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AI-generated ads, done honestlyHow we use AI to make your ads, and what we never let it do.

AI is now part of how a lot of ads are made. Ours too, and we would rather tell you exactly how than let you guess.

What does AI do in our ads?

AI generates the pictures and the motion. From a brief we write, it produces the frames, the product scenes, the on-screen text layouts and the first cut of each variant, and it does that fast enough for a new drop every week. That speed is the point: it lets us test twelve, thirty or seventy distinct ideas a month at a price a small brand can pay, where a shoot would test one.

It also helps us resize. One idea becomes 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1 with the safe zones respected, and the captions and headlines are drafted for each placement before a person rewrites them.

What does a person do?

Every decision that makes an ad work is a person's. The founder studied psychology, and each ad starts as a hypothesis about how your customer thinks in the three seconds they give it: the principle it leans on (loss aversion, social proof, anchoring, a problem named before the product), the hook, the offer and the proof. We write the brief, pick the idea, and read the results every week to decide what the next drop tests.

A person then checks every ad twice before it reaches you: once for the brief (does it say what we agreed, in your voice, with your prices and offer right), and once for the things AI gets wrong: hands, text, lip-sync, a claim that drifted, a safe zone cut off. Nothing ships on the strength of a prompt alone.

  • The idea, the hook and the principle it tests
  • The brief, your voice, your prices and your offer
  • Every claim, checked against what you can prove
  • The two-step check on every file before delivery
  • Reading your results and planning the next drop

What rules do we keep, everywhere?

The same rules apply to every client in every country, because the laws on fake reviews are strict and getting stricter: the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act lets the CMA fine up to 10% of global turnover, and the US FTC's rule on fake reviews carries penalties per violation. We would keep these rules anyway.

  • A person in an ad who is not a real customer never claims personal experience of your product. If we script a testimonial, it comes from a real, documented review you hold, and the ad says so.
  • We never make fake reviews, invented customers or made-up results, for you or for ourselves. The examples on this site are labeled as examples.
  • You approve every ad before it runs, and every claim in it is one you can support, as the UK CAP Code and the FTC require. If you can't, we change the ad.
  • Where an ad will run in the EU and shows a realistic AI-generated person, we label it as the EU AI Act requires from August 2026. Tell us where each ad will run.
  • We don't make ads for categories where AI-made claims do the most harm: supplements and health claims, income claims, crypto, gambling, weight loss or adult products.

Who owns an AI-made ad?

Honestly: the law is still settling. The UK may change how it protects computer-generated work, and in the US a work needs a human author to be copyrighted. So we don't promise you full copyright, because nobody can. We promise what we can keep: a perpetual, exclusive license to run every paid-for ad anywhere, for as long as you like, plus an assignment of whatever rights do exist. It is written into our terms of service.

Why do we tell you all this?

Because trust in AI-made content is falling while its use is rising, and a brand that is open about it stands out from one that is not. The ads are judged by your customers, in the feed, by whether they stop and buy. The method behind them is on how it works, what arrives each week is on the page about our done-for-you Meta and TikTok ad creative, and the easiest way to see the thinking is a free review of your ads.

Do AI-generated ads need a label?

Sometimes. It depends on the platform, the topic of the ad and the country it runs in. These are the rules that matter for Meta, TikTok and Google ads today, in each source's own terms.

AI ad disclosure rules by platform and law
Platform or lawWhat it saysSource
Meta, every adMeta adds an "AI info" label to ads whose images or video were created or significantly edited with its own generative AI tools; when the ad shows a photorealistic AI-made person, the label sits next to "Sponsored", and otherwise in the ad's menu.Meta Newsroom, February 2025
Meta, social issue, electoral and political adsFor social issue, electoral and political ads, Meta requires advertisers to disclose a photorealistic image or video, or realistic audio, made or edited with generative AI to show a real person doing what they did not, a person or event that never existed, or a fake recording of a real event. Ads that should carry the disclosure and don't are disapproved, and from 1 June 2026 Meta also checks with automated detection.Meta Transparency Center
TikTok, every adTikTok allows significantly edited media and AI-generated content in ads when it is labeled, with the AIGC label or AI disclaimer in Ads Manager or a clear disclaimer, caption, watermark or sticker of the advertiser's own. Small fixes such as lighting, color or background removal don't count, ads made with TikTok's Symphony tools are labeled automatically, and a label never makes an otherwise prohibited ad acceptable.TikTok Ads policy
Google, election adsGoogle requires advertisers to disclose election ads with synthetic or digitally altered content that realistically depicts real or realistic-looking people or events, by ticking "Altered or synthetic content" in campaign settings; edits such as resizing, cropping or color correction are out of scope.Google Ads policy
Google, every adSince July 2026 Google Ads lets advertisers add an AI label to any ad, may label assets made with Google's own AI tools, and no longer treats an AI label inside the creative as a breach of its overlay rules; Google says using the setting doesn't guarantee compliance with local law.Google Ads policy, July 2026
EU AI Act, Article 50Under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, from 2 August 2026 anyone who uses AI to make image, audio or video deepfakes must disclose that the content was artificially generated or manipulated; for evidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional work, the disclosure can be made in a way that does not spoil it.European Commission
United States, FTCIn the US, no general federal rule requires a label on an ad made with AI. The FTC acts against deception instead: Operation AI Comply, announced on 25 September 2024, brought five cases over false claims about AI and AI-powered schemes.US Federal Trade Commission

What does that mean for a brand running our ads?

Treat every ad we deliver as AI-generated, because its frames and motion are made with AI. On TikTok, that means switching on the AI-generated content label when you upload it, or showing your own clear disclaimer in the ad. On Meta, an ordinary product ad has no box to tick, but Meta may add its own AI info label, so expect to see it on some ads.

The stricter rules start when an ad touches an election, politics or a social issue: Meta and Google then require you to declare realistic synthetic content before the ad runs. In the EU, from 2 August 2026, an ad showing a realistic AI-made person who could pass for real must say it is AI-made, and we build that label in when you tell us an ad will run there. In the US, the test is the old one: every claim must be true and provable, and no ad may pass off an AI-made person as a real customer.

This is a summary of public rules, checked on 18 October 2026, not legal advice. The rules change often, so check the platform's own page before a sensitive campaign, and ask us if you are unsure which rule covers an ad.

Questions about AI in ads.

Will Meta put an AI label on my ad?

It can. Meta labels ads made or significantly edited with its own generative AI tools, and where a lifelike AI person appears the label shows beside the word Sponsored rather than in the menu. The Meta Newsroom post explains when the label appears and where.

Is there a US law that requires labeling AI ads?

Not a general federal one. The FTC uses its existing powers against ads that deceive, and its 2024 cases were about false claims made for AI products, not about using AI to make an ad. The platforms set their own rules for election ads, and the table above covers Meta's and Google's.

Can an AI-generated ad quote a real customer?

Only with words that customer really wrote. If a script uses a review, the text comes from a genuine review you hold and can show us, and the ad never presents an AI-made face as the person who wrote it.

What should I tell you about where an ad will run?

The countries and platforms for each ad, and whether it touches an election, politics or a social issue. Those three facts decide which of the rules above apply to it, so we know before we make it whether it needs a label.

Does using AI make the ads cheaper or worse?

Cheaper, yes: AI is how a new set of ideas every week fits a small brand's budget. Worse, no, because the parts that decide whether an ad works, the idea, the hook, the offer and the proof, are chosen by a person and checked twice before you see them.

Plans, rights and getting started are covered in the ad creative service FAQ.

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