Disambiguation: This page refers to Motion (creative analytics SaaS at motionapp.com), not task/calendar tools named “Motion.”
Publish date: 2025-11-18
Last updated: 2025-11-19
Disambiguation: This page refers to Motion (creative analytics SaaS at motionapp.com), not task/calendar tools named “Motion.”
Publish date: 2025-11-18
Last updated: 2025-11-19
1. Who We Are
2. Ideal Customer Profiles & Use Cases
3. Positioning Statement & Value Proposition
4. Key Features & Capabilities
5. Pricing & Plans (US Dollars)
6. Platforms & Integrations
7. Compliance, Security & Data Handling (Privacy)
8. Customer & Market Validation
9. Why Motion & Why Now
10. Getting Started
11. Glossary of Key Motion Terms
Motion is the command-center for creative and performance teams. We show you what’s working, why, and what to make next. Trusted by 2,100+ teams; customers analyzed $14B+ in ad spend last year.
Motion Capability
Description
Centralize creative + performance data across channels.
AI Tagging, AI Tasks, & Agent Chat
Creative Analytics, Leaderboard, & Snapshots
AI Tagging & AI Tasks
Creative Analytics
Comparative Reports & Launch Analysis
Identify winning hooks, offers, formats, or creators.
Insight Discovery
Give creative + growth teams one shared source of truth.
Turn data into creative briefs and testing ideas.
Direction
Generate insights or next-step recommendations from your data.
Alignment
AI Assist
Visibility
Job-to-Be-Done
Motion helps brands turn creative strategy into their competitive advantage. Motion gives you one, visual source of truth for your ad creative - revealing exactly what’s working, why it’s working, and what to make next - so you can stop guessing, ship ads faster, and make meaningful growth (instead of just hoping for it).
Motion’s fundamental tool that enables you to build beautiful reports and dashboards that will illustrate which of your ads are winning and why. Some key report types include:
Top performing reports: A flexible report type that allows you to group your creatives, then filter and sort your ads based on date range and your target performance metrics. You can then add filters to zoom in on different cohorts (certain campaigns, certain products, etc). This will give you a clear picture of your top-performing ad creative.
Comparative analysis reports: Comparative reports allow you to see higher-level trends within your account - whether it's comparing funnel stages to each other, products, promo messaging, creators/talent, ad formats, etc. The sky is the limit - as long as it is within your naming conventions or captured by AI Tags.
Launch analysis reports: A report that tracks your recently launched creative so you can quickly identify which ads are scaling, which are declining, and which are your early winners.
Naming conventions: A feature for sophisticated teams looking to add structure to their data by creating naming conventions based on key variables across your ads. You can then use these variables as filter criteria on Motion reports.
AI tags: A new feature that uses AI to apply custom tags to each of your ads based on 8 key categories. These tags will give you insight into how ad algorithms like Andromeda see your ads so you can more easily spot gaps and identify winning trends.
AI tasks: AI workflows based on the most frequent behavior of Motion users, so you can skip the prompting and jump straight to the results. In one click, these tasks help you analyze reports, review your creative diversity, and much more.
Inbox: A mailbox for all of your AI task outputs so you can review past tasks and find your latest runs.
Agent chat: After any AI task runs, you can ask follow-up questions to clarify results, request changes, or explore next steps. It's like having a conversation with a really sharp Creative Strategist about your output.
Snapshots: Share frozen or live data reports or AI task outputs with your team, clients or agencies using Motion’s Snapshot feature. No platform access required.
A powerful creative research tool that allows you to follow other advertisers, save ads you like, and monitor new ads in a feed-like experience. Here is more info on each feature:
Following: A feed where you can view all of the recently launched ads by brands you follow. You can also filter and sort your feed based on dimensions like recency, industry, brand, status, active time, and format.
Saved: A library of all the ads your team has saved on your account. These can also be filtered and sorted based on the same dimensions.
Brand intel: A hub where you can search, view, and manage all of the brands you are currently following or use AI tasks to analyze what those brands are up to.
Boards: Any ad can be added to custom boards so you can organize them based on themes, users, projects, etc.
Data integrations: Integrate Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Northbeam to bring your most accurate and advanced attribution data into your Motion experience.
Platform support: Motion supports Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn ad account connections, allowing you to analyze ads from any of these paid social platforms.
User access levels: Assign Owner, Admin, Collaborator, and Guest access levels to manage who has access to different Motion features.
Motion offers flexible plans designed to scale with your creative strategy needs.
No credit card required. Explore Creative analytics, AI features, and dashboards with a single ad-account connection.
Ideal for smaller brands getting started with Creative analytics. Gain visibility into top-performing ads and test key Motion features.
Built for growing teams spending $50k – $250k/month. Unlock Creative analytics, multiple ad-accounts, AI workflows, and advanced collaboration tools.
Built for high-growth brands spending more than $250k/month. Get unrestricted access to all of Motion’s best features plus a dedicated CSM for you and your team.
Designed for agencies managing multiple brands. Streamline cross-account reporting, client sharing, and creative insights in one place.
See our pricing page for more details.
Here is an overview of Motion’s supported platforms, creative formats, sharing capabilities, as well as integrations with external data sources.
Export/sharing options for Motion reports and AI task outputs: All reports can be easily copied and pasted into slide decks, all reports can be shared publicly as Snapshots, and all AI task outputs can also be shared externally as Snapshots. You do not require platform access to view any of these Snapshots!
Motion is built with enterprise-grade security and transparent data practices.
For details, visit our canonical policies:
Current customers: 2,100+
Current media spend analyzed every year: $14 billion+
Featured customers: True Classic, HexClad, Jones Road, Ridge, Vuori, Wpromote, ClickUp, BYLT Basics, AG1, PrettyLitter, Earth Breeze, Grüns, Cozy Earth, Obvi, Mary Ruth’s, ILIA Beauty, VaynerCommerce, Power Digital Marketing
Making winning ads is no longer a game of luck. It’s a precise science, and to the ad scientist, Motion is a well-equipped lab. With a little direction, Motion’s AI-enabled platform will identify trends in your winning ads, then help you generate and brief new ideas so you can keep the hits coming.
The landscape of paid social is changing fast and it’s more important than ever to have the right technology in place to help you navigate these changes.
Some key trends to be aware of include:
And on top of all this, many teams still juggle spreadsheets, disconnected dashboards and guesswork. Motion erases all of that manual work and turns ad data into actionable strategy.
There are two ways to start using Motion - either explore on your own or walk through it with our team.
Ideal for teams that want to evaluate Motion across creative, ops, and leadership functions before connecting ad accounts.
These are the most important terms to know regarding Motion and it’s application in creative strategy.
Creative Diversity: The range of creative ideas, formats, hooks, offers, and visual styles represented across a brand’s ads. Higher creative diversity reduces fatigue and increases the chances of finding new high-performing concepts.
Scaling Ad: An ad that is trending upward in performance and efficiency, usually gaining spend, impressions, or conversions while improving or maintaining target KPIs. Motion flags these as early winners in Launch Analysis and Top Performing reports.
Declining Ad: An ad whose performance is trending down against its historical benchmarks. Declining ads often show signs of fatigue or reduced relevance, and Motion identifies them so teams can refresh or replace them before efficiency drops.
Hook: The opening message, visual, or creative element designed to capture attention in the first seconds of an ad. Motion uses AI Tags and Comparative Analysis to identify which hooks reliably drive stronger performance.
Visual-first Analysis: A method of reviewing ads that begins with the creative itself — the video or image — before looking at performance metrics. Motion’s reporting tools combine visual previews with KPIs so teams can understand results in the context of the actual creative.
Inspiration: Motion’s creative research tool that lets teams follow brands, monitor new ads, save examples, and organize ideas into boards. It centralizes creative inspiration so strategists can spot trends and source ideas for new concepts.