Who is this actually for?

Mostly direct-to-consumer brands selling a physical product online — skincare, supplements, apparel, home, pet, beverage, fitness. That’s what the pipeline is built around: we work from your reviews, your product photography, and your TikTok, Reels and paid results. We do take work outside it — there’s software work in the grid above — but if you’re B2B, an app, a service, or a local business, say so at intake and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right shop before you pay anything.

Is this organic content or paid ads?

Both, and that’s the point of buying it in one place. The same angle gets cut for your feed and for your ad account, and what wins in one tells us what to make for the other. Most brands run these as two disconnected workstreams and pay twice for the privilege.

Who owns the content?

You do, outright, the day it lands. Full commercial rights on every platform, forever, with no expiry, no renewal fee, and nothing to re-license. Worth being precise about, because a creator deal is a licence, not a sale — those rights typically run out after 6 or 12 months, and extending them costs you again. Ours don’t run out, and nothing you have bought can be taken back.

Why so few videos? Everyone else offers more.

Because more stopped being the hard part. A hundred videos a month from a pipeline that isn’t reading your results is a hundred videos you have to sort through yourself. We’d rather send twelve we can defend and tell you which four to put money behind.

How fast is the first batch?

We start the day your brief lands — there is no queue and no kickoff call to schedule. Three business days for the $50 batch, five for Test and Growth, ten for Partner.

What if I hate the first batch?

It cost you $50, so not much is at stake. On any package: email us within 30 days and we refund it in full, and you keep the files either way.

Can you match my brand guidelines?

Yes. Send them at intake. Fonts, colors, tone, claims you can’t make, words you can’t say.

Do you post it for us?

We hand you a calendar and files scheduled against it, and we’ll load them into your scheduler if you give us access. We don’t take over your accounts and we don’t manage your ad spend — your buyer or your in-house team keeps that. If you want someone to run the media too, say so and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re it.

With AI. The actors are AI characters and the footage isn’t filmed — that’s how the price sits under one creator’s day rate. It isn’t what you’re buying: you’re buying the angles, the formats, the cadence, and a human who decides what dies this week. We label AI content per Meta and TikTok’s requirements and we don’t produce fake testimonials or put words in the mouth of anyone claiming to be a real customer. That line isn’t negotiable.

Some AI video does, and most of the cheap stuff does. We spend most of our production effort on the things that give it away — the speech cadence above all, then hands, faces, text on screen, the grade. Watch the work above and decide for yourself. That grid is the honest answer to this question.

Why not just buy Arcads or Creatify and do this myself?

You should, if you have someone in-house who will decide the angles, write the scripts from your reviews, sit through the renders, cut the tells, and read the results every week to decide what dies. The tool is about $110 a month and we’re not going to pretend otherwise. You’re paying us for the person and the plan, not the model.

Meta generates video for free inside Ads Manager. Why pay you anything?

Because free generation gets you variations of what you already have, and it has no opinion about what to make next. It’s a good reason not to pay anyone for raw volume — which is exactly why we don’t sell it.

Can you promise me a viral hit?

No, and anyone who does is lying to you. Nobody can name the video that pops. What you can do is aim well and take enough shots — angles pulled from what your buyers actually say, formats that already work in your category, and a cadence that gives the algorithm something to chew on. Then read what travelled and make more of it. That’s the whole method, and it’s the closest honest thing to a strategy for going viral.

Do I need to send product samples?

No. We work from your product photography and website. Nothing ships anywhere.

What if my product is regulated?

Tell us at intake. We work in supplements, skincare, and finance, and we’ll write to your compliance constraints. We won’t make claims your legal team hasn’t cleared — and in a few of those categories we’ll tell you to hire a real creator instead.

Do I have to commit to anything?

No. Every package is a one-off — you buy a batch, we deliver it, and that is the end of it unless you buy another. No subscription, no notice period, no card kept on file, nothing to cancel.

Notes

Thousand Ads vs. Arcads: Software vs. a Managed Content Team

Published 21 August 2026

Arcads is a good product and it is not competing with us for the same purchase. It replaces a production step; we replace a role.

What each one actually sells

Arcads sells software: AI actors, a script box, and generation at a monthly subscription of roughly $110. It's well-built, it's well-funded, and if you use it properly it produces usable video.

We sell a finished batch — angles derived from your reviews, scripts, production, every cut, and a read on what to run and what to kill — at $50–$1,500 per one-off package.

The comparison people run is $110 a month against $400 a package, which makes us look expensive. The comparison that's actually happening is $110 a month plus a person against $400 a package.

Side by side

Who decides the angles. Arcads: you. Us: we do, from your reviews and comment sections.
Who writes the scripts. Arcads: you, in the prompt box. Us: we do.
Who culls the output. Arcads: you, and there's a lot of it. Us: we do, and you see what survived.
Who decides what dies. Arcads: you, weekly, off your results. Us: we do, and we tell you.
Time to first usable video. Arcads: minutes to generate, longer to get something you'd run. Us: three to five business days.
Commitment. Arcads: monthly subscription. Us: one-off, nothing to cancel.
Marginal cost of the eleventh video. Arcads: near zero. Us: a new package.

That last row is the honest weakness in our model and worth stating plainly: at genuine volume, software plus a competent in-house operator is cheaper than us. It has to be — we're a person's time and they're a subscription.

Buy Arcads if

You have someone in-house whose actual job includes creative, with real hours for it.
You want the capability inside the company rather than rented.
You're producing at a volume where per-package pricing stops making sense.
You already know your angles and need execution, not strategy.

Buy a service if

The twenty-odd hours a month that running the tool well requires don't exist.
What you actually want is someone to tell you which four of the twelve to put money behind.
You need the angles found rather than executed.
You want to find out whether this works at all before building a process around it.

The thing worth checking either way

Whichever you buy, check the rights. A generation tool's terms determine what you're allowed to do with the output commercially, and they vary — the ownership piece covers what to look for.

The time-cost arithmetic is worked through in what $110/month actually costs you in time. Our prices are on the pricing page.