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Google, Meta and LinkedIn ad ideas from 1,000+ YC companies
A browsable library of real ads run by Y Combinator startups, pulled from the public ad libraries. Filter by platform and industry, play the videos, and steal what works.
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A swipe file of what actually gets shipped
Most “ad examples” galleries are award-show reels or agency case studies: beautiful, expensive, and nothing like what a startup can run on Monday. This is the opposite. Every creative here was pulled from the public ad libraries that Google, Meta and LinkedIn are legally required to keep, and was run by a real Y Combinator company spending real money. It is the working reality of startup advertising, not the highlight reel.
Use the filters as a swipe file. Set the platform to LinkedIn and you get the B2B playbook: demos, benchmark reports, webinars and “request demo” CTAs. Switch to Meta and it turns into video, product shots and founder photos. Google is the search and display side. Layer on an industry, B2B, fintech, healthcare, consumer, and you narrow it to the ads your own buyers are seeing. The patterns that repeat across dozens of companies are the ones worth borrowing.
It comes from our study of how all 6,055 YC companies run paid ads, which has the full breakdown by platform, sector, headcount and batch, plus the downloadable data. If you want feedback on your own creative, Roast My Ad gives an honest critique, and Top Creatives is how Adside surfaces your best-performing ads automatically.
Ad examples, answered
Yes. Every ad here was pulled from the public ad libraries that Google, Meta and LinkedIn are legally required to keep, and was run by a real Y Combinator company. They are shown as served in those libraries, credited to the advertiser.
More than 1,150 creatives from over 800 YC companies, across Google, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and LinkedIn. It is a representative sample of what YC startups actually run, not the full set.
Use the Platform filter at the top. LinkedIn skews B2B (demos, reports, webinars), Meta is mostly video and product shots, and Google is search and display. Combine it with the Industry filter to narrow to B2B, SaaS-style, fintech, healthcare and more.
That is the whole point. Browse them as a swipe file: study the hooks, the copy, the formats and the offers, then adapt what fits your product. Copying an ad outright is never the move, but the patterns that keep showing up are worth stealing.
The Google video ads (they run on YouTube) play right here in a pop-up. Meta video ads open in Facebook’s ad library, since their video files are not ours to host.
From our study of how all 6,055 YC companies run paid ads. The full methodology, charts and downloadable CSVs are in the write-up linked below.
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