Salt Lab's ads most consistently activate Threat Reduction, Closure Delivery, Competence Restoration. These are the core mechanisms their creative relies on to convert viewers. Each psychological mission corresponds to a specific viewer state shift — and the data shows which ones pair with which hook types in their winning ads.

Salt Lab's ads run for an average of 10 days in market based on the decoded sample. Long-running ads are a strong signal of structural quality — the creative formula is durable enough to survive Meta's ranking algorithm past the typical thirty-day cutoff where most ads die.

Yes. Every decoded ad in this report produces a reusable structural formula — the beat sequence, the psychological mechanism, the hook pattern. You can take any of Salt Lab's winning structures, load your own brand into Heista, and generate ready-to-shoot scripts and visual briefs built on the same architecture but with your product, voice, and offer.

Ad spy tools show you screenshots of which ads Salt Lab is running. This report shows you the formula behind those ads — the beat-by-beat structural blueprint that made each one work. Hook type, psychological mechanism, scaling curve, visual DNA. You can't paste a screenshot into a creative brief. You can paste a formula.

Heista sources live-running video ads from Meta Ad Library and TikTok Creative Center — the same public ad libraries that competitive teams monitor. Each ad is then reverse-engineered into its structural formula. No scraping, no private data. The "Last updated" date on this page reflects the most recent refresh of the structural intelligence.