Arcads is an AI video ad generation platform that creates user-generated-content-style video ads featuring realistic AI actors. Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, France, the company targets performance marketers who need high volumes of ad creative for social platforms without organizing shoots or hiring creators.
The platform provides a library of more than 1,000 pre-built AI actors, and users can also create custom AI avatars, including actors that hold a specific product or wear branded clothing. Users supply a script, and the platform generates a finished video with lip-synced speech via text-to-speech. Emotion control lets users adjust an actor's delivery through text descriptions, and multilingual support covers translation and localization into more than 30 languages. Built-in AI video editing adds B-roll, music, captions, and transitions automatically, while ready-made ad presets and a shared team canvas support creating, testing, and scaling ad variations. Arcads also lists an AI Video API and Lip Sync API among its features for programmatic video generation.
Arcads is designed for direct-to-consumer brands, mobile app studios, marketing agencies, and e-commerce, SaaS, and lead generation companies that test many ad variations. The company raised a $16 million seed round to expand its AI-generated video advertising platform.
Arcads is a web-based platform. Pricing is not published on the public website; plans are presented after sign-up, and third-party sources describe credit-based monthly subscriptions billed per finished video, with a custom-priced plan including API access for high-volume users.