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Asset Studio turns websites and ad assets into video

Written by Paid Media Collective
IN BRIEF

Google Ads is rolling out a beta workflow that converts assets from a website, ad, or asset group into short horizontal or vertical videos. Dario Zannoni's account test produced a 12-second, five-scene video with voiceover, while Google's August Demand Gen update describes wider multimodal video creation and editable storyboards.

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THE COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

Why it matters for advertisers

For you, this means smaller advertisers can fill video gaps without a new production cycle, but generated scenes, narration, claims, and brand treatment still need human approval.

Perspective from the original PMC newsletter.

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Asset Studio turns websites and ad assets into video

Google Ads is rolling out a beta workflow that converts assets from a website, ad, or asset group into short horizontal or vertical videos. Dario Zannoni's account test produced a 12-second, five-scene video with voiceover, while Google's August Demand Gen update describes wider multimodal video creation and editable storyboards. For you, this means smaller advertisers can fill video gaps without a new production cycle, but generated scenes, narration, claims, and brand treatment still need human approval.

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