● Live working example

A $250 ad that out-targets a $1,500 influencer post.

We built this 12-second restaurant reel for Zentarou Sushi in San Francisco — end to end, in under two minutes, for the cost of an espresso. Then we put it where it matters: in front of the 85,000 Bay Area foodies who actually live within walking distance and have shown up for sushi in the last 60 days.

12s

Reel runtime

~90s

Build time

$2.40

Generation cost

9:16

Native vertical

The Ad

Generated by Veo 3.1 Fast · voice ElevenLabs · script Gemini 2.5 · photo selection ranked by Gemini Vision from 13 candidates.
Source photos: Google Maps + 3 owner-provided shots.

vs. an influencer post

The bigger reach isn't the point.
The right reach is.

An influencer post puts your restaurant in front of the people who follow that influencer. A targeted ad puts you in front of the people who would actually come back. Here's what $1,500 with a mid-tier SF foodie buys you, vs. $250 of paid distribution behind this reel.

Influencer post

Sherry posts your dish to her grid

A nice mid-tier SF food creator · ~50K followers

×One shot. Posted once. Two days of feed life, then it's gone.
×No targeting. Reaches whoever follows her — half are out-of-state, most have already eaten there or never will.
×No retargeting. Someone watches the whole thing and walks away — you have no way to ever reach them again.
×No conversion data. Did anyone book? Walk in? Use a code? Nobody knows.
×No A/B. One post, one creative, one tone. Doesn't work? You ate the cost.
×Months of negotiation. Brief, contract, dish comp, post-approval, scheduling.

Cost~$1,500

Estimated useful reach~6K

Trackable bookings0

Targeted ad — Create Studio

This reel runs on Meta + TikTok for two weeks

$250 ad spend · placed by us · live in 24 hours

✓Geo-fenced. Only served inside a 3-mile radius of your front door — Inner Sunset, Cole Valley, Inner Richmond, Haight.
✓Demo-targeted. 25–55, $80K+ household income, "interested in Japanese cuisine, sushi, omakase, sake."
✓Retargets watchers. Anyone who watches 50%+ but doesn't click sees a follow-up creative within 48 hours.
✓Conversion-tracked. Coupon code ZEN20 ties every redemption to the ad. You see CPA, not vanity views.
✓A/B from day one. Three thumbnails, three voiceovers, three captions — Meta picks the winner inside 72 hours.
✓No negotiation. Generated in 90 seconds. Live tomorrow. Paused or refreshed any time.

Cost$250

Targeted impressions~50K

Trackable bookingsYes — every one

What "targeted" actually means

Four levers a feed post can't pull.

Influencers sell you reach. Paid distribution lets you spend on the right reach — and re-reach the people who already showed interest.

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Geographic

3-mile
radius

~85,000 Bay Area locals living within walking and short-Uber distance of 1380 9th Ave. No Sacramento followers, no out-of-state vacationers, no wasted impressions.

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Demographic

25–55
$80K+ HHI

Sushi-buying age and budget. Layered with "frequents Japanese restaurants" and "engaged with food creators in the last 30 days."

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Retargeting

Watch >50%
see it again

Anyone who watched at least half but didn't click gets a different version 48 hours later. The follow-up converts at 3–5× the cold rate.

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Attribution

Code ZEN20
= a paid result

Every redemption is tied back to the ad. You stop guessing whether marketing worked — you see cost-per-booking the same week.

How it's built

From restaurant name to running ad in 90 seconds.

Everything that used to need a photographer, copywriter, voice talent, editor, and an agency. Now: one prompt and a Google Maps link.

Photo intake

Pulls the venue's existing Google Maps photos — plus any staff iPhone shots — into one pool. 13 candidates for Zentarou.

Google Places API

Best-shot ranking

A vision model scores every candidate for "premium food-ad appeal," picks the strongest two, throws out logo plates and dim group shots.

Gemini 2.5 Vision

Voiceover script

Writes a script in the tone of a real local food influencer — first-person, sensory, no corporate hype words. ~29 words for a 12-second reel.

Gemini 2.5 Flash + ElevenLabs

Cinematic motion

Each photo becomes a 6-second cinematic clip — steam curling off rice, chopsticks lifting nigiri. Stitched, scored, and rendered into one 9:16 reel.

Veo 3.1 Fast

Want one for your venue?

We're looking for two or three friendly partner restaurants in the Bay Area to run a fully-managed campaign — at cost, while we calibrate. You get the ad, the static variants, the landing page, the targeting, and the conversion data. We get a real-world ROI case to share.

Email us about a pilot See the live coupon page →