Opinion
Mashrabov: Adobe is in huge trouble from AI editing
“I don't want to do click baits for you, but it feels to me that Adobe is in a huge trouble.”
Opinion
Mashrabov: No startup besides OpenAI and Anthropic can win in foundation models
“I think it's very difficult for me to see Any other company than OpenAI and Anthropic are being competitive in the foundational model space. It's just very, very difficult for a startup to be a foundation model company. I don't want to say anything bad about c…”
Opinion
Mashrabov: Thin gross margins make AI innovation harder for Snap than Meta
“And frankly, you probably can see Snap's stock price and the gross margins are relatively thin compared to Meta. So I think for Snap, it's way more difficult to innovate to bring new innovative products with AI capabilities.”
Opinion
Mashrabov: Adobe is very vulnerable in the video software market
“In the video space, it's not like that. Adobe is very, very vulnerable As Premiere has great penetration across professionals.”
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Mashrabov: Nine of the top 10 ad agencies use Higgsfield
“The way I see the companies like major agencies, we talk about like top 10 agencies, most of them, nine out of top 10, they use Hicksfield.”
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Mashrabov: AI content will disrupt creators in the 'messy middle'
“People always want to watch humans, but I think there are lots of people in the middle, like I would say, maybe like this, I mean, it's always called messy middle, right? Where like those creators will be challenged. With AI.”
Opinion
Mashrabov: OpenAI is subsidizing media generation to win consumer AI
“Frankly speaking, is OpenAI clearly want to take these markets. There is no doubt about that. OpenAI want to be a winner. They are willing to subsidize rich generations.”
Assertion Supported
Mashrabov: Vertical drama apps beat Netflix on month-one ARPU
“I mean, essentially, they have higher average revenue per paying user in month one. Think about then Netflix.”
Insight
Mashrabov: Chinese surveillance innovation propelled global synthetic media development
“So actually a lot of surveillance system innovation coming from China propelled synthetic media developments across the world.”
Opinion
Mashrabov: Adobe video tools fail prosumers and individual creators
“Adobe After Effects and other video tooling, I think it kind of falls short, and it doesn't really cover, let's say, prosumers and individual professional creators. It only covers people who work in large teams.”
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Mashrabov: OpenAI free-to-paid conversion ratio is 5% to 6%
“When I look at like free to paid ratio for open AI, even outside of India and Southeast Asia, it is, we still talk about five, six percent. It's very similar to any B to C SaaS really.”
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Mashrabov: $10M+ Meta advertisers launch over 10,000 creatives annually
“I think on average company, we spend over ten million dollars in advertising on Meta. They're launching more than 10,000 new ad creatives every year.”
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Mashrabov: Smaller social platforms cannot build in-house AI video models
“I simply believe that it will be difficult for smaller platforms to make own Gen AI video generation systems, and essentially companies like Pinterest, Snapchat, and many others, they really will have to have some AI-generate capabilities.”
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Mashrabov: In-house AI video ads cost under $100 each
“If you are running these operations in house, you can really get to the cost of good looking video, maybe under a hundred dollars a video for socials.”
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Mashrabov: AI face filters meaningfully grew Snap's daily active users
“So we enabled these net new capabilities, and Bydance and Instagram, they didn't have those. So it contributed meaningfully to Snap daily active users' growth.”
Opinion
Mashrabov: Evan Spiegel is the best product designer I have worked with
“He's definitely the best product designer I have ever worked with. So Evan, Evan is a genius.”
Assertion Partly supported
Mashrabov: US TikTok users average 90 minutes daily vs 47 on Instagram
“TikTok three years forward is the largest social media in the United States, and on average users spend 90 minutes in TikTok, while on Instagram, I think it's 47, and Snapchat around 29.”
Insight
Mashrabov: Storyboarding budgets are contracting, forcing ad agencies to adopt AI
“The budgets for storyboarding are contracting. And no one has resources to really do this manually, so they have to leverage an AI.”
Assertion Supported
Mashrabov: Short-form vertical drama is already a $10B market
“Shortform Dramas is now a ten billion dollar market. It's enormous.”
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Mashrabov: Short-drama publishers produce tens of thousands of monthly ads
“These companies actually make tens of thousands of ad creatives a month, not a year, as I was telling you before. They make tens of thousands of new ad creatives a month.”
Disclosure
Mashrabov: Higgsfield users average over 10 hours monthly
“I'm absolutely surprised to see that on average users spend over 10 hours a month on Higgs fields.”
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Mashrabov: Google and Adobe will remain default choices for professionals
“The default choice for every professional will stay with Google. No one ever gets fired by using Google models. I just guarantee you. The same with Adobe.”
Assertion Supported
Mashrabov: CapCut ranks among the top 10 applications globally
“Surprisingly, CapCut, I think, is top 10 applications in the world. It was never possible to achieve that if you're just a near tool.”
