Where incident.io's ads lose the buyer

incident.io is running 17 live ads on LinkedIn and Google. Their average fit to their own ideal buyer is 6.9 out of 10, and 6 ads need fixing. Each ad below is one of incident.io’s real live creatives, read straight from the ad libraries.

incident.io’s live ads, scored against their buyer

  • AI software reliability platform, scored 7/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Adidas logo as social proof anchors a sharp urgency hook with a clear demo CTA.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 8/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Specific 70% metric from Buffer plus a named brand logo delivers rare, credible proof.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 6/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Airbus is a manufacturing giant, a weak ICP signal that dilutes credibility for SaaS engineering buyers.
  • Why does Zendesk treat incident.io "like a part of our engineering team"? Cuttin, scored 8/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Named customer, hard metric, and dollar savings land squarely on the ICP's pain.
  • 1,200+ engineers. 10 weeks. See how Zendesk replaced 15 years of patchwork incid, scored 8/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Patchwork-replacement framing mirrors the exact trigger ICP buyers feel, with scale proof.
  • Your pager rotation deserves better, Apple., scored 7/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. PagerDuty displacement hook and Slack-native workflow speak directly to the on-call buyer's frustration.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 6/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Zynga vertical hook is clever but the body copy is thin on proof and specifics for the ICP buyer.
  • One home for every incident, Apple., scored 7/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Patchwork consolidation message hits the ICP trigger cleanly, though no proof or metric seals it.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 7/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Etsy 95 percent automation stat is strong proof for a retail-segment buyer, vertical and metric land well.
  • An Apple a day keeps outages away., scored 6/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Playful pun grabs attention but the body is generic consolidation copy with no proof or metric to close.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 8/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Sharp insight hook plus named customer proof lands squarely on the scale-accuracy pain SREs feel daily.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 7/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Specific AI triage capability (logs, code, deploys) speaks directly to SRE first-response pain, but no customer proof.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 9/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Two named logos plus hard migration numbers (1,200 users, 150 teams, 2 people, 10 weeks) make this the strongest proof play in the set.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 6/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Zynga logo and gaming pun are clever but the studio-vertical framing narrows appeal and a grammar slip undercuts credibility.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 7/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Adidas co-brand and SRE-native five-nines language earn attention, but the body copy adds little beyond the creative wit.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 6/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Hyper-targeted Airbus Skywise framing resonates inside that account but is opaque to any other ICP buyer scrolling past.
  • AI software reliability platform, scored 5/10 against incident.io’s ideal buyer. Aviation puns dominate and the body metaphor obscures the actual incident-resolution value for any non-Airbus reader.

See incident.io’s full live-ad board on AdRoast. Every creative scored against their ICP, with the exact fix for each.

Learn the method behind these scores: the AdRoast guides cover how to audit your ads against your ICP and why clicks do not turn into pipeline.