How do I make a Newspaper Front Page Ad?

Breaking-news framing lends a product claim borrowed gravitas — people read headlines they'd scroll past as ads.

model⚡ Nano Banana 2
agency would charge$2,500
you'll spend~$1
runs onMeta · X · Pinterest

EXAMPLE — MADE WITH THIS EXACT PROMPT

Newspaper Front Page Ad example ad

THE PROMPT — COPY, SWAP THE BRACKETS, RUN

Vertical 4:5 image of a broadsheet front page filling the frame, shot flat-on in soft daylight, real newsprint texture with slight ink show-through. Masthead across the top in blackletter: "THE DAILY STANDARD", a thin rule beneath reading "TUESDAY EDITION" left and "50 CENTS" right. Main headline in huge Times-style bold serif, verbatim: [HEADLINE — e.g. "LOCAL MAN SLEEPS THROUGH ALARM, REPORTS ZERO REGRETS"]. Subhead in italic serif: [SUBHEAD — e.g. "Neighbors describe him as 'suspiciously well rested'"]. Below, a large black-and-white halftone press photo of [PHOTO — e.g. "a man mid-stretch on a Perlo mattress, genuinely smiling"], caption in tiny serif: "The evidence, pictured above." Two columns of justified body text — readable English news copy continuing the story, not gibberish. Right sidebar box: "INSIDE: WHY 8 HOURS IS THE NEW FLEX — PAGE 4". Bottom strip, boxed in a thin rule: [BRAND LINE — e.g. "PERLO. THE MATTRESS BEHIND THE HEADLINE. PERLO.SLEEP"]. Halftone dots visible in the photo, columns perfectly straight and aligned, all headlines correctly spelled and unwarped, no lorem ipsum, no real newspaper logos, no watermark.

HOW TO RUN IT

  1. Write the headline like a real reporter would — deadpan beats clever.
  2. Generate in Nano Banana 2; zoom the body columns to confirm readable English, not mush.
  3. Run 4:5 on Meta; crop the masthead half into a 1:1 for X.
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