DTC and Shopify brands
Run the Ad Maker once per hook and ship a set of test ads per campaign without booking a shoot day. Test hook lines, voices, and calls to action against the same product claim and let the auction pick the winner.
AI ad maker
Paste your ad script, type a product angle, or upload a product image and MakeAIVideo writes the hook, body, and CTA, records the AI voiceover, generates the scenes, and burns in captions, then renders the creative in the aspect ratio your placement needs, from 9:16 to 16:9.
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A cinematic 9:16 ad rendered by the same pipeline.
Built for the auction, not the timeline
An AI ad maker built for every placement on Meta, TikTok and YouTube
Most ad tools render one shape and leave you to reformat it for every placement. In the Ad Maker you pick where the ad will run, and that choice sets the ratio and the length before anything renders. Describe the product, add your photos, pick the call to action, and the copy is written around all three.
- Placement-native framing.
- TikTok in-feed is 9:16 at 20 seconds. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are 9:16, Facebook feed 1:1 and YouTube in-stream 16:9, all at 30 seconds.
- Hook, body, CTA.
- Direct-response copy that opens on a hook and closes on Shop now, Book a demo, Learn more or your own line.
- Your real product.
- Add 1 to 5 photos. Product scenes show them as they are, over real footage with a voiceover.
Ad Maker
Describe what you sell. We write the hook, the pitch and the call to action, then build the ad.
What are you advertising?
ExampleA handmade ceramic pour-over coffee set. Slow mornings, one cup at a time, sold direct from our studio.
Photos of your product
Where will it run?
TikTok in-feedInstagram ReelsYouTube ShortsFacebook feedYouTube in-stream
Call to action
Shop nowGet started freeBook a demoDownload the appLearn moreCustom
Estimated cost
~82 credits Example
How it works
How the AI ad maker works, from product angle to Ads Manager
- Step 1
Pick your input and your placement
Describe what you sell in a sentence or two and add 1 to 5 real product photos. Then pick where the ad will run: TikTok in-feed, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook feed or YouTube in-stream. The placement sets the shape and the length together, so the creative is built for that slot instead of letterboxed from a wide render after the fact.
- Step 2
AI writes the hook, body, and CTA
Say who the ad is for if you like, and pick a call to action such as Shop now, Book a demo or Learn more, or write your own. The Ad Maker writes direct-response copy around it: a hook up front, the product and the problem it solves, and a close on your CTA. Prefer your own words? Paste them into Script to Video and the narrator reads them exactly.
- Step 3
AI generates the voice, scenes, and captions
The ad runs on real filmed footage matched to each line, with an AI voiceover and captions timed to it. Product scenes show your own photos exactly as you uploaded them, so the ad never invents your product. Music is optional: add a track from the library in the editor.
- Step 4
Export and drop into ad manager
The finished ad opens in the editor and downloads as a watermark-free 1080p MP4, already in the placement's shape. Upload it to Meta Ads Manager or TikTok Ads Manager as a fresh creative. Want a variant? Regenerate one scene, swap the narrator or restyle the captions, then export again.
From brief to variant
Build AI video ads in your browser
Set the product, the placement and the call to action, then hit generate. The finished ad opens in the editor and lands in your library, watermark-free. That is where the next variant starts: change one shot, keep the rest, export again.
- Regenerate one scene.
- Swap a shot that missed for new visuals and voice, usually in a few minutes.
- Fix a word, not the take.
- Click any word in the caption transcript to correct it without re-recording the voice.
- Edits save automatically.
- Export again when it is right, and older renders stay in your history.
Editor
All changes saved
ScenesVoiceMusicCaptionsSettings
Scene 2
Edits save automatically
Narration
ExampleThey built thousand-ton ceilings without a single steel beam, and most of them are still standing.
Regenerate this scene
New voice and visuals, usually 1-3 minutes.
Text
Video
Captions
Music
1080p MP4
Export videoAll included
Everything in one AI ad maker render
Copy, voice, scenes, captions, and export. One pipeline, one cost per render, shown before you generate. Model the spend first with the free ROAS calculator.
A new voice is a new variant
Audition 12 narrators and pick a delivery from calm to punchy. Swap the voice to test a fresh read without rewriting the script.
Voice
The narrator for the whole video
Pick a voice
Play to auditionSarahfemale · american
Mature, reassuring, confident
Brianmale · american
Deep, resonant, comforting, natural authority
Lilyfemale · british
Velvety, warm. British narrator
Danielmale · british
Authoritative British male, newscaster gravitas
Matildafemale · american
Knowledgeable, professional, perfect for tutorials
Delivery
Used when you applyStable
Calm, even
Balanced
Default
Expressive
Punchy
Apply to every scene
Re-records the narration. Visuals stay as they are, and your current export stays until you export again.
Captions for sound-off feeds
Burned-in captions timed to the voiceover, in 11 styles from Classic to Hormozi. Click any word to fix a typo.
Captions
Clean, minimal, burned in
Edit transcript
Click any word to fix typos without re-rolling voice.
Scene #3
ExampleLight hitting your eyes left the sun eight minutes ago.
Scene #4
You are looking at the past, every single time.
Caption style
Classic (default)SubtleSubtitle (italic)Word popHormoziBoldBeatOutlineBannerGiant numberedMinimalNone
Edits save automatically
Export videoReady for Ads Manager
Download a 1080p MP4 with no watermark, plus SRT and VTT caption files, or share a download link with a client.
Download / Share
Download
MP4 video
The finished video, ready to post
SRT captions
Subtitle file for TikTok, YouTube, CapCut
VTT captions
Subtitle file for web video players
Share link
Examplehttps://media.makeaivideo.ai/r7Kq2mXa.mp4?X-Amz-Expires=86400 Copy link
Anyone with this link can download the MP4, no account needed.
Render historyDownload an older render
Your logo and your team
On Plus and Pro, switch your logo on as a watermark for every render, and invite teammates by email as a Member or an Admin.
Settings
Brand Kit
Brand Kit is available on Plus and Pro
Watermark
PNG with transparency recommended. Max 5MB.
Upload watermarkShow watermark on renders
Team
Invite to team
teammate@example.comMember Send invite
Active members
Example
OwnerOliviaYou
olivia@northshore.studio
AdminMarcus
marcus@northshore.studio
Pending invitations
sam@northshore.studio
Invited by Olivia
Connect your AI agent
Brief your next AI video ad from ChatGPT or Claude
Connect your AI assistant and ask for ads in plain English. Assistants can make UGC-style ads and every other brief tool, and post the result. The Ad Maker, with your product photos, lives in the app.
- Connect your AI assistant.
- Add MakeAIVideo to Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Code, Cursor or any app that supports MCP with one address. You sign in once; there is no API key to paste.
- Ask in plain English.
- “Make a UGC-style ad for our refillable water bottle and schedule it on TikTok for Friday at 9am.” It checks the cost before it spends anything.
- It makes the video.
- A finished MP4 with the script, voiceover, scenes, captions and any music, in your library to edit or download.
- And posts it if you ask.
- To the accounts you have connected, now or on a schedule, across 11 platforms.
MCP, API and CLI are included on every plan.
Use cases
What the AI video ad generator makes
One render per creative variant, one export per placement.
Performance marketers
Run Meta, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts in parallel from one brief. Make one render per placement and each comes back in that placement's ratio and length, with no manual reformatting.
Agencies and freelancers
Make test ads for multiple clients per week, one run per ad. The pipeline replaces the per-brief edit cycle with a re-render, so a creative test costs a render not a retainer hour.
App install and lead-gen
Build 9:16 spokesperson-style install ads or lead-gen creatives without coordinating with talent. Consistent presenter, consistent voice, fresh hook per variant.
Product launches
Open a launch with a 20 or 30 second ad that walks through the feature, the price, or the offer. Re-render the moment the copy, angle, or price changes without booking new edit time.
Sales prospecting videos
Generate short spokesperson-style video prospecting clips for outbound sequences. Same product story, new hook per persona, delivered inside your normal send cadence.
Need to draft the hook first? The video hook generator drafts and ranks hook lines you can paste back into the ad pipeline.
Shopify and DTC stores
AI ad maker for Shopify: product video ads from your photos
Sprout Social reports that YouTube, TikTok and Instagram together now drive over 60% of product discovery, so a store's ad creative is its shop window. The constraint is how many fresh ads you can afford to test.
- Step 1
Start from the product page
Add 1 to 5 of your product page images as the product photos and describe the product and who it is for in a sentence or two. Product scenes show your photos as they are, so the ad never invents a version of your product.
- Step 2
Pick the placement, then the call to action
TikTok in-feed comes out 9:16 at 20 seconds. Reels and Shorts are 9:16, the Facebook feed 1:1 and YouTube in-stream 16:9, all at 30 seconds. Shop now is the usual close for a store.
- Step 3
One ad per run, then test
Each run makes one ad. To test a hook, change the line and run again; keep the body and offer the same so the test tells you something.
- Step 4
Another placement is another export
Each render is one ratio. Switch the ratio in the editor and export again for the next placement, and earlier renders stay in your render history. Then upload the MP4s to Meta Ads Manager or TikTok Ads Manager.
Cost the test, not the sticker price
An Ad Maker ad usually costs about 69 to 95 credits, so Lite's 450 credits cover about four ads at the top of that range: one first test. A store testing new hooks every week belongs on Plus or Pro, with a top-up pack for a heavy month. Plan credits reset each billing month, so pick the plan you will actually use up.
Keep the claims true
Cheap ads make it easy to ship a claim a hundred times. A results claim is usually read as what buyers can expect, under the FTC's Endorsement Guides, and "results not typical" does not change that. For a single product shot with motion, image to video turns one product image into a 5 or 10 second clip.
Restaurants
AI video ads for restaurants, from a photo of the dish
What fills tables is a steady weekly line of short clips, not one flagship film. These are the ones you can make from photos you already have.
A narrated menu-item ad
Use a well-lit photo of the dish as the product photo in the Ad Maker, describe what makes it worth booking for, and pick Reels or TikTok in-feed. One ad per run, so make one per dish.
A 10-second plate-in-motion clip
Load an overhead shot of the plate into image to video and ask for one camera move: a slow push in or a gentle pan. Add the trending sound in the platform's own editor when you post, and put the caption in the top third of the frame.
A delivery offer ad
Make the dish ad first, then add the offer, the delivery app's logo from its brand assets and an expiry date in a regular editor. Pull the ad the day the code expires: an expired code in a live ad costs more trust than it ever earned.
A seasonal menu teaser
Paste a short narration in the chef's voice into script to video and add up to five photos of the new dishes as references. They guide the look of the scenes; they are not placed into the video as they are. Post it the week before launch, not on the day.
Film the kitchen yourself
Staff at the pass, a sauce being finished, a cocktail being shaken: shoot these vertically on a phone and edit them in a regular editor, because MakeAIVideo does not take your own clips. A Forbes Councils piece on restaurants and TikTok argues authenticity matters more than professional-looking footage.
Post when people plan
Sprout Social finds Tuesdays and Wednesdays strongest on Instagram and weekends weakest, with food and beverage peaking on weekdays from 11 am to 1 pm. Batch the week's dish clips and schedule them for those windows.
Fill the Google profile too
Post a short vertical intro to your Google Business Profile and refresh it each quarter. A Whitespark study of 1.8 million profiles, written up by Search Engine Land, found specific categories and complete profiles correlate with stronger local rankings.
Best practices
Tips for AI video ads that convert
Front-load the hook
The first three seconds decide whether an ad survives the scroll on Reels, For You, or the Shorts shelf. Open on the product claim, the pattern interrupt, or the price. Not a logo card, not a greeting.
Write one claim per ad
Paid-social creatives read better when they argue a single point: one product claim, one CTA. Two competing claims dilute the hook and tank the click-through. Save the second claim for a second variant.
Disclose the AI honestly
Meta and TikTok both have rules for disclosing AI-generated content in ads, especially realistic AI people and scenes. Check their current policy and tick the disclosure when it applies. An honest label costs you nothing; a missing one puts the creative at risk.
Pick the aspect ratio up front
9:16 for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts. 1:1 for the Facebook feed. 16:9 for YouTube in-stream. Re-cropping a landscape ad to vertical after the fact clips the framing and the captions. In the Ad Maker the placement you pick sets it before the render.
Test hook variants, not full rewrites
Keep the body and CTA constant, swap only the hook line, and ship three to five variants. The auction will tell you which hook works before you invest in a fresh body.
Match voice and style to the buyer
A calm, reassuring narrator on a DTC skincare ad reads very differently from a punchy creator-style read on a fitness product. The Ad Maker's real-footage ad for brand, a UGC ad or a Talking Avatar presenter for direct-response, is a safe starting split.
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AI ad maker pricing: credits for every creative test
Every plan includes the Ad Maker, 1080p downloads and no watermark. An ad runs on real footage with a voiceover at about 69 to 95 credits, and you see the exact cost before you generate.
Lite
The cheapest way in, with every video mode included.
$9/month
or $90 a year, 2 months free
450credits a month
About 4 stock-footage videos
or about 1 AI cinematic video
30 seconds each, every month
- Post and schedule to 2 social accounts
- Videos up to 10 minutes
- Every mode, including Talking Avatar and Image to Video
- Full HD 1080p export, no watermark
Solo
For one creator posting every week.
$19/month
or $190 a year, 2 months free
1,000credits a month
About 10 stock-footage videos
or about 2 AI cinematic videos
30 seconds each, every month
- Post and schedule to 4 social accounts
- More than double the credits of Lite
- Videos up to 10 minutes
- Every mode, including Talking Avatar and Image to Video
Plus
Most popularLong-form, your branding and a team of three.
$29/month
or $290 a year, 2 months free
1,600credits a month
About 16 stock-footage videos
or about 3 AI cinematic videos
30 seconds each, every month
- Post and schedule to 6 social accounts
- Stock-footage videos up to 40 minutes
- Brand Kit: your logo as a watermark on every video
- 3 team seats with admin and member roles
Pro
For teams and channels running at volume.
$49/month
or $490 a year, 2 months free
2,800credits a month
About 29 stock-footage videos
or about 6 AI cinematic videos
30 seconds each, every month
- Post and schedule to 10 social accounts
- Lowest price per credit of any plan
- Stock-footage videos up to 40 minutes
- 10 team seats with admin and member roles
7-day free trial for new customers: $0 today, card required, 500 trial credits, and trial videos are capped at 10 seconds of script. Video counts are estimates for 30-second videos, rounded down. Plan credits refresh every billing month and do not roll over.
Every plan includes
- Every way to make a video: prompt, script, talking avatar, image and character swap
- 15 visual styles, captions, music and voices
- Full HD 1080p export, never a watermark
- Post and schedule to 11 platforms
- Video in 24 languages
- API, MCP server and CLI for ChatGPT, Claude or any AI agent
Busy month? Top-up packs from $9: a one-time purchase, and the credits never expire. Compare plans and packs
AI ad maker FAQs
What advertisers ask before they build their first ad.
Something else? Visit the help center
Which platforms do the ads work on?
The Ad Maker builds for five placements: TikTok in-feed, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook feed, and YouTube in-stream. Every export is a 1080p MP4 in the shape of the placement you picked (9:16, 1:1, or 16:9), so it uploads directly to Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, or Google Ads without reformatting. A 9:16 ad also fits Stories.
Do you generate the ad copy too?
Yes. Describe what you sell, pick a call to action, and the Ad Maker writes the hook, the pitch, and the close for paid social. Prefer to write your own copy? Paste your script into Script to Video and the narrator reads your exact words. You can also draft copy separately in the video hook generator and paste the winning hook back in.
Can I upload my own product images?
Yes, and the Ad Maker needs them: add 1 to 5 real product photos. Product scenes show them exactly as they are, so the ad never invents your product. Founder-shot product photography, packshots, or a hero image from a shoot all work. To animate a single still into a 5 or 10 second clip instead, use Image to Video.
What aspect ratios can I export?
The placement sets it: 9:16 vertical for TikTok in-feed, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts; 1:1 square for the Facebook feed; 16:9 landscape for YouTube in-stream. Pick the placement before you generate so the framing and captions are built for it.
How many ads can I make per plan?
It depends on your credits. Plans give a monthly allowance: Lite $9 (450 credits), Solo $19 (1,000), Plus $29 (1,600), and Pro $49 (2,800). Packs add credits once and never expire: Spark ($9) is 400 credits, Boost ($19) is 900, Stack ($39) is 2,000, and Bulk ($79) is 4,500. An Ad Maker ad usually costs about 69 to 95 credits, and the app's cost preview shows the exact figure for the ad you're building before you hit generate. See MakeAIVideo plans and pricing.
Is there a watermark on the exports?
No. Every ad you export is a clean 1080p MP4, watermark-free and ready to upload straight to Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, or Google Ads. Watermark removal is not gated behind a higher tier.
Do you optimise for CTR or ROAS?
MakeAIVideo generates the creative; the auction and your audience decide performance. Pair the creative with the ROAS calculator and the CTR calculator to model outcomes before you scale spend, and A/B test hook variants inside your ad platform.
How does UGC-style ad creative work here?
The talking avatar mode lip-syncs an AI spokesperson to a natural voiceover of your ad script, with captions burned in. The presenter is AI-generated, not a real creator, so there is no actor likeness to license and the AI disclosure box on Meta or TikTok is honest to check. See the UGC video page.
Can I make Shopify product ads from my product photos?
Yes. Add 1 to 5 of your product page images as the product photos, describe the product, pick the placement and Shop now as the call to action. Product scenes show your photos as they are over real footage with a voiceover. To turn a single product image into a 5 or 10 second motion clip instead, use Image to Video.
Does MakeAIVideo connect to Shopify?
There is no Shopify app connection. Upload your product images directly, download the finished MP4 and upload it to Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager or a video section on your store.
How many test ads fit in the Lite plan?
An Ad Maker ad usually costs about 69 to 95 credits, so Lite's 450 monthly credits cover about four ads at the top of that range. That is enough for a first test. A store testing new hooks every week should look at Plus or Pro, or add a top-up pack in a heavy month. The app shows the exact cost before you generate. Compare MakeAIVideo plans and pricing.
Does Meta require me to label AI in an ad?
For ordinary product ads, Meta's ad standards contain no blanket ban on AI creative, and the self-disclosure requirement applies to social issue, election and political ads that contain photorealistic AI images, video or audio. Check the current policy before you run, and remember that a product claim still has to be true however the ad was made.
Can I make a restaurant ad from a photo of a dish?
Yes. Use the dish photo as the product photo in the Ad Maker for a narrated ad, or load it into Image to Video for a short motion clip with no voiceover. Staff and kitchen footage you film yourself is edited in a regular editor, because MakeAIVideo does not take your own clips.
Can I add my delivery-app offer to the ad?
Mention the offer when you describe what you sell, so the ad copy can work it in, or paste your own script into Script to Video for exact wording. On-screen overlays such as the delivery app's logo, a discount code bar and the expiry date are added afterwards in a regular editor.
What happens when I run out of credits?
Nothing is charged automatically and nothing is lost. Your account and finished videos stay exactly as they are. Buy another pack whenever you want to generate again.
Your next AI video ad, ready to upload
Plans from $9 a month, with a credit allowance that refreshes every billing month.