Effective AI video commercials pair recognizable IP with foreign concepts
PJ Ace · My AI Videos Hit 1M+ Views (Veo3 + Sora 2 Demo) · Oct 13, 2025 · at 7:30
PJ Ace, co-founder of AI creative agency Genre AI, explains his creative strategy of grounding AI video ads in recognizable historical IP to hook audiences.
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“You know, you have to start with like the big idea for the spot. So the big idea for the spot is we like recognizable IP to start so that people have the familiar with the foreign.”
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