PlentyLabs Blog

Notes, insights, and guides from the PlentyLabs team

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September 28, 20265 min read

Master AI image generation: the ultimate lighting guide for better prompts

Buzzwords like “cinematic” and “photorealistic” rarely land. A categorized guide to natural, studio, cinematic, and artificial lighting keywords, plus a four-part formula for writing the perfect lighting prompt.

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September 24, 20266 min read

The ultimate guide to film types for AI image generation

If your AI images look too smooth or too digital, reference real film stocks. Color negative, cinema, black & white, slide, and specialty film types, plus formats and a prompt formula.

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September 24, 20264 min read

The challenge with AI in the creative process

Complete automation turned content creation into a numbers game. Four reasons PlentyLabs is built to amplify human creativity instead of replacing it.

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September 15, 20264 min read

Breaking the mirror: why affinity bias is starving your marketing growth

Affinity bias sneaks into buyer personas, creative copy, and lookalike audiences alike. How PlentyLabs helps teams break homophilic marketing patterns by making a wider range of creative cheap to make.

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September 8, 20266 min read

The anatomy of a great static ad

The five-layer structure behind every high-converting static ad: hook, hero visual, proof, value stack, and CTA, plus the layout templates and persuasion frameworks that make it convert.

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September 7, 20263 min read

The shift from grunt work to genius work

Creative automation isn't about replacing human imagination. It is about eliminating the production bottlenecks that keep creative teams from doing their best work.

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September 3, 20265 min read

The anatomy of an effective image prompt

A six-part formula for writing image prompts that render exactly what you meant: subject, setting, style, lighting, composition, and mood, with five worked examples.

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September 2, 20268 min read

How to choose the right AI model for every job

Typography goes to one model, product photography to another, multi-scene video to a third. What actually differs between the leading image, video, motion, and audio models, and how to pick.

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September 1, 20263 min read

5 ways AI can streamline marketing operations

Execution noise eats the capacity meant for growth. Five places AI shifts marketing operations from manual coordination to strategic oversight.

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August 25, 20266 min read

Brand safety: how to generate brand-consistent AI ads

Visual drift, hallucinated claims, and tone fragmentation are what unguided AI ad generation costs you. Four pillars for enforcing Brand DNA across every channel.

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August 21, 20267 min read

How to generate high-converting video assets

Short-form video eats paid social attention, but production can’t keep up. How AI video generation clears the bottleneck, without locked renders or copyright risk.

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August 18, 20266 min read

Beyond the creative bottleneck

How an AI ad generator streamlines performance marketing: creative velocity, multi-format sizing, hook testing, and on-brand output at scale.

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August 14, 202612 min read

What is AI marketing? The definitive guide

Definitions, benefits, use cases, and a seven-step playbook for putting AI to work across your paid social campaigns.

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July 20265 min read

Getting started with Seedance 2

How to structure video prompts that come out cinematic on the first try.

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July 20264 min read

Prompting for realism

The phrasing, references, and light that make AI images look like photography.

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July 20264 min read

Build a preset library your team actually uses

Turn winning outputs into repeatable presets so every asset ships on-brand.

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July 20265 min read

From product photo to finished ad

A step-by-step flow from a single packshot to a full set of channel-ready ads.

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Epidemic Sound acquires PlentyLabs

Epidemic Sound expands beyond its music catalog to build the next generation creative platform.

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Meet the PlentyLabs product

Every leading model, your brand kit, and the editing tools on one canvas. A look at what the product does.

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Our team, and where we are headed

The people building PlentyLabs from Stockholm, and where we are going next. We are hiring.

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