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Product updates, best practices, and insights on AI-powered video creation for modern teams.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Compare Adobe Express vs CapCut on video workflow, editing depth, AI features, pricing, brand controls, and where ngram fits for business video.
Adobe Express and Filmora both edit video, but one is a brand-first design app and the other is a timeline editor. Compare workflow, AI, pricing, and ngram fit.
Compare Adobe Express vs FlexClip on video workflow, AI tools, pricing, brand controls, and where ngram fits for source-to-video work.
Async and Zencastr both record audio and video, but Async is broader AI production while Zencastr is tighter podcast recording and hosting.
BombBomb and Dubb both send trackable sales videos, but they split on pricing, AI, CRM workflow, and team adoption. Here is the 2026 verdict.
BombBomb and Hippo Video both serve sales teams, but one centers on personal video email while the other leans into AI-generated outreach.
