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Thought: Selling emotions is a one-way ticket to scaling. No one actually cares about features (especially if they’re TOFU); they care about benefits, outcomes, and how it will make them feel. Your ads should do just as such.

With that being said, sometimes features (for BOFU) will convert IF people want to know what they are and what they do, but I’d still recommend selling outcomes.

With that, let’s dive into this week’s AI ads, why they work, and how you can apply them to scale your brand!

Ads sourced with inspiration from the most powerful AI ad tool and extensive ad library.

Ads of the Week

Suavs, Pocket Dispo, Rhode

Suavs

Analysis:

This ad uses contrast bias and rhythmic mirroring to make the message easy for recall. “Light enough to forget. Durable enough to remember” is punchy (yet clear), paradoxical, and plays on two opposing values (light vs. strong), making the product feel like it delivers the best of both worlds (because it does). By balancing extremes, it positions the shoe as a "no-compromise" solution, appealing to minimalists and adventurers. The juxtaposition helps increase the intrigue. Then you have the design reinforce this with clear callouts on key features (ultra-light, durable, suitcase-ready). It’s easy to understand, and easy = trustworthy.

How you can apply it:

  1. Use a two-part headline with a mirrored structure (“X enough to do A. Y enough to do B.”) to create a juxtaposition and make it easy to remember.

  2. Position your product between two desirable extremes (e.g., comfort + performance).

  3. Call out features visually with clean labels.

  4. Show your product in context (travel, nature, real use) to imply utility & keep things congruent.

  5. Lean into paradox or contrast to make your message more scroll-stopping.

Prompt:

Create an ultra-realistic 1:1 static image ad for SUAVS that showcases the product’s unique blend of lightweight portability and rugged durability. The scene should feature a single SUAVS shoe—unaltered and exactly as designed—suspended mid-air in dramatic still motion, captured just above a rough, rocky terrain. The environment should feel cinematic and raw, with sharp, textural detail in the rocks below and diffused golden-hour sunlight casting long shadows across the scene. The shoe should appear weightless yet intentional, creating contrast between its featherlight feel and the jagged, unforgiving ground beneath it. Overlay three clean, minimalist benefit callouts surrounding the shoe with thin arrows or dotted lines pointing to it: “Ultra-Light Shoes”, “Fits Into a Packed Suitcase”, “Built for Durability” Use a modern sans-serif font, spaced for clarity, and place the headline at the top or center: “Lightweight Enough to Forget. Durable Enough to Remember.” Keep the background uncluttered to emphasize the tension between mobility and toughness. Aim for a scroll-stopping blend of elegance and rugged utility.

Pocket Dispo

Analysis:

Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. And even more powerful when paired with a visual metaphor to sell modern “tech” to an old spirited soul (aka me). The floating strip of film immediately triggers an emotional connection to analog photography, even for Gen Z. The headline “You don’t need film to shoot like it” uses a reversal technique (aka counter-expectation) to flip assumptions and pique our curiosity. It promises the feeling of film without the hassle of it, which gives us cognitive ease (emotional payoff, zero effort). Combined with smart callouts (“grainy, nostalgic photo feel”), the ad makes you believe you’re getting an art-school photography class in a plug-and-play package.

How you can apply it:

  1. Invoke nostalgia visually and verbally, even abstract elements like film grain or retro textures, cue emotion.

  2. Use reversal hooks: flip a norm (e.g., “you don’t need film”) to create curiosity.

  3. Pair old with new. Contrast vintage cues with modern design to show innovation without “old-school” alienation.

  4. Highlight emotional payoffs first. “Nostalgic photo feel” is more compelling than specs.

  5. Make the benefit look easy & communicate that consumers get the aesthetic they desire without extra effort.

Prompt:

Create a 1:1 ultra-realistic static image ad for Pocket Dispo, set in a bright outdoor environment during golden hour. In the center of the frame, a mirrorless camera floats in mid-air, slightly angled forward to showcase the attached Pocket Dispo lens—exactly as it is, with no changes to branding, color, or structure. Unspooling from the left side of the image is a stylized roll of 35mm film, floating and twisting through the air as it arcs dramatically toward the camera, symbolically "becoming" the camera itself. The film glows softly in the sunlight, with visible perforations and a touch of grain texture. The background features a dreamy, shallow-focus natural setting—think tall grass, soft sky gradients, and sun flares—to evoke nostalgic warmth. Around the image, include subtle callout text (in clean, modern sans-serif font) highlighting key features: “Looks Like Film,” “That Grainy, Nostalgic Feel,” and “Works With Mirrorless & DSLR.” At the bottom center, overlay the headline in bold white text: “You Don’t Need Film to Shoot Like It.” The tone should be magical, warm, and cinematic, with a surreal touch that visually blends the old and the new.

Rhode

Analysis:

We love things we work hard for (endowment effect) and things that make us feel like we see ourselves or as we desire to be (identity signaling). By showing a woman with glowing skin reflected in the mirror and makeup tools tossed aside, Rhode subtly frames this skincare product as the new “default”, something you emotionally invest in because it replaces something outdated. “Skincare That Makes You Forget Makeup” uses loss aversion in reverse: instead of losing makeup, you’re gaining freedom from having to use it. It appeals to aesthetic-identity buyers who want to feel aspirational, not be told to be.

How you can apply it:

  1. Sell the outcome, not the product. Frame it as the thing that replaces something inferior.

  2. Use reverse loss aversion, position ditching old habits as relief, not sacrifice.

  3. Leverage the mirror shot: reflection = self-image, self-worth. Don’t sleep on that symbolism.

  4. Design with soft lighting and minimalism, fluency matters; people trust what feels easy to digest.

  5. Let lifestyle do the selling, not the product. Show the effect of the product (e.g. confidence, glow), not just the container.

Prompt:

Create an ultra-realistic 1:1 static ad image for Rhode Beauty . The scene takes place in a softly lit, minimalistic bathroom with warm natural lighting pouring in through a frosted window. In the foreground, there’s a lightly rumpled makeup bag pushed to the side of the marble counter, some products half-visible but clearly ignored. In the center of the frame, a dewy, glowing bottle of Rhode’s Glazing Fluid sits upright—spotlit slightly as if it's the new centerpiece. In the blurred reflection of the mirror behind it, a woman’s clean, radiant face is partially visible—no makeup, just healthy, luminous skin that speaks for itself. The visual should evoke a sense of calm clarity and intentionality. Include the headline in clean, modern serif font near the bottom: “Skincare That Makes You Forget Makeup.” Keep the aesthetic fresh, elevated, and aspirational—true to Rhode’s clean girl, skin-first ethos.

As always, thanks for vibin’ with me this week. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

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