Olivia Moore: AI influencer monetization will explode with AI video generation
Olivia Moore · AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z · Jul 9, 2025 · at 18:08
Olivia Moore, partner at a16z, discusses the commercial monetization potential of AI video avatars versus earlier image-only virtual influencers.
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“We already saw this with whole startups or stacks of products, and Justine looked at a bunch of these, where it was, like, basically make money by building your own Instagram influencer off of AI images. And a lot of people were making, yeah, tens of thousands of dollars through that. They would even have sometimes, like, a subscription that you could sign up for to get extra content for them that would make, like, a ton more money than they could make on Instagram ads or something like that. But I feel like with AI video, it's just gonna explode.”
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