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How to Create a Product Hunt Launch Video From a Product Page

Create a Product Hunt video from a product page with ngram's Product Hunt campaign mode, then review the launch video for launch day.

How to Create a Product Launch Page Video With Zapier

Create a product launch page video with Zapier by sending approved launch-page source data to ngram, reviewing the draft, and handing the final link to the page owner.

How to Create a Product Launch Video From a Product Page

Turn a product page into a product launch video with ngram, from source URL checks and storyboard review to proof screenshots, CTA polish, and launch QA.

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.

Industry news12 min read

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.

Industry NewsAI Video

Rishikesh Ranjan

Growth Lead

Jul 7, 2026

Industry news14 min read

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.

Industry NewsAI Video

Rishikesh Ranjan

Growth Lead

Jul 3, 2026

Industry news11 min read

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.

Industry NewsAI Video

Rishikesh Ranjan

Growth Lead

Jul 1, 2026

Industry news10 min read

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.

Industry NewsAI Video

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.

Video MarketingAI Video

Rishikesh Ranjan

Growth Lead

Jun 25, 2026

Industry news10 min read

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.

Industry NewsAI Video

Rishikesh Ranjan

Growth Lead

Jun 25, 2026

Industry news12 min read

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.

Industry NewsAI Video

Adobe Express vs CapCut: Which video tool fits 2026

Compare Adobe Express vs CapCut on video workflow, editing depth, AI features, pricing, brand controls, and where ngram fits for business video.

ComparisonVideo Editing

Devadutta Ghat

Co-founder & CTO

Oct 15, 2026