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My boss told me to create an ad campaign, but I totally forgot about it. And now I have 1 hour left to create image and video ads for Tik Tok, Instagram, and our YouTube channel. But I have nothing prepared at all. Luckily, I found an AI tool that creates beautiful ads in minutes. We can create image ads by remixing templates of ads that have already proven to work. We can create professional video ads and even realistic looking AI influencers that review our product. And for this, the tool uses the latest AI models like Nano Banana Pro, Sora 2, and Veo 3.1. All we need are a few images of our product or a link to the product website, and the AI does all the work. It can even generate the ad concept for us or take our idea and improve it. AI is transforming the advertisement and social media industry. Even McDonald's made their latest ad completely with AI. And if you don't use these tools, you will get left behind because not only is it much cheaper, it's also much faster. What used to take weeks of preparation only takes minutes now and you don't have to hire anyone. So, will I finish my ad campaign in time? And will it actually look good? Let's find out together. My name is Florian Walt and this is the AI tool corner where I review the latest AI software to find out which ones can actually improve our lives and businesses. The tool is called Mintly. I will put a link to it into the video description. And you also get a bunch of free credits when you sign up here, so you can try this out for free. Let's go ahead and create an account. After logging in, we get to our dashboard. Here we have access to an AI image generator, a video generator, photo editor, and a bunch of different presets. We will take a closer look at them later. Before we start creating ads, it's a good idea to set up our brand, which we can do here under manage brand. So, for this video, I will pretend that I work for Roka, who creates these cool glasses, and I want to promote these glasses with great looking ads. Obviously, I don't actually work for Roka. We are just roleplaying here. But I use Roka for this brand example. So I set the brand name to Roka, set the industry, a short brand description, website, social media handles, and here we can set a call to action. And all of this will be used later to generate our ads. For example, it will put this call to action text, shop glasses now on our ads. And if you want to have other text on there, you can change this or add additional CTAs. You can upload a logo that will be used on our ad. Set a color palette, which I did here with these three different colors. define a typography, which I didn't do here. And here under brand assets, we can set up a product that we want to promote. We can either upload a bunch of images and then insert the required fields. But I don't have time for this. And luckily, we can also insert a product link and it will extract all the images and information automatically. I want to create ads for these glasses here. So I take this URL, insert it in here, click on scan URL and now Mintly will extract all the important information and images from this web page. And this is really cool. So not only did it extract the images from the web page, it also set the product name, a description and a bunch of additional information like benefits of this product, pain points that are addressed, even disclaimers like the glasses are not a medical device and it extracted all this information from the web page. This is really cool. We can unselect the images that we don't want to use. Now the image extraction is not perfect. Actually, I want to use these four product images here of the glasses from different angles, but Mintly didn't extract all these images. However, we can upload them manually over this add image button here. So, I downloaded these four images from the website directly. And now I upload them all to Mintly and select the ones I want to use for our ads later. Then we click on create product. And then we can use this product information later to create a ton of different ads in the same style. Okay, cool. Let's save these changes. And you can even set up additional brands if you want to create ads for different brands. For example, if you work for an agency, just click on create new brand. Okay, let's start making ads. We start with the AI image ads. And the results are mindblowing. Check this out. First, we select a template. Those are ads of other competitors that have already proven to work. Now, we are not going to copy them one by one, but we use them as inspiration for our ad. So, for example, here I can search for eyewear or glasses because we want to promote glasses. Then we select an ad that we like. I like this one here. Use this as our template. Then we select the product images we want to use. We can select up to three. So, I'm going to pick three different ones from different angles. And then when we scroll down, we are asked if we want the AI to create a prompt for us. But before we confirm this, we set some additional settings down here because they will be taken into account for this AI generated prompt. What's the audience for our glasses? Let's say everyone who uses electronic devices late at night, especially office workers. I keep the goal at conversion and the focus on the benefits and then we let the AI generate a prompt for us. So now the AI comes up with an ad concept idea for our product based on the original template that we selected up here. This takes a minute or so. So now we have a pretty long and detailed advertisement prompt. For the model, we keep Nano Banana Pro selected, which is the strongest AI image generation model. Right now, I keep the aspect ratio at 4 to 5. Let's create four of these ads at once so we can compare them. And if you want to modify the prompt, you have different AI assist tools. We will take a closer look at them later. And then let's go ahead and create these ads. So it only created two ads for some reason, but we get the remaining credits refunded. So, this isn't a problem. And the results are stunning because it doesn't just take the original template and replace the glasses and the person. It adapts the whole style of the ads to our product. You can see that the color shade here is much different. It's this bluish color because the point of these glasses is to block blue light. So, this bright yellowish color wouldn't fit to our ad. But the AI is smart enough to adapt the ad style to our specific product. And it puts some really good text on here. So on the original ad, you can see that there was this text here at the bottom. It put the same text on our ad with the name of the glasses and some really professional copy with the benefits of our product and digital eye strain unlock deeper sleep. This sounds super professional and I'm really blown away by these results. And we have another ad generated here which looks very similar with a woman instead of a man. And creating these ads is very cheap and fast. So you can use different templates. Try this out. If you don't like the result, you can click on retry and do this again. If you like the image, you can download it here and use them in your advertisement. But that's not all. We can now take this image ad and turn it into a video by clicking the add to video button. Let's try this out as well. But before we create the video ads, I also want to show you a bunch of other generations I did earlier. For example, here I uploaded a few images of this original Game Boy Color. And this was the ad template. Here you can see this is a supplement with a bunch of different texts on here and it remixed this ad to make it fit for our product. Instead of little pills, it put these little pixelated hearts on there and it adapted the text to sell our product and highlight the nostalgic feeling of this Game Boy. A childhood dream fulfilled. So again, super professional and the image quality is crisp. I also created this fake supplement called Bullshark Testo. Again, here you can see the template which has the product on the right side and a bunch of benefits as text on the left. And again, the AI intelligently adapted this concept to our product. Since this is a very masculine, very manly product, it replaced the hand for a hairy manly hand and also the whole color scheme here changed. Then I took this Gucci bag and used it to remix this ad here of another bag. Again, it looks very similar. I picked a different aspect ratio, which was also no problem for the AI and the results are always on point. This is the only one I didn't like 100% simply because the bag is a bit too big, but the other ones are look perfect. And I actually turned this one into a video here, which I will show you later. Also looks super cool. But for now, let's turn our Roka image into a little video. Up here, we can select the video model, and those are the latest state-of-the-art AI models. When we already have a starting frame like we have here, this image, I like Veo 3.1 the most and the fast version is a bit cheaper and the results are pretty similar. So, I pick this one. If you can't decide, you can also click here on need help choosing a model and then you have some descriptions of the pros and cons of these different models. Some of them are more expensive than others. And it's a good idea to use the cheap models for iteration to try out a bunch of different ad ideas. And then when you really like an idea, you can pick a more expensive model to really create the perfect version of your app. For example, you can iterate with Sora and then use the more expensive Sora 2 Pro to create the final result. But for now, Veo 3.1 fast is good enough and it's pretty cheap. So again, we could let the AI generate a prompt for us, but we can also come up with something ourselves. So I wrote this very simple prompt. The man looks from one screen to another while working on the computer. In the background, you can hear nightly sounds like crickets and ambient sound highlighting that it's late at night. The ad copy text appears after a short delay. You don't have to write the perfect prompt because we can now use AI to enhance our prompt. So now it made the prompt longer and more detailed. Then we can set a duration. The max for Veo 3 is 8 seconds. We will later also try out Sora 2, by the way. And then let's generate a video and see how this looks. And our ad is ready. Let's check it out. So, we hear the crickets in the background. It has a very nightly feeling to it. The animation looks super cool. The only thing I don't really like is that the text is already there in the beginning. Then it disappears and it pops up again. We can click on retry to try this again. And it inserts our original input, the starting frame, and the prompt we used. And then we can try this again. Maybe let's use AI to come up with a video concept. Let's try this AI generated prompt. And here's our second ad typing zones. Yeah, I mean it's very similar. You can play around with this. Try out a bunch of different ideas. But instead of using our image ad as the starting frame, we can also create a video ad from scratch using just our product image. For this, I'm going to refresh the page to start from scratch.

And now I would like to create an AI influencer video because these are also really cool. So, first up here, we select a style for our video ad. So, let's try out problem solution. I think this is pretty good for our product. For these AI influencer videos, I find that Sora 2 creates the best results because it's really good at making AI people use products. We are not going to upload a start frame this time, but a product image. So, here I take one of the images of our glasses. Again, I want the AI to come up with a video concept. But before we generate the idea, we set the duration to 12 seconds because the duration will be taken into account for this idea. And of course, in a longer video, more can happen in the video. So set the duration before generating the idea. So now we have a very long prompt that contains timestamps. So it exactly defines what should happen at each second in this video. This is why it's important to set the duration before generating the prompt. And if we want to change this prompt, we can of course just type by hand, but we can also use the modify prompt feature where we can give the AI instructions to modify the prompt for us. For example, make the person verbally explain the benefits and pain points that our product solves. Now, the AI updates our original prompt. Again, as you can see, it's super detailed and even contains what kind of camera is used here. I haven't read through all of this. Let's just try this out. Let's check out the result. The screen glare is just killing my eyes. So much better. Now I can actually wind down. Yeah, it looks super realistic, super professional. Now, one thing to note is that this video uses the same aspect ratio as the product image we uploaded. So if you want a different aspect ratio like 9:16, you first have to prepare the image. You can do this right here in Mintly in the AI image generator. We can upload our reference image here. We can say upscale this image and make the background white. Let's select Nano Banana Pro. And then we can select an aspect ratio. And this is really the important feature we care about. Let's set the quantity to one and generate this. And now we have the same product image with a 9:16 ratio. And when we now use this in the video ads generator with the Sora 2 model, the generated video should have the same aspect ratio. Actually, let's give this a try. So, I uploaded the 9:16 image. Let's also try out the Sora 2 Pro model and create another AI influencer ad because this is so much fun. Let's let the AI come up with an idea. This time, I'm not going to modify the prompt. I just trust the AI and generate this. While this is generating, let's also take a look at some other results I created earlier. This one here for our Bullshark Testo supplement. Get the results you deserve. That's funny. Yeah. And I created a bunch of these different ads. These ones here are generated from static image ads. Has a very cool sound effect. It gives this this dynamic feeling. I think it's pretty cool. This one here is also amazing. So again, first I created this static image ad and then I used Veo 3 to animate this and we get the super realistic super professional video ad. And look at the level of details here. This is generated from just a product image, just the bag on a white background. And it used only this one image here to create this whole video. And I couldn't tell that this is AI generated. For me, it looks like this was actually recorded, but it wasn't. And here's another influencer. When design is this considered, you feel it before you even see it. Amazing. The GG Supreme canvas has a warmth, a texture that tells a story of craft. The classic web stripes, the interlocking gates when design is this. For some reason, I'm getting an error for this generation. Maybe Sora 2 Pro is not available right now. I'm going to try this again with the regular Sora 2 model. Yeah, I keep getting an error on this prompt. I don't know why. I'm going to try one more time with a completely new prompt. Okay, with regular Sora 2, it worked. Apparently, sometimes the Sora 2 Pro model is not available, but that's not Mintly's fault. That's a problem with the OpenAI API. I created a bunch of new ads with the regular Sora 2 model in front of the screen. Now, one problem I kept running into is that the voice over of the influencer cut off too early. Eyes burning, focus slipping. Then I tried Roka's blue light blocking lenses. The glare gone. The strain gone. Now it's just me, the work in clear, calm focus in front of See, the voice over cut off before the video was over because it exceeded this 12-second duration. But I found a way to fix this problem by using the modify prompt feature. And here I told the AI, include the voice over script in the timestamps. Make sure the voice over doesn't exceed the available time window. And by sending this, the AI rewrites the prompt and it includes the voice over inside these timestamps you can see here. And this way, we can make sure that it doesn't exceed the time window because you have to tell the AI exactly what should happen at each point in time in the video. Otherwise, it will just do whatever and the result won't be as good. Here's an example of one where the text fit into the video. I used to get the worst headaches after a few hours of editing. Then I found these total game changer. Very professional, especially with the different shots. Of course, you can fine-tune this by improving the prompt, by modifying it, enhancing it until you get the result you like. If you want to try one of these again, you can click on this retry button here, and it will refill everything here on the left with the original image, the prompt we used here, and so on. And then you can modify it. And when you like the result, you can download it in 4K resolution. Also, play around with these different styles and available AI models. I haven't tried Kling or Wan here. And now we have a whole bunch of professional looking ads that we can use on our social media accounts. And it didn't even take me an hour to make these. And I just got an email from my boss. He's really happy with the result. And I can keep my job. On Mintly, you also have an AI image generator and a photo editor. We already used this earlier. We can upload a bunch of reference images. We can provide a prompt. An attractive young woman wearing the glasses while relaxing in front of the TV at night. She's eating popcorn. Then we can enhance the prompt. Select the model Nano Banana Pro. An aspect ratio. Let's use 16x9. And let's create two of these images. And as usual, the results are amazing. Nano Banana Pro is especially good at creating photorealistic images. We can now further edit this image if we want which brings us to the photo editor. Now the image is attached here and we can edit it via a prompt. We can also use one of these predefined prompts for example to modify something which adds this template down here. Use the provided image of the woman. Replace the popcorn for sushi. Keep everything else identical. Again, Nano Banana Pro, the same aspect ratio as the original image. And let's generate one image now. And there we go. Now she's eating sushi. These new models are just crazy good. You can also find a bunch of these presets in your dashboard which are really useful because they are basically prompt templates. When you click one of them, you get to the video or image generator. And this basically inserts a predefined prompt for you that you can then use with your reference image. And here is an example of the flatlay template. Really cool, isn't it? And I'm always blown away by the image quality. This looks absolutely real. I will put a link to Mintly into the video description below. You get a bunch of free credits when you sign up, so you can try this out for free. And also leave a comment below and tell me for what product you're going to create ads because I'm really interested in hearing about your stuff and what you create with these tools. Subscribe to the channel for more AI tool reviews in the future. Have a nice rest of the day. Take care.