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Creaboost, the MagicBrief alternative for creative analytics and competitor research.
MagicBrief closed on July 31, 2026. Creaboost covers its two jobs, analyzing your creative and drawing inspiration from other brands’ ads, and adds Neo, an AI agent that turns them into decisions and briefs.
4,000 advertisers and agencies already use Creaboost.
what magicbrief was
MagicBrief combined creative analytics with an inspiration library.
MagicBrief had two spaces: Insights, analytics on the creative of connected ad accounts, and Inspire, public ads saved for reference. Canva acquired MagicBrief, which closed on July 31, 2026, and offers its customers Canva Grow, a new product for creating, launching and analyzing ads in Canva.
insights
Creative analytics.
Creative metrics from connected accounts, exportable as CSV.
inspire
Inspiration library.
Public ads from other brands, saved into collections.
source
magicbrief.com/faqs
Description and closure drawn from MagicBrief’s FAQ, checked on October 21, 2026.
what creaboost brings
Creaboost covers both jobs, and Neo turns them into decisions.
Two modules take over from MagicBrief. Neo starts from your accounts and goes all the way to the brief.
market
Discover for inspiration.
Search any brand’s ads on Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit and other channels, and save them into shareable boards, with no login for viewers.
Discover →
data
Analyze for your creative.
Custom creative dashboards (spend, ROAS, CPA, fatigue, tags), shareable by link.
Analyze →Every Meta creative, image or video, watched and heard.
Neo reads the transcript, the hook in the first 3 seconds, the angle, format, persona and offer of the creatives that carry the spend.
Use case: creative analysis →
brand memory
A memory of the brand.
Personas, your customers’ own words, offers and dated events: Neo uses them to judge every creative and write the next one.
Brands →
execution
Briefs ready to shoot.
Neo writes the next concepts and briefs (hooks, formats, dos and don’ts) from what works in your accounts.
Use case: creative brief →
which one
Two paths after MagicBrief.
canva grow
If your team already designs in Canva.
- Create, launch and analyze your Meta and TikTok ads from Canva.
- Take the offer made to former MagicBrief customers.
- Keep design and launch in a single tool.
If you want analytics, research and decisions.
- Analyze your creative on Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn.
- Track other brands’ ads on Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit and other channels.
- A verdict per concept, and briefs written in your customers’ own words.
- A cross-channel review every Monday, in Slack or Gmail.
moving to creaboost
Your ad data stayed in your accounts.
According to MagicBrief’s FAQ, your Meta and TikTok data stayed in the platforms. Once you connect your accounts, Creaboost reads it directly, with nothing to import.
insights
Analyze and Neo.
Connect Meta, Google Ads, TikTok Ads and Shopify: creative dashboards and Neo’s verdicts start from your accounts.
inspire
Discover.
Rebuild your collections by following the same brands in Discover boards.
what you learned
The brand memory.
What your analysis taught you about your concepts goes into the memory, and Neo uses it from the first review.
go further
The pages that take over MagicBrief’s jobs.
questions
What people ask us about MagicBrief.
Does MagicBrief still exist?
No. According to its FAQ, MagicBrief closed on July 31, 2026, after its acquisition by Canva, which offers Canva Grow to former customers.
Can I get my MagicBrief analyses back in Creaboost?
The numbers, yes: they come from your Meta and TikTok accounts, which Creaboost reads directly. The reports themselves don’t import; Analyze and Neo rebuild them from your accounts.
How long does it take to get started?
A few minutes to connect your Claude subscription and your accounts. Neo then builds the brand memory during onboarding.
Pick up your creative analysis where it stopped.
Book a demo: Neo reads your Meta creative and gives a verdict per concept, on your own accounts.