1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,759 And what we do with all of this, what we call like raw footage is 2 00:00:03,770 --> 00:00:08,350 we're able to sort of dynamically insert all of these things and turn 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:09,710 like, this is sort of my thesis. 4 00:00:09,915 --> 00:00:12,115 Like, how can you turn one ad into five? 5 00:00:12,415 --> 00:00:13,675 Um, and that was what we did. 6 00:00:13,685 --> 00:00:17,405 So rather than having all of these one off scripts from different people, different 7 00:00:17,435 --> 00:00:20,524 influencers, which again, Matt, that makes it incredibly difficult to test. 8 00:00:20,524 --> 00:00:23,075 How am I going to know that this worked better than this? 9 00:00:23,225 --> 00:00:25,295 Because it could be the person, it could be their delivery, it 10 00:00:25,295 --> 00:00:26,375 could be what they talked about. 11 00:00:26,575 --> 00:00:30,595 We wanted to just get raw footage of people saying these really, you know, 12 00:00:30,605 --> 00:00:32,345 awesome things that are still authentic. 13 00:00:32,615 --> 00:00:34,695 What they liked about what they didn't what problem it solved. 14 00:00:34,845 --> 00:00:37,735 And then we take all of that raw footage and with that raw footage, we're able 15 00:00:37,735 --> 00:00:41,635 to create, you know, 50 different ads from just, you know, to what would 16 00:00:41,635 --> 00:00:43,385 have been originally full videos. 17 00:00:48,460 --> 00:00:53,020 Welcome to the e commerce podcast with me, your host, Matt Edmundson. 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:58,760 The e commerce podcast is all about helping you deliver e commerce wow. 19 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:04,940 And to help us do just that, I am chatting with the beautiful, the amazing Amelia 20 00:01:04,940 --> 00:01:10,925 Coomber from Subsummit, oh yes, Amelia and I met at the Subsummit conference 21 00:01:10,925 --> 00:01:15,425 this year and so we hit it off and so it's great to have Amelia on the show, 22 00:01:15,435 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00:02:33,955 --> 00:02:34,735 Performance marketing. 48 00:02:34,735 --> 00:02:39,385 Amelia swapped her software engineering hat for the exciting world of startups. 49 00:02:39,595 --> 00:02:43,675 She's made a name for herself by supercharging early stage companies 50 00:02:43,885 --> 00:02:48,475 into profitable powerhouses with a knack for scaling growth, optimizing 51 00:02:48,475 --> 00:02:51,175 ad creative, and boosting efficiency. 52 00:02:51,445 --> 00:02:56,365 Amelia definitely brings the marketing magic, and that's why I'm 53 00:02:56,365 --> 00:02:57,805 so excited to have you on the show. 54 00:02:57,805 --> 00:02:58,735 Amelia, welcome. 55 00:02:58,735 --> 00:03:00,655 It's great to have you all the way. 56 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:03,070 From sunny New York, how are we doing? 57 00:03:04,060 --> 00:03:04,370 We're 58 00:03:04,430 --> 00:03:07,250 doing good, Matt, and, um, how are you doing? 59 00:03:07,250 --> 00:03:08,680 How's that eye of yours? 60 00:03:09,170 --> 00:03:09,420 Yeah, 61 00:03:12,030 --> 00:03:17,210 I was going to ask, have you ever had a podcast host punch you in the face? 62 00:03:17,270 --> 00:03:19,620 Because I think, I think I might have the first. 63 00:03:20,490 --> 00:03:24,240 You are, we should probably explain, uh, dear listener, that 64 00:03:24,260 --> 00:03:26,060 when, uh, I was at Sub Summit. 65 00:03:27,095 --> 00:03:29,985 This year, Amelia and I met up in the speaker's lounge cause you were 66 00:03:29,985 --> 00:03:31,155 speaking and I was speaking, right? 67 00:03:31,155 --> 00:03:32,685 And we, we got on. 68 00:03:32,685 --> 00:03:34,595 We, we, I thought we got on, actually. 69 00:03:34,595 --> 00:03:35,745 We had a great conversation. 70 00:03:35,745 --> 00:03:38,585 And then as you left, you punched me 71 00:03:39,325 --> 00:03:39,395 in the face. 72 00:03:39,705 --> 00:03:40,755 Oh, let me give you a hug. 73 00:03:40,945 --> 00:03:44,810 Not a handshake. 74 00:03:46,690 --> 00:03:47,960 It was very funny. 75 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,610 So it is the first time that anyone has punched me in the face. 76 00:03:50,890 --> 00:03:53,660 I think my eye is just about recovered now, so we're okay. 77 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:53,880 Good, good. 78 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:54,620 It looks great. 79 00:03:54,620 --> 00:03:55,490 You look great, so. 80 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:00,190 It's all about these moments. 81 00:04:00,220 --> 00:04:03,530 Sadaf, who's the show producer at Aurion Media, we were talking about 82 00:04:03,530 --> 00:04:08,300 Sadaf before we hit the record button, she saw your email where you sent to 83 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:09,450 me an email saying, how's your eye? 84 00:04:09,460 --> 00:04:13,290 And Sadaf's like, I need to meet this lady that punched you in the face. 85 00:04:13,330 --> 00:04:14,380 That's awesome. 86 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,550 She's like, I've been wanting to do that for a very long 87 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:20,330 time. 88 00:04:20,950 --> 00:04:22,850 That was for her, that was for her. 89 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,710 Yeah, she called you ahead of time, right? 90 00:04:24,750 --> 00:04:27,370 And said, favour, you'll get away with it. 91 00:04:29,940 --> 00:04:32,470 So, how was Sub Summit for you, did you enjoy it? 92 00:04:33,185 --> 00:04:34,135 Oh, it was awesome. 93 00:04:34,155 --> 00:04:37,635 Honestly, really one of my favorite conferences I've been to. 94 00:04:37,635 --> 00:04:40,795 I mean, the people that were there, just amazing. 95 00:04:40,985 --> 00:04:42,055 It was a huge one, too. 96 00:04:42,055 --> 00:04:45,275 I've been to a lot of smaller conferences, but the caliber of people, 97 00:04:45,275 --> 00:04:48,695 the amount of them, just the whole thing was really, really awesome. 98 00:04:48,945 --> 00:04:52,505 I'd never been to Dallas either, and I don't know if I'll go back anytime 99 00:04:52,655 --> 00:04:56,605 soon, but like, just the entire event was absolutely spectacular. 100 00:04:56,890 --> 00:05:01,570 Yeah, no, I, I, I, like you, I was, I, it was a lot bigger than I was expecting it 101 00:05:01,570 --> 00:05:07,250 to be, um, and met so many great people there, uh, but really, really enjoyed 102 00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:11,590 myself, and so, um, it's definitely not the first time for me I've been to Dallas. 103 00:05:11,590 --> 00:05:14,490 I have friends there, so it's like the third or fourth time I've been to 104 00:05:14,490 --> 00:05:15,820 Dallas, I think, something like that. 105 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,960 Um, but yeah, just, just love the conference. 106 00:05:18,970 --> 00:05:21,060 Can I ask, what was the standout point for you? 107 00:05:22,110 --> 00:05:22,360 Oh, 108 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:23,600 that's such a good question. 109 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,520 Um, let's see. 110 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:31,610 Honestly, I mean, so the panel that I was on was with, um, a couple founders, um, 111 00:05:31,620 --> 00:05:35,570 one of them was the founder of August, which is like a period sexual wellness 112 00:05:35,570 --> 00:05:39,880 company, and then the other one, um, is called Plate Crate, and, and Josh was the 113 00:05:39,890 --> 00:05:43,930 CEO there, and I, you know, I, I went into this panel being like, oh, I'm gonna share 114 00:05:43,930 --> 00:05:48,215 my, you know, like, ad creative techniques and this and that, I swear to God, I 115 00:05:48,225 --> 00:05:52,235 spoke, like, for two seconds, because the entire time I'm up there, sitting with 116 00:05:52,235 --> 00:05:56,795 them, and they are just, like, dropping these, like, incredibly insightful 117 00:05:56,795 --> 00:05:58,785 nuggets, like, again and again and again. 118 00:05:58,805 --> 00:06:01,935 I couldn't even, like, like, I didn't have anything else to add. 119 00:06:01,945 --> 00:06:05,685 I, I was literally sitting there, and at one point, um, they were saying something, 120 00:06:05,685 --> 00:06:08,415 and I just went, like, mic drop, like, that's it, like, you guys don't need 121 00:06:08,415 --> 00:06:09,935 to do anything else, we can all stop. 122 00:06:09,935 --> 00:06:10,915 So, I, I honestly... 123 00:06:11,245 --> 00:06:14,795 Despite the fact that, like, this was a panel I was gonna be on, I, I 124 00:06:14,835 --> 00:06:17,515 literally emailed them after, and I was like, I think I got way more from 125 00:06:17,515 --> 00:06:18,845 that than anybody in the audience. 126 00:06:18,845 --> 00:06:19,795 It was just so incredible. 127 00:06:19,805 --> 00:06:20,785 So that was a big highlight. 128 00:06:20,935 --> 00:06:24,305 Obviously, the dinners and the, you know, the meeting and the networking and stuff 129 00:06:24,305 --> 00:06:28,705 was amazing, and all the events were great, but, uh, I, I was just blown away. 130 00:06:28,705 --> 00:06:31,585 I, I was like, I don't even deserve to be sitting here with these incredible people. 131 00:06:31,585 --> 00:06:33,295 I'm just taking it all in. 132 00:06:33,945 --> 00:06:35,745 Oh, you totally deserve to be there. 133 00:06:35,985 --> 00:06:40,645 How did they, um, how did you and Subsummit sort of make that connection? 134 00:06:40,645 --> 00:06:41,825 How did, were you invited? 135 00:06:41,835 --> 00:06:43,205 Did you contact them to speak? 136 00:06:43,205 --> 00:06:43,935 How did that work out? 137 00:06:44,935 --> 00:06:50,025 Yeah, so a good friend of mine, Jay, who, um, we spoke, or we met at a conference 138 00:06:50,025 --> 00:06:53,625 called Media Post like a year ago, and he was a speaker there, I, I just got 139 00:06:53,625 --> 00:06:57,005 back from that conference speaking again about like the ad creative and stuff, 140 00:06:57,005 --> 00:07:02,070 but we met there, he, uh, used to be the uh, CMO of Wink and we're the same age. 141 00:07:02,070 --> 00:07:06,070 So incredible, just like, you know, 27 year old that kills it, 142 00:07:06,070 --> 00:07:07,380 you know, publicly traded company. 143 00:07:07,670 --> 00:07:10,070 Um, and he left to go start his own company called the starters, 144 00:07:10,070 --> 00:07:13,490 which is basically like, you know, a new generation of like finding 145 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:15,070 freelancers for growth marketing. 146 00:07:15,270 --> 00:07:18,200 Um, and so he was talking to me about how he was going to this conference and 147 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,220 he had mentioned that they are looking to fill a couple of spots on the panels. 148 00:07:21,610 --> 00:07:23,460 Um, and I was like, let's go count me in. 149 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,220 I'll be there. 150 00:07:25,295 --> 00:07:25,745 I'm there. 151 00:07:26,395 --> 00:07:27,215 No, great. 152 00:07:27,235 --> 00:07:27,595 Great. 153 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:28,795 I thought it was brilliant. 154 00:07:28,795 --> 00:07:29,705 I thought you were great. 155 00:07:29,705 --> 00:07:32,155 And um, it was, it was genuinely great to meet you. 156 00:07:32,475 --> 00:07:36,335 And I have to be honest with you, Amelia, I have not met that many people on the 157 00:07:36,335 --> 00:07:43,420 planet That have just the sheer passion and enjoyment for ad creative as you. 158 00:07:43,810 --> 00:07:46,680 I mean, just the energy that comes out of you when you talk about 159 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:48,150 these things is quite extraordinary. 160 00:07:49,610 --> 00:07:50,340 Thank you, thank you. 161 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:53,320 I'm actually, I've been told more than once to tone it down, 162 00:07:55,830 --> 00:07:56,042 but I can't. 163 00:07:56,042 --> 00:07:56,570 No, don't do that. 164 00:07:56,570 --> 00:07:57,680 That's part of the magic. 165 00:07:57,890 --> 00:07:59,190 Yeah, I hope so. 166 00:07:59,190 --> 00:08:00,050 I agree, I agree. 167 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,300 Uh, but no, I mean, I mean, ad creative is, is, is really just one of those 168 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:06,590 last, you know, levers that you can pull in performance marketing. 169 00:08:06,590 --> 00:08:09,860 And I think, uh, you know, there's no more targeting as granularly anymore. 170 00:08:09,860 --> 00:08:11,290 All of that sort of stuff has gone away. 171 00:08:11,290 --> 00:08:15,130 And I think, um, you know, especially with TikTok and stuff, it, the ad 172 00:08:15,130 --> 00:08:18,795 creative space and Creating good, you know, video ad creative is actually 173 00:08:18,795 --> 00:08:22,645 so much easier because you don't need to spend 15, 000 to hire models 174 00:08:22,645 --> 00:08:23,845 and, you know, do this big shoot. 175 00:08:23,845 --> 00:08:26,315 It's actually the opposite, you know, the best ads perform when you're 176 00:08:26,315 --> 00:08:29,745 literally like holding your phone up and talking to them and, you know, having 177 00:08:29,745 --> 00:08:31,495 influencers give a genuine testimonial. 178 00:08:31,515 --> 00:08:35,275 So, um, I think that, you know, we're still in this, you know, time 179 00:08:35,275 --> 00:08:38,145 where people, and especially like brand marketers are just trying 180 00:08:38,145 --> 00:08:39,495 to wrap their mind around that. 181 00:08:39,830 --> 00:08:43,310 Um, but it ends up like opening just the ability to really scale 182 00:08:43,310 --> 00:08:46,740 that, um, and, and, you know, create better ads that perform, you 183 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:48,590 know, so much better, um, easier. 184 00:08:49,340 --> 00:08:52,050 So what have you learned then in this space in the, in, in recent 185 00:08:52,050 --> 00:08:53,250 months that's going to help us? 186 00:08:53,390 --> 00:08:54,960 It's a bit of an open ended question, but it 187 00:08:55,890 --> 00:08:56,110 goes. 188 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:57,810 I have all the answers. 189 00:08:57,810 --> 00:08:58,080 No. 190 00:08:58,110 --> 00:09:00,590 Um, I mean, one of the, one of the things that I did at PetPlate, 191 00:09:00,590 --> 00:09:03,110 and again, I just came back from a conference and I, and I talked about 192 00:09:03,110 --> 00:09:06,040 this like modular ad creative system, but I, you know, as Matt mentioned, 193 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,250 I'm super passionate about that. 194 00:09:07,470 --> 00:09:10,765 Um, you know, UGC is, is so critical. 195 00:09:10,765 --> 00:09:13,545 I think everybody on the, you know, DTC Twitter space is talking about 196 00:09:13,545 --> 00:09:15,395 how UGC is dead and yada yada. 197 00:09:15,395 --> 00:09:17,465 Um, and, and I, and I agree with that to a certain extent. 198 00:09:17,465 --> 00:09:20,305 I think, like, just getting a bunch of influencers, um, having them 199 00:09:20,305 --> 00:09:23,215 create content and then expecting it to perform, that is dead. 200 00:09:23,215 --> 00:09:26,775 People are very aware that, like, if somebody's talking about a product, 201 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:29,095 it's probably sponsored, they're probably being paid for it, and so 202 00:09:29,095 --> 00:09:33,175 I think that the genuinity of it, if that's the word, um, is sort of lost. 203 00:09:33,380 --> 00:09:38,520 But at the same time, really the thing is, you know, why UGC still performs 204 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,800 and has always performed is it's, it's a third party nature of somebody 205 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,010 that isn't the company telling you why this product solved a problem in 206 00:09:45,030 --> 00:09:46,960 their life and was great for them. 207 00:09:46,990 --> 00:09:51,900 And so from that perspective, like UGC is never gonna, you know, go away. 208 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:52,770 It's always been that way. 209 00:09:52,770 --> 00:09:55,960 Word of Mouth is one of the Best, you know, like, marketing channels, right, 210 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,820 that you can have, one of the best ways to, um, you know, acquire new customers, 211 00:09:59,820 --> 00:10:05,030 and I think if you do UGC right, that's, that's what it is, um, but from a video ad 212 00:10:05,030 --> 00:10:09,180 creative standpoint, it can be incredibly difficult to turn out, like, new video 213 00:10:09,180 --> 00:10:12,240 ad creative that's gonna perform, and, um, you know, at PetPlate, I don't 214 00:10:12,260 --> 00:10:16,715 even waste time with static images I um, like some people, especially right 215 00:10:16,715 --> 00:10:18,235 now, they say that they can perform. 216 00:10:18,295 --> 00:10:19,525 And I don't disagree with that. 217 00:10:19,755 --> 00:10:23,845 Um, but when you add motion, when you add animation, when you add, you know, 218 00:10:23,845 --> 00:10:28,155 like just, just different transitions and stuff to even a static image, um, you're 219 00:10:28,155 --> 00:10:30,965 going to, it's going to perform so much better than like a blank static image. 220 00:10:30,975 --> 00:10:34,985 So I say that because one of the things that we did, and I've learned 221 00:10:34,995 --> 00:10:39,525 over the last, you know, almost two years now at PetPlay, um, is that 222 00:10:39,535 --> 00:10:45,105 there's a way to unlock the ability Ability to create hundreds, thousands 223 00:10:45,145 --> 00:10:50,465 of different ad creative UGC style videos from very, very little content. 224 00:10:50,735 --> 00:10:54,145 Um, and that's one of the things that when I work with various brands and 225 00:10:54,145 --> 00:10:57,715 stuff, they struggle with is how do we get new content, how do we continue, 226 00:10:57,715 --> 00:10:59,525 because ad fatigue is so real. 227 00:10:59,525 --> 00:11:02,275 And again, when you're looking at paid media and performance marketing, 228 00:11:02,275 --> 00:11:04,965 especially on the Facebooks and the TikToks, like that is one of 229 00:11:04,965 --> 00:11:07,415 the last levers you can control to really improve performance. 230 00:11:07,670 --> 00:11:10,250 But like, you know, you'll run an ad for two weeks, it'll kill it. 231 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:11,100 And then it'll stop. 232 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,430 And so, you know, so many companies, they're waiting for those ads to 233 00:11:14,460 --> 00:11:17,460 underperform and then they have to go start from scratch and create new ones. 234 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,500 And I needed our team to make sure that that wasn't the case. 235 00:11:20,790 --> 00:11:24,510 Um, and so rather than again, having a bunch of influencers that we handed 236 00:11:24,510 --> 00:11:29,270 scripts and they created these ads, um, we narrowed our influencers down 237 00:11:29,270 --> 00:11:31,240 to three from like literally 18. 238 00:11:31,460 --> 00:11:35,090 Um, and what I did instead of giving them a script and being like, recite 239 00:11:35,090 --> 00:11:37,240 these lines, blah, blah, blah, blah, was. 240 00:11:37,370 --> 00:11:41,850 I needed them to look and to sort of give me talking points, different 241 00:11:41,850 --> 00:11:46,390 clips and stuff of them talking about the problem it solved, the solution, 242 00:11:46,390 --> 00:11:47,950 why they liked it, yada, yada. 243 00:11:47,950 --> 00:11:51,710 And what we do with all of this, what we call like raw footage is 244 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,300 we're able to sort of dynamically insert all of these things and turn 245 00:11:56,470 --> 00:11:57,660 like, this is sort of my thesis. 246 00:11:57,865 --> 00:12:00,065 Like, how can you turn one ad into five? 247 00:12:00,365 --> 00:12:01,625 Um, and that was what we did. 248 00:12:01,635 --> 00:12:05,355 So rather than having all of these one off scripts from different people, different 249 00:12:05,385 --> 00:12:08,475 influencers, which again, Matt, that makes it incredibly difficult to test. 250 00:12:08,475 --> 00:12:11,025 How am I going to know that this worked better than this? 251 00:12:11,175 --> 00:12:13,245 Because it could be the person, it could be their delivery, it 252 00:12:13,245 --> 00:12:14,325 could be what they talked about. 253 00:12:14,525 --> 00:12:18,545 We wanted to just get raw footage of people saying these really, you know, 254 00:12:18,555 --> 00:12:20,295 awesome things that are still authentic. 255 00:12:20,565 --> 00:12:22,645 What they liked about what they didn't what problem it solved. 256 00:12:22,795 --> 00:12:25,685 And then we take all of that raw footage and with that raw footage, we're able 257 00:12:25,685 --> 00:12:29,585 to create, you know, 50 different ads from just, you know, to what would 258 00:12:29,585 --> 00:12:31,335 have been originally full videos. 259 00:12:31,675 --> 00:12:34,975 Um, so yeah, we, we really worked on this system. 260 00:12:34,975 --> 00:12:37,885 It took a couple of key things, obviously having a media buyer in house. 261 00:12:38,105 --> 00:12:41,205 Um, but the biggest thing was having a video editor that we could lean on and. 262 00:12:41,205 --> 00:12:44,275 So, you know, whether it's changing out different hooks, whether it's different 263 00:12:44,305 --> 00:12:47,355 text overlays, different transitions and stuff, all of these things, 264 00:12:47,355 --> 00:12:50,965 the raw footage, plus the different editing styles on top, you can create 265 00:12:51,005 --> 00:12:53,125 thousands of unique combinations of ads. 266 00:12:53,145 --> 00:12:55,005 And that's how we've unlocked performance. 267 00:12:55,005 --> 00:12:58,125 And, and again, made it really, really easy for ourselves because we don't 268 00:12:58,125 --> 00:12:59,895 need to work with 10, 000 influencers. 269 00:12:59,895 --> 00:13:01,455 We don't need raw footage every week. 270 00:13:01,655 --> 00:13:04,795 Um, we really, honestly, like I shoot with a couple influencers like 271 00:13:04,805 --> 00:13:08,275 every quarter and that will set us up for, you know, the next 10 weeks. 272 00:13:08,875 --> 00:13:12,845 Wow, okay, there's a lot there, Amelia. 273 00:13:15,775 --> 00:13:19,815 So you talk about this, um, modular ad creative system, and 274 00:13:19,815 --> 00:13:20,765 so I get what you're saying. 275 00:13:21,165 --> 00:13:24,835 So you get this, uh, you get this video from an influencer. 276 00:13:24,875 --> 00:13:28,425 You can slice and dice it, and you can mix that then with animations, 277 00:13:28,425 --> 00:13:31,315 overlays, and all kinds of things, different music, to creatives. 278 00:13:34,225 --> 00:13:36,025 Do you give the influencers... 279 00:13:36,335 --> 00:13:39,475 Any kind of a steer on, I mean, I know you don't give them scripts, but 280 00:13:39,495 --> 00:13:43,265 do you give them these story points, these talking points to, to hit? 281 00:13:43,825 --> 00:13:44,555 Yeah, we will. 282 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:46,445 I usually, and this is really, really important. 283 00:13:46,465 --> 00:13:48,235 We don't work with an influencer that hasn't tried the 284 00:13:48,235 --> 00:13:49,615 product or I don't talk with. 285 00:13:49,625 --> 00:13:52,905 So, um, and, and that's why it's really important to narrow them down 286 00:13:52,905 --> 00:13:55,955 because I can't jump on the 30 minute calls with 1000 of them, you know? 287 00:13:56,225 --> 00:13:58,755 Um, so the few that we work with, I'll jump on a call with them. 288 00:13:58,945 --> 00:14:02,365 Um, we'll have them fill out a form and that form, because PetPlate, human grade. 289 00:14:02,575 --> 00:14:06,225 Fresh dog food, like literally humans can eat it, like it's, it's made in human 290 00:14:06,225 --> 00:14:09,605 grade facilities, um, and then there's, you know, a lot of studies about how 291 00:14:09,605 --> 00:14:12,955 that's, you know, so important for dogs and longevity and stuff compared to like 292 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:16,915 just feed grade conventional kibble, um, so all, the first thing that I'll do 293 00:14:16,915 --> 00:14:20,275 before I even give them any talking points is really ask them about their story. 294 00:14:20,275 --> 00:14:21,975 What were the problems their dog used to have? 295 00:14:21,975 --> 00:14:23,425 Why did they switch over to PetPlate? 296 00:14:23,575 --> 00:14:25,815 Did they try other human grade dog food brands? 297 00:14:25,815 --> 00:14:26,475 What did they like? 298 00:14:26,475 --> 00:14:27,555 What did they not like? 299 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:29,225 And then what did they like about PetPlate? 300 00:14:29,245 --> 00:14:33,055 So we try to give them talking points in the sense that we know. 301 00:14:33,055 --> 00:14:36,564 a way to phrase something that's gonna perform well, I think so again, it's 302 00:14:36,564 --> 00:14:39,984 not necessarily like a one off script, we might help them curate some of 303 00:14:39,984 --> 00:14:42,874 those talking points, but there's a bunch of different buckets, whether 304 00:14:42,874 --> 00:14:45,514 they fed their dog, they still feed their dog kibble, whether they cook for 305 00:14:45,514 --> 00:14:49,254 their dog, whether their dog had this problem, that once we identify that, 306 00:14:49,284 --> 00:14:52,594 after talking with them, we're able to sort of craft, alright, here's, here's 307 00:14:52,594 --> 00:14:56,164 what's going to work best from a, like, talking into the camera standpoint. 308 00:14:57,184 --> 00:15:02,359 So the, when the, You give them a talking point and you give them 309 00:15:02,359 --> 00:15:04,999 sort of specific ideas because you know that's going to work well. 310 00:15:04,999 --> 00:15:07,529 So you're going to hit different angles, which is, uh, which is great. 311 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:10,759 They're recording that themselves, or are you bringing them into 312 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:12,569 the building to record that? 313 00:15:12,569 --> 00:15:13,499 How does that work? 314 00:15:14,124 --> 00:15:17,314 It's a little bit of both, so if we have a couple influencers that we work with 315 00:15:17,314 --> 00:15:20,404 very, very closely, they happen to be in New York, we did that very purposely 316 00:15:20,404 --> 00:15:23,534 so that we can have them come into, and it's not even a studio, like we might 317 00:15:23,544 --> 00:15:27,104 have them come into our office and stuff like that, um, so we do do that, and 318 00:15:27,104 --> 00:15:30,514 I'll sort of like feed them lines, again, all based on their authentic experience, 319 00:15:30,524 --> 00:15:34,014 we'll let them sort of improv a couple things, um, but other times, again, 320 00:15:34,014 --> 00:15:37,324 because we work closely with them, even if they're not coming into the studio, we 321 00:15:37,324 --> 00:15:38,894 will just give them those talking points. 322 00:15:39,134 --> 00:15:42,464 Um, and, and it can still look like a script, you know, like, Oh, hey, I 323 00:15:42,464 --> 00:15:45,174 want you to hit this, this, this thing, what you like about it, what you don't. 324 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:47,614 Um, what would the, you know, the solution and the problem was, what 325 00:15:47,614 --> 00:15:50,364 the, you know, the features and the benefits of PetPlate are, were, you 326 00:15:50,364 --> 00:15:53,394 know, pre portioned, it comes in these great little containers that are 327 00:15:53,394 --> 00:15:56,614 resealable, they're not messy, you can stack them in your fridge really easily. 328 00:15:56,824 --> 00:15:59,704 Um, so we give them all those things, and it might look like a script, 329 00:15:59,814 --> 00:16:04,684 but the one thing we don't do is we don't, like, make that into one ad. 330 00:16:04,684 --> 00:16:08,739 I think that's sort of the difference, is that, again, All of those things can be 331 00:16:08,789 --> 00:16:14,159 individually, as you said, sort of sliced and diced, um, and used in any other ad. 332 00:16:14,169 --> 00:16:16,939 So we'll have a bunch of different people, sort of like those, you know, 333 00:16:16,939 --> 00:16:21,239 testimonial mute, I call them like UGC mashups, but they each, each like 334 00:16:21,269 --> 00:16:24,969 talking point that can be like, you know, anywhere from five to 15 seconds 335 00:16:25,239 --> 00:16:30,579 can be isolated and can live across so many other different, um, or across 336 00:16:30,599 --> 00:16:32,119 other different talking points and stuff. 337 00:16:32,119 --> 00:16:35,299 So it's a script in the sense that we are feeding them, Hey, this is 338 00:16:35,299 --> 00:16:36,599 how this works, or this is what we. 339 00:16:36,679 --> 00:16:39,979 They perform best, again, they can, we, we try not to be rigid, they can, 340 00:16:39,989 --> 00:16:42,829 we want them to be as authentic, if they mess up, like, that's even better, 341 00:16:42,829 --> 00:16:45,639 we really want it to feel like they literally got PetPlate and they were 342 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:50,229 like, this shit is awesome, um, but we also aren't gonna just make that into 343 00:16:50,229 --> 00:16:52,289 one video and be like, oh, one and done. 344 00:16:52,864 --> 00:16:59,104 Yeah, so the, you mentioned then, uh, that you get them to talk between 345 00:16:59,114 --> 00:17:02,384 5 and 15 seconds per sort of sound, I'm going to call them soundbites. 346 00:17:03,124 --> 00:17:04,334 Soundbites Yeah, yeah. 347 00:17:04,334 --> 00:17:07,614 So each soundbite is, is like 5 to 15 seconds. 348 00:17:08,144 --> 00:17:13,314 Um, it's kind of problem solution oriented, um, and, uh, you know, it 349 00:17:13,334 --> 00:17:14,854 can sort of stand alone on its own. 350 00:17:16,614 --> 00:17:18,094 Why 5 to 15 seconds? 351 00:17:18,094 --> 00:17:21,094 Is it a case of we need these things to be short and snappy? 352 00:17:21,654 --> 00:17:22,034 It is. 353 00:17:22,074 --> 00:17:23,174 I definitely think so. 354 00:17:23,174 --> 00:17:25,664 And I think that goes back to like a whole different thing, you know. 355 00:17:25,964 --> 00:17:28,654 Meta really pushes like short form video performs the best 356 00:17:28,654 --> 00:17:29,834 especially in the world of TikTok. 357 00:17:30,024 --> 00:17:31,064 And that's true, right? 358 00:17:31,064 --> 00:17:35,144 Like, I think probably like, you know, nine out of ten times a shorter, 359 00:17:35,154 --> 00:17:38,519 you know, a, a, 50, 30 second video is going to perform better than 360 00:17:38,529 --> 00:17:39,859 like a one and a half minute video. 361 00:17:40,189 --> 00:17:42,519 We still, we don't focus on that though. 362 00:17:42,549 --> 00:17:43,709 The length doesn't matter. 363 00:17:43,709 --> 00:17:47,289 I think the beginning of an ad video is the most important. 364 00:17:47,299 --> 00:17:50,959 And that's where like, we make, and that's again why it's important for us to control 365 00:17:50,959 --> 00:17:54,069 like how we're editing and how, you know, all of these talking points are flowing. 366 00:17:54,299 --> 00:17:57,749 But our goal is to make sure that Everything we want somebody to 367 00:17:57,749 --> 00:18:01,149 know about PetPlate happens in the first 15 seconds of an ad, right? 368 00:18:01,149 --> 00:18:04,549 Like, it's human grade, it's pre, um, you know, pre portioned cups, they're 369 00:18:04,549 --> 00:18:08,029 microwavable, you can stack them, they're easy, um, it helped, you know, we'll 370 00:18:08,029 --> 00:18:11,169 talk about, they'll talk about how it, you know, helped their dog or whatever. 371 00:18:11,269 --> 00:18:14,899 We make sure anything that the user is listening to, if they don't watch 372 00:18:14,899 --> 00:18:18,989 more than 15 seconds, they're still gonna leave that video and know what 373 00:18:19,039 --> 00:18:21,759 PetPlate is and know the important things that they're supposed to remember. 374 00:18:21,944 --> 00:18:23,434 The rest of it is just great. 375 00:18:23,464 --> 00:18:27,244 If we can get somebody to watch the remaining, like, you know, one minute 376 00:18:27,274 --> 00:18:30,524 of the video, that's even better, but we don't prioritize length 377 00:18:30,524 --> 00:18:32,524 necessarily, or, or it being shorter. 378 00:18:32,524 --> 00:18:36,014 We just make sure that the most important things, the things we want 379 00:18:36,024 --> 00:18:37,924 somebody to walk away with are in those. 380 00:18:37,954 --> 00:18:40,864 15 seconds, and then if they watch the rest of the video, that's 381 00:18:40,864 --> 00:18:43,244 even better, and that, again, can be more authentic and stuff. 382 00:18:43,244 --> 00:18:47,444 So, our highest performing videos are literally a minute and 30 seconds, and 383 00:18:47,454 --> 00:18:51,044 we worked with some Facebook reps, and they were like, Ah, you guys are really, 384 00:18:51,044 --> 00:18:54,134 you know, not really following best practices here, and we sort of went 385 00:18:54,134 --> 00:18:57,364 back and forth with her, and she was like, Oh, like, but they're working, 386 00:18:57,374 --> 00:18:58,844 so, you know, don't change anything. 387 00:18:58,884 --> 00:19:00,004 Like, I think it really depends. 388 00:19:00,044 --> 00:19:04,694 Again, like, we're not, it's not some long, drawn out, like, oh, my dog was 389 00:19:04,724 --> 00:19:07,934 this and that, and, you know, like, we, we make sure it's, like, short, snappy, and 390 00:19:07,934 --> 00:19:11,304 to the point at the beginning, and then everything else is just added benefit. 391 00:19:11,824 --> 00:19:12,214 Yeah. 392 00:19:12,754 --> 00:19:13,014 Wow. 393 00:19:13,014 --> 00:19:15,734 I mean, so in the first 15 seconds, you're trying to 394 00:19:15,734 --> 00:19:17,444 communicate a whole bunch of stuff. 395 00:19:17,454 --> 00:19:23,774 Are you using, um, a lot of fast edits at this point, or is this actually a sort of 396 00:19:23,774 --> 00:19:27,164 like an opening script from the implement, not script is the wrong word, but it's 397 00:19:27,164 --> 00:19:30,524 a sort of an, in this opening soundbite, you need to say X, Y, and Z, right? 398 00:19:30,764 --> 00:19:34,034 These four things, hit them, and you need to do it in, in, in like 15 seconds. 399 00:19:34,714 --> 00:19:38,154 Yeah, well, again, like, so, like, so our highest performing ad, it really 400 00:19:38,154 --> 00:19:40,514 starts out with, like, I was watching Shark Tank, and I came across this 401 00:19:40,524 --> 00:19:44,394 awesome guy and a super cute dog, and they started this human grade dog food 402 00:19:44,394 --> 00:19:47,384 company, and they sort of, like, look confused, and, you know, I had to try 403 00:19:47,384 --> 00:19:50,674 it out, and yadda yadda yadda, and then they sort of, you know, that's the first, 404 00:19:50,674 --> 00:19:53,224 like, five seconds of it, and then they jump into, like, one of the best things 405 00:19:53,224 --> 00:19:56,999 about it is that it doesn't make a mess in my fridge, it's not Um, and you know, 406 00:19:56,999 --> 00:20:00,719 I've seen huge improvements in my dog's poop or you know, stuff like, almost 407 00:20:00,719 --> 00:20:03,039 like visceral stuff like that, right, that sort of grabs your attention. 408 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:06,759 Um, but again, I don't need that influencer to say that in the first 409 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:10,509 15 seconds of whatever they're giving me, because since we own all that raw 410 00:20:10,509 --> 00:20:14,189 footage, they can say that in, you know, the, the 60 seconds of their, you know, 411 00:20:14,189 --> 00:20:15,659 long form video that they're sending us. 412 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:18,259 We chop it up and we just make sure that those parts that 413 00:20:18,259 --> 00:20:19,559 we want are in the beginning. 414 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:24,069 Um, and so, Well, also, especially, this happens especially when we're in studio, 415 00:20:24,299 --> 00:20:27,729 in office, when we're recording with these influencers, I'll have them say, 416 00:20:27,729 --> 00:20:30,689 like, those lines, they'll, they'll land on a line, whether it's like, hey, I was 417 00:20:30,689 --> 00:20:33,639 watching Shark Tank, and I'll have them say that a couple times, and they'll 418 00:20:33,639 --> 00:20:36,919 use different inflections at the end, right, so that it's So, it's easy to 419 00:20:36,919 --> 00:20:40,869 parse those things and sort of move them in a modular way into whatever part of 420 00:20:40,869 --> 00:20:45,339 the, you know, full video I want, but it doesn't sound like it's super scripted. 421 00:20:45,349 --> 00:20:48,089 You know, you can tell when something, if somebody was ending on a high note 422 00:20:48,089 --> 00:20:50,939 and they were about to continue to something else, so I'll have them sort 423 00:20:50,939 --> 00:20:54,619 of recite those lines a couple times so that we're able to integrate them into 424 00:20:54,619 --> 00:20:56,799 whatever portion of the video we want. 425 00:20:57,809 --> 00:20:58,169 Wow. 426 00:20:58,789 --> 00:21:04,339 So, How long do you guys spend, um, creating these videos? 427 00:21:04,669 --> 00:21:08,669 Because it sounds to me like the recording process is pretty slick. 428 00:21:08,699 --> 00:21:10,529 As in, these are the kind of things that I want. 429 00:21:10,529 --> 00:21:13,539 It's going to take you maybe an hour to record, uh, the whole thing. 430 00:21:13,539 --> 00:21:14,609 Maybe two, I don't know. 431 00:21:14,689 --> 00:21:15,879 Uh, Amelia, correct me if I'm wrong. 432 00:21:16,479 --> 00:21:20,219 But the editing process sounds like this is going to take a wee while. 433 00:21:21,199 --> 00:21:21,559 As they say. 434 00:21:21,559 --> 00:21:22,139 It can. 435 00:21:22,369 --> 00:21:22,919 It can. 436 00:21:22,919 --> 00:21:26,499 I, I think, um, again, that's the power of an in house video editor. 437 00:21:26,499 --> 00:21:29,059 It's so funny talking to all these brands, because every 438 00:21:29,059 --> 00:21:30,399 brand has a graphic designer. 439 00:21:30,429 --> 00:21:32,149 They might have a team of graphic designers. 440 00:21:32,159 --> 00:21:35,689 You can't have a brand without having somebody doing the design, right? 441 00:21:35,689 --> 00:21:36,929 Like, that's just, everybody knows that. 442 00:21:36,959 --> 00:21:39,429 Unless you're a founder, and you're super, super early stage, and 443 00:21:39,429 --> 00:21:40,349 you're gonna do all the design. 444 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:42,059 Design and the visual aspects of it. 445 00:21:42,244 --> 00:21:44,824 Anything marketing wise and brand wise are important. 446 00:21:45,064 --> 00:21:47,614 And so when I talk to these brands and they don't have an in house video 447 00:21:47,614 --> 00:21:51,704 editor, I'm like, I'm just flabbergasted because we live in a world of video. 448 00:21:51,704 --> 00:21:55,024 And so one of the first things I did with PetPlate when, when I was sort of moving 449 00:21:55,024 --> 00:21:56,954 in from let's bring the team in house. 450 00:21:56,964 --> 00:22:00,394 So paid media, all that growth stuff, um, was I made sure we 451 00:22:00,394 --> 00:22:01,744 hired an in house video editor. 452 00:22:01,914 --> 00:22:04,144 Um, and this guy is, he's an incredible. 453 00:22:05,319 --> 00:22:06,939 He's young, he's hungry. 454 00:22:06,939 --> 00:22:08,189 He's like, you know, a Gen Z. 455 00:22:08,189 --> 00:22:11,549 So he gets the transitions and the TikTok style and sort of the low 456 00:22:11,549 --> 00:22:12,899 fidelity is what I like to call it. 457 00:22:13,099 --> 00:22:16,449 Um, but I can hand him and, and we'll do it all in one take, right? 458 00:22:16,489 --> 00:22:16,699 Right. 459 00:22:16,739 --> 00:22:17,659 I set up my camera. 460 00:22:17,659 --> 00:22:20,179 If I'm working with an influencer and I'll read them these scripts, 461 00:22:20,179 --> 00:22:22,859 they'll, they'll start sort of going off on their own and stuff, but it's 462 00:22:22,879 --> 00:22:25,039 one long 15 minute video, right? 463 00:22:25,049 --> 00:22:26,449 Of me being like, Oh, that was great. 464 00:22:26,449 --> 00:22:27,069 Say that again. 465 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:28,179 I'll hand him that stuff. 466 00:22:28,239 --> 00:22:29,379 He'll start chopping it up. 467 00:22:29,409 --> 00:22:31,409 And when you have a good video editor. 468 00:22:31,664 --> 00:22:33,734 They can whip through this stuff so fast. 469 00:22:33,744 --> 00:22:37,444 If I hand him a 50 minute, you know, video of just like, again, it's, 470 00:22:37,464 --> 00:22:40,504 it's gonna have 20 different raw clips that we can pull out of it. 471 00:22:40,644 --> 00:22:44,184 He can do that in two hours, you know, and, and they, he's like 472 00:22:44,184 --> 00:22:45,404 a wizard when you watch him. 473 00:22:45,414 --> 00:22:46,784 Like, I don't know if you've ever seen, like, Mr. 474 00:22:46,784 --> 00:22:49,964 Robot, you know, and you watch, like, he's that hacker, you know, he's just, like, 475 00:22:49,964 --> 00:22:51,734 going through the terminal and yada, yada. 476 00:22:51,734 --> 00:22:52,794 Like, that's what he looks like. 477 00:22:52,794 --> 00:22:53,744 He's got all these shortcuts. 478 00:22:53,744 --> 00:22:56,504 So, when you have a good video editor that knows what they're doing, it 479 00:22:56,504 --> 00:22:57,744 really doesn't take them that long. 480 00:22:57,974 --> 00:23:01,039 I think, One of the things we struggled with at the beginning when I was first 481 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:04,539 brought on, which is why we needed to hire an in house video editor, was that 482 00:23:04,539 --> 00:23:08,009 it was taking these agencies and stuff so long, because they're working on 10, 483 00:23:08,089 --> 00:23:09,639 000 other ads for different clients. 484 00:23:09,649 --> 00:23:13,009 So, that's where the bottlenecks can come in, and that was again why we 485 00:23:13,009 --> 00:23:14,619 needed this in house video editor. 486 00:23:14,619 --> 00:23:20,104 But, I mean, he can whip out an ad in, you know, An ad, a full ad, that then has 15 487 00:23:20,124 --> 00:23:23,074 different versions of itself, different hooks, different styles, all that sort of 488 00:23:23,074 --> 00:23:24,854 stuff, he can whip that in in two days. 489 00:23:24,864 --> 00:23:28,504 And, again, that'll be 15 finalized ad creative pieces there, that we 490 00:23:28,504 --> 00:23:31,524 have a very strong, you know, in inclination, they're gonna perform 491 00:23:31,524 --> 00:23:33,864 well, um, really, really, really fast. 492 00:23:33,874 --> 00:23:34,934 So, again, yeah, you're right. 493 00:23:34,964 --> 00:23:37,964 It does, it probably takes, like, two hours to film, depending on how many 494 00:23:37,965 --> 00:23:41,594 influencers we're doing, um, and then he'll whip through those from an editing 495 00:23:41,594 --> 00:23:47,074 perspective really, really, We also really had him focus on building templates and 496 00:23:47,114 --> 00:23:51,414 inside of the like editing platforms, Adobe or whatever, you know, you want to 497 00:23:51,414 --> 00:23:55,264 use, they're called, I think it's like motion graphic templates or something. 498 00:23:55,264 --> 00:23:56,504 And so he'll start creating those. 499 00:23:56,504 --> 00:23:59,344 So we've got different like text overlay templates, different 500 00:23:59,354 --> 00:24:00,504 styles, different transitions. 501 00:24:00,664 --> 00:24:03,304 So once he's actually edited that raw footage, pulled out all those 502 00:24:03,304 --> 00:24:06,274 raw clips, it's really almost like a drag and drop nature. 503 00:24:06,274 --> 00:24:07,264 Oh, hey, I want to try this. 504 00:24:07,549 --> 00:24:10,339 You know, hook at the beginning, we'll have this, we'll switch out this problem, 505 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,609 solution, clip, um, with this influencer's one, and then we just overlay those motion 506 00:24:14,609 --> 00:24:17,819 graphic templates on top, and he can turn those out like nobody's business. 507 00:24:20,049 --> 00:24:24,959 It's um, yeah, I, I, I can picture it in my head now, Amelia, him just 508 00:24:24,959 --> 00:24:28,829 sort of busy, because I've seen really great video editors do that, 509 00:24:28,869 --> 00:24:31,919 you know, and just, it's like they become one with the machine, and it, 510 00:24:32,219 --> 00:24:37,489 it's, it's actually insane, yeah, watching him, I'm just like, I, my, and I, I talk 511 00:24:37,529 --> 00:24:41,139 very fast, I process things very fast, I listen to podcasts on 3x speed, and 512 00:24:41,139 --> 00:24:44,019 watching him video ed is like insane. 513 00:24:45,219 --> 00:24:46,799 You listen to podcasts on 3x speed. 514 00:24:46,879 --> 00:24:48,379 Why does that not surprise me in any way? 515 00:24:48,879 --> 00:24:51,989 I'd listen to them faster if they gave me a faster speed, Matthew, but they don't. 516 00:24:52,529 --> 00:24:59,669 Um, so the, let's go back to some of the components then of this modular system. 517 00:24:59,679 --> 00:25:02,849 So, you've mentioned the need for a hook. 518 00:25:03,019 --> 00:25:06,629 Um, we've obviously got a call to action in there somewhere and obviously the 519 00:25:06,629 --> 00:25:09,799 desire within the first 15 seconds to fully understand what's going on. 520 00:25:10,479 --> 00:25:12,749 Um, talk to me about those. 521 00:25:12,919 --> 00:25:13,559 Start with the hook. 522 00:25:14,859 --> 00:25:19,889 So hook is absolutely one of the most, if not the most important aspect of an ad. 523 00:25:19,909 --> 00:25:22,729 So the hook is really the first three seconds of any video. 524 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:26,029 And the statistic goes, if you can get somebody to watch the first three 525 00:25:26,029 --> 00:25:29,949 seconds of a video or an ad, you're, you have like a 70% higher likelihood 526 00:25:29,949 --> 00:25:32,989 of them watching the rest of the ad, or at least like going to 50% of them. 527 00:25:32,999 --> 00:25:36,799 So, um, Hooks are so critical, and I think, um, and we 528 00:25:36,799 --> 00:25:38,369 test out hooks all the time. 529 00:25:38,389 --> 00:25:41,869 Every single video, again, it'll be like a full ad creative video, we'll 530 00:25:41,869 --> 00:25:45,489 have just five different versions of that exact video with different hooks. 531 00:25:45,509 --> 00:25:48,809 And we'll have already created them, we'll create them from start, um, 532 00:25:48,849 --> 00:25:50,129 but hooks are really, really fun. 533 00:25:50,669 --> 00:25:53,659 Um, and we have this like, you know, one of the things I had my team do at the 534 00:25:53,659 --> 00:25:58,029 beginning before we even started building this system was to go and find ads and 535 00:25:58,049 --> 00:26:00,889 go record them, whether they were going through Facebook ad library or just 536 00:26:00,899 --> 00:26:04,279 getting served them on social media, and we would take inspiration from all of 537 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:05,849 those different components of the ads. 538 00:26:05,859 --> 00:26:10,169 And so hooks are really, really cool because Again, the goal is just to 539 00:26:10,199 --> 00:26:13,849 stop the user from scrolling, catch their attention, and get them to 540 00:26:13,849 --> 00:26:15,139 watch those first three seconds. 541 00:26:15,399 --> 00:26:17,859 Um, and so I've seen some crazy stuff. 542 00:26:17,889 --> 00:26:21,449 Everybody has probably seen the comm ads where it's like this 543 00:26:21,699 --> 00:26:25,509 3D rendered, um, you know, like moving through sand, almost ASMR. 544 00:26:26,679 --> 00:26:31,049 Right, or, um, one of my favorites is this, like, drawing app, um, that was 545 00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:33,979 like, you hold your phone over and it'll show you, like, the outline of 546 00:26:33,979 --> 00:26:36,759 it and stuff, and the, and the guy's drawing a chicken, the first three 547 00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:40,259 seconds of this video, he's, like, smashing an egg, right, like, so out 548 00:26:40,259 --> 00:26:43,589 of context, like, what the heck, but I immediately stopped, it grabbed my 549 00:26:43,589 --> 00:26:45,304 attention, and I was like, What the heck. 550 00:26:45,304 --> 00:26:48,214 So, I think hooks are obviously really, really important. 551 00:26:48,214 --> 00:26:52,344 I think where they can go wrong is that people try to make them too 552 00:26:52,384 --> 00:26:56,464 integrated and too, like, bridging into the ad where they can actually 553 00:26:56,464 --> 00:26:58,584 just be, like, random aggressive stuff. 554 00:26:58,584 --> 00:27:00,354 Spoiled Child does this incredibly well. 555 00:27:00,354 --> 00:27:02,574 There's a couple other brands that do this really well, where, 556 00:27:02,614 --> 00:27:05,699 again, The goal is really just to capture that user's attention. 557 00:27:05,889 --> 00:27:08,669 Nobody ever remembers a, you know, an ad that they saw, right? 558 00:27:08,689 --> 00:27:10,689 They'll remember the brand, they'll remember how it made them 559 00:27:10,689 --> 00:27:12,869 feel, but it can be ridiculous. 560 00:27:12,869 --> 00:27:16,579 We had this like flaming kibble, um, uh, video. 561 00:27:16,579 --> 00:27:20,629 It was basically like our, um, my media buyer went to his place in Jersey. 562 00:27:20,669 --> 00:27:23,879 He got some kibble, lit it on fire, and it's just like beautiful 563 00:27:23,889 --> 00:27:25,409 slow mo of kibble burning. 564 00:27:25,419 --> 00:27:27,149 And that has worked really, really well. 565 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,389 And we're not obviously in that ad, we might not even talk about how bad 566 00:27:30,389 --> 00:27:33,569 kibble is or whatever it is, but like that catches somebody's attention. 567 00:27:33,569 --> 00:27:36,974 And so we'll do random stuff like that, we'll throw a pet plate at a wall, 568 00:27:36,974 --> 00:27:40,874 we'll have somebody eat out of like what clearly looks like a dog food container. 569 00:27:41,084 --> 00:27:43,804 Um, so it's all those sorts of things that I think, they don't 570 00:27:43,804 --> 00:27:47,344 need to be like perfectly related to the ad themselves, but they need 571 00:27:47,344 --> 00:27:48,564 to catch that user's attention. 572 00:27:48,774 --> 00:27:51,854 Um, and that's one of my favorite things, we'll buy styrofoam and we'll 573 00:27:51,854 --> 00:27:54,834 like burn it or something, you know, and it'll just be like those first 574 00:27:54,834 --> 00:27:57,174 three seconds, you're like, what the heck is this, you know, what is this? 575 00:27:57,814 --> 00:27:58,514 The rest of the video. 576 00:27:58,524 --> 00:28:00,044 So hooks are really, really important. 577 00:28:00,054 --> 00:28:00,854 They can be really fun. 578 00:28:00,864 --> 00:28:02,004 We film them all the time. 579 00:28:02,014 --> 00:28:05,564 And again, we'll like take different videos, um, in different hooks and we'll 580 00:28:05,574 --> 00:28:08,434 splice and dice them and overlay them into whatever new ad we're building. 581 00:28:09,334 --> 00:28:12,134 So a hook for you then is actually part of the video. 582 00:28:12,134 --> 00:28:14,714 It's, it's, uh, it's a video in itself. 583 00:28:14,714 --> 00:28:16,604 It's not like text on the screen. 584 00:28:16,614 --> 00:28:20,324 It's like somebody's doing something or some event is happening on the screen. 585 00:28:20,919 --> 00:28:24,099 Exactly, something that's going to catch that user's attention, and, and, 586 00:28:24,159 --> 00:28:27,979 that's one of the thing, reasons why I'm so, like, I'm good at ad creative, and 587 00:28:27,979 --> 00:28:32,249 I'm really passionate about is because I've got ADHD, like, you, I am the best 588 00:28:32,249 --> 00:28:36,309 person to, like, go through and audit an ad because I, I'm thinking about 589 00:28:36,309 --> 00:28:39,089 ten other things while we're filming this right now, you know, and so if I, 590 00:28:39,469 --> 00:28:43,054 if I'm not, like, my attention is not grabbed, and I don't Stop watching a 591 00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:44,554 hook or watching the beginning of an ad. 592 00:28:44,714 --> 00:28:47,474 Like it's a really good indicator that any random user, because we 593 00:28:47,494 --> 00:28:49,934 all, when we're scrolling on these social media feeds, like we're the 594 00:28:49,934 --> 00:28:51,874 perfect example of somebody with ADHD. 595 00:28:51,884 --> 00:28:53,814 We're just trying to go to the next piece of content. 596 00:28:54,134 --> 00:28:55,134 Um, and so you're right. 597 00:28:55,134 --> 00:28:59,124 They're, they're, they're interchangeable, but they are very, very central to the ad. 598 00:28:59,154 --> 00:29:01,934 And there's been a lot of like, we've done AB tests for this and, 599 00:29:01,934 --> 00:29:05,324 and, and a lot of other people have, but it can really, really impact. 600 00:29:05,504 --> 00:29:08,824 The actual performance of that ad just based on those three seconds. 601 00:29:09,044 --> 00:29:12,124 Um, and again, it's another really great way to turn one ad into five. 602 00:29:12,144 --> 00:29:14,774 You can have multiple different hooks and you can create whole 603 00:29:14,774 --> 00:29:15,884 different versions from that. 604 00:29:16,794 --> 00:29:18,684 So we need a hook. 605 00:29:18,884 --> 00:29:21,624 Um, we need user generated content. 606 00:29:21,624 --> 00:29:26,474 We need these sort of story blocks, these snippets, um, to, to to soundbites 607 00:29:26,474 --> 00:29:27,684 as we call them to go in there. 608 00:29:27,974 --> 00:29:31,354 What else, what else are we looking for in this ad creative? 609 00:29:32,064 --> 00:29:35,254 Yeah, so there's a bunch of different, like, what I call, 610 00:29:35,264 --> 00:29:36,704 like, modules or frameworks. 611 00:29:36,714 --> 00:29:39,354 So, there's the hook, there's the problem, there's the solution. 612 00:29:39,364 --> 00:29:40,614 Maybe there's a use case. 613 00:29:40,624 --> 00:29:43,774 Somebody's talking about, um, you know, how they, how they found it, or 614 00:29:43,774 --> 00:29:45,564 how they specifically feed their dog. 615 00:29:45,814 --> 00:29:50,054 Um, I'm looking for, yeah, so, um, there's also, like, an agitate. 616 00:29:50,054 --> 00:29:53,184 So, maybe they're talking about the problem, but then they dive into, like, 617 00:29:53,194 --> 00:29:55,114 why that was so frustrating for them. 618 00:29:55,354 --> 00:29:57,234 Um, there's, like, a desired end result. 619 00:29:57,234 --> 00:30:00,604 So, there's probably 20 or, you know, 30 different. 620 00:30:00,659 --> 00:30:02,609 Modules again, that we call them. 621 00:30:02,849 --> 00:30:06,179 Um, and, and not all ad videos will have every single one of them. 622 00:30:06,179 --> 00:30:09,389 They usually follow like hook problem, solution, feature, 623 00:30:09,389 --> 00:30:14,429 benefits, you know, U G C or personal testimonial, and then call to action. 624 00:30:14,579 --> 00:30:14,669 Mm-hmm. 625 00:30:14,909 --> 00:30:17,639 . But you can interchange those with a lot of, um, different ones. 626 00:30:17,639 --> 00:30:20,249 And so again, like you can you, once you have. 627 00:30:20,534 --> 00:30:24,194 20 different modules and each one of those modules has three different raw 628 00:30:24,194 --> 00:30:28,164 clips of different people talking about that again You think like you could 629 00:30:28,164 --> 00:30:31,344 just do the math on that like it's literally combinational like, you know 630 00:30:31,374 --> 00:30:35,614 Different permutations that you can end up with like 300 2000 stuff like that. 631 00:30:36,344 --> 00:30:36,704 Well, 632 00:30:36,974 --> 00:30:39,324 well So we've got the hook. 633 00:30:39,364 --> 00:30:41,404 We've got all the little bits in the middle. 634 00:30:41,744 --> 00:30:43,764 How do you go about? 635 00:30:44,184 --> 00:30:46,304 Doing the captions. 636 00:30:46,314 --> 00:30:49,734 So, you know that this sort of text that goes alongside the ad creative 637 00:30:50,099 --> 00:30:51,079 Yeah, great question. 638 00:30:51,289 --> 00:30:55,629 Um, every single ad needs to be mute first. 639 00:30:55,729 --> 00:30:58,669 Everything, like, when we develop website, right, it's all mobile first. 640 00:30:58,669 --> 00:30:59,509 You're building mobile first. 641 00:30:59,629 --> 00:31:00,689 It's the same sort of thing. 642 00:31:00,689 --> 00:31:02,489 And an ad creative should also be mobile first. 643 00:31:02,809 --> 00:31:04,959 Um, but it's what we call mute first. 644 00:31:04,969 --> 00:31:08,344 So it needs to Just to be able to be comprehended without the sound. 645 00:31:08,544 --> 00:31:11,204 In the world of TikTok, most people have their sound on now because 646 00:31:11,204 --> 00:31:13,464 they're watching Reels and they're watching TikToks, but there's still a 647 00:31:13,464 --> 00:31:15,284 large portion of people that are not. 648 00:31:15,294 --> 00:31:17,324 They're just scrolling through while they're doing something. 649 00:31:17,554 --> 00:31:20,754 Um, so everything is mute first, which means that every single 650 00:31:20,774 --> 00:31:23,854 ad needs to have full captions. 651 00:31:23,854 --> 00:31:27,724 Like I need to be able to read this thing and understand what the person's 652 00:31:27,724 --> 00:31:28,894 saying even without hearing them. 653 00:31:29,114 --> 00:31:29,664 Um, so. 654 00:31:29,864 --> 00:31:32,894 Everything needs to have captions, like full, I'm, I'm dictating what they're 655 00:31:32,894 --> 00:31:36,754 saying, um, and those caption styles, we try a bunch of different ones out, I 656 00:31:36,754 --> 00:31:39,904 mean, and, and you could, like, look at your TikTok and see all of these different 657 00:31:39,904 --> 00:31:43,254 styles, um, just in general, sometimes they look like bubbles, sometimes they're, 658 00:31:43,264 --> 00:31:46,114 you know, like, they've got, like, little borders around them and stuff, we'll, 659 00:31:46,134 --> 00:31:49,654 we'll develop a bunch of different ones, and again, like, even those little things 660 00:31:49,654 --> 00:31:53,414 can change how a user resonates with an ad, so those are really important, um, 661 00:31:53,444 --> 00:31:58,054 and then when it comes to outside of just captions, text overlays, we'll overlay it. 662 00:31:58,055 --> 00:31:58,069 Thank you. 663 00:31:58,139 --> 00:32:00,119 Like, you know, things and it'll sort of like pop out when 664 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:02,849 somebody says things, but it's, um, you know, the important part. 665 00:32:02,849 --> 00:32:05,279 So when somebody's talking about the features, they're pre portioned, 666 00:32:05,289 --> 00:32:07,669 they're mess free, they're microwavable, like those things 667 00:32:07,669 --> 00:32:11,539 will pop up on the screen alongside the actual captions because that's 668 00:32:11,539 --> 00:32:13,039 what we want them to take away with. 669 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:16,649 So they can understand the video without the, the sound and they can completely 670 00:32:16,649 --> 00:32:19,689 read, you know, everything that the person's saying, but then everything 671 00:32:19,689 --> 00:32:23,509 we want to be Emphasize again, like those benefits, those call, you know, 672 00:32:23,509 --> 00:32:25,289 call outs, those problems and stuff. 673 00:32:25,459 --> 00:32:27,879 We'll have those pop up when the user saying them. 674 00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:31,199 Um, and, and the goal there again is to make sure that like, those are the 675 00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:33,999 most important things that we wanted the, you know, listener to, or the, 676 00:32:34,019 --> 00:32:35,589 the viewer to see and take away with. 677 00:32:37,219 --> 00:32:41,789 So there's a lot going on here, isn't there on the screen and, um, and I can see 678 00:32:41,789 --> 00:32:46,999 how it, in one sense, I can see how that's going to capture people's attention. 679 00:32:47,179 --> 00:32:50,869 But I guess thinking around this a little bit, one of the big 680 00:32:50,879 --> 00:32:51,829 problems you're going to have is. 681 00:32:52,209 --> 00:32:55,929 Is to not make it too confusing for people, I don't know if that is an issue. 682 00:32:56,929 --> 00:32:59,389 Too confusing, meaning like there's too much on the 683 00:32:59,389 --> 00:32:59,639 screen. 684 00:33:00,029 --> 00:33:02,009 Yeah, there's just too much going on, like people just feel overwhelmed. 685 00:33:02,109 --> 00:33:03,239 Or is that not a thing? 686 00:33:03,689 --> 00:33:04,559 Yeah, there's a balance. 687 00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:07,719 I think we've probably all seen ads where there's just too much going on. 688 00:33:07,789 --> 00:33:10,579 I do think that's way less of a problem than people think. 689 00:33:10,609 --> 00:33:15,239 Um, again, like, you want the main point of whatever that screen. 690 00:33:15,239 --> 00:33:18,039 So if they're talking about the problems with other human grade dog 691 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:22,019 food brands they've tried, they are messy, they are super, you know, smelly. 692 00:33:22,019 --> 00:33:24,189 You have to put them in their fridge, you have to wait for them to defrost. 693 00:33:24,489 --> 00:33:27,109 Um, We'll make sure that is emphasized. 694 00:33:27,129 --> 00:33:29,409 And again, we'll have small captions at the bottom. 695 00:33:29,659 --> 00:33:32,479 Um, but we do want to make sure that there's not too much 696 00:33:32,489 --> 00:33:34,359 going on, but I think like. 697 00:33:34,994 --> 00:33:39,524 When you look at it, like, you know, you know, like, you'll know and you have 698 00:33:39,524 --> 00:33:41,484 to be a user, you know, a viewer, too. 699 00:33:41,494 --> 00:33:43,654 You have to put yourself in a mind of somebody, like, scrolling through 700 00:33:43,654 --> 00:33:44,994 social media and how they would see it. 701 00:33:45,214 --> 00:33:47,664 You have to look at, like, where your eyes gravitated to. 702 00:33:48,194 --> 00:33:51,054 But I don't think it's as big of a problem as people think about. 703 00:33:51,054 --> 00:33:52,984 I think the more The better. 704 00:33:53,014 --> 00:33:56,814 Um, again, we are in just this like attention deficit sort of, you 705 00:33:56,814 --> 00:33:58,544 know, like, like world right now. 706 00:33:58,564 --> 00:34:02,804 And, um, you're, you have to control that by really like emphasizing and making 707 00:34:02,804 --> 00:34:05,314 sure the things that you want those people to take away are really at the 708 00:34:05,314 --> 00:34:07,544 forefront of whatever they're looking at. 709 00:34:07,574 --> 00:34:09,754 Um, but the other thing we'll do too is we'll have like 710 00:34:09,774 --> 00:34:10,824 other people, whether it's. 711 00:34:11,089 --> 00:34:13,489 You know, people that are not in our team, or other people that weren't 712 00:34:13,489 --> 00:34:16,489 involved in creating that ad, we'll have them watch it too, and we'll get their 713 00:34:16,499 --> 00:34:20,359 perspective, and, um, that's a really good way, again, to pull yourself out of, 714 00:34:20,379 --> 00:34:23,559 you know, the person that was creating this ad, that obviously has bias, um, 715 00:34:23,579 --> 00:34:26,279 to be like, alright, what did you think, where were you confused, and stuff, but, 716 00:34:26,399 --> 00:34:29,979 at the same time, I don't think it's as big of a problem, I think, way more often 717 00:34:29,979 --> 00:34:33,854 than not, People are not using enough of these text overlays because that 718 00:34:33,854 --> 00:34:37,404 is really at the day what grabs those people's attention that in transitions 719 00:34:37,564 --> 00:34:39,144 There's this whole new style right now. 720 00:34:39,324 --> 00:34:40,344 Um rocket money. 721 00:34:40,374 --> 00:34:44,444 They do the best of this um, but like every time somebody's talking 722 00:34:44,444 --> 00:34:47,564 they're like zooming in and out and you're just like, you know, you're 723 00:34:47,899 --> 00:34:51,169 Even just that little motion, again, like, you're, you're looking at 724 00:34:51,169 --> 00:34:52,309 it, it's keeping your attention. 725 00:34:52,309 --> 00:34:55,289 So the transitions are really critical, um, and there's a 726 00:34:55,289 --> 00:34:56,279 bunch of other different styles. 727 00:34:56,279 --> 00:34:59,329 Rocket Money also does this one where they'll have, like, somebody talking at 728 00:34:59,329 --> 00:35:02,249 the top, um, maybe they're interviewing somebody about how frustrated they 729 00:35:02,249 --> 00:35:05,559 were that they had all these, um, you know, accounts that they were paying 730 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:07,739 for and they had no idea, and then they'll have at the bottom, like, 731 00:35:07,739 --> 00:35:11,519 split screen, they'll, somebody baking a cake, you know, like, just because 732 00:35:11,539 --> 00:35:14,679 it, like, you're, you're watching this and you're like, what the heck? 733 00:35:14,709 --> 00:35:17,089 And, like, a lot of brand people, by the way, are gonna 734 00:35:17,099 --> 00:35:18,634 be like, Wait, we can't do that. 735 00:35:18,634 --> 00:35:19,164 No way. 736 00:35:19,334 --> 00:35:20,784 But it gets you to watch it. 737 00:35:20,794 --> 00:35:24,694 You're confused and even that confusion or that sort of like controversy is 738 00:35:24,694 --> 00:35:25,844 going to get somebody to watch it. 739 00:35:25,844 --> 00:35:27,864 And then again, you're going to still take away the same thing. 740 00:35:27,904 --> 00:35:28,724 Oh, rocket money. 741 00:35:28,894 --> 00:35:29,644 They did this. 742 00:35:29,684 --> 00:35:32,674 I happened to watch the video because I was watching somebody frost a cake and 743 00:35:32,674 --> 00:35:34,404 it was sort of soothing or whatever. 744 00:35:34,514 --> 00:35:38,394 But I also had the takeaway of this person being like, I was able to cut 200 a month 745 00:35:38,404 --> 00:35:42,994 of, you know, savings because I found out I had two accounts on Hulu or something. 746 00:35:43,364 --> 00:35:43,754 Yeah, 747 00:35:44,034 --> 00:35:44,984 yeah, no, brilliant. 748 00:35:45,704 --> 00:35:47,844 So the, you've got all of this going on. 749 00:35:47,904 --> 00:35:49,864 How many ads are you putting out at any one point in 750 00:35:49,904 --> 00:35:50,314 time? 751 00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:54,614 So every time we launch a new ad concept, we run five of them. 752 00:35:54,624 --> 00:35:57,994 That'll be the same, like again, full sort of like script or whatever, same 753 00:35:57,994 --> 00:36:01,224 full raw unedited video, and then we'll have those different text overlays, those 754 00:36:01,224 --> 00:36:04,184 different transitions, different hooks, and we'll test them against each other. 755 00:36:04,184 --> 00:36:07,004 We never run more than five of any new ad concept. 756 00:36:07,214 --> 00:36:10,094 When in an ad set, Facebook can't even like dedicate enough 757 00:36:10,264 --> 00:36:11,774 Spend to five different ones. 758 00:36:11,774 --> 00:36:12,874 So we'll run those five. 759 00:36:12,874 --> 00:36:15,934 We'll immediately see which ones, like they'll have different KPIs and stuff, 760 00:36:15,934 --> 00:36:18,774 whether it's like click through rate, you know, cost of add to cart and stuff, 761 00:36:19,014 --> 00:36:22,034 um, that we have like as benchmarks for, for what we know is going to 762 00:36:22,034 --> 00:36:25,324 continue to perform and like within the first 24 hours, we've probably already 763 00:36:25,324 --> 00:36:28,204 killed one of them within the next, you know, 48 hours, we'll have killed two. 764 00:36:28,374 --> 00:36:30,214 So three is really like our sweet spot. 765 00:36:30,214 --> 00:36:33,274 And we'll find three ads that really, really kill it out of that five. 766 00:36:33,584 --> 00:36:37,784 Um, but at any given week, I mean, we're lucky because we, because of 767 00:36:37,784 --> 00:36:38,784 this system that we've been working. 768 00:36:38,829 --> 00:36:41,629 You know, and so long that we've got three or four ads that have 769 00:36:41,639 --> 00:36:43,649 literally been running for over a year. 770 00:36:43,739 --> 00:36:44,640 And in this like post iOS 14. 771 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,129 5 world, like evergreen ads are very, very rare. 772 00:36:48,129 --> 00:36:49,099 So we got lucky. 773 00:36:49,099 --> 00:36:53,409 But again, we tested and we tested, um, and we know like very, very 774 00:36:53,409 --> 00:36:56,809 specific, you know, like we know this, you know, text overlay style is 775 00:36:56,809 --> 00:36:59,509 going to be far better than this one or this caption style or whatever. 776 00:36:59,799 --> 00:37:02,399 Um, but you know, every, I would say. 777 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,859 Every month we're testing out 20 different ads and we'll narrow those 778 00:37:05,859 --> 00:37:10,319 down to like five really high Performers that will run for probably at least 779 00:37:10,319 --> 00:37:14,809 two or three weeks But we never start with you know, less than five of any 780 00:37:14,809 --> 00:37:18,359 given like sort of new ad concept And we'll narrow it down from there. 781 00:37:18,899 --> 00:37:19,229 Wow. 782 00:37:19,959 --> 00:37:24,589 So I've got some interesting questions to ask you now I'm gonna 783 00:37:24,619 --> 00:37:27,169 we're gonna try a little thought experiment if that's okay Amelia. 784 00:37:27,689 --> 00:37:32,229 So on my desk got various objects And I'm curious, I'm going to show 785 00:37:32,229 --> 00:37:35,609 you the object and I want to know how you would do the ad creative. 786 00:37:35,619 --> 00:37:37,639 How would you do this, right? 787 00:37:38,339 --> 00:37:38,509 Is that 788 00:37:38,509 --> 00:37:38,859 okay? 789 00:37:39,189 --> 00:37:39,869 I love this. 790 00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:40,479 Alright, let's 791 00:37:40,479 --> 00:37:40,849 do it. 792 00:37:41,659 --> 00:37:44,039 First object on my desk. 793 00:37:45,549 --> 00:37:46,739 Lego Indiana Jones. 794 00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:49,219 Mmm, 795 00:37:49,449 --> 00:37:49,789 okay, 796 00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:51,889 so we're trying to sell Bear in mind the new Indiana Jones movie 797 00:37:51,889 --> 00:37:53,009 is coming out now, actually. 798 00:37:53,539 --> 00:37:57,159 Mmm, I'm not even a huge Indiana Jones fan, so, um, the first thing I think 799 00:37:57,159 --> 00:38:00,119 of is like obviously the demographic is probably going to be you buying this 800 00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:02,959 for your kid, maybe you want your kid to watch it, maybe you want, um, in the 801 00:38:02,969 --> 00:38:05,459 world of like Facebook and stuff, like you're most likely going to be the person 802 00:38:05,459 --> 00:38:07,049 watching this and you want them to buy it. 803 00:38:07,059 --> 00:38:10,529 So, um, if there's a new Indiana Jones movie coming out, I would 804 00:38:10,529 --> 00:38:13,559 probably start with that, you know, like, oh, my kid was so, so excited. 805 00:38:14,169 --> 00:38:17,709 Actually, I'll stop there, um, because the audience, the person that you're 806 00:38:17,709 --> 00:38:19,069 gonna buy this for, is the kid. 807 00:38:19,249 --> 00:38:23,519 So it can seem like the kid should be the one talking about it. 808 00:38:23,709 --> 00:38:27,959 And so for dog food, what we had historically done is we tried 809 00:38:27,959 --> 00:38:30,499 to have as many dogs, like, eating our food as possible. 810 00:38:30,749 --> 00:38:36,374 That never works because the dog isn't the one buying the food It's the people 811 00:38:36,374 --> 00:38:41,024 and the people that their time is saved their you know vet bills are saved and 812 00:38:41,024 --> 00:38:46,104 stuff So it might seem intuitive to have the kid do the ad I would say Matt 813 00:38:46,114 --> 00:38:50,034 you're gonna be the one doing that so you would get on and You might you know say 814 00:38:50,034 --> 00:38:53,184 something that again like we mentioned the Shark Tank stuff if this new Indiana 815 00:38:53,184 --> 00:38:57,574 Jones movies coming up You'd probably be like, you know my Son or my daughter is so 816 00:38:57,574 --> 00:39:02,454 excited about this movie, um, it's still like a couple weeks out from coming out. 817 00:39:02,644 --> 00:39:07,364 I was scrolling through TikTok and I saw, um, you know, this parent 818 00:39:07,374 --> 00:39:11,074 talking about this new toy that was launched and they absolutely loved it. 819 00:39:11,324 --> 00:39:13,814 And here are the, you know, three benefits about it. 820 00:39:13,834 --> 00:39:18,544 It rolls, it can be taken apart, yadda yadda, maybe throw in some... 821 00:39:19,094 --> 00:39:23,674 Um, frustrating thing about, you know, previous, like, Legos or something, 822 00:39:23,684 --> 00:39:27,294 you know, one of my favorite aspects of this is that, um, it really looks like 823 00:39:27,314 --> 00:39:30,464 Indiana Jones, you know, and so when my kid thought, he immediately knew what 824 00:39:30,464 --> 00:39:34,304 it was, even if that hat was removed, um, and it's got these interchangeable, 825 00:39:34,304 --> 00:39:38,214 like, pieces, so he can make Indiana Jones go from rolling, you know, running 826 00:39:38,214 --> 00:39:43,124 away from a boulder to holding his whip, um, and, you know, Uh, I'll stop there 827 00:39:43,124 --> 00:39:46,354 too, because I'm going in circles, but, uh, the other thing that you could do 828 00:39:46,424 --> 00:39:51,364 too is almost like give a story of how you guys played with it together, so my 829 00:39:51,364 --> 00:39:55,474 son and I, we set up this awesome scene because, you know, he was home from school 830 00:39:55,474 --> 00:39:59,204 one day, sick, and I needed to keep him entertained, and so we built this Awesome. 831 00:39:59,394 --> 00:40:02,464 You know, little system with the, you know, these Lego pieces 832 00:40:02,464 --> 00:40:04,144 and this Indiana Jones Lego guy. 833 00:40:04,154 --> 00:40:07,674 And then we built this fort out of, you know, cardboard boxes. 834 00:40:07,694 --> 00:40:10,614 You try to paint that story to help somebody imagine 835 00:40:10,614 --> 00:40:12,104 them being in your position. 836 00:40:12,354 --> 00:40:14,554 Um, and, and doing that with their child. 837 00:40:14,564 --> 00:40:18,394 And, you know, again, the, the thing for you is that obviously my son loves it 838 00:40:18,394 --> 00:40:19,894 and he's going to be so excited about it. 839 00:40:19,914 --> 00:40:21,524 He can't wait for the movie to come out. 840 00:40:21,534 --> 00:40:24,234 He's going to bring his toy with him when he watches the movie. 841 00:40:24,414 --> 00:40:26,014 Um, but it made my life easier, right? 842 00:40:26,014 --> 00:40:29,144 Because I didn't know what we were going to do on this rainy or sick day Um, and 843 00:40:29,144 --> 00:40:33,779 so we developed this little, you know, character play of Indiana Jones fighting 844 00:40:33,789 --> 00:40:37,239 our dog because, you know, they were both trying to, you know, reach the 845 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,259 medallion or, or whatever it is, right? 846 00:40:40,019 --> 00:40:40,639 Fantastic. 847 00:40:40,809 --> 00:40:41,369 I love it! 848 00:40:41,899 --> 00:40:44,869 Right, I'm going to give you the next one now, and to do that I need to stand up. 849 00:40:45,449 --> 00:40:46,719 So this t shirt here. 850 00:40:47,999 --> 00:40:49,869 Uh, was designed by my daughter. 851 00:40:50,179 --> 00:40:50,559 Okay. 852 00:40:51,279 --> 00:40:54,709 Um, and so how would I, how would I advertise that? 853 00:40:54,949 --> 00:40:56,869 What creative would I come up with for that? 854 00:40:59,329 --> 00:41:01,939 I'm just trying to think, I'm just trying to pick really random objects. 855 00:41:04,644 --> 00:41:07,004 So cool that she built that, um, and she made that. 856 00:41:07,004 --> 00:41:08,764 So let's say you guys were trying to sell that. 857 00:41:08,984 --> 00:41:11,834 Um, I think obviously like one way you could do it is just talking 858 00:41:11,834 --> 00:41:13,994 about the product itself without relating it to your daughter. 859 00:41:13,994 --> 00:41:16,674 So, um, these are, you know, really, really cool designs. 860 00:41:16,924 --> 00:41:20,544 Um, you know, and maybe she could, you could tell a story about like what 861 00:41:20,544 --> 00:41:22,084 it means and how it was designed and. 862 00:41:22,624 --> 00:41:26,744 I think, again, a better thing would be, because, especially for, like, t shirts 863 00:41:26,744 --> 00:41:29,814 and designs and stuff, like, people like them or they don't, right, and I think 864 00:41:29,814 --> 00:41:33,534 you have to make them, like, find that story and paint that picture in their 865 00:41:33,534 --> 00:41:37,204 mind, so I actually think, like, the best way to tell that story would be 866 00:41:37,434 --> 00:41:41,124 telling about how your daughter built this and why she designed it and stuff, 867 00:41:41,124 --> 00:41:44,714 because I think that's emotional, they're, you know, like, somebody, they want to 868 00:41:44,714 --> 00:41:47,989 support this, this, you know, young woman that's, And, you know, trying to start 869 00:41:48,179 --> 00:41:52,219 her own business, um, to have her tell her story, um, you know, you can, again, 870 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,489 talk about the amazing features like, oh, it's, you know, washer, washable. 871 00:41:55,489 --> 00:41:58,169 It's, you know, not going to peel off even that front thing. 872 00:41:58,419 --> 00:42:02,669 Um, but I really think when somebody is talking about their personal 873 00:42:02,669 --> 00:42:06,089 story, like some of our best ads are Ronaldo coming on and he's. 874 00:42:06,259 --> 00:42:09,349 Just authentically talking about, like, why he started PetPlate, you 875 00:42:09,349 --> 00:42:12,319 know, and he was on Shark Tank and all that stuff, and it, it grabs somebody. 876 00:42:12,319 --> 00:42:15,059 It makes it feel like it's not a business, it's a person. 877 00:42:15,269 --> 00:42:18,309 People don't want to support businesses, especially in, in today's day and age. 878 00:42:18,309 --> 00:42:21,579 They want to support people, and so, I think, to sell your daughter's t shirt, 879 00:42:21,769 --> 00:42:26,699 she should be on all, you know, cute, and maybe you're, like, doing, um, you know, 880 00:42:26,699 --> 00:42:30,999 like, uh, um, A fast paced or what, uh, you know, sped up version of her actually 881 00:42:30,999 --> 00:42:32,639 designing that in something, right? 882 00:42:32,639 --> 00:42:36,059 And then she's talking about her thought process and she's making some 883 00:42:36,059 --> 00:42:39,349 mistakes and stuff and then she has this shirt and all of her friends are 884 00:42:39,349 --> 00:42:40,639 around her and they're wearing it. 885 00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:43,469 I think, again, you have to tie it into that personal experience and make it 886 00:42:43,469 --> 00:42:46,499 authentic because then again, you're gonna get people that love the shirt 887 00:42:46,529 --> 00:42:49,079 and they were gonna buy it regardless of who designed it because they think 888 00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:51,989 it's cool, uh, but then you're gonna get that other audience of people that are 889 00:42:51,989 --> 00:42:55,339 just like, Oh, I'd love my daughter to do this and maybe this will inspire her, 890 00:42:55,509 --> 00:42:57,399 um, you know, and, and by wearing this. 891 00:42:57,474 --> 00:43:00,274 And, oh, you know, this is really cool because, you know, I would love 892 00:43:00,274 --> 00:43:02,854 my kids to do this at some point and we want to support other, you know, 893 00:43:02,854 --> 00:43:06,554 parents and children and stuff that are, um, you know, doing stuff like that. 894 00:43:07,214 --> 00:43:08,134 Fantastic. 895 00:43:08,704 --> 00:43:09,774 I'm gonna let Zoe know. 896 00:43:10,374 --> 00:43:11,774 And then my final product. 897 00:43:13,164 --> 00:43:14,714 Uh, you ready for this one, the last one? 898 00:43:14,714 --> 00:43:15,194 I'm ready. 899 00:43:16,424 --> 00:43:19,804 Uh, Vegetology, Vegan Omega 3. 900 00:43:20,189 --> 00:43:24,729 Ooh, okay, brain, eye, health, source from, what is that, 901 00:43:24,729 --> 00:43:27,549 micro, algae, or microcology. 902 00:43:27,549 --> 00:43:27,599 Micro, 903 00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:28,299 yeah, so algae. 904 00:43:28,519 --> 00:43:33,129 So the story behind this, right, is fish don't actually make omega 3. 905 00:43:33,189 --> 00:43:34,989 This is a common misconception. 906 00:43:35,389 --> 00:43:38,629 Omega 3 comes from the algae that the fish eat. 907 00:43:39,179 --> 00:43:42,909 And so what vegetology do is they just take the omega 3 straight from the 908 00:43:42,919 --> 00:43:45,049 algae, which is a beautiful thing. 909 00:43:45,604 --> 00:43:49,604 It's the highest strength you can get and it's mercury free plus 910 00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:52,664 it takes about 50 fish to create a bottle of omega 3 that big. 911 00:43:53,414 --> 00:43:56,674 So you're keeping 50 fish in the ocean and there's some of the sort of really 912 00:43:56,674 --> 00:43:58,144 cool talking points to that product. 913 00:43:58,804 --> 00:44:01,214 You just created the ad, that's exactly what it would be. 914 00:44:01,294 --> 00:44:05,724 Did you know that when you're taking general omega 3s, it's not actually 915 00:44:05,724 --> 00:44:08,964 the omega 3s from the fish, they don't create them, but you're getting 916 00:44:08,964 --> 00:44:10,464 it from the algae that they eat. 917 00:44:10,464 --> 00:44:16,024 So we thought, why kill a bunch of fish to get, you know, 20% of the omega 3s we 918 00:44:16,024 --> 00:44:19,464 would have gotten from the fish, and why don't we just go straight to the source? 919 00:44:19,484 --> 00:44:20,524 Not only is it more sustainable... 920 00:44:20,919 --> 00:44:24,559 We're saving, you know, fish's lives or whatever, but we're actually creating 921 00:44:24,559 --> 00:44:28,919 a higher potency and we're able to extract way more of these omega 3s 922 00:44:28,919 --> 00:44:32,439 and a higher, um, again, you know, potency or compound, um, than if we 923 00:44:32,439 --> 00:44:33,509 were to just pull this from the fish. 924 00:44:33,509 --> 00:44:36,839 But I think that exact, like, hook at the beginning, did you know 925 00:44:36,959 --> 00:44:38,549 that fish do not create omega 3s? 926 00:44:38,749 --> 00:44:40,629 Anybody watching this is going to be like, wait, what? 927 00:44:40,689 --> 00:44:42,009 Like I've been taking omega 3s. 928 00:44:42,179 --> 00:44:42,489 Forever. 929 00:44:42,489 --> 00:44:44,599 They all taste like fish and they're disgusting. 930 00:44:44,899 --> 00:44:47,899 Um, that's gonna grab somebody's attention and then you can sort of walk 931 00:44:47,899 --> 00:44:50,059 them into, um, you know why that is. 932 00:44:50,064 --> 00:44:52,909 And I think that sort of like storytelling is incredible. 933 00:44:52,909 --> 00:44:54,529 I was just watching this ad yesterday. 934 00:44:54,529 --> 00:44:57,679 This guy created this like, it's called t n t for mosquitoes or 935 00:44:57,679 --> 00:44:59,109 something, and he starts buying goes. 936 00:44:59,619 --> 00:45:03,539 Do you know that, like, the reason why mosquitoes really like people is 937 00:45:03,539 --> 00:45:08,439 because they produce CO2, and CO2 is what, like, um, uh, is what, like, 938 00:45:08,559 --> 00:45:12,069 is sort of, like, the sensor, um, or, like, the, you know, the little, like, 939 00:45:12,099 --> 00:45:15,069 eye catching thing for a mosquito, and that's why they come and eat people. 940 00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:18,649 Um, but he started out, sort of, like, explaining this concept that people had 941 00:45:18,649 --> 00:45:20,899 in their mind, they thought they knew, and he flipped it on its head, and he 942 00:45:20,899 --> 00:45:22,259 said, that's not actually the way it is. 943 00:45:22,504 --> 00:45:23,934 And immediately I started watching it. 944 00:45:23,934 --> 00:45:27,454 I was like, wait, I've been told, you know, mosquitoes like me because of my 945 00:45:27,454 --> 00:45:31,474 blood for so long and it's actually that I just produce CO2 or I've been spraying 946 00:45:31,474 --> 00:45:33,364 myself with this disgusting stuff. 947 00:45:33,374 --> 00:45:37,544 Why couldn't I just have this little thing outside, you know, my pond or whatever? 948 00:45:37,734 --> 00:45:41,434 That produced CO2 and that like sort of, you know, distracted the mosquitoes from 949 00:45:41,444 --> 00:45:43,364 me and, you know, made them go into them. 950 00:45:43,374 --> 00:45:45,664 So I think exactly how you said it is the way to do it. 951 00:45:45,874 --> 00:45:48,564 Um, the other things I noticed is talking about like how it's good for 952 00:45:48,564 --> 00:45:50,484 your brain, your heart and your eyes. 953 00:45:50,894 --> 00:45:53,884 Um, obviously those can just be listed out as talking points, but 954 00:45:53,884 --> 00:45:57,994 I think diving into those, um, and explaining like how each one of those. 955 00:45:58,219 --> 00:46:00,329 Um, is really important, because somebody that's trying to solve a 956 00:46:00,329 --> 00:46:03,529 problem for their eyes, or for their heart, or for their brain, those might 957 00:46:03,529 --> 00:46:05,019 be three totally different people. 958 00:46:05,019 --> 00:46:07,999 And so I think, even with that alone, you can create different ads, and 959 00:46:07,999 --> 00:46:11,139 it might not even be beneficial to stack those sort of solutions 960 00:46:11,139 --> 00:46:12,709 and benefits on top of each other. 961 00:46:12,909 --> 00:46:15,589 Um, you should probably lay them out, and they're each gonna provide 962 00:46:15,589 --> 00:46:16,789 a value to a different audience. 963 00:46:16,849 --> 00:46:19,199 But again, I think starting with the, did you know that 964 00:46:19,199 --> 00:46:20,519 Omega 3s do not come from fish? 965 00:46:20,519 --> 00:46:21,789 They come from the algae that they eat. 966 00:46:21,799 --> 00:46:24,849 Like, why the fuck have we been just killing fish for their Omega 3s? 967 00:46:25,089 --> 00:46:26,929 You know, let's just go directly to the source. 968 00:46:26,929 --> 00:46:28,659 Like that is going to catch somebody's attention. 969 00:46:28,899 --> 00:46:31,239 Um, and I think that's a really, really great intro to a product. 970 00:46:32,969 --> 00:46:33,229 Right. 971 00:46:34,269 --> 00:46:35,399 I feel educated. 972 00:46:37,739 --> 00:46:38,949 Very, very educated. 973 00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:42,419 Now, where's the, where do you see the future going for this? 974 00:46:42,419 --> 00:46:44,479 Because obviously it's all very exciting now. 975 00:46:44,529 --> 00:46:50,514 Um, Where do you see the sort of next 12, 18 months sort of going for ad 976 00:46:50,524 --> 00:46:51,834 creatives, different platforms as well? 977 00:46:51,834 --> 00:46:53,185 I'm curious to know what your predictions are for Facebook, 978 00:46:53,185 --> 00:46:55,274 Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest. 979 00:46:55,924 --> 00:46:56,314 Yeah. 980 00:46:56,744 --> 00:46:59,914 Um, AI is a really, really big thing right now. 981 00:46:59,954 --> 00:47:02,234 Obviously everybody's using chat GPT. 982 00:47:02,254 --> 00:47:03,424 I use it every day for just. 983 00:47:04,159 --> 00:47:06,779 I even use it to help me create different versions of hooks, right? 984 00:47:06,779 --> 00:47:10,609 We'll feed it this little one line of a script, the Shark Tank thing, and it'll 985 00:47:10,609 --> 00:47:11,819 spit out a couple different versions. 986 00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:12,719 So that's really great. 987 00:47:13,009 --> 00:47:16,449 Uh, the really cool thing that's happening right now is using AI 988 00:47:16,459 --> 00:47:18,589 for videos and static images. 989 00:47:18,869 --> 00:47:21,729 Um, there's a lot of different companies where you feed it a render of your 990 00:47:21,729 --> 00:47:24,909 product and it'll put it on top of whatever background you want, right? 991 00:47:24,909 --> 00:47:26,109 So that is going to... 992 00:47:26,274 --> 00:47:29,024 Almost completely eliminate the need to do photoshoots. 993 00:47:29,044 --> 00:47:31,324 Obviously, there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. 994 00:47:31,544 --> 00:47:34,304 And you know, when it comes to like evergreen style people 995 00:47:34,304 --> 00:47:37,784 holding a product, it has a little bit of, you know, ways to go. 996 00:47:37,964 --> 00:47:42,134 But the video ad creative stuff and the AI, um, and what AI can do, I 997 00:47:42,154 --> 00:47:43,654 think is really, really exciting. 998 00:47:43,684 --> 00:47:47,604 Because I don't think AI is going to replace ad creative videos or 999 00:47:47,604 --> 00:47:49,839 the need to film UGC by any means. 1000 00:47:49,839 --> 00:47:54,114 But I think the things and the ways that it's going to help produce those 1001 00:47:54,124 --> 00:47:55,704 videos, the different, again, like... 1002 00:47:56,024 --> 00:47:58,634 I should be able to feed and they actually have systems like this and 1003 00:47:58,634 --> 00:48:02,534 tools, but I should be able to feed it a video and it's gonna itself overlay 1004 00:48:02,534 --> 00:48:05,804 all of those different types of texts, you know, overlays and stuff, and those 1005 00:48:05,809 --> 00:48:07,124 caption styles and the transitions. 1006 00:48:07,124 --> 00:48:07,214 Mm-hmm. 1007 00:48:07,214 --> 00:48:08,504 It's gonna be able to identify those. 1008 00:48:08,684 --> 00:48:12,344 We're gonna be able to plug it into Facebook or, or have a pixel of 1009 00:48:12,349 --> 00:48:15,554 it, um, over whatever that company is on our website that, you know, 1010 00:48:15,554 --> 00:48:16,814 similar to what we do for Facebook. 1011 00:48:16,814 --> 00:48:18,924 And it's gonna also be able to understand that performance. 1012 00:48:18,944 --> 00:48:22,894 So, it's going to almost be able to train itself to adding those text overlays and 1013 00:48:22,894 --> 00:48:24,864 the video editing styles and stuff on top. 1014 00:48:25,034 --> 00:48:26,724 And it's going to know what's going to perform best. 1015 00:48:26,734 --> 00:48:29,204 Again, there's a couple tools that are starting to do that right now, 1016 00:48:29,404 --> 00:48:31,254 especially on the organic content side. 1017 00:48:31,264 --> 00:48:33,794 I think the ad creative side, there's going to be some 1018 00:48:33,794 --> 00:48:35,244 really, really exciting things. 1019 00:48:35,244 --> 00:48:37,764 And, um, you know, everybody's fear with AI is, uh, it's 1020 00:48:37,764 --> 00:48:39,094 going to take our jobs, right? 1021 00:48:39,094 --> 00:48:40,144 Like, that's not the truth. 1022 00:48:40,164 --> 00:48:42,744 Like, uh, maybe copywriters, like they need to step up their 1023 00:48:42,744 --> 00:48:45,174 game a little bit more and become closer to prompt engineers. 1024 00:48:45,434 --> 00:48:49,074 Um, but from a video side, from an ad creative side, Side from a design 1025 00:48:49,074 --> 00:48:52,074 side, it's just gonna really help people from an efficiency standpoint. 1026 00:48:52,074 --> 00:48:57,054 I mean, we were working with a, um, an agency recently to build out like 1027 00:48:57,054 --> 00:49:00,084 a big commercial, like, and we were gonna do this huge commercial push. 1028 00:49:00,089 --> 00:49:02,394 We're still gonna do it, um, in the next couple months. 1029 00:49:02,634 --> 00:49:06,444 But, uh, you know, we had entire designers like create these, 1030 00:49:06,504 --> 00:49:07,584 um, you know, like frames. 1031 00:49:07,584 --> 00:49:08,964 They're almost, I forget what they're called, like mood 1032 00:49:08,964 --> 00:49:10,074 boards, you know, like mock-ups. 1033 00:49:10,454 --> 00:49:13,024 All the different, you know, stories. 1034 00:49:13,024 --> 00:49:15,164 Here's what Ronaldo's going to be doing when he's cooking the food. 1035 00:49:15,344 --> 00:49:18,244 Um, and that took like a whole person to basically draw that stuff out. 1036 00:49:18,244 --> 00:49:20,414 Like we're going to be able to completely replace that. 1037 00:49:20,574 --> 00:49:23,724 It's going to, you know, save 17 hours of time right there 1038 00:49:23,724 --> 00:49:25,024 from an individual doing that. 1039 00:49:25,254 --> 00:49:27,524 Um, so there's just going to be so many different ways in which it's 1040 00:49:27,524 --> 00:49:28,524 going to help with efficiency. 1041 00:49:28,904 --> 00:49:32,074 Not to mention that I've seen some of these ad creative tools and again, 1042 00:49:32,084 --> 00:49:33,714 you feed it a render and it like. 1043 00:49:34,114 --> 00:49:38,764 Does this amazing stuff where I was watching this demo of Adam's shoes, um, 1044 00:49:38,784 --> 00:49:43,264 and like, it's this render of Adam's and it's like walking through the rain 1045 00:49:43,264 --> 00:49:47,184 and then there's all these, you know, like different style y, and it was just 1046 00:49:47,184 --> 00:49:50,364 like, it was really, really cool, and again, that would have taken some, you 1047 00:49:50,364 --> 00:49:54,084 know, um, it's called Blender, you know, I think they do all the 3D renders in 1048 00:49:54,084 --> 00:49:57,334 Blender, but so Blender Designer, you know, it would take them weeks to be 1049 00:49:57,334 --> 00:50:00,764 able to do that, and now we're gonna be able to do that with AI, um, and we'll 1050 00:50:00,764 --> 00:50:04,819 see AI will start getting better because rather than it being I feed it a prompt 1051 00:50:04,819 --> 00:50:07,739 and it gives me an output, we're actually going to be able to dynamically, like, 1052 00:50:07,959 --> 00:50:09,579 um, sort of interact with those things. 1053 00:50:09,579 --> 00:50:12,959 So if it gives me a static image of, you know, like this Adam's shoe 1054 00:50:12,959 --> 00:50:15,939 or a pet plate cup next to a dog that's eating it or something, right? 1055 00:50:15,939 --> 00:50:19,469 I'm going to be able to, like, select different aspects of that image or 1056 00:50:19,469 --> 00:50:21,459 that video and be like, Remake this. 1057 00:50:21,469 --> 00:50:22,989 I want it to look like this and stuff. 1058 00:50:23,009 --> 00:50:24,569 So right now, AI is not like that. 1059 00:50:24,569 --> 00:50:25,819 It's very input output. 1060 00:50:25,989 --> 00:50:28,719 I think there's gonna be a world in the next couple months, in the next, you 1061 00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,019 know, year or whatever, where you're gonna be able to interact with that 1062 00:50:31,019 --> 00:50:34,969 a lot easier, um, and sort of like tweak those designs rather than just 1063 00:50:34,989 --> 00:50:36,639 resubmitting a prompt and continuing to 1064 00:50:37,219 --> 00:50:37,639 iterate from there. 1065 00:50:38,589 --> 00:50:38,949 Fantastic. 1066 00:50:39,359 --> 00:50:40,819 I'm looking forward to seeing where it all goes. 1067 00:50:41,009 --> 00:50:45,699 Have you tried, um, something I did the other, uh, The other week was I 1068 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:51,289 had, um, I was writing a video sales letter, right, for one of our products. 1069 00:50:52,229 --> 00:50:55,589 Um, and this was not an e commerce thing, this was a podcast thing, so 1070 00:50:55,629 --> 00:50:59,919 we're writing this, you know, 45 minute webinar video type thing, and we wanted 1071 00:50:59,919 --> 00:51:05,219 a hook video at the start, and so we used ChatGPT to, to come up with a 1072 00:51:05,219 --> 00:51:07,329 concept and a script for the hook video. 1073 00:51:08,269 --> 00:51:12,069 I was dumbfounded with the ideas that it came up with, and 1074 00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:13,239 then the script that it wrote. 1075 00:51:13,279 --> 00:51:15,289 I don't know if you've tried doing this, but it, the, the 1076 00:51:15,289 --> 00:51:17,499 fact it can generate an idea. 1077 00:51:17,709 --> 00:51:20,429 Based on what you want, you want it to interrupt, you want a 1078 00:51:20,429 --> 00:51:22,549 pattern interrupt, you know what I mean, all these different things. 1079 00:51:23,109 --> 00:51:27,179 And it just came up with this really fascinating concept and then scripted it. 1080 00:51:27,229 --> 00:51:32,899 And I was like, wow, this is, there's no real excuse now not to be able to create 1081 00:51:32,909 --> 00:51:34,629 these kind of videos in a lot of ways. 1082 00:51:34,659 --> 00:51:37,819 Now you've got ChatGP to help you at least figure out some of the basics. 1083 00:51:38,169 --> 00:51:38,959 Exactly. 1084 00:51:38,959 --> 00:51:40,329 No, we do this all the time. 1085 00:51:40,329 --> 00:51:44,864 And I think, again, it's like, Utilizing AI, it's all about the prompts, like, 1086 00:51:44,864 --> 00:51:47,424 and you reach a point where you're like, I'm getting the same response, 1087 00:51:47,424 --> 00:51:50,644 I'm seeing the same sort of stuff, um, you have to get really good at that. 1088 00:51:50,644 --> 00:51:52,384 But, uh, we do that all the time. 1089 00:51:52,384 --> 00:51:55,774 Again, I'll feed it that here, here's the best, you know, hook that we have that I 1090 00:51:55,774 --> 00:51:58,814 was watching Shark Tank and I came across this super, you know, awesome guy and his 1091 00:51:58,814 --> 00:52:01,614 cute dog and it'll, it'll come up with a bunch of different versions from that. 1092 00:52:01,624 --> 00:52:04,544 And then to your point, yes, you can have it generate full scripts. 1093 00:52:04,594 --> 00:52:09,564 Um, I think the thing that I've seen is, is chat TBT in particular, um, it. 1094 00:52:09,839 --> 00:52:13,589 It just makes things long, and it makes things really well written, but it sort 1095 00:52:13,589 --> 00:52:17,809 of goes into, like, it'll repeat stuff and whatnot, so I've never used, like, a 1096 00:52:17,809 --> 00:52:22,569 script that Chachi Boutia spit out, like, verbatim, but, like, I'm not a writer, I 1097 00:52:22,739 --> 00:52:26,179 suck at spelling, and I suck at grammar, and so when it comes to, like, helping 1098 00:52:26,189 --> 00:52:30,419 me with those ideas, and just that, like, quick start or start stop problem, 1099 00:52:30,589 --> 00:52:32,644 it is Absolutely, like, a game changer. 1100 00:52:32,644 --> 00:52:35,864 I don't have to be a copywriter anymore and I can continue to refine that. 1101 00:52:36,024 --> 00:52:39,224 Hey, I liked this paragraph, rewrite this, make it a little less, blah, blah, blah. 1102 00:52:39,724 --> 00:52:42,264 Um, so, yeah, it's, it's so crazy. 1103 00:52:42,454 --> 00:52:44,314 Um, and I think it's only gonna get better. 1104 00:52:44,314 --> 00:52:47,274 Again, um, the next stage is gonna be a way to interact with it a little 1105 00:52:47,274 --> 00:52:48,804 bit easier, highlight certain words. 1106 00:52:48,804 --> 00:52:51,534 Hey, I want you to remove all of this or I want you to switch 1107 00:52:51,794 --> 00:52:53,174 this to that or whatever. 1108 00:52:53,174 --> 00:52:56,254 But, um, you know, the, the prompt engineers that are out there 1109 00:52:56,264 --> 00:52:59,959 posting content about this stuff, like, It is a science, you know, 1110 00:52:59,959 --> 00:53:01,599 and like the technical specifics. 1111 00:53:01,629 --> 00:53:05,029 I was playing around with mid journey the other day and I was watching some 1112 00:53:05,029 --> 00:53:07,489 people in the prompts that they were giving and it was, they wanted to 1113 00:53:07,489 --> 00:53:11,189 generate a house with this and this style, but then they were mentioning 1114 00:53:11,189 --> 00:53:14,329 like where the, the angle that the light was supposed to come in and the 1115 00:53:14,369 --> 00:53:16,059 camera lens that it was supposed to use. 1116 00:53:16,059 --> 00:53:18,669 And I would have never thought, you know, mid journey could understand 1117 00:53:18,849 --> 00:53:22,279 that, but it does, and so you just have to get better at really 1118 00:53:22,309 --> 00:53:24,089 understanding its full capabilities. 1119 00:53:24,109 --> 00:53:24,689 And again, like. 1120 00:53:24,829 --> 00:53:26,209 Prompting is everything. 1121 00:53:26,489 --> 00:53:29,539 Um, so it'll continue to, you know, just advance in that, especially if 1122 00:53:29,539 --> 00:53:32,969 you've got like a, you know, a glossary of different prompts and different 1123 00:53:32,969 --> 00:53:34,209 specifics that you can feed it. 1124 00:53:34,999 --> 00:53:35,259 Yeah. 1125 00:53:35,259 --> 00:53:39,349 One of the things that I've done, which has proven to be very successful, uh, 1126 00:53:39,429 --> 00:53:44,789 is to use ChatGPT to feed in a series of really well written prompts into ChatGPT. 1127 00:53:45,519 --> 00:53:48,459 Um, and then tell ChatGPT to write the prompt. 1128 00:53:48,460 --> 00:53:49,829 To make a better prompt? 1129 00:53:49,829 --> 00:53:50,829 I love that! 1130 00:53:50,829 --> 00:53:54,669 To create, and it creates a prompt that I can then use in mid journey, 1131 00:53:54,689 --> 00:53:56,479 and it creates the most insane outputs. 1132 00:53:57,539 --> 00:53:57,919 It's so good! 1133 00:53:58,149 --> 00:53:59,689 That's the type of thinking though, right? 1134 00:53:59,689 --> 00:54:03,439 That we're literally in the midst of like, our brains, we have not evolved 1135 00:54:03,449 --> 00:54:04,859 to be able to think that way, you know? 1136 00:54:04,859 --> 00:54:08,319 And it's like, so, you know, when I'm, uh, using ChatGPT to 1137 00:54:08,329 --> 00:54:09,279 come up with prompts, right? 1138 00:54:09,319 --> 00:54:11,869 I'm, I'm actually, the first thing I did was I googled it, 1139 00:54:11,879 --> 00:54:12,909 like, what's the best prompt? 1140 00:54:12,919 --> 00:54:15,904 And then I like, stopped and I was like, Wait, like, what am I doing? 1141 00:54:15,904 --> 00:54:19,264 Like, ChatGPT can answer the questions that are gonna, you know, 1142 00:54:19,444 --> 00:54:21,064 produce the best results for itself. 1143 00:54:21,074 --> 00:54:23,684 So, it's something that, you know, we're gonna just continue 1144 00:54:23,684 --> 00:54:26,954 to have to get used to, but, uh, no, that, that's just beautiful. 1145 00:54:26,954 --> 00:54:30,364 I mean, even asking it, like, you know, build this, this, you know, 1146 00:54:30,374 --> 00:54:33,404 like, front facing website or whatever, and HTML and stuff, you know, like, 1147 00:54:33,404 --> 00:54:36,244 the first thing I was doing is, like, Googling how I would do that. 1148 00:54:36,244 --> 00:54:38,894 And then I was like, wait, I can ask ChatGPT how they would ask 1149 00:54:38,914 --> 00:54:42,174 that question, then feed that into ChatGPT, and people will find it 1150 00:54:42,174 --> 00:54:42,454 from there. 1151 00:54:43,224 --> 00:54:47,064 The crazy thing now, Amelia, sorry to go slightly off topic here, the 1152 00:54:47,064 --> 00:54:51,614 crazy thing that now is there's, you can get plugins on ChatGPT. 1153 00:54:52,024 --> 00:54:56,224 So you can now say to ChatGPT, go to this YouTube video where some 1154 00:54:56,224 --> 00:54:59,844 guy has spent 40 minutes outlining how to create the perfect homepage. 1155 00:55:00,444 --> 00:55:01,574 Go to that video. 1156 00:55:02,029 --> 00:55:05,409 Um, and take notes of all the key points that it says and write them out in 1157 00:55:05,409 --> 00:55:07,859 bullet points and follow it step by step. 1158 00:55:07,859 --> 00:55:09,339 I want the step by step instruction. 1159 00:55:09,339 --> 00:55:12,709 So then it goes, watches a video and it brings a step by step in. 1160 00:55:12,709 --> 00:55:15,789 So I no longer have to watch the YouTube video and then I can go, great. 1161 00:55:15,819 --> 00:55:18,609 Now using that platform, here's the context for our company. 1162 00:55:18,609 --> 00:55:22,779 Write for me the homepage, just like, this is just. 1163 00:55:23,579 --> 00:55:23,609 It's 1164 00:55:23,609 --> 00:55:23,809 getting bonkers now. 1165 00:55:23,809 --> 00:55:24,619 It's crazy. 1166 00:55:24,659 --> 00:55:25,519 It really is crazy. 1167 00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,269 I mean, we are in probably one of the most exciting times of 1168 00:55:28,449 --> 00:55:30,229 the human species in general. 1169 00:55:30,229 --> 00:55:33,389 Like, there's nothing else like this, um, and it's, you know, 1170 00:55:33,419 --> 00:55:34,849 there's a, it's scary a little bit. 1171 00:55:34,849 --> 00:55:37,479 I don't know if you've watched any of like Lex Friedman's podcast re 1172 00:55:37,479 --> 00:55:41,469 interviews some of the AI engineers and stuff, but, um, it is, it is 1173 00:55:41,659 --> 00:55:46,049 absolutely insane, um, and really exciting in, in so many different ways. 1174 00:55:46,519 --> 00:55:47,669 Yeah, I couldn't agree more. 1175 00:55:48,039 --> 00:55:52,439 Listen, Amelia, I just love talking to you, especially when it's behind a camera 1176 00:55:52,439 --> 00:55:53,609 and you can't punch me in the face. 1177 00:55:56,839 --> 00:55:58,609 How do people reach you? 1178 00:55:58,609 --> 00:56:00,309 How do they connect with you if they want to do that? 1179 00:56:00,749 --> 00:56:00,869 Yeah, 1180 00:56:01,199 --> 00:56:02,389 I mean, you can find me on LinkedIn. 1181 00:56:02,809 --> 00:56:07,059 Um, I just, um, Amelia or a, a Coomber is my LinkedIn. 1182 00:56:07,069 --> 00:56:08,679 Um, Amelia at Coomber. 1183 00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:09,609 com is a great way. 1184 00:56:09,609 --> 00:56:13,699 Just feel free to email me, but uh, yeah, you know, all 1185 00:56:13,709 --> 00:56:14,099 of the above. 1186 00:56:14,864 --> 00:56:15,414 Fantastic. 1187 00:56:15,664 --> 00:56:19,204 Now I googled, well I didn't google, I went onto the web and I thought Coomber. 1188 00:56:19,244 --> 00:56:19,464 com. 1189 00:56:19,464 --> 00:56:20,494 What is that website? 1190 00:56:20,514 --> 00:56:22,744 It turns out it is a wine website. 1191 00:56:22,744 --> 00:56:23,704 What's that all about? 1192 00:56:24,074 --> 00:56:28,374 So my dad, he's brilliant and, and he's technically brilliant in some ways and 1193 00:56:28,374 --> 00:56:32,124 not, but uh, so long ago he grabbed the Coomber domain, which is super rare. 1194 00:56:32,124 --> 00:56:33,884 And so I've had that forever and it's amazing. 1195 00:56:34,184 --> 00:56:37,274 Um, but Coomber is, uh, my parents wine company. 1196 00:56:37,274 --> 00:56:40,444 So in 2009, Uh, they're big wine drinkers. 1197 00:56:40,444 --> 00:56:43,374 They invested in this, what was called a custom crush plant, which is basically 1198 00:56:43,374 --> 00:56:47,904 like a white labeling facility for wine, um, and they just wanted, you know, to get 1199 00:56:47,904 --> 00:56:52,134 wine for themselves, but legally you can't ship a bottle of wine without a label 1200 00:56:52,134 --> 00:56:55,894 on it, so they sort of, you know, did a little piss take and they built this like 1201 00:56:55,894 --> 00:56:59,704 Coomer family wines label and it had all of our animals on it, it It looked like 1202 00:56:59,724 --> 00:57:04,584 we lived on a farm, um, but they've been making wine for the last 15 years or so. 1203 00:57:04,584 --> 00:57:07,604 And the first time they did it, they won a couple of awards on Wine 1204 00:57:07,604 --> 00:57:11,084 Enthusiasts and it just sort of started to just become their passion. 1205 00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:14,524 So, um, yeah, you can check out their little winery and wine tasting 1206 00:57:14,524 --> 00:57:15,834 room in Oceanside, California. 1207 00:57:15,894 --> 00:57:18,654 But, uh, yeah, I get lots of free wine, which is awesome. 1208 00:57:21,184 --> 00:57:21,794 Yeah, you too. 1209 00:57:22,034 --> 00:57:23,374 And I, here, I have a question. 1210 00:57:23,604 --> 00:57:26,874 Uh, because your boyfriend is from New Zealand, and New 1211 00:57:26,874 --> 00:57:29,394 Zealand make some really great... 1212 00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:33,954 Um, and they have a lot of, uh, vineyards, small vineyards that are 1213 00:57:34,194 --> 00:57:39,324 around, um, how does your boyfriend, uh, feel about your parents wine? 1214 00:57:39,324 --> 00:57:40,324 Is he a fan or not? 1215 00:57:40,544 --> 00:57:40,614 He loves it. 1216 00:57:40,614 --> 00:57:41,934 Because to me this is the litmus test. 1217 00:57:41,974 --> 00:57:42,524 Oh, does he like it. 1218 00:57:43,274 --> 00:57:44,364 He does like it. 1219 00:57:44,364 --> 00:57:46,884 He's much more of a beer drinker, but we've gotten into the wine thing. 1220 00:57:46,884 --> 00:57:49,254 He, he wasn't going to be accepted by my parents if he 1221 00:57:49,254 --> 00:57:51,984 didn't at least like wine, so. 1222 00:57:55,024 --> 00:57:57,934 Yeah, um, but, uh, no, he's a big fan. 1223 00:57:57,934 --> 00:57:58,634 It was, it was funny. 1224 00:57:58,634 --> 00:58:01,984 We got back from New Zealand in February, um, and I kept just buying a bunch 1225 00:58:01,984 --> 00:58:05,664 of wine bottles and I was looking, I, because my parents own a wine company, 1226 00:58:05,664 --> 00:58:09,224 I know like what an expensive bottle of wine is and what it isn't, you 1227 00:58:09,224 --> 00:58:10,604 know, like it's all about the label. 1228 00:58:10,874 --> 00:58:13,954 Um, and so I was buying these 7 bottles of wine that I knew were going to taste 1229 00:58:13,954 --> 00:58:16,874 great and none of them were from New Zealand and he was so angry at me. 1230 00:58:16,874 --> 00:58:17,274 I was buying. 1231 00:58:17,554 --> 00:58:17,634 Wow. 1232 00:58:17,694 --> 00:58:17,789 That's awesome. 1233 00:58:18,089 --> 00:58:21,119 Chilean wines and Australian wines. 1234 00:58:21,119 --> 00:58:22,829 Um, we wines and they were amazing. 1235 00:58:23,099 --> 00:58:25,249 Um, but, uh, yeah, so funny. 1236 00:58:25,679 --> 00:58:26,539 Yeah, I can imagine. 1237 00:58:26,909 --> 00:58:29,279 I think in New Zealand you have to go to the small vineyards. 1238 00:58:29,279 --> 00:58:33,229 That's my, uh, having been there a lot, you have to go to the smaller independent 1239 00:58:33,229 --> 00:58:35,029 vineyards and you get some great wines. 1240 00:58:35,669 --> 00:58:40,519 Amelia, listen, I, it's been phenomenal chatting with you about this. 1241 00:58:40,519 --> 00:58:45,119 Feel super inspired, very educated, uh, and, um, just love your passion, 1242 00:58:45,119 --> 00:58:46,839 love your heart, love your enthusiasm. 1243 00:58:46,904 --> 00:58:48,644 I think you're an amazing person. 1244 00:58:48,654 --> 00:58:50,614 And so thanks for coming on to the podcast. 1245 00:58:50,684 --> 00:58:52,914 I have genuinely loved every minute of it. 1246 00:58:53,544 --> 00:58:54,844 It's been an absolute treat. 1247 00:58:55,430 --> 00:58:55,620 Thank 1248 00:58:55,620 --> 00:58:56,020 you, Matt. 1249 00:58:56,250 --> 00:58:57,310 This has been amazing. 1250 00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,210 Yeah, it's been good fun, hasn't it? 1251 00:58:59,250 --> 00:58:59,790 Good fun. 1252 00:59:00,110 --> 00:59:05,430 What a great conversation with the beautiful Amelia there. 1253 00:59:05,490 --> 00:59:07,510 And again, thanks Amelia for joining me today. 1254 00:59:07,750 --> 00:59:11,990 Also a big shout out to today's show sponsor, the e commerce cohort. 1255 00:59:12,330 --> 00:59:15,310 Remember to check out their free training at e commerce. 1256 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:15,569 www. 1257 00:59:15,570 --> 00:59:16,790 ecommercecycles. 1258 00:59:16,820 --> 00:59:19,000 com, that's all one word, ecommercecycles. 1259 00:59:19,050 --> 00:59:22,750 com and be sure to follow ecommerce podcasts wherever you get your podcasts 1260 00:59:22,780 --> 00:59:27,140 from because we've got some more great conversations lined up and I don't 1261 00:59:27,170 --> 00:59:31,010 want you to miss a single one of them. 1262 00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:35,000 And in case no one has told you yet today, let me be the first 1263 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,160 to tell you, you are awesome. 1264 00:59:37,365 --> 00:59:37,855 Yes, you are. 1265 00:59:37,925 --> 00:59:38,895 Created awesome. 1266 00:59:39,155 --> 00:59:40,495 It's just a burden you have to bear. 1267 00:59:40,555 --> 00:59:41,535 Amelia has to bear it. 1268 00:59:41,795 --> 00:59:42,555 I have to bear it. 1269 00:59:43,005 --> 00:59:43,965 You've got to bear it as well. 1270 00:59:44,325 --> 00:59:47,435 Now, the e commerce podcast is produced by Aurion Media. 1271 00:59:47,435 --> 00:59:51,535 You can find our entire archive of episodes on your favorite podcast app. 1272 00:59:51,585 --> 00:59:54,944 The team that makes this show possible is Sadaf Beynon, Estella 1273 00:59:54,945 --> 00:59:56,415 Robin and Tanya Hutsuliak. 1274 00:59:56,865 --> 00:59:59,075 Our theme song was written by Josh Edmundson. 1275 00:59:59,325 --> 01:00:02,925 And as I mentioned, if you would like to read the transcript or show notes, you 1276 01:00:02,925 --> 01:00:05,395 can find them for free on the website. 1277 01:00:06,740 --> 01:00:07,780 ecommercepodcast. 1278 01:00:08,090 --> 01:00:12,360 net where incidentally you can also sign up for the weekly newsletter. 1279 01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,050 So that's it from me. 1280 01:00:14,070 --> 01:00:15,350 That's it from Amelia. 1281 01:00:15,350 --> 01:00:17,440 Thank you so much for joining us. 1282 01:00:17,620 --> 01:00:19,780 Have a fantastic week wherever you are in the world. 1283 01:00:20,110 --> 01:00:20,840 I'll see you next time. 1284 01:00:21,140 --> 01:00:21,600 Bye for now.