EP | 731 - What the Instagram & Facebook Algorithm Actually Wants in 2026, Part 2: Stealing What's Already Working
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Here's the single biggest mistake I see coaches make with ads. It's not the targeting, the budget, or the offer.
It's creating content in a vacuum.
They sit down, think about what might work, write something, run it, and wonder why it's expensive.
Meanwhile their competitors have already done all the testing.
Their best ads have been running 90 days. The data is right there and almost nobody is looking at it.
Today in Part 2 of this series, I'll explain exactly how you can analyze and iterate your ads based on what's working right now and if you've been wanting to get more advanced with your AI skills, this is a perfect way to do so.
Time Stamps:
(0:05) Listen To Part 1 First
(1:55) Competitor Intelligence
(4:40) Using Instagram As Research For Ads
(6:10) Step By Step AI Ads Workflow
(17:30) How We Can Help You
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back. If you've not listened to Part 1 yet, do that first. The link to that is in the show notes, because everything we're going to cover today is built upon when we set up last week. So make sure to listen that. Now, quick recap of part one of this two-part series. Meta-builded an AI system that's called Andromeda. Okay, it's changed how content gets distributed, both paid and organic. Ultimately, now your creative is your targeting. |
| 0:22.8 | Okay, the algorithm reads your post and finds the right person based on who it communicates with. |
| 0:27.2 | And ultimately, what I really talk about in that first part is how your organic top performers are your best ad scripts and how it's just so much more efficient to test organically what's working and then use the hook framework |
| 0:39.5 | what like pieces of that to then translate into your ads and then finally volume creativity |
| 0:44.3 | diversity across formats okay it's it's not just a nice to have now like it needs you've got |
| 0:50.5 | to have creative diversity when you're running paid traffic and just pure volume |
| 0:54.5 | across pay traffic and organic. So what we're going to talk about in today's episode is, |
| 0:59.5 | number one, how competitor intelligence system that we build, and I'm going to share with you a |
| 1:03.3 | quick and dirty version that you can run today and under an hour that'll help you to analyze |
| 1:07.3 | competitors' top formats organically and paid. Second, the entity ID framework |
| 1:12.7 | that tells you exactly the different types of ads to create. So using the same core concept |
| 1:18.0 | for an ad, but creating very different types of ads that will allow Indromeda not to just |
| 1:24.6 | spend on one. Because what happens is if Indromeda looks at a new ad, and let's say you do the old way and you just film multiple hooks on the same video, it's going to look at that as the same ad and it's only going to spend on one. Okay. So it's like a waste of time these nowadays. And then I'm going to share with you just a recap on the three stage ad funnel system that we use, like when and how to run ads, what |
| 1:44.9 | types of funnels, depending on where you're at, just for context in case you're like running |
| 1:49.7 | ads, you're you're not sure if you should, et cetera. So let's talk about competitor intelligence. |
| 1:56.3 | So a huge mistake that I see coaches make right now with ads and content is not necessarily, well, if we're talking about ads, it's not to targeting or budget or offer. I mean, offer is huge. But ultimately, it's just creating the content in a vacuum. What I mean is, you sit down and you think, okay, I'm going to put my ads hat on, what might work, or I'm writing content. You write something, you run it, you run it, and it's either expensive or it doesn't work. Meanwhile, ultimately, the people who |
| 2:21.6 | are succeeding the most right now are using AI tools to give them insights on what's already |
| 2:25.8 | working and then leveraging their own unique voice and perspective into that, not plagiarizing, |
| 2:30.7 | but understanding the formats and the frameworks that are working and then applying |
| 2:34.8 | their own uniqueness to it. So there are two ways to do this when it comes to ads. Let's talk about |
| 2:39.6 | ads first. There's a manual version, and I'll talk about you could do this with organic |
| 2:43.4 | in ads. Okay, there's a manual version to assess what your competitors are doing and what's working |
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