Articles by Rishikesh Ranjan (112)
How to Create a Product Launch Video With Zapier
Create a product launch video from approved launch inputs by using Zapier video generation with ngram, review gates, and repeatable field mapping.
TwelveLabs Raises $100 Million to Prove AI Video's Next Bottleneck Is Understanding, Not Generation
TwelveLabs raised $100M and signed a multiyear AWS Trainium chip deal on July 1, 2026, while 2026's biggest AI video headlines keep going to generation models. Here is what the funding map reveals about the video understanding layer.
Kling AI's $2 Billion Funding Round: Inside AI Video's $18 Billion Bet
Kuaishou's Kling AI raised $2B+ at an $18 billion valuation, the largest funding round in AI video generation's history. Here is what the ARR growth, peer valuations, and the 2027 IPO clock actually reveal about the economics of the model layer.
Google Just Priced the Image-to-Video Commerce Pipeline: Here's the Real Math
Google's June 30 launch of Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash public preview puts a real price tag on image-to-video for the first time: $0.034 per 1,000 images to draft, $0.10 per second to animate. Here's what a 15-second product video actually costs to generate, and what it means for commerce video economics.
Why Two Hollywood Studios Took Equity in AI Video Providers in 11 Days
In June 2026, A24 and Lionsgate each took equity stakes in AI video providers 11 days apart. Neither framed it as cost reduction. Here is what the deals reveal about where AI filmmaking tools have landed.
State of US Video Production Agencies 2026: A Data Report on 1,016 Agencies
We profiled 1,016 US video production agencies. The typical one is a 4-person boutique that sells 5.6 services and clusters in four states. Full data report.
Seedance 2.5: ByteDance's Native 30-Second AI Video Model and the End of Stitching
ByteDance announced Seedance 2.5 on June 23, 2026, the first major AI video model to generate a native 30-second 4K clip in a single pass. Here is what that means for production teams dealing with the stitching problem.
The AI Video Power Vacuum: How Sora's Collapse and Seedance's Legal Freeze Handed Alibaba Global Market Leadership
OpenAI shut Sora down in April 2026. ByteDance froze Seedance 2.0's global rollout in March after Hollywood cease-and-desist letters. Within 90 days, two of the most credible enterprise AI video models exited the international market. Alibaba launched HappyHorse 1.1 on June 22 into that gap, the only enterprise-grade model with a global API, native lip sync, and audio in a single pass. Here is the full analysis.
Dubb vs Hippo Video: Which sales video platform fits in 2026
Dubb and Hippo Video both sell personalized sales video, but the workflow split is sharp: Dubb records and tracks outreach, while Hippo Video automates AI-avatar campaigns. Here is the 2026 verdict.
InVideo vs Pictory: Which AI Video Tool Wins in 2026
InVideo and Pictory both turn text into video, but one is a creative studio with a timeline editor and the other repurposes blogs and URLs at speed. We compare them for 2026.
InVideo vs VEED (2026): Which Text-to-Video Tool Wins?
InVideo and VEED both turn text into video, but one is a prompt-to-finished-video agent and the other is a browser editor for social clips. We compare them for 2026.
Kapwing vs Visla: Which AI Video Tool Wins in 2026
Kapwing and Visla both turn text and footage into video, but they solve it differently. We compare workflow, AI, recording, voices, and pricing for 2026, plus where ngram fits.