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Funnel breakdown · Blume · captured 2026-09-25
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Blume sells a gentle three-step acne kit to people who have tried everything, and the listicle lands by turning the ads' harsh-versus-gentle argument into its reasons and letting reviews retell the ads' stories, even though the founders' oil story and the ads' 30% offer drop at the click.
The Listicle9 ads · 0 livelongest running 598 doffer: 43% SAVINGS + FREE GIFT
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1 · The argument, in one line
Top ad opens
“I saw results with Bloom's Clear Skin Kit after just one month of use.”
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Page headline
“5 Reasons Blume’s Clear Skin Kit is a Must Have to Beat Hormonal Acne (Especially if you have Sensitive Skin)”
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Offer
“43% SAVINGS + FREE GIFT, then 30 Day Money Back Guarantee”
Message match: Partial. The kit, the three-step routine and the gentle-on-sensitive-skin line carry from ad to page, but the ads promise 30% off where the page says 43% plus a free gift, and the founders' black seed oil story that runs through six of the nine ads never appears on the page.
2 · The ad set
| creatives | 9 ads, 7 distinct creatives: rank 4 duplicates rank 1, rank 9 duplicates rank 6 |
| formats | Founder-led 6, Screen recording 2, UGC talking head 1 (all 9 are video, no statics) |
| hooks | Outcome 3, Problem 3, Story 2, Curiosity 1 |
| angles | 3 distinct: Unique mechanism 5, Desired outcome 3, Pain avoidance 1 |
| proof | all 9 ads carry proof: Guarantee 7, Reviews 6, Authority 6, Before/after 3, Clinical evidence 3, Testimonials 2, Press 2, Customer count 1 |
Diversity read
A portfolio on one persona: someone with acne and sensitive skin who has tried everything. The founder videos sell the ingredient ("We have the only acne product in the world that uses black human seed oil to fight and target your acne."), the review-scroll ads sell the result ("I saw results with Bloom's Clear Skin Kit after just one month of use."), and one founder cut sells avoiding damage ("Get clear skin without damaging your skin barrier with Blume's hydrating, soothing skin care products."). The variety is in angle and length, not in format: six of nine are founder-led.
3 · The top ad, beat by beat
0:00Surprising open“I saw results with Bloom's Clear Skin Kit after just one month of use.”
0:04Demonstration“It's the easiest three-step routine that I use twice a day.”
0:07Credibility“And look at all of these beautiful before and after results,”
0:10Credibility“and over 3,000 customers who have rated this bundle five stars.”
0:14Offer“Say goodbye to Acne once and for all and try Bloom's Clear Skin Kit for 30% off.”
Screen recording · Outcome hook · Desired outcome angle ("Say goodbye to Acne once and for all") · 20 s
4 · The page, in order
01 Hero: listicle headline and the gentle-treatment promise 02 Reasons 1 to 4: no harsh side effects, three steps, skin barrier, 500,000 believers 03 Reason 5 and buy box: 43% savings + free gift, 30-day guarantee, ships free 04 Before & Afters and six Verified Buyer reviews 05 Acne-free in 90 days or your money back, twice, around one more review 06 500,000 customers and the review widget (4.51, 4,023 reviews) 07 Closing buy box: 43% off, ships free, 90 Day Trial 08 Newsletter capture for 10% off and footer
Five short reasons lead straight into the first buy box, so the offer comes before any customer proof; the before-and-afters, reviews and review widget follow and end on a second buy box. Reasons 1 to 3 repeat the founder ads' dry-versus-gentle argument, but without the oil that the ads credit for it.
5 · Why it works
- The three-step routine is one promise said the same way everywhere.. The top ad's demonstration beat and its primary text both sell the routine's size, and reason 2 on the page repeats it almost word for word. A buyer who clicked for an easy routine finds it named in the second reason. · “It's the easiest three-step routine that I use twice a day.” · “Clearer, glowier skin in just 3 easy steps.” · “With just three easy steps, the Blume kit keeps it quick, effective, and stress-free.”
- Harsh treatments are the enemy in the ads and the first reason on the page.. The ads blame drying products for making acne worse, and the page's first reason is built on the same enemy. The reader who was told their old products were the problem reads that claim again as reason 1. · “Worried about damaging your skin with harsh acne treatments?” · “they just left our skin more dried out, more irritated” · “Treat Hormonal Acne Without the Harsh Side Effects” · “Plus they strip your skin, leaving it red, dry, and more irritated than before.”
- The page's lead review retells the UGC ad's birth-control story.. The rank-3 creator ad pins her worst acne on stopping birth control, and the first Verified Buyer review on the page tells the same story with a timeline. The hormonal-acne persona in the headline gets a customer who matches her. · “but once I got off my birth control last year, it got 10 times worse.” · “After going off birth control, I struggled with hormonal and cystic acne for 8 months.”
- Reviews answer the tried-everything objection by naming what failed.. The founder ads open on the buyer's history of failed products, and the page's reviews answer it with named failures rather than general praise. · “If you have acne, you probably feel like you've tried every product in the world and nothing has worked for you.” · “I have tried several other products, including Proactiv, which did not work.” · “I tried all of the "clinical, medical-grade" brands and they just dried out my skin”
6 · What to take
- Pick the one mechanical promise your best ad makes (Blume's is three steps) and repeat it word for word as one of the page's numbered reasons.
- Find the review whose story matches your best creator ad and put it first under the before-and-afters.
- Make the discount and the guarantee the same number in the ad and on the page: one percentage, one number of days.
7 · Watch-outs
- The offer and guarantee change at the handoff: the ads say "try Bloom's Clear Skin Kit for 30% off." and "And if you're not happy within 30 days, just email us and we'll give you a full refund.", while the page says "43% SAVINGS + FREE GIFT" and also "ACNE-FREE in 90 Days, or your money back!" beside "30 Day Money Back Guarantee". The review counts drift too: "over 3,000 customers" in the top ad, "With over 5,000 5-star reviews" in reason 4 and "4,023 reviews" in the widget.
- Six of nine ads sell the founders' discovery of black seed oil ("We have the only acne product in the world that uses black human seed oil to fight and target your acne."), and the page never mentions the oil, the founders or their mother's remedy; two of the nine creatives are also exact duplicates (ranks 4 and 9).
FOR THE REVIEWER
- The input's section split is coarse: its three sections cover only the review widget with the closing buy box, the newsletter and the footer. The hero, the five reasons, the first buy box, the before-and-afters and the 90-day CTAs exist only in page_text, so moves 01 to 05 were built from page_text order and carry no section index.
- In page_text the heading '5. Gentle, Yet Seriously Effective' sits after the paragraph that appears to be its body and right before the buy box; the page flow treats reason 5 and the buy box as one move. Check against the screenshot.
- Transcripts spell the brand 'Bloom' and black seed oil 'black human seed oil'; these are Whisper errors, quoted as written.
- Labels note alternatives: rank 5 could be Mashup rather than Founder-led, and rank 1's structure fits no option cleanly (Testimonial story chosen). Format and structure counts above follow the chosen labels.
- The top ad has only five labelled beats, so all five are shown. Message match is Partial per the labels.
Ad pull: 9 ads, all in the input, 0 live, longest running 598 days; page captured 2026-09-25; Whisper transcripts for all 9 videos; labels from the verified labels.json. Nothing here is estimated. Every quote is copied from the ad or the page. Meta publishes no spend or results; nothing here is a performance claim.