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Insights

On the creative process in a new AI era. The possibilities, the boundaries and the rules of play, for anyone building a brand.

Future & trends
Why owned worlds are future-proof
Building for the next quarter means chasing rules. Building your own world puts you ahead of them. Europe's direction is clear: stronger protection for real identities, continued room to move for what is genuinely synthetic.
4 min
Law & safety
Ready for the transparency rules in an afternoon
No law requires prompt logs for creative content. The AI Act's documentation and logging duties apply to high-risk systems, not image generation. The law judges the published final image, never the process behind it. What is actually needed is evidence about the outcome and responsibility in the contract.
4 min
Ethics & people
New roles on the team when AI moves in
AI does not replace the marketing team, but it changes what the team does. The winners of the next few years are not the ones with the most tools. They are the ones building competence and clear roles before their competitors do.
4 min
Law & safety
The world may lie — the product may not
The single most important rule for AI-generated advertising is older than AI. The picture of the product must be true. Everything around it — the environment, the light, the drama — is allowed to be as fantastical as you like. That split is the whole secret.
4 min
Brand & business
Show products that don't exist yet
Here is one of AI production's most underrated moves: photoreal imagery of a product that has not been made yet. For pitching, testing and financing it changes the tempo of the entire product journey — with one line to respect when the image finally meets the consumer.
4 min
Creative process
Three rules for FOOH
A subway train dressed in eyelashes. Giant handbags rolling through Paris. Fake out of home — FOOH — is the AI era's most shared ad genre, built on impossible installations dropped into real places. Done right, it is both legal and loved.
4 min
Ethics & people
A cast that looks like no one can become someone
"A model, kind of like…" That prompt has been written in every studio at some point. But almost alike is too alike — both legally and creatively. A real cast is built the other way around: from character rather than celebrity.
4 min
Ethics & people
When real people meet AI
AI and real people are not opposites. Back in 2019 David Beckham lent his face to a campaign that spoke nine languages — AI-animated and with his explicit permission. Consent is the route that makes the collaboration possible. And fair.
4 min
Law & safety
The rules that clean up the market
In spring 2024 the King of Sweden promoted an investment platform — except he never did. The wave of deepfake ads is the AI era's dark side. For serious brands the new rules are not an obstacle. They are a cleanup.
4 min
Law & safety
The four-square makes campaign decisions easy
Two questions cover ninety-five percent of every AI content decision in marketing. Are you showing something that exists for real? Do you have the rights? The answers give you four squares and a map the whole team can read.
4 min
Law & safety
Must AI images be labelled? Here's where the line runs
Since 2 August 2026, the EU's transparency rules for AI content have applied — and rumour has it that everything must now be stamped as AI-generated. It doesn't. The line is simpler than the rumour, and it is good news for anyone building their own.
5 min
Brand & business
What happens to the production budget?
No, nothing becomes free. But the money moves. It shifts from logistics to direction, and from one-off costs to an asset that grows. Here is what the new calculation looks like for buyers.
4 min
Brand & business
The asset you own when everything else is rented
Models switch agencies. Locations get booked by competitors. Photographs are licensed for twelve months and then disappear from your channels. Your own world is the first creative asset that neither expires nor moves on.
4 min
Creative process
Taste is the new craft
When anyone can generate a thousand images in an afternoon, the images are no longer the bottleneck. Selection is. Quality has moved from execution to judgement — and that changes what to look for in a creative partner.
4 min
Creative process
From casting to world building
For thirty years creative production has meant renting reality by the hour. Models, locations, light and weather. Now reality is being built instead — and that changes not only how images are made, but what a brand can own.
4 min

Insights

Why owned worlds are future-proof

Ready for the transparency rules in an afternoon

New roles on the team when AI moves in

The world may lie — the product may not

Show products that don't exist yet

Three rules for FOOH

A cast that looks like no one can become someone

When real people meet AI

The rules that clean up the market

The four-square makes campaign decisions easy

Must AI images be labelled? Here's where the line runs

What happens to the production budget?

The asset you own when everything else is rented

Taste is the new craft

From casting to world building