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iMessage notification cascade

A stack of iOS notification banners springing in one after another over a blurred backdrop, each pushing the stack upward.

It is the notification feed, not a conversation.

It is one of 13 native HTML ad templates in Hermoso — formats rendered from real markup by a browser rather than generated by a model. This one outputs a video, with 4 copy slots you fill.

When to use it

For social proof at speed — a run of orders, sign-ups, messages or reviews arriving. It communicates momentum in a way a static number cannot.

The thing to get right

It is a distinct format from the chat reveal, not a variation of it. Cascade shows volume; chat shows a story.

The format at a glance

  • Output — a video.
  • Copy slots — 4, each with its own character budget derived from the layout rather than guessed.
  • Assets required — none — it renders from copy and your brand alone.
  • Template id — imessage-cascade.

How this template renders

Nothing here is generated by an image or video model. The format is a self-contained HTML page whose animation is a pure function of time — no CSS keyframes, no timers, no randomness — and the renderer steps that page frame by frame in headless Chrome, screenshots each frame, and assembles them with ffmpeg into an H.264 file that ends on a crossfade into your brand end card.

Two things follow from that. The render is deterministic: the same inputs produce the same file, so a format that looked right yesterday looks right today. And every word on screen is real browser-rendered text, which means the copy is exact and stays sharp at any resolution. The whole thing costs a couple of credits rather than a video generation, which is what makes these formats practical to run at volume.

Is this the same as the iMessage chat template?

No. Cascade shows volume, as a stack of notification banners arriving one after another. Chat shows a story between two people. Pick cascade when the message is momentum and chat when the message is a recommendation.

All 13 are listed on the native ad template index, and the wider catalog is on the creative recipes index.

The imessage notification cascade template is reachable from Claude, Cursor, Codex or any other MCP client as well as from the web studio, with the same brand grounding. Driving a format from an agent covers the setup.

Render a native-format ad in a couple of credits — the free plan needs no card.

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