How to create an ad with AI
Tell it what you want to advertise and how much you want to spend per day: the Traffic Manager builds the campaign, with audience, text, and destination, for you to review and publish.
2 min readBasicUpdated on November 12, 2026
Where to find it in Cognizy
Video lesson coming soon. For now, follow the steps below.
Instead of building the ad field by field, you describe the offer, the goal, the region, and the amount per day. The Traffic Manager, Cognizy's ad AI, builds the entire campaign and explains each choice. You review, adjust, and publish. The campaign goes to Meta paused: it only spends once you turn it on and confirm the amount.
Where to find it in Cognizy
Before you start
- To publish, the Meta ads account needs to be connected. Without it, you can still build the draft.
- Have it clear what you'll advertise, the region, and how much you can spend per day.
- Building the campaign uses AI credits. Generating the artwork with AI does too.
- Only the owner and admins can publish ads.
Step by step
- Step 1:
In , click Create with AI.
- Step 2:
In the Create campaign with AI window, say What to advertise and write What the campaign needs to achieve: the result you expect, in your own words.
- Step 3:
Fill in Where to advertise and How much per day. In Artwork photo, choose where the image comes from. Then click Build campaign.
- Step 4:
In moments, the campaign opens fully built, with the notice Built by the Traffic Manager: where the ad leads, where it shows up, who it's for, and what the AI assumed, each choice with its reason. The campaign in this screenshot is an example.
- Step 5:
Check the sections below: text and image in Ads, region and age in Audience, and the amount in Budget and period. Adjust anything you'd like.
- Step 6:
When it's right, click Publish paused. The campaign goes to Meta without spending: it only starts when you turn it on and confirm the amount per day. To save and continue later, use Save draft.
How to know it worked
The campaign appears in Promote › Ads: as a draft if you only saved it, or paused on Meta if you published it. Turn it on whenever you want to start advertising.
If something goes wrong
The AI misunderstood what I sell.
Fix it in the campaign sections, or create it again with more detail in What the campaign needs to achieve and in Facts that can be mentioned.
I can't publish.
The Meta ads account isn't connected, or the ad is missing an image. The screen shows what's missing above the buttons.
I published and the ad isn't running.
It goes paused on purpose. Open the campaign, turn it on, and confirm the amount per day. Meta still reviews the ad before showing it, which can take a few hours.
The amount per day was rejected.
There's a daily spend cap in Meta's Ads settings. Adjust the amount or the cap.
Next step
Track the results and recommendations from the Traffic Manager on the Ads screen.
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