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Wagtail & CoSponsored · Mobile grooming···
wagtailandco Full groom on your driveway. No car journey, no cage, no stress — across the Wirral, 7 days a week.
Facebook & Instagram ads for UK small businesses
MarketRead: Your ads, made and managed while you run the business.
MarketRead is an advertising management platform for Facebook and Instagram. Paste your website: it turns your own photos and words into ready-to-run ads in about a minute, builds them in your ad account, then manages them every day — pausing what wastes money, backing what works, keeping the month on budget.
Free, no sign-up Under a minute Nothing goes live without you
No website? Paste your Facebook page instead.
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Northpoint HeatingSponsored · Leeds···
northpointheating Boiler gone cold? Gas Safe engineers across Leeds, usually with you the same day.
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Crumb & KilnSponsored · Harrogate···
crumbandkiln Sourdough out of the oven at 7am. Order by 9pm, collect it warm.
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Hollis FloralsSponsored · Bristol···
hollisflorals Seasonal bouquets, wrapped by hand. Free delivery across Bristol over £35.
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Wagtail & CoSponsored · Mobile grooming···
wagtailandco Full groom on your driveway. No car journey, no cage, no stress — across the Wirral, 7 days a week.
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Northpoint HeatingSponsored · Leeds···
northpointheating Boiler gone cold? Gas Safe engineers across Leeds, usually with you the same day.
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Crumb & KilnSponsored · Harrogate···
crumbandkiln Sourdough out of the oven at 7am. Order by 9pm, collect it warm.
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Hollis FloralsSponsored · Bristol···
hollisflorals Seasonal bouquets, wrapped by hand. Free delivery across Bristol over £35.
Sample businesses · illustrative decisions
- Nothing spends until you sayGo live is your button, and only yours.
- Your budget is a hard ceilingThe month is paced so it can't overspend.
- £49 a month, flatNever a percentage of your ad spend.
- No surprise charges14 days free, a reminder before you pay, one-click cancel.
What you get in the next 60 seconds.
Not a report and not a strategy deck: up to four finished ads for your business, in the sizes Facebook and Instagram actually use, written from what your site says and built from the photos you already have.
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Wagtail & CoSponsored · Mobile grooming···
wagtailandco No car journey, no cage, no stress.
The photo adYour best photo for the job. It looks at every image on your site and picks the one that sells each idea.
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Northpoint HeatingSponsored · Leeds···
northpointheating Usually with you the same day.
The statement adOne bold line in your brand colours, for when a photo can't say it. Stops the scroll.
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Wagtail & CoSponsored · Mobile grooming···
wagtailandco What every full groom includes.
The checklist, offer and review adsBuilt from what your site actually says — its services, its offers, its real reviews, word for word. Nothing made up.
Stories & Reels sizesEvery ad also comes cut full-screen for Stories and Reels, where a lot of small-business ads get seen.
Your own photos Your own words, nothing invented Your real reviews, word for word, if your site shows them Your logo and brand colours
After you press Go live
Then it runs them. Every day.
Most ad tools stop once the ad is made. MarketRead is the media buyer: it watches what each ad costs you per result and acts on the evidence — and writes down, in plain English, what it did and why.
Month budget £300day 14 of 30
£142 spenton pace
A sample first fortnight — a mobile dog groomer on £10 a day
- Day 1 · Mon
You press Go live
Three ads start in front of dog owners within 10 miles of the business. £10 a day, and not a penny more across the month.
campaign on · confirmed with Meta - Days 2–7
Meta learns. MarketRead waits.
Changing ads during Meta's learning week resets it, so nothing is touched unless something is clearly broken.
no changes · learning phase - Day 8 · Mon
Ad 3 paused
It cost £31 per booking against your £20 target. At that spend there's a 91% chance it would stay too expensive, so its money moves to the ads that work.
£93 spent · 3 bookings · judged on evidence, not a hunch - Day 8 · Mon
A replacement ad goes live
Same audience, a new argument — "no car journey, no cage" — built from your own photo of the van.
new ad · live the same day - Day 11 · Thu
More budget behind ad 1
£14 a booking over 12 bookings. Raised in one small step, because big jumps restart Meta's learning.
£10 → £12 a day · next review in 72 hours - Day 14 · Mon 08:30
Your weekly email
What was spent, what it bought, what changed and why. Nothing needed from you.
report sent
Built to be trusted with your money.
You're handing a piece of software your advertising budget. These are the rules it runs under — enforced in the code that talks to Meta, not just promised on a web page.
Go live is your button
Everything is built paused inside your own ad account. Nothing can start spending until you press Go live on that campaign.
Your budget is a ceiling, not a target
Spend is paced across the month. If it runs ahead, the daily limit comes down automatically.
One tap pauses everything
From your dashboard or straight from Meta. Pausing is always allowed, at any moment, no questions asked.
Every decision written down
What changed, when, and the numbers behind it — in a log you can read, and in your inbox every Monday.
Your account, your ads, your data
You approve access through Meta itself; we never see your password. Remove us in one click and the campaigns stay yours.
Never a cut of your spend
Some AI ad apps add a service fee of up to 12% of your ad spend. MarketRead is a flat fee: our bill doesn't grow when yours does.
The honest comparison.
If you're a small business advertising on Facebook and Instagram today, you're probably doing one of the first two.
| Boosting posts yourself | AI ad-maker apps | MarketRead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makes the ads | You do | Yes | Yes — from your own site |
| See them before you sign up | — | Sign-up first | Yes, free, in a minute |
| Puts them live in your account | Yes, as boosts | Some do | Yes — when you press Go live |
| Targets real customers, not just followers' friends | Barely | Varies | Yes — local radius or UK-wide |
| Watches every ad daily and acts | No | Mostly no — they make creative | Yes, and explains each change |
| What you pay | Ad spend only | Credits or a plan, some plus up to 12% of ad spend | £49 a month, flat |
"Up to 12%": Zeely's published Meta ad-spend service fee (zeely.ai/price, checked 29 September 2026). Other apps' pricing from their own pricing pages on the same date.
One price. Pay only once it's live.
Seeing your ads is free. Building them in your account is free. You start a 14-day free trial when you press Go live — and we email you three days before the first charge.
SOLOFor one business
£49/month
Everything MarketRead does, for your business.
- Ads made from your site, in every size
- Built and launched in your own ad account
- Managed daily: pause, scale, replace, pace
- New ads whenever old ones tire — no credits
- Plain-English log and a Monday email
Your ad spend is paid by you straight to Meta, from £5 a day. Cancel in one click.
STUDIO
£149/month
For freelancers and marketers running ads for a few local businesses.
- Up to 5 businesses
- Everything in Solo, for each
- Each client's own ad account
SEE YOUR ADS
Free · no sign-up
BUILD THEM IN YOUR ACCOUNT
Free
GO LIVE
14 days free, then £49/month
Questions small businesses ask us.
Something else? [email protected] — a person answers.
Do I need a Facebook ad account?
You need a Facebook Page for the business and a Meta ad account with a payment card on it. If you've ever boosted a post, you have both. If not, Meta's setup takes about five minutes and MarketRead walks you through it when you connect.
How much should I spend on the ads themselves?
At least £5 a day (about £150 a month) — below that, Meta can't learn enough to improve anything. £10 a day is a sensible start for most local businesses. That money goes from your card straight to Meta; we never touch it.
Will my ads look AI-made?
They're made from your own photos and your own words, and you see every one before anything goes live. We don't invent prices, reviews or promises your site doesn't already make. Don't like an ad? Remove it before you launch.
What if my website doesn't have good photos?
Then MarketRead leans on clean text-led ads in your brand colours — often the best performers for trades and services anyway — and you can add photos from your phone at any time.
Can it waste my money?
It's built not to. Your monthly budget is a hard ceiling, ads are only judged once they've spent enough to tell, and a losing ad is paused as soon as the evidence says it won't recover. You can pause everything in one tap, any time.
Is it just Facebook and Instagram?
Yes, for now. Google Ads is next — it's waiting on Google's approval for API access — and TikTok after that. We'd rather do two platforms properly than six badly.
How do I cancel?
One click in your billing page. No call, no form. Your campaigns stay in your own ad account, and you can pause them there too.
See your ads before you decide anything.
Free, no sign-up Under a minute Also free: is ChatGPT recommending you?