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5 min readA single AI-generated ad for a micro-learning app recently pulled 10 million impressions on Facebook. The app itself launched less than a year ago and is now doing over $15 million in annual revenue. Every single ad it has ever run was made with AI. This is not a hypothetical future — it is happening right now, and the people winning are not necessarily the best creatives. They are the ones who test the most.
Romain, co-founder of Arcads, a platform that has grown to $7 million in annual recurring revenue in 18 months, joined the podcast to explain exactly how these results happen. The conversation is a practical walkthrough of the mechanics, the psychology, and the automation behind AI-generated ads that actually work.
The two types of winning AI ads
Romain draws a clear spectrum. On one side, you have hyper-realistic AI user-generated content (UGC) — videos where an AI actor looks and sounds like a real person talking to camera. On the other side, you have unrealistic, scroll-stopping content: a talking gorilla, a Star Wars selfie, an unboxing video made entirely with generative video tools like VO3. Both can work, and the best performers test both.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Introduction & Episode Promise** - Greg introduces the topic: how people are making millions with AI-generated ads, and brings on Romain, co-founder of Arcads.
- 2 (01:29) **Live Demo: Arcads Platform Walkthrough** - Romain screenshares the Arcads interface, showing how to input a script and generate an AI UGC ad.
- 3 (05:28) **First Key Tip: Test Aggressively** - The most successful customers test hooks, actors, and situations relentlessly.
- 4 (07:44) **The Two Types of Winning AI Ads** - A spectrum from hyper-realistic UGC to unrealistic, scroll-stopping visuals (e.g., a talking gorilla).
- 5 (10:50) **Case Study: Codeway ($1M/mo in 9 months)** - A mobile app studio that launched an app using only AI-generated ads via Arcads.
- 6 (13:47) **Deep Dive: Remixing & Voice Customization** - How to iterate on a winning ad by changing hooks, actors, and accents.
- 7 (15:16) **Case Study: Micro-Learning Niche** - A trend of apps using AI actors to summarize books/topics, with ads getting 100k+ likes.
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Show Notes
Get my in-depth guide for creating scroll-stopping AI Ads with Arcads and Romain's Automations: https://www.gregisenberg.com/arcads
Join me as I chat with Romain Torres, founder of Arcads, about how businesses are using AI to create diverse ad content at scale, showing examples of companies making millions monthly through AI-generated ads. The conversation covers techniques for creating winning ads, automating workflows, and identifying profitable niches.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:29 - Demo of Arcads AI
05:19 - Importance of testing multiple ad variations
10:50 - Examples of Successful AI Ad Campaigns
22:42 - Using AI-generated content for organic TikTok growth
25:13 - Visual hooks and creating custom AI actors
29:46 - VO3 integration and extending AI-generated scenes
32:07 - Automating ad creation with Gumloop workflows
Create winning ads with AI and Arcads: https://www.arcads.ai/?via=community
Try arcads over here: https://arcads.ai/?via=community (i get a small affiliate fee if you use that link, support the channel if you think this product will work for you)
Key Points:
• AI-generated ads are enabling businesses to create high-volume, diverse creative content that would be prohibitively expensive with traditional methods
• Successful advertisers test multiple variations of ads (hooks, actors, situations) to find winning combinations
• Tools like Arcade AI allow for creation of realistic UGC-style content and more creative VO3 videos
• Automation workflows using tools like Gumloop can scrape winning content from platforms like TikTok and Reddit to inspire new ad creation
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