Kalshi aired its first ever AI-produced TV advert during last night’s NBA Finals clash between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
CEO Tarek Mansour took to LinkedIn to reveal the entire 30-second clip was developed using Google’s Veo 3 tool and produced in less than 48 hours ahead of Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
Veo 3, which launched last month, is an AI-video generation service that can create photorealistic videos that include dialogue, ambient noise and sound effects. The tool has taken the internet by storm in recent weeks.
The trailer begins by showing a shirtless man being escorted by police out of a basketball arena while letting a courtside reporter know who he is betting on between Indiana and Oklahoma, before others also pledge their allegiances.
The ad then shifts to other markets offered by Kalshi, with a man in a pool of eggs predicting how much the price of eggs could increase within the month, before a woman talking to a journalist in the middle of a thunderstorm is asked how many hurricanes the US can expect this year.
Soon after, footage of an alien drinking beer at a party is married up to a market on the US confirming alien life.
One of the AI-generated characters then says: “Kalshi lets you legally trade on anything, anywhere in the US”, before the ad ends showing the tagline: “The world’s gone mad, trade it.”
Mansour wrote: “Kalshi just launched our first-ever AI produced TV commercial ahead of the game tonight and we will be airing it throughout the game.
“Our team went from idea to implementation in less than 48 hours, leveraging Google’s Veo 3 to develop this crazy movie.
“Great commercials used to require seven figures and months iterating to land the right creative. AI now makes that possible in a day.
“The Kalshi growth team is constantly re-inventing the way we do things. Keaton Inglis [Kalshi’s growth lead] and team did a great job on this one. Enjoy the show.”
More than $68m has been traded with Kalshi on which team will become NBA champions, with $291.1m alone traded on Game 4.
The Pacers beat the Thunder 116-107 yesterday to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
The launch of Kalshi’s AI-produced ad comes hot on the heels of Canada’s Rivalry publishing its own AI creative last month.
The ad, which was shared by CEO Steven Salz on LinkedIn, was produced for the Ontario market, cost just $100 to make and was completed in under a week, according to the boss.
The ad centres around a Toronto Blue Jays mascot beating up fellow MLB mascots, with a tagline of “Bet on Canada” closing out the 13-second clip.
Salz wrote on LinkedIn: “We kept our creativity without compromising quality (in my opinion). Replicating this with full scale production would have been >250x the cost and 6x-8x the timeline.”
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New York-based prediction market leverages Google Veo 3 technology to produce 30-second commercial bosses claim took just 48 hours to create
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