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FREE PLAYBOOK · 2026 BFCM EDITION

Out-Create the Algorithm

Out-Create the Algorithm

The 2026 BFCM Ads Playbook

The 2026 BFCM Ads Playbook

Meta and Google’s AI now run targeting and bidding. Get the plan, the benchmarks and the creative system to win Black Friday & Cyber Monday with the part you still control.

Meta and Google’s AI now run targeting and bidding. Get the plan, the benchmarks and the creative system to win Black Friday & Cyber Monday with the part you still control.

✓ A 10-week countdown calendar – plus 7- and 4-week plans if you’re starting late
✓ BFCM 2025 benchmarks from Adobe Analytics and Triple Whale
✓ 17 hooks with examples and a weekly system for 15–25 new ads

The countdown started Sep 21.

Starting late? The playbook includes compressed 7-week and 4-week plans.

Built on BFCM 2025 data – not recycled advice

Built on BFCM 2025 data – not recycled advice

Every benchmark in the playbook is sourced. A few of them:

$44.2B

U.S. online sales during Cyber Week 2025

Source: Adobe Analytics

+693%

traffic to U.S. retail sites from generative AI tools

Source: Adobe Analytics

67.6%

of tracked BFCM 2025 ad spend went to Meta

Source: Triple Whale

What’s inside

What’s inside

What’s inside

33 pages, 11 sections. Each rule is meant to be decided before BFCM week, not during it.

33 pages, 11 sections. Each rule is meant to be decided before BFCM week, not during it.

01

The state of BFCM 2026

What the 2025 data says, and what AI now controls

02

The 10-week countdown calendar

Plus compressed plans if you’re starting late

03

Offer & promotion strategy

Offer models, break-even ROAS and early access

04

Creative strategy

The matrix, briefs, weekly production system and 17 hooks

05

Channel-by-channel playbooks

Meta, TikTok, Google, emerging channels and budget split

06

Budget, bidding & measurement

Ramp rules, bid strategy, MER and targets by phase

07

Landing page & tech readiness
Checkout, load, message match and AI shopping assistants

08

Live optimization protocol
The daily routine for Nov 23–30

09

Post-BFCM retention
Turning discount buyers into repeat buyers

10

Benchmarks & your tracker
2025 reference numbers and a 2026 tracker

11

Tools & go/no-go checklist
What to have in place before lockdown

The creative system to hit 15–25 new ads a week

The creative system to hit 15–25 new ads a week

Hooks, formats and funnel stages you combine into briefs – with worked examples like these, made with Kreator.

Hooks, formats and funnel stages you combine into briefs – with worked examples like these, made with Kreator.

Price / urgency · Static · Cart retargeting

Price / urgency · Static · Cart retargeting

Skeptical voice · UGC video · Cold traffic

Skeptical voice · UGC video · Cold traffic

Emphasize the solution · Static · Cold traffic

Emphasize the solution · Static · Cold traffic

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“Every Q4 I hit the same wall on the brands I worked on. The data said test more ads. Production said wait two weeks and pay for it. We built Kreator to kill that trade-off.”

“Every Q4 I hit the same wall on the brands I worked on. The data said test more ads. Production said wait two weeks and pay for it. We built Kreator to kill that trade-off.”

Bojan Gajic · Co-Founder & CEO, Kreator.ai