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Media, Ads & Creative AI category

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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Movable Ink

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIAcquiredClear buyer pull74views

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· 2d ago
Mirage

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorth watching

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· 2d ago
Minerva

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIGrowthClear buyer pull76views

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· 2d ago
Persado

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIGrowthWorth watching98views

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· 2d ago
Runway

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries EWorkflow86views

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· 2d ago
Setset AI

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorkflow

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· 2d ago
Smartly

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorkflow

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· 2d ago
Synthesia

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries EWorkflow

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· 2d ago
Vidmob

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries DWorkflow

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· 2d ago
Stewdio

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeedWorkflow131views

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YC-backed NYC company. · Apr 11, 2026
Passionfroot

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries AWorkflow91views

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Added: expands creative AI and brand intelligence coverage. · 3d ago
Mega

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries AWorkflow179views

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Added: expands creative AI and brand intelligence coverage. · May 18, 2026
Lumesa AI

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeedWorkflow146views

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Added: expands creative AI and brand intelligence coverage. · May 18, 2026
FLORA

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries AWorkflow124views

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Series A creative AI company building workflow infrastructure for designers and creative teams. · May 4, 2026
ElevenLabs

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AISeries DWorkflow

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· 2d ago
CreativeX

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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· 2d ago
Cognitiv

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorth watching44views

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· 2d ago
Clinch

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorkflow

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· 2d ago
AirOps

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.

Media, Ads & Creative AIUnknownWorkflow93views

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· 2d ago