Creative fatigue is the silent killer of ad performance in 2026. While manual editors struggle to output 3 videos a week, top performance marketers are generating 50+ unique Shorts daily using AI. Here's the exact tech stack separating the winners from the burnouts when analyzing and cloning competitor Instagram ads. TL;DR: Competitor Ad Intelligence for E-commerce Marketers The Core Concept Competitor ad intelligence involves tracking and analyzing rival brands' Instagram ads to identify winning hooks, formats, and messaging. By understanding what scales for others, e-commerce brands can bypass the costly testing phase and deploy proven creative structures. The Strategy Instead of manually copying ads, modern performance marketers use the Meta Ad Library to identify active creatives and deploy AI tools to clone the underlying structure. This shifts the focus from finding ads to rapidly generating variations that prevent creative fatigue.…