Lesson 3 of 7 · 4 min
The market and competitor sections
Read the market and competitor sections and know which real-world signals each one pulls from.
Video walkthrough coming soon
Research
Looking outward
Two of the five sections describe the world your product competes in rather than the product itself: the market section and the competitors section. Both are built from live web results, not from memory.
Market
The market section comes from the Market Awareness module. It covers the size of the opportunity, how aware your audience already is of the problem and of solutions like yours, and the shape of the competitive landscape. Awareness level is the part worth reading closely, because it decides how a creative should open. Someone who does not yet know the problem exists needs a very different first line than someone already comparing three vendors.
Competitors
The competitors section comes from the Competitor Research module. It reads the real players in your space off the web rather than from a fixed list, so it reflects who actually shows up when a buyer searches. Use it to see how rivals position themselves, and to find the thing none of them are saying.
How to read them
Both sections are web-grounded, which means each is a snapshot of right now, not a permanent fact sheet. Markets move and new competitors appear, so when yours does, re-run the section to catch up. These two feed the positioning and angle work in Creative Strategy, so it pays to get them right before you generate a batch of ads.