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Operators · Monday · 1 hr 7 min

6 CPG Funnels: How We Study Ads, Landers & Offers

“It’s very easy to scrape an ad library, pull out concepts and then literally just duplicate the ad. That’s just a race to the bottom.” How do you learn from other brands without copying them? Matt Bertulli (Founder, Pela Case & Lomi) and Cody Plofker (Advisor & fmr. CEO, Jones Road Beauty) share their screens to walk through six consumables brands they’re learning from while building Winks. Each picked three, plus one bonus from outside DTC. 1. Nutrition Geeks: UK single-ingredient 2. Norse Organics: Natural acne care 3. Elavate: UK collagen for women 4. MarsMen: Testosterone support 5. Spoiled Child: Oddity’s brand 6. Boostcous: Gluten-free couscous (Bonus) Wispr Flow: AI voice app Matt and Cody trace each brand’s ads, landers and offers, including why long pages still convert. Some brands force subscriptions, others offer a choice, and a few lead with one-time bundles. Meanwhile, Winks is testing a no-subscription bundle of its own. Powered By Aftersell https://9ops.co/aftersell-operators TBAR Partners https://9ops.co/tbarpartners Richpanel https://9ops.co/richpanel Motion https://9ops.co/motion-runneth Skio https://9ops.co/skio-9operators Omnisend https://9ops.co/omnisend Operators Portal https://portal.9operators.com/dashboard Operators Newsletter https://9operators.com/

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“It’s very easy to scrape an ad library, pull out concepts and then literally just duplicate the ad. That’s just a race to the bottom.” 

How do you learn from other brands without copying them? 

Matt Bertulli (Founder, Pela Case & Lomi) and Cody Plofker (Advisor & fmr. CEO, Jones Road Beauty) share their screens to walk through six consumables brands they’re learning from while building Winks. Each picked three, plus one bonus from outside DTC. 

1. Nutrition Geeks: UK single-ingredient 

2. Norse Organics: Natural acne care 

3. Elavate: UK collagen for women 

4. MarsMen: Testosterone support 

5. Spoiled Child: Oddity’s brand 

6. Boostcous: Gluten-free couscous 

(Bonus) Wispr Flow: AI voice app 

Matt and Cody trace each brand’s ads, landers and offers, including why long pages still convert. Some brands force subscriptions, others offer a choice, and a few lead with one-time bundles. Meanwhile, Winks is testing a no-subscription bundle of its own. 

Powered By 

Aftersell 

https://9ops.co/aftersell-operators 

TBAR Partners 

https://9ops.co/tbarpartners 

Richpanel 

https://9ops.co/richpanel 

Motion 

https://9ops.co/motion-runneth 

Skio 

https://9ops.co/skio-9operators 

Omnisend 

https://9ops.co/omnisend 

Operators Portal 

https://portal.9operators.com/dashboard 

Operators Newsletter 

https://9operators.com/ 

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