19 NYC startups to know
Media, Ads & Creative AI
AI creative tools, ad platforms, synthetic media products, brand agents, and consumer insight engines.
Why this category matters
NYC media and advertising companies are close to brands, agencies, creators, and buyers, making the city a natural proving ground for creative AI.
Startups to know in Media, Ads & Creative AI
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AI chooses the creative for each customer
Movable Ink uses AI to choose and personalize marketing content across email, mobile, and web, turning customer data into individual creative experiences.
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Creative tools powered by proprietary video models
Mirage builds creative AI models and tools, including Captions and Tesseract, that turn prompts and source media into editable video, motion, and sound.
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Consumer context becomes an operating layer for marketing agents
Minerva combines consumer context with AI data engineering and data science agents, helping marketers unify customer data, build campaigns, and measure results.
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Marketing language optimized for motivation and compliance
Persado generates and optimizes marketing language using response and transaction data, pairing personalized content with compliance controls for banks and other regulated businesses.
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World simulation meets creative production
Runway develops world models and creative AI tools that let artists and enterprises generate, edit, and simulate video, characters, and interactive environments.
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Repeatable AI production for fashion imagery
Setset generates fashion imagery and video from product files and samples, giving brands controlled, repeatable workflows for on-model assets, product pages, and campaigns.
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AI connects creative production and advertising execution
Smartly combines AI creative tools, campaign orchestration, and advertising workflows, helping brands produce, deliver, and optimize personalized campaigns across digital channels.
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Enterprise knowledge becomes multilingual AI video
Synthesia creates enterprise videos with AI avatars, dubbing, and interactive tools, turning organizational knowledge into multilingual training and communication without traditional production.
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Creative data connects ad design to performance
Vidmob uses AI to analyze creative attributes and advertising performance, helping brands derive custom creative standards and apply them across campaigns.
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Creators can generate motion graphics while retaining detailed editing controls and using their preferred AI tools and subscriptions
Stewdio creates editable motion graphics from prompts, combining AI generation with familiar timeline controls and integrations for existing creative and coding tools.
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AI-assisted creator campaigns for B2B growth teams
Passionfroot helps B2B marketing teams discover creators, plan campaigns, manage payments, and measure results, with an AI agent coordinating creator-led growth.
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Small businesses can use an accountable AI growth team that executes marketing across search, advertising, websites, and lead conversion
Mega runs SEO, paid advertising, and websites for small businesses through AI agents backed by human marketers who oversee strategy and execution.
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Retail teams can turn brand-specific creative direction into repeatable product imagery, connecting visual production with testing and deployment
Lumesa AI helps fashion and retail brands generate, personalize, test, and deploy product visuals while preserving each brand's visual identity across channels.
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A shared creative canvas for generative production workflows
FLORA connects generative image, video, and text models in a shared creative canvas, letting teams build reusable workflows with professional editing control.
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An audio AI stack from models to agents
ElevenLabs develops audio foundation models and production platforms for speech, music, dubbing, and conversational agents, connecting voice research directly to creator and enterprise tools.
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Measure creative quality across every campaign
CreativeX uses computer vision to analyze advertising content and performance, giving brands consistent standards for creative quality, production, media activation, and representation.
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Advertising decisions can use continuously learned behavioral and contextual signals instead of fixed audience segments and manually tuned rules
Cognitiv uses deep learning to predict consumer behavior and optimize advertising, combining programmatic media buying, campaign-specific algorithms, and contextual understanding across channels.
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AI orchestrates creative and media execution
Clinch uses AI agents to connect creative production, campaign strategy, ad delivery, and performance optimization in one workflow for omnichannel advertising.
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Content operations built for AI search discovery
AirOps combines AI agents, brand data, and content workflows to research, publish, and refresh marketing content that helps companies appear in AI-driven discovery.
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