When cooking up cleverer ads, you have a secret advantage (4,2,4,6)
I believe the answer is:
card up your sleeve
'when cooking up cleverer ads you have a secret advantage' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'when cooking up cleverer ads you' is the wordplay.
'when cooking' is an anagram indicator (cook can mean to manipulate or distort).
'up'+'cleverer'+'ads'+'you'='upclevereradsyou'
'upclevereradsyou' anagrammed gives 'CARD UP YOUR SLEEVE'.
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