads your campaigns, ad groups, and ads and pulls performance reports so it can see which videos and angles earn results.

Research your market's ads

Common questions

Can AI manage my social media ad campaigns?

AI can handle most of the work of running social ads: choosing platforms, researching competitors, planning campaigns, writing the ads, making the creative, building landing pages, and reading the results. Kite does all of that for Meta, Reddit, and TikTok. Your team launches the campaigns and makes budget changes in each platform's ad manager, using Kite's plan and recommendations. On LinkedIn, Kite goes a step further and builds draft campaigns inside your connected LinkedIn Ads account for a team owner or admin to launch, as described on Set up LinkedIn ad campaigns.

How do I run Reddit ads for a B2B product?

Start with the communities where your buyers talk about their work, not with broad interest targeting. A tool for IT teams belongs in the communities where system administrators trade advice, and a tool for accountants belongs where accountants do. Write the ad the way a knowledgeable member of that community would write a post, with a clear headline about the problem and a specific offer such as a free trial or a guide. Plan for comments, too, since people reply to Reddit ads and a quick, honest answer from your team builds trust. Kite finds the right communities, writes the ads in that voice, and builds the landing page each ad group sends people to.

Is it free to run ads on TikTok?

Opening a TikTok Ads Manager account is free, but you pay for the ads TikTok delivers. TikTok also sets minimum daily budgets for each campaign and each ad group, so check the current minimums in TikTok Ads Manager before you plan a small test. Since TikTok rewards fresh creative, plan to spend some of your budget on making several videos rather than running one for months. Kite makes those videos as part of the campaign.

Should I use Meta Advantage+ and TikTok Smart+ alongside Kite?

Yes, they work well together. Advantage+ and Smart+ decide who sees your ads and how your budget spreads once a campaign is running inside their platform. Kite does the work around them: choosing the platforms, writing the angles, making the creative, building the landing page, and comparing results across all three platforms so you know where the next dollar should go. One caution for testing on Meta is that its text enhancements can rewrite your ad copy, so turn them off when you want a clean read on which angle wins.

Do I need to connect my ad accounts before Kite can build a campaign?

No. Kite can plan campaigns, write ads, and make images, videos, and landing pages from your company research and customer evidence without any connected account. Connecting your Meta Ads, Reddit Ads, or TikTok Ads Manager account lets Kite look up the exact targeting options, read how your current ads perform, and build each new round on real results.

Questions this page answers

  • How do I build Meta, Reddit, and TikTok ad campaigns with AI?
  • Can an AI marketing agent build Meta, Reddit, and TikTok ad campaigns?
  • How do I set up a Facebook and Instagram ad campaign?
  • How do I run Reddit ads for a B2B product?
  • How do I launch a TikTok ad campaign?
  • Can AI manage my social media ad campaigns?

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About the author

Devon Wells leads product marketing at Kite, the AI marketer. He spent a decade marketing industrial AI, from self-driving trucks to computer vision, but now Kite handles most of the work itself.

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