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🧠+🖼️ Text In, Picasso Out: ChatGPT Enters the Art Studio
How you can fire your ad agency because you can now generate ad creative faster, easier and cheaper than ever before!
Ryan Drake
March 31, 2025
Welcome to Pollinaite!
If you’re reading this, it means you’re a Pollinator! 🐝
Someone who desires to move faster than the average tortoise and get their head around AI everything.
Lucky for you, you’re reading Edition #001 of this newsletter, born from an insatiable urge to share AI and automation news with clients, friends and business colleagues who want the practical, no BS approach on EXACTLY how and what to implement in their business.
Below, you’ll find some of my own tools, systems and learnings from the past week!
Ryan Drake
Founder, Ential
P.S Our email banner above was done directly in ChatGPT. If I’m going to write a newsletter about AI, I might as well practice what I preach. 😂
I definitely didn’t see the Open AI image generation update coming…and yet ChatGPT is cooking!
You can now use model 4o to edit images, create Youtube thumbnails, design logos (like ours above) or anything else your mind can conjure! I’ve seen some phenomenal use cases over the last few days, with users being able to generate dozens of ad creative in minutes - not days!
Now imagine scraping your favourite competitors’ Facebook ad library, repurposing their creative and making it your own! On brand, on time - every time. No more waiting around for the agency to finalise the designs, or outsource to India for $200 a creative.
In fact, that’s something we can do for you 😉
If you want to try it out for yourself, go to ChatGPT and feed it a prompt. Here’s an example of an ad creative it whipped up in a minute…
You can take a screenshot of your favourite Youtube thumbnails, add it to a new chat along with a selfie of yourself, and voilà - you have your own, unique thumbnail ready to use on your own videos!
For a bit of fun, yesterday I wanted to create a cute icon pack that was very much on brand, and thought I’d include the prompt below for you to try it yourself!
PROMPT: Minimalist 3D illustration of stanley cup, soft shadows, smooth plastic textures, bold colors like orange #faa800, black #000, white #fff and and render on white background. Soft lighting. Isometric view with subtle perspective, cute and friendly style, modern digital render.
Poppy.ai Visual Storyboard
Earlier in the week, I woke up at 1AM for a demo call with the Poppy.ai founding team and my Head of Marketing, and wow - what an eye-opener! Here’s a screenshot that Ed, our marketing guy, has put together, to start generating viral scripts for us! 🤯
Despite the early AM call, I immediately realised this is exactly the visual tool I've been searching for to help create viral content. The way it visually maps out content planning is absolutely perfect for those of us with ADHD who think in pictures rather than lists.
I found myself getting lost in all the creative possibilities, connecting ideas that would have otherwise remained scattered in my brain.
If you're like me and need that visual framework to organise your thoughts, I'd highly recommend signing up for a full year to get the best value. Seriously, it’ll pay itself back real quick. Not only will you save a shitload of time trying to DIY your own content plan, but having this tool in your arsenal for the long haul will completely transform how you plan and create content that actually resonates with your audience.
Manychat Newsletter Opt-In Workflow
As a way of promoting this Edition #001, I wanted to share with you the automation that gets you subscribed to this newsletter!
This workflow took me 30 minutes to build from scratch and test it, which will allow someone to either comment on a post “NEWSLETTER” or reply to an IG story with the same keyword. Once they do, all that’s needed to subscribe them is their email address…
And if they don’t give it to me in a reasonable timeframe, I politely nudge them with my elbow until they do 😂 Once they’ve subscribed, if we’re not IG official and following each other, I ask them to take the next step and say “I’ll follow you” 💍.
The cool thing about this automated workflow is that not only is the user subscribed to my email list, but they’re also added to my CRM and tagged accordingly!
You can steal it for yourself below and just change up the messages!
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