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Facebook Ads Dropshipping

Dropshipping with Facebook ads using daily creative testing and an 'isolate the winner' campaign

Video published Oct 14, 2026 by Henrik Wold

Startup cost: Needs ongoing ad budget (about $50/day per test campaign, plus Shopify and tools)

What It Is

You run a Shopify store selling trending products that a supplier ships, and drive sales with Facebook ads. The creator finds rising products (under roughly $200K-300K in revenue) with the Winning Hunter tool and on TikTok Shop and Instagram Reels, and shortlists five to ten a day. He tests each with a $50-a-day campaign of one ad set and about ten stacked videos, cutting ads whose cost per click goes above $2-2.50. Winning ads get moved into a separate $20-a-day campaign to fund more testing. He then adjusts the store page to the age group that is buying. He says the goal is 'finding a winning video, not a winning product', and his team makes about 300 new ad creatives a week.

The Pitch

The creator shows an ad account where he says one store spent about $197K to bring in about $561K in 32 days, nearly a 3x return. He argues that testing new creatives every day smooths out Facebook's ups and downs, and that getting in early on a new product trend is where the money is.

Who It’s Best For

People with a real ad budget they can afford to lose and the patience to analyze ad data every day; not a fit for someone starting with little money.

The Truth (as we see it)

The method itself (lots of creative testing, cutting losers by cost per click, narrowing the audience) is standard and credible for paid-ad dropshipping. The headline figure is revenue, not profit: after nearly $200K in ad spend plus product, shipping, refunds and fees, the margin is much thinner, and the numbers are the creator's own and unaudited. Some advice is risky: reusing videos downloaded from TikTok and Instagram can break copyright and platform rules, and talk of 'ways around' payment holds and comparing product picks to trading memecoins point to a high-risk approach. He sells a dropshipping course with mentorship and weekly calls, links Winning Hunter as an affiliate offer, and pitches a store-scaling partnership to sellers doing $15K+ a month.

Our assessment, based on the video and what’s typical across similar videos. We don’t independently verify income claims or prices.

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