From c211322c5af4f2ab5b2e5ea62049ad8bd45a0011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Ettinger <anthony@profullstack.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:20:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Send a new campaign to its own page, where its video is
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Saving a campaign queues the five-second pre-roll and then pushed the
advertiser to /dashboard/ads — the list. The card that reports render progress
and serves the MP4 download is on the campaign page. So a video was generated
every time and the person who asked for it was routed somewhere that never
showed it, which from their seat is indistinguishable from nothing happening.

Redirects to /dashboard/ads/<id> instead. The `?created=<slug>` it used to pass
was never read by the list page, so nothing is lost.

Also says so on the generate screen. The render takes a couple of minutes on a
worker, so it is deliberately queued on save rather than blocking that screen;
without a line saying where it went, a video that is merely still rendering
looks like one that failed to generate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/(app)/dashboard/ads/new/form.tsx | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/(app)/dashboard/ads/new/form.tsx b/app/(app)/dashboard/ads/new/form.tsx
index 848424c..89abb32 100644
--- a/app/(app)/dashboard/ads/new/form.tsx
+++ b/app/(app)/dashboard/ads/new/form.tsx
@@ -120,7 +120,12 @@ export function NewAdForm() {
         setError(res.error);
         return;
       }
-      router.push(`/dashboard/ads?created=${res.refSlug}`);
+      // The campaign page, not the list. Saving queues the five-second
+      // pre-roll render, and the card that reports its progress and serves the
+      // MP4 download lives on the campaign page — landing on the list meant a
+      // video was generated and the advertiser was sent somewhere that never
+      // showed it. (`?created=` was never read by the list page either.)
+      router.push(`/dashboard/ads/${res.id}`);
     });
   }
 
@@ -214,6 +219,15 @@ export function NewAdForm() {
                 </span>
               )}
             </div>
+            {/* The pre-roll is rendered by a worker, which takes a couple of
+                minutes — so it is queued on save rather than blocking this
+                screen, and its progress and MP4 download appear on the campaign
+                page you land on next. Saying so here stops the video looking
+                like something that failed to generate. */}
+            <div className="text-xs text-[var(--color-muted)]">
+              A five-second streaming pre-roll is rendered from this design when you
+              save. It appears on the campaign page, with an MP4 download, once ready.
+            </div>
             <div className="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-6">
               {DESIGN_FORMATS.map((f) => {
                 const c = creatives.find((x) => x.format === f.id);