15 Ways to Write Better AI Ad Prompts in 2026

You write better AI ad prompts by briefing the AI the way you would brief a new media buyer: name the buyer's situation, the proof, the offer and its limits, the platform spec, the success metric, and what it must never do, then score every output before it ships.

That skill now decides results on every major platform. Google's AI Max rewrites search copy from your landing page, Meta's business assistant plans and optimizes campaigns, AppLovin generates interactive end cards, and ChatGPT's Ads Manager drafts ads from your website. Each AI does exactly what its inputs allow. Prompting is management now.

I built Lapis so teams spend their time on decisions instead of prompts: Lapis OmniSense turns one brief into on-brand, correctly sized campaigns for Meta, Google, and LinkedIn.

Why Do Most AI Ad Prompts Produce Generic Ads?

Most AI ad prompts produce generic ads because they give the model nothing it does not already know, so it returns the category average. Becca Shih, a performance marketing specialist at the agency Roast, told Digiday on September 10, 2026: "If you give AI a poor context you're probably going to get a poor answer from it; AI campaign types are the same."

"Write Facebook ads for our protein bars" names a product and a channel but leaves out the five inputs that make an ad specific: the buyer's situation, proof, the offer and its terms, the platform spec, and the metric. The model fills each gap with an average, which is what your competitor's AI writes too.

Meta's December 16, 2025 guidance on creative diversification draws the line: identical visuals with different call-to-action text are iteration, while distinct assets for different personas are diversification, which its ads system rewards. Generic prompts produce iteration at scale. IAB's January 15, 2026 study found 82% of ad executives believe Gen Z and Millennial consumers feel positive about AI-generated ads, against 45% of those consumers. The guide to how AI ad generators work explains why models drift to the middle.

What Are the 15 Ways to Write Better AI Ad Prompts?

The 15 ways: describe the buyer's situation, supply proof, name the offer and its constraint, set the spec, ask for angles first, ban words and claims, feed past results, give the landing page, name the metric, write AI Max text guidelines, brief Meta's assistant, set agent permissions, critique against a rubric, keep memory, and score every output. The 50 best ChatGPT prompts for ads and the 10 ways to generate ads with AI cover the jobs around them.

1. Describe the Buyer's Situation: Copy That Meets a Real Moment

Name the moment, not the demographic: the trigger, what they tried, what they compare you against, and their words. Build one situation per ad set with the audience segment guide and the buyer intent prompt guide.

The weak prompt:

Write 5 Facebook ads for our meal kit. Target busy moms.

The strong prompt:

Buyer situation: a parent home at 6:15 pm with two kids under 10 who has
ordered takeout three nights this week ($60+ a night). They quit another
meal kit because prep took 45 minutes. Customers like them say "dinner on
the table in 15 minutes." Write 5 Facebook ads that open on the 6:15 pm
moment, use their words, and name the takeout comparison.

2. Supply Proof: Claims the AI Cannot Invent

Give the model a proof library and forbid anything outside it, because every invented claim is a policy and legal risk.

The weak prompt:

Write Google ads for our accounting software. Mention that customers love us.

The strong prompt:

Write 15 Google headlines (30 characters max). Use only this proof:
4.7 stars from 1,812 Capterra reviews; books closed in 3 days instead of 9
(2026 customer survey, n=410); SOC 2 Type II; free QuickBooks migration
in 48 hours. If a headline needs another fact, write [NEEDS PROOF].
Add a column naming the proof each headline uses.

3. Name the Offer and Its Constraint: Promotions That Pass Review

State the offer with every term that limits it. AI rounds "25% off your first order" up to "25% off everything," and an ad that contradicts its page earns disapprovals and refunds. Google's AI Max documentation models the same rule: "If promoting a discount, always include 'T&C apply'."

The weak prompt:

Write ads for our holiday sale.

The strong prompt:

Offer: 25% off the first order, new customers only, code FIRST25, October 20
to November 2, 2026, excludes gift cards and bundles. Write 6 Meta ads.
Every ad says "first order" and the end date. Never say "sitewide" or
"everything." Any ad that mentions the discount includes "Terms apply."

4. Set the Platform and Spec: Output You Can Upload Without Editing

Tell the AI where the ad runs and paste the limits, because a model that does not know them writes copy you trim by hand. Google allows 30-character headlines and 90-character descriptions, Meta recommends 125 characters of primary text and a 40-character headline, and ChatGPT Ads caps titles at 50 and copy at 100.

The weak prompt:

Write some ad copy for Google and Meta.

The strong prompt:

Google responsive search ad: 15 headlines (30 characters max) and 4
descriptions (90 max). Google shows any 3 headlines in any order, so each
stands alone and no phrase repeats. Return a table: text, character count,
angle. Rewrite any line over the limit before you answer.

5. Ask for Angles Before Variations: Tests That Teach You Something

Make the AI list distinct reasons to buy, keep the most different, and only then write variations. OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads guidance says each variation should introduce a different angle, and AppLovin's Sam Appelbaum told tipsheet on June 25, 2026 that its platform "learns from creative diversity." AI ad angles vs. variations explains why.

The weak prompt:

Write 20 headlines for our standing desk.

The strong prompt:

Step 1: list 8 reasons people buy a standing desk, one motive each
(comfort, focus, status, small spaces, price, design, setup speed, resale).
Stop and wait for my pick of 4. Step 2: for each picked angle, write 3 Meta
headlines (40 characters max) and one image concept, labeled by angle.

6. Ban Words and Claims: Copy That Sounds Like You

Give the AI a banned list of words, claims, and framings, and make it check its output against the list before answering.

The weak prompt:

Make it sound on-brand and not salesy.

The strong prompt:

Banned words: unlock, elevate, seamless, revolutionary, supercharge.
Banned claims: guaranteed, cure, clinically proven, #1, any unlisted number.
Never address the reader's health, finances, age, or other personal
attributes. Voice: plain, specific, no exclamation points, no emojis.
After writing, list any banned item you used and rewrite those lines.

7. Feed It Past Winners and Losers: Performance Memory Beats Taste

Paste your last results with the numbers. Meta's researchers showed why: AdLlama, trained on historical ad performance inside Meta's Text Generation feature, lifted CTR 6.7% over an imitation-trained model across nearly 35,000 advertisers (arXiv, December 15, 2025). The guide to analyzing ad data with ChatGPT builds the summary.

The weak prompt:

Write new ads. Our last ones didn't do well.

The strong prompt:

Last 30 days on Meta, target CPA $42. Winners: "dinner in 15 minutes"
(CPA $31, 212 purchases); "cheaper than takeout" (CPA $38, 140). Losers:
"chef-designed recipes" (CPA $96); discounts in headlines (CPA $71).
Write 3 ads extending the winners with new hooks and 3 testing new angles.
Reuse no losing pattern.

8. Give It the Landing Page: Ads That Match Where the Click Lands

Paste the page's headline, offer, and proof into the prompt. Google's help center says AI Max text customization builds assets from your landing page and refreshes them at least every 48 hours, so on Google your page is the prompt. The dynamic landing pages guide and the custom landing page evidence show why matching pays.

The weak prompt:

Write ads that drive traffic to our website.

The strong prompt:

Page: /water-heater-replacement. Hero: "Water heater replaced in 1 day, or
the labor is free." Above the fold: $0 diagnostic, financing from $49/month,
4.9 stars from 640 Google reviews. Write 8 Google headlines (30 characters
max) that make the hero's promise and nothing the page does not show.

9. Name the Success Metric: Ads Built for the Number You Pay For

Tell the AI the conversion, the target, and the metric to ignore. AppLovin built its platform on this input: Appelbaum told tipsheet that advertisers set a ROAS goal, a cost per purchase, or a cost per lead, and Axon hits it. The AI ad performance forecasting guide estimates the CTR-for-quality trade before spend.

The weak prompt:

Write ads that get lots of clicks.

The strong prompt:

Goal: demos from restaurant groups with 3+ locations at $180 per qualified
demo. Ignore CTR; clicks from single-location owners are a loss. Write 6
LinkedIn ads that name the 3+ location fit, $79 per location per month, and
the 20-minute demo. Predict each ad's effect on qualification rate.

10. Write Google AI Max Text Guidelines: Rules Google's AI Obeys

Write text guidelines as hard, single rules with an example, because Google's documentation says the model only takes hard requirements. You get up to 25 term exclusions and 40 messaging restrictions per campaign.

The weak guideline:

Make our ads sound premium, avoid anything cheap or salesy, don't mention
competitors, and if possible talk about our free installation.

The strong guideline set:

TERM EXCLUSIONS: cheap | cheapest | discount | bargain | low cost | knockoff
MESSAGING RESTRICTIONS:
1. Don't imply our products are discounted, e.g. "on sale" or "save 30%".
2. Never mention a competitor brand, e.g. "better than CompetitorName".
3. Don't mention specific prices, e.g. "$1,299" or "from $49/month".
4. Our brand name is always spelled "Hearthline", never "HearthLine".
5. Always say "free installation" when an asset mentions installation.

The weak version bundles rules Google says to split, uses subjective words Google calls too vague, and says "if possible," which Google does not support.

11. Brief Meta's Business Assistant With Goals and Limits: Recommendations You Can Approve

Select the campaign, then give the assistant a goal, target, window, and limits, and ask for ranked proposals. Meta said on October 6, 2026 that advertisers who adopt its recommendations typically see 5% more conversions at the same cost per conversion, and that the assistant now remembers "what you tried last quarter, your seasonality, and the goals you've described." The 12 Meta Ads AI features guide covers each tool it touches.

The weak prompt:

How can I improve my ads?

The strong prompt:

I selected "Prospecting | Meal Kit | US". Goal: first purchases at or under
$42 CPA; peak season starts November 20; video-first lost to statics last
quarter. Compare the last 14 days with the prior 14. Propose 3 changes
ranked by CPA impact, each with evidence and what I must approve. No budget
increase above 15%, no changes to "Retention | US".

12. Set Permissions Before an Agent Acts: Guardrails Written as Rules

Write what an agent does alone, what needs approval, and what is blocked, then enforce the blocked list in the platform. Meta's help center says ads MCP server rules in Meta Business Suite block actions per ad account, such as Create campaigns, Edit or set budget, or any budget above an amount you set, and agent-created ads stay paused until you set them live. AppLovin's early-access Ads MCP, announced to tipsheet in June 2026, also creates campaigns and adjusts budgets. The AI tool vs AI employee breakdown and the agentic ads guide explain why permissions define the job.

The weak prompt:

You have access to our ad account. Optimize it.

The strong prompt:

ALLOWED: pull reports; draft ads as paused; pause any ad above 2x target
CPA ($84) after $250 spend. ASK FIRST: launches, budget changes, new
audiences. BLOCKED: deleting campaigns, editing "Retention | US", daily
budgets above $1,500, conversion settings. REPORT: every action daily at
9 am with before and after numbers.

13. Ask It to Critique Against a Rubric: A Second Pass That Catches Weak Ads

Make the AI grade its work per criterion with quoted evidence and rewrite only what fails; "is this good?" gets flattery. Rate Your Ad scores a finished ad free.

The weak prompt:

Is this ad good?

The strong prompt:

Score each ad 0 to 10 on buyer situation, proof, offer clarity, platform
fit, distinctness, and landing page match, quoting the words that earned or
lost points. Rewrite any ad under 7 on any criterion, re-score, and return
the set ranked. Ads: [PASTE]

14. Keep One Thread With Memory: An AI That Knows Your Account

Run each brand in one persistent project with a decision log, so every task starts from what you tested and ruled out. Meta's assistant and Google's Ask Advisor already keep memory of prior chats.

The weak prompt:

(New chat) Here's our product again. Write new ads.

The strong prompt:

Read the DECISION LOG first; append one line after the task.
2026-09-02 | Killed "chef-designed" angle | CPA $96 vs $42 target
2026-09-16 | Statics beat video for prospecting | CPA $34 vs $51
2026-10-01 | Holiday offer: 25% off first order only | margin floor 38%
Task: 4 new prospecting statics for "cheaper than takeout."

15. Score Every Output: A Pass Mark Before Anything Ships

Score every batch on a fixed 100-point scorecard, set a pass mark, and put the prompt version in each ad's name. The rule I give every team: no score, no launch.

The weak prompt:

Looks fine, ship it.

The strong prompt:

Version MEALKIT-PROSPECT-v7 (added receipt-comparison proof). Score 86/100,
lost points on landing page match. Ship ads 1 to 4; hold ad 5 until
/takeout-vs-mealkit is live. Add "v7" to every ad name.

How Do You Prompt Meta, Google, AppLovin, and ChatGPT Differently?

Prompt each platform's AI in the form it accepts. Google's AI Max takes hard rules, not requests. Meta's business assistant takes goals and limits for a selected campaign. AppLovin's generators take brand inputs for a three-screen ad. ChatGPT Ads takes benefit-led copy plus plain-language context hints. One prompt style fails on all four.

Google AI Max: Write Rules, Not Requests

Google's help center sets the rules for text guidelines, a beta for Search campaigns with AI Max and for Performance Max:

• Text customization must be on; guidelines govern only assets Google generates.
• Term exclusions are language-specific, while messaging restrictions apply across languages.
• "$" does not block prices; use a restriction such as "Don't generate assets with prices."
• Audience and keyword instructions are unsupported; use ad groups and targeting.
• New guidelines apply to existing assets, and non-compliant ones stop serving.
• Google previews up to 10 example assets filtered by your guidelines, and you copy guidelines across campaigns.

Google's April 15, 2026 post says AI Max with the full suite averages 7% more conversions or value at a similar CPA or ROAS than search term matching alone, for non-retail advertisers. For Ask Advisor, Google's tip is to name keywords, campaigns, or metrics: "Why did cost per lead on 'Search | Water Heaters' rise from $61 to $88 since September 15?" The 12 Google Ads AI features and the best AI tools for Google Ads cover the rest.

Meta's Business Assistant: Brief It Like a Strategist

Open the assistant from the bottom-left menu in Ads Manager and select campaigns in the Campaigns table first, per Meta's help center. Meta's April 22, 2026 post reported that small business advertisers saw a 12% decrease in ad cost per result after applying opportunity score recommendations. Brand-guideline import, scheduled tasks, and agentic actions with approvals are in testing, so phrase scheduled tasks as "recommend, change nothing."

Meta's text generation writes up to five variations each of primary text and headline from your original line, so write one strong line per angle. Meta's October 13, 2026 engineering post says its GEM model delivered 18.9% more conversions and 12% higher CTR across its ad surfaces; GEM picks who sees which ad, and your inputs decide what it picks from. The guide to AI for Facebook and Instagram ads maps every Advantage+ control.

AppLovin's Creative Tools: Prompt for Three Screens

Every AppLovin ad is three screens, Appelbaum told tipsheet: a fullscreen video up to 60 seconds in a captive gaming environment, an interactive end card, and for ecommerce a dynamic product ad. About 80% of top advertisers use interactives. On the August 5, 2026 earnings call, CEO Adam Foroughi said AppLovin generates end cards "with pretty high efficiency" but cannot yet deliver a high-quality 30 to 60 second video out of the box. Feed the end card generator clean inputs (feed, images, messaging constraints) and write the video brief yourself:

45-second AppLovin video, watched in a mobile game, sound often off.
Product: insulated bottle, $34, keeps drinks cold 24 hours.
0 to 5 s: the problem, captioned. 5 to 30 s: three proof demos, 6-word
captions. 30 to 45 s: price, then hand off. End card: one tap target and
one choice (pick your color). Product ad: 4 best-selling colors.

The 10 ways to advertise on AppLovin cover the campaign goals around this creative.

ChatGPT Ads: Write for the Conversation, Not the Scroll

OpenAI's help center asks for benefit-focused copy explaining the practical value, who it is for, and when it helps, with a different angle per variation. Context hints are natural what, who, or when phrases, never delivery instructions: OpenAI contrasts "Residential plumbing services available in Chicago" with "Show this ad only to people in Chicago." The plugin's 50 ads per request share one image and destination, which makes them one experiment. Self-serve covers 63 countries as of October 17, 2026, from $25 a day in the US.

8 ChatGPT ads, one ad group: emergency water heater repair, Denver.
Titles 16 to 24 characters, copy 32 to 48. Each ad answers a homeowner
asking ChatGPT at 7 am with no hot water; copy adds same-day service,
$0 diagnostic, or 4.9 stars. 8 angles. Then 5 context hints, one idea each.

The context hints guide, the ChatGPT ad copywriting guide, and the 50 best ChatGPT ad examples go deeper.

The Platform Prompt Matrix

What Does a Weak Prompt Look Like Next to a Strong One?

A weak prompt is one sentence with a product and a channel; a strong prompt is a 150 to 200 word brief carrying the buyer's situation, proof, offer, spec, metric, and bans. On the AI Ad Prompt Scorecard, the weak prompt in this worked example scores 5 out of 100 and the strong one scores 91.

Worked example: a restaurant payroll app priced at $79 per location per month wants Google Search ads. The weak prompt, "Write Google ads for our payroll software for restaurants," returns "Easy Payroll Software" and "Payroll Made Simple," lines any competitor runs unchanged. The strong prompt:

ROLE: You write Google responsive search ads for a restaurant payroll app.
BUYER: An owner of 3 to 12 restaurants who splits tips by hand in a
spreadsheet and spends about 6 hours per payroll fixing tip errors.
PROOF (only these): 4.8 stars from 1,240 Capterra reviews; tip pooling
calculated from POS data; live in 1 week; $79 per location, no setup fee.
OFFER: First month free for 3+ locations, through December 31, 2026.
SPEC: 15 headlines (30 max), 4 descriptions (90 max), each standalone.
METRIC: Demo requests from 3+ location groups. Ignore CTR.
BANNED: easy, simple, seamless, best, #1, any number not in PROOF.
PAGE: /restaurant-groups (hero: "Tip pooling that runs itself").
OUTPUT: table of text, character count, angle, proof. Self-check first.

It returns lines a buyer acts on, each traceable to a fact:

The weak prompt earns 5 points for naming a platform. The strong one earns 91, losing points only on angles-first and past results; add week one's results (Way 7) and it scores 96.

The AI Ad Prompt Scorecard

The AI Ad Prompt Scorecard grades any ad prompt on 10 criteria worth 100 points. Score the prompt before you run it and the output after: 80 or more ships, 60 to 79 gets its two weakest criteria rewritten, and anything under 60 starts over from the standing brief.

1. 90 to 100: ship it and tag the version.
2. 80 to 89: ship it, and fix the lowest criterion next version.
3. 60 to 79: rewrite the two weakest criteria first.
4. Under 60: start over from the standing brief.

Score outputs on the same lines, and calibrate with the guide to scoring ads with AI.

How Do You Turn a Prompt Into a Standing Brief for an AI Employee?

Turn a prompt into a standing brief by moving everything that stays true (business facts, buyers, proof, voice, bans, permissions, reporting) into one document the AI reads before every task, and keeping only the task in each new prompt. The brief changes monthly; the prompt changes daily.

A tool needs the whole story every time; an employee keeps it. Paste this into a project, an agent's system instructions, or a shared doc:

STANDING BRIEF: [BRAND] PAID GROWTH   Version [v#]   Owner [NAME]
1. ROLE: Paid growth operator for [CHANNELS]. Draft, test, report.
   Never launch, spend, or change settings outside section 8.
2. OUTCOME: [CONFIRMED EVENT] at [TARGET CPA/ROAS]. Break-even [ ].
   Ignore [VANITY METRIC].
3. FACTS: price [ ], margin floor [ ], service area [ ], peak dates [ ],
   current offer and terms [ ].
4. BUYERS (max 5): [WHO] | [TRIGGER] | [WHAT THEY COMPARE] | [THEIR WORDS]
5. PROOF (only these, else [NEEDS PROOF]): [CLAIM] | [SOURCE] | [DATE]
6. SPECS AND BANS: [PLATFORM LIMITS]. Voice [3 RULES]. Banned words [ ],
   banned claims [ ], no personal attributes.
7. PAGES: [ANGLE] | [URL] | [HERO PROMISE]
8. PERMISSIONS: alone [ ] | ask first [ ] | blocked [ ] | spend cap [ ]
9. DECISION LOG: [DATE] | [DECISION] | [WHY] | [NUMBER]
10. REPORTING: daily [ ], weekly [ ], escalate within 1 hour if [ ].

Version it, review it monthly, and give it one owner. Section 6 becomes AI Max guidelines, sections 2 and 8 become Meta briefs and MCP rules, and section 4 becomes ChatGPT ad groups. The AI ad creative brief template details the creative inputs, and the multilingual AI ads guide extends one brief across languages.

What Prompt Mistakes Get Ads Rejected?

Prompts get ads rejected when they let the AI invent claims, address the reader's personal attributes, break editorial rules, or show synthetic people without disclosure. Each fix is one line in the standing brief.

1. Personal attributes on Meta. Meta's ad standards bar ads that assert or imply a viewer's race, religion, age, health, financial status, criminal record, or name. Meta rejects "Do you have diabetes?" and allows "New diabetes treatment available."
2. Editorial violations on Google. Google's editorial policy rejects repeated punctuation ("flowers!!"), capitalization for emphasis, and asset text that repeats phrases across assets in the same ad group or campaign, which AI variations do constantly.
3. Invented or mismatched claims. OpenAI's help center says ChatGPT ads are rejected when misleading or inconsistent; a proof library and exact offer terms prevent both.
4. Fake testimonials. The FTC's final rule announced August 14, 2024 bans fake reviews and testimonials, including AI-generated ones.
5. Undisclosed synthetic people. Meta labels ads made or significantly edited with its generative AI tools and, on June 1, 2026, began detecting third-party AI ads; an AI photorealistic human gets the label beside Sponsored.

IAB's AI Transparency and Disclosure Framework, launched January 15, 2026, calls for disclosure when AI materially affects authenticity or identity, such as synthetic humans and digital twins, and needs no label on AI-drafted copy. Its August 2026 edition notes EU AI Act transparency obligations took effect August 2, 2026, and cites an NYU Stern study in which disclosing generative AI cut click-through rate 31.5%. Disclose where it is material.

How Do You Know a Better Prompt Produced Better Ads?

You know a prompt worked when its ads beat the previous version's ads on cost per confirmed conversion, read by angle, after each angle has enough spend to judge. Tag every ad with its prompt version, write the decision rule before launch, and never judge a prompt by how the copy reads.

1. Tag every ad as angle_version, such as "takeout_v7."
2. Fix the rule: cut an angle at 3x target CPA spent with zero conversions; crown a winner only after 30 conversions.
3. Compare versions on the same angle, using confirmed conversions, and log the result.

Worked example: at a $42 target CPA, an angle is cut after $126 with no purchase, and 30 purchases at target cost $1,260, so a four-angle test needs $5,040. If v7's "cheaper than takeout" angle lands at $34 CPA against $41 for v6, the new proof cut CPA 17%: ($41 minus $34) divided by $41.

The guide to A/B testing AI ads on a small budget covers sample sizes, the AI vs human ads data shows where AI creative wins, and Lapis Wayfinder ties each ad to confirmed sales.

Why Does Lapis Need Fewer Prompts?

Lapis needs fewer prompts because it learns your brand from your website, keeps the standing brief for you, generates distinct angles instead of synonyms, forecasts results before spend, and takes edits in plain English. You keep the decisions: offer, budget, and approval.

Lapis is one of the fastest-growing Y Combinator startups, and it is built to take over the work legacy agencies and ad buyers used to do. It is a Y Combinator Fall 2025 company rated 4.9 out of 5 on G2 with eight Summer 2026 G2 badges, used by 1,500+ marketing teams and 30+ enterprises including Samsung, Domino's, Dr Pepper, Mattel, and Tata.

• Brand intelligence reads your URL, so Ways 1, 2, and 6 start filled in.
• OmniSense turns one brief into campaigns for Meta, Google, and LinkedIn, with Reddit on managed plans, forecasts impressions, clicks, CTR, and leads before spend, and launches every angle as a real experiment.
• Campaign Studio replaces prompt iteration: type "shorter headline, use the receipt image" in any of 100+ languages.
• Brand Radar tracks 20 competitors and a 10,000+ ad library built on the Meta Ad Library, the method in the competitor ad analysis guide.
• RapidDomain builds a landing page for every ad, ChatSense runs ChatGPT and LLM ads on managed plans, and Wayfinder ties results to confirmed sales, counting each conversion once.

On managed plans, Lapis agents and a dedicated ad strategist own the outcome across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, and ChatGPT: they deploy, optimize, allocate budget inside your guardrails, and report daily, while AppLovin teams keep its three-screen tools for that channel. Platform AI optimizes one channel toward its own count, and a legacy agency sells hours; we at Lapis built the AI employee that answers to confirmed revenue. Try the Free AI Ad Generator, see pricing (Basic is $99 per month, managed plans are custom), or book a demo.

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