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Creative analytics and reporting for paid social teams, priced by monthly ad spend.

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Motion analyses ad creative performance and produces visual reports for creative strategists and media buyers. Plans include an AI analyst, AI tagging, unlimited seats and accounts, and scheduled reports. Pro adds attribution integrations with Northbeam and Google Analytics.

Best for

Agencies and brands with meaningful monthly spend that run a structured creative testing programme.

Not for

Small accounts, because $750 per month is hard to justify on a few thousand in ad spend.

How to get your money’s worth

  1. 01Agree a naming convention for ads before connecting accounts, so reports group by hook, format and creator.
  2. 02Send a weekly creative report to the creative team via Slack so briefs are based on data.
  3. 03Compare hook rate and hold rate alongside ROAS to see why a creative works, not only that it works.

Skills that pair with it

  • ad-account-audit
  • paid-social-creative-brief

Where we have written about Motion

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The AI marketing stack for 2026: what is worth paying for

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Motion vs Foreplay vs Atria: which creative tool does a paid social team need?

They get compared as if they were rivals. They mostly do different jobs, and the price gap between them is more than tenfold.

1 October 2026 · 3 min

QuizAgents

Which AI marketing stack are you? A five-question quiz

Five questions about how you work, not what you wish you had time for. You get a stack of four or five tools and one thing to stop paying for.

1 October 2026 · 2 min

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