Promotional Video

The owner of my local village hairdressers celebrated last August bank holiday with their 17 years anniversary

Started with a photo of a kiddies barbers chair:

One of the concerns was the ability to generate "deep fakes" of real people - so the accepted practice is to get Gemini to describe what it sees in the photo you take. I did this with the picture, then asked Google Veo 3 to generate a video of the owner (with long curly brown hair) driving the car (as described by Gemini, with a custom number plate) through an Oxfordshire village.

The current restriction is that video generated, by default, lasts up to 8 seconds. This will grow in time, but for our use here, that's all we needed to place the ad (with an accompanying thank you note) on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

The video ran on Facebook and Instagram for a week ahead of the August bank holiday, was viewed 6,000 times and resulted in over 100 customer responses, all of which contained positive sentiments.