Dive Temporary:
- Honda is leveraging synthetic intelligence (AI) for a brand new Dream Generator expertise that promotes its all-electric Prologue SUV, per particulars shared with Advertising and marketing Dive. The Prologue is Honda’s first zero-emissions SUV.
- The Dream Generator duties shoppers with answering just a few questions earlier than producing a customized, artistic movie that includes the Prologue SUV. The hassle was developed completely for Honda in collaboration with Amazon Advertisements Model Innovation Lab.
- The Dream Generator could be accessed through call-to-action banners on Amazon, and it’ll quickly be accessible on extra Amazon gadgets, together with the Echo Present. The hassle is tied to the launch marketing campaign for the 2024 Prologue, which is able to roll out in its entirety all through 2024.
Dive Perception:
Honda is touting limitless prospects for its new all-electric Prologue SUV with the launch of the Dream Generator. The expertise, billed in launch particulars as a first-of-its-kind marketing campaign for Amazon Advertisements Model Innovation Lab, is fueled by 1stAveMachine’s AI expertise and is accessible throughout Amazon, which may assist the automaker appeal to a wider viewers.
“The launch of the all-new, all-electric Honda Prologue is a pivotal second for the model, and we needed our prospects to take pleasure in an revolutionary and interesting marketing campaign befitting Honda’s first zero-emissions SUV,” stated Phil Hruska, senior supervisor, Honda Advertising and marketing, in launch particulars.
The Dream Generator guides Amazon prospects to reply just a few questions that serve to personalize their expertise. After submitting their responses, a customized movie is generated — constructed from a set of story themes, imagery and sounds — spotlighting the Prologue SUV. The expertise leverages AI-generated animation from 1stAveMachine utilizing conventional hand-drawn animation cells, per launch particulars, with characters first illustrated by hand earlier than being remodeled into the video’s 3D environments utilizing generative AI.
Experiences made attainable by Honda’s Dream Generator may embody a leafy jungle terrain with dinosaurs, a magic cloud world, a microscopic backyard jungle and even outer house, per launch particulars. With over 190 story variations attainable, the Dream Generator “exemplifies artistic collaboration,” Kate McCagg, director of Amazon Advertisements Model Innovation Lab, stated in launch particulars. The expertise fuses the artistic know-how of illustrators, animation artists, 3D artists, movie administrators and AI builders.
The Dream Generator expertise is a part of an built-in launch advertising marketing campaign for the 2024 Prologue, which additionally features a “Subsequent Gen Dreamers” TV spot that’s at the moment airing. The complete marketing campaign will roll out by 2024. The Dream Generator, launched with company RPA, isn’t the primary time Honda has leveraged AI for its artistic advertising performs: In January, the automaker tied AI into its “Chasing Greatness” marketing campaign to spotlight its TrailSport truck fashions.
The Dream Generator creates tales on the Amazon customers’ most popular gadget, together with desktop, cell phone or on Fireplace TV. Along with being accessible by CTA banners on Amazon, the Dream Generator was promoted through an Amazon.com homepage takeover on March 15 timed to its launch. The expertise may even develop to extra Amazon gadgets down the road, together with by a customized branded expertise on Echo Present gadgets that leverages voice-activation with Amazon Alexa.
Honda is amongst a rising record of manufacturers who’ve experimented with AI because the buzzy tech continues to drum up pleasure within the advertising house and past. The automaker has additionally been no stranger to new artistic alternatives geared towards reaching new audiences, having prior to now arrange store in Fortnite through the Hondaverse and brought to TikTok to advertise the Honda Civic.
