Where Twingate's ads lose the buyer
Twingate is running 19 live ads on LinkedIn and Google. Their average fit to their own ideal buyer is 6.2 out of 10, and 14 ads need fixing. Each ad below is one of Twingate’s real live creatives, read straight from the ad libraries.
Twingate’s live ads, scored against their buyer
- BYOC Panel | Aug 19 | San Francisco, scored 5/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Targets SaaS engineering leaders on a real pain, but the topic is customer deployment, not VPN or Zero Trust.
- VPN to Zero Trust: A Technical Workshop for Infrastructure Leaders, scored 8/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Exact ICP pain named in the headline, AWS and Kubernetes logos visible, named speaker and clear Register CTA seal the click.
- The most expensive promotion in engineering is the one nobody questioned. An eng, scored 5/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Thought-leadership or brand post with no product pitch, not a demand-gen ad; judge it on brand lift, not buyer fit.
- Today we're releasing one Twingate features I’ve been most excited about in a wh, scored 7/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Specific new feature targeting privileged access lands squarely on a core ICP pain, with a real product UI shown.
- BYOC Panel, Aug 19: Can you run this in our environment?, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Credible speaker panel on customer-environment deployment resonates with engineering leaders but skirts the core VPN pain.
- Bring Your Own Cloud: Live in SF, Aug 19, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Credible speaker panel on customer-environment deployment resonates with engineering leaders but skirts the core VPN pain.
- We just wrapped LeadDev New York. The access conversations weren't about interna, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Fireside format with named engineering VPs is credible but the access angle stays vague.
- Your enterprise customer just asked: "Can you run this in our environment?" You , scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Awareness-level explainer on BYOC educates but does not connect to the buyer's VPN pain or prompt a clear next step.
- BYOC: Can you run this in our environment?, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Credible speaker panel on customer-environment deployment resonates with engineering leaders but skirts the core VPN pain.
- Your enterprise customer just asked: "Can you run this in our environment?" This, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Event ad targets SaaS engineering leaders but zero trust angle is buried, weakening ICP pull.
- Can you run this in our environment?, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Event ad targets SaaS engineering leaders but zero trust angle is buried, weakening ICP pull.
- Switching From NetBird Ad, scored 7/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. High-intent competitor comparison query matched well, but outcome beyond ops savings stays vague.
- Built for Multi-Team Zero Trust, scored 8/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Delegated admin, SOC 2, ACL bottleneck specifics speak directly to enterprise IT pain with a free trial hook.
- Secure Fast Reliable Access Ad, scored 5/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Generic triple adjective headline and vague body miss the specific VPN-replacement pain the ICP is searching for.
- Business VPN Zero Trust Mid-Market, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Hits the right category but 'Business VPN' framing undercuts the Zero Trust replacement angle buyers are searching for.
- Replace SSL-VPN With ZTNA, scored 8/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Sharp replacement hook, least-privilege call-out, and no-migration promise directly match the active VPN-exit buyer.
- Twingate ZTNA Dev Teams, scored 6/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Dev-team endorsement is a nice ICP signal but the offer stays vague with no outcome or urgency to click.
- Twingate Ultra Secure ZTNA, scored 5/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. 'Ultra Secure' is generic filler that adds no specific reason to prefer Twingate over any ZTNA rival.
- Secure Remote Access Zero Trust, scored 5/10 against Twingate’s ideal buyer. Body reads like an explainer article, not a product pitch, so it educates rather than converts the in-market buyer.
See Twingate’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.