Zeely Review: Can AI Replace a $5,000 Freelance Team?

So let's say a client puts you on retainer and asks for a month of ad creatives. And let's say that's a normal package. It's like 10 static ads and three video ads per month for use on the various PPC ad platforms. And something like this is going to be the historical or traditional costs and process involved in bringing that to life in a manner that is quality and professional. So that's at least going to be a few grand. It's going to take a lot of hours for some pretty talented people. And if your retainer is six or seven grand, most of that just comes in and goes right out. And if you are a solopreneur who doesn't want to pay that amount, then you probably just don't have that kind of system in place for creative. So whether you exist on the production side or the consumption side of that curve, we're going to talk through in this video how to build that exact ad package with one AI platform to the same, if not better degree of quality than you could get with that incumbent protocol. And by the end, you can get an idea for how you can use AI tools like this to build creatives for your business or your service offers. That's going to be the video. Let's go. So for this video, I got full access to test the platform Zeeley. And that is the system we're going to use for the process of this video. And Zeeley is an AI marketing platform that covers the full cycle of marketing. So create, launch, and scale assets. That means you generate static ads UGC style videos and this is important all of that in the platform is built on context from thousands of ads that have really performed well for the kind of company you have in real life now we just talked through the full stack of video production and the pricing of such at the start of this video so that's the lens through which we're going to understand and learn how to use this platform so the researcher the designer the actual creator the editor that full production stack and replicating that with AI so we're going to jump into my computer to get started on the builds now if you comment Z e e l y under this video you'll get a link to build along yourself or you can visit this link on the screen or in the description you help to support the channel when you do that and then you get to just follow along and build along while you're watching this video and you can walk away after the next five or ten minutes with actual creatives for your company now today for these demos we're going to have two imaginary clients number one a software client and number two a physical product client so that said that's what we're going to do and let's jump into my computer so i've set up a demo account here inside of Zeeley and client one is ManyChat the chat marketing tool and what we're going to try to create or say we're creating for this client is a set of static ads so image based ads but we're not just going to jump into generation we're going to start the way you always should when you're doing a project like this which is what's already empirically working in the space for other people and we can do this inside of the platform so we're going to start with that step and we're not just going to pull one reference we're going to pull 10 so you can see a lot of the tools we're going to get into in this video on the left but let's jump into competitor spy under industry we're going to filter to professional and creative services and digital products and then under format we're going to go image and under status we're going to go app so what this library is doing is condensing all of the ads that other big brands are running that are working well for them so let's pick some that we like I like this one from Coursera let's click download I think this one here from Timu we'll download another one from Timu this one's fun are you a marketing leader or a vending machine I've also now removed digital products to leave it just at professional and creative services and I really like some of these especially this one and this will be my last one so I picked about 10 now I'm going to head over here into agent and then I've dropped all of these ads in here so these are winning ads from the internet that we're going to use to base our static image ads off of in a similar industry. And then I'm giving this prompt. I'm saying here are 10 static ads running right now in the marketing software space. I want you to break them down in a way a performance marketer would. And then for my brand or my client, pick what the best formats are. And we're running this on Gemini 1.5 Flash. We can also see if we hit forward slash the competitor analysis skill is what's going to be used to accomplish this. And this is just still early in the overarching ad creation process that we're going to walk through here. So let's let that run. Okay, it's done. Here is the report. And here we can see a breakdown of all of those ads. This all looks great. It's broken down every single one of them. Here are the top five formats. And so what we've identified with this reference library and AI are the best five references that we want to use for our ads. So now these are the references that we're going to lock. And now we can jump here into image ads. So let's click image ad. We're going to hit reference and then upload reference. We're selecting one, two, three, four, and five references. And that's all you have to do. When you set up your account, the AI already has the context on your service and what you do. If you want new context, a new kind of business that you're testing creatives or ads for, you just click create new right here. But we're all good to go. The AI now has everything it needs to do to create these ads for us. And we can see right here, the models being used first right now are GPT image 2.5. We are creating vertical or story ads, and we're going to create five of them. Now also as a service or kind of a base image we're going to just let AI do that for us as well so AI is going to figure out how to best visualize our product for us. Now we're going to play around with adding a base image or a prompt right after this but let's just start by letting this run and see what the AI can do. Now while this is generating let's head back under trending concepts here. I think there's a lot of ads that are just doing well within the Zeeley platform that are also great references for you to create from. Let's go right here. We can see a lot more of those right here in the image ad gallery. So for example, let's say we want a testimonial type ad. Here are you know hundreds of formats for testimonial ads that you can recreate that are proven to work based on empirical data. We can do the same thing here. We could go us versus them, for example. But before we continue here, it looks like our five original ads are done. So here they are. We can see these are based nearly one-to-one on the reference image which is super great to see so this is number one right here this is number two this is actually really awesome i i love this one uh text is on point this is a plus in my book this is something i would actually turn around and run okay so that's number two we have number three also looks really good i think number one is still my my favorite up there. Awesome. Number four, and then number five as well. So that's the power of AI. I'm sure you can start to see why all of this is so incredible if you work in this kind of creative business. I think my favorite two are going to be this one right here. And absolute favorite is this one right here. Now we could go ahead and launch that. We're not going to do that just yet. We're going to jump back into the ad gallery and let's select a few more references right here. I'll select those three and then just click recreate three references. And then I'm going to go to the actual ManyChat website right here. I'm going to go ahead and screenshot that. We're going to save that image and then I'm uploading that. So we have a real reference of the ManyChat product. Let's select that. We'll click continue. And then it's pretty much that easy. You can just go through the library. The AI already has all the context on your business. And then we can be a little more specific if we want let's say make this feel very aesthetic and cool right whatever vision you have you can just be more specific in the prompt if you want to be in the AI we'll follow that as well let's also go one by one for these and we'll click generate and you can generate as many in parallel as you want if you want to create a hundred creatives in parallel you can do that as long as you have the credits in the account okay and here we can see number one this actually looks really good number two also looks good so that said now we're going to get into client number two and that's going to be for the fictional coffee brand we use for a lot of videos on the channel so we're going to jump into video ads here that's going to be the big difference this is video ads instead of static ads but we can do it through a very similar process here you can see a video ad gallery these are all created with AI different concepts and then the playground here which is what we're predominantly going to use and just because you're in the playground doesn't mean you're starting from nothing we are going to be able to use all of these different resources including the avatars which are pretty cool so let's go ahead and jump into the playground and now what's important and i want to emphasize here are the models and the model choice Kling 3.0 is going to be the cheapest and the fastest but you do have a corresponding quality trade-off there Cine 2.5 is going to be the strongest video model out there but you can see it's far more credits but we can see 1500 versus 250 credits and i think choosing between these is the wrong way to think about it what you want to do is your initial testing on the cheaper model pick your favorite and then go generate that with the more expensive model so i want to walk through that process now again for our coffee brand it's called Alto and if you want to know what Alto looks like and you haven't seen it before here's a little bit of what that looks like here are some reference images we've also created with AI for the brand so let's go ahead and duplicate this tab three times over so we can run three in parallel and for the first one right here i've given it this prompt of creating a woman in her late 20s in a kitchen and so let's go ahead and upload a start frame so we can see the woman with the Alto coffee this time in a can and that will be the starting frame for our image and let's go ahead and let that run and you can see i'm generating the start images over here also in Midjourney just from the main video ad AI so here we can see for example a guy outside so we'll click recreate we'll paste the prompt we'll click start image and here for example you can see that image that's created so let's go ahead again we'll download that we'll come back to our video maker and we'll click generate for our last video so we have our three different images generating here again keep in mind this is with Kling and then we're going to choose our favorite so we're saving money and then we're going to regenerate that video with VDance 2.5 to play back so here's the first result let's give this a watch so pretty cool here's the second one where you can see this is now based on our original reference image so this is more in line with what we want so i prefer this already over the other one but let's give this a watch for a few seconds it's a very different style but it gets the point across i actually really like this one i think it starts off with the visual hook and then this really illustrates the point of the brand pretty well and then here is our third one with the other character pretty cool very high energy i still think number two is my favorite here so this is going to be our winner i think again it has the hook and then this is pretty fun very unique for a coffee brand but also actually illustrates the point of it really well with a nice call to action at the end so let's go ahead and click reuse so now we can see that's been attached as the reference and then i'm going to paste this and then now we're going to switch from Kling 3.0 to Cdance 2.5 now we're also generated a special fun video for you here so let's watch both this and the final one go ahead and download that we'll open it here okay so here is the fun one this is just the second version that i think is pretty cool here you go so really awesome physics and water so there you go sound design all native as well and now here finally is the upgraded Cdance 2.5 version of what we just watched here we go super quick text on screen looks great and there you go that's a five second ad or many 10 second ads that we've made that you could go ahead and run on your PPC platform of choice now i have one more generation for you that I want to really end this off with, and that is a full 30-second generation and ad made for Alto on Zeely. So the prior ones we looked at were in the five to 10-second range. So this is going to be a really fun one. Last one, I promise. And here is that 30-second ad. New alarm, new planner, still hate mornings. Same coffee? Yeah, start there. Alto, cold brew concentrate. Do I need a barista? you need a glass. That's it. Ice, concentrate, milk. Your morning can be simple. Mix it your way. Now that's a morning ritual. So coffee first? Exactly. Fine. I'm keeping the planner. Okay. So we've gone through the static ad and the video ad workflows. Now there are a lot of other things in here you can do. Ad variations, meta campaigns, social posting content. There's a lot in here that's for you to go dive into on your own time but i think at this point you can see the potential of systems like this compared to that incumbent workflow because the ais are just that good the image generators the video generators the intelligence layer what about the cost side we started off this video by saying it's three four or five grand to do this traditionally now we can see 2 000 credits costs about four dollars and 99 cents or about what like three to maybe four dollars if you pay more for a higher plan and we spent about 1200 credits to do everything that you just saw so that's like two dollars so everything that you just saw all the dozen plus ads that we created all the frontier intelligence took about two dollars to make and that's the purpose of ai in this world of ads and creatives you can do more you can do it better and And you can do it a lot faster with effectively no money for a very, very low cost. I'm going to leave it on that. That's the deal. And let's hear some final words. These systems are only getting better at an increasingly rapid pace. And that's also part of the thesis of this YouTube channel, which is this is why it's so important to stay on top of these tools if you exist in a creative domain. Now, there are some edge cases where you don't want to use a system like this. For example, if you have a super intricate hardware product that's just hard to transpose or transmute to a digital form that AIs can replicate and really keep consistent. So there are reasons to not use it. But for the vast majority of you who are building these ads, especially static or video, but for the vast majority of you watching this, your product and your business is going to be adequately shown by the AI on the image and also the video side of it. So there you go. That's the video. I hope you found it useful. And again, if you want to support the channel and try this stuff for yourself, you can comment Z-E-E-L-Y under this video if you haven't already or go to this link on the screen. That in mind, I appreciate you being here and I will see you in the next one.