@PrajwalTomar_: Your creative stack costs $10K a month and you haven't shot ANYTHING yet. Ad spy tool. Creative analytics. Attribution.…
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Icon launches Admaker 2.0, a platform that consolidates eight ad-related tools into one, focusing on human-created ads and offering a service for $1000 to make six creator ads.
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Your creative stack costs $10K a month and you haven’t shot ANYTHING yet.
Ad spy tool. Creative analytics. Attribution. Ad management. A creator marketplace. An editor. Whitelisting legal. Sometimes an agency on top of all of it.
Icon’s Admaker 2.0 collapses all 8 into one platform.
The filming stays human because that’s the part software can’t do right.
Kennan Jenner (@icon): 3 months ago, I sold my 1st company, Skio, for $105M cash.
Now my 2nd company, Icon, just raised $30M to launch something the world has never seen.
For $1000, we make 6 human creator ads (no AI, 100% real). We find creators, ship products, write scripts, & edit videos.
It’s
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