# Your first ad

How your AI writes an ad, Cracked makes it, and a person checks it.

## Quick answers

- **How do I make my first ad?** Connect your AI on Your AI (pick the one you use, or “I don't have one”). Then tell it “make my first Cracked ad”: it asks three short questions and does the rest, and nothing costs money without your yes. Next: Your AI, https://cracked.app/ai
- **How long does an ad take?** A minute or two: your AI asks three short questions, writes the script, and once you say yes Cracked voices and animates it. Then a person checks it and writes you notes. Next: Your AI, https://cracked.app/ai
- **Do I need to show my face?** No. Your AI writes the script and Cracked voices and animates it: no filming, no face, no voice of your own. Next: Your AI, https://cracked.app/ai
- **Do I need followers?** No. A shop buys the ad itself to post on its own pages, so your follower count doesn't matter. Next: Your AI, https://cracked.app/ai
- **Why was my ad rejected?** A person at Cracked watched it and wrote notes on what to change. Read them on the ad's page, then ask your AI to make the next version with them. Next: Your ads, https://cracked.app/ads
- **Who checks my ad, and what happens next?** A person at Cracked watches every ad and writes you notes. An approved ad can be posted, or sent to its shop. Next: Your ads, https://cracked.app/ads
- **Who makes these ads?** A creator on Cracked writes each ad with their own AI, Cracked voices and animates it, and a person at Cracked checks every one before a shop sees it.

On Cracked your own AI is how you make ads. You talk to it; it writes the script, and Cracked turns the script into a finished ad. There's no chatbot on the site: [connect your AI](https://cracked.app/help/your-ai.md) once and it does the asking.

## How it goes

- Ask your AI to make your first Cracked ad. The first time, it asks you three short questions, one at a time.
- It writes a script and shows it to you with a quote: what it costs in credits, if anything. It asks “Make it?” and waits for your yes.
- Say yes and Cracked voices it, animates it and sends it for a check. That usually takes a minute or two; your AI tells you when it's done.
- A person at Cracked watches every ad and writes you notes. An approved ad can be posted or pitched to its shop.

## What's free

- Making with your own AI and uploading what it makes: Cracked marks each upload for free.
- The voice: 20 calls a day, up to 500 characters each.
- A person's review and notes on every ad.

Cracked's own song maker costs [credits](https://cracked.app/help/credits.md); your AI shows the price before it makes anything.

## A Strong mark

When a reviewer marks one of your ads Strong, or a real shop replies to your pitch, that's your proof: your ads go first in review and you can hold more shops at once. See the numbers in [Levels](https://cracked.app/help/levels.md).

In the app: Make an ad, https://cracked.app/make

Related:
- [Connecting your AI](https://cracked.app/help/your-ai.md): How Claude, ChatGPT or another AI works with Cracked for you.
- [Credits](https://cracked.app/help/credits.md): What credits are, what costs them, and where they come from.
- [Levels](https://cracked.app/help/levels.md): What each level keeps, and what moves you up.
- [Finding, claiming and messaging shops](https://cracked.app/help/shops.md): How you find a shop, hold it, and send its owner your ad.
- [Cracked words](https://cracked.app/help/words.md): The words Cracked uses, each in one line.

All help: https://cracked.app/help.md