I bought this for service business ads mostly which I thought was their main pitch. I attached my key from fal.ai and went through the various templates they had.

First, the cost. I had 1500 credits from tier 2. I generated 3 videos total — one 15 second video with Seedance 2.5, and two 15 second videos with Seedance 2.0. Generating 45 seconds of total video used all 1500 credits AND cost me $27 in API charges on fal.ai. The credits should have covered both Seedance 2.0 videos but I was charged via API for the Seedance 2.0 usage. It seems like I may have been billed twice for the same generations — once in Buzzhooks credits, once on my own API key.

As far as the templates go, they're engaging — things like a paris motorcycle chase or a sloth at the front door kind of stuff. But if you're running ads, you're targeting a specific type of person. These templates are going to get more views, but I don't think they'll attract the right views. It may work for eComm type businesses with products that have mass market appeal, but not for local or service based businesses or anyone targeting a specific buyer type.

On top of the cost, 2 of my 3 videos had typos! lol. The logo was some nonsense in one, and in the other it spelled "paid" as "paied" in very clear white overlay text that not one person is going to miss. It also wrote somewhat nonsense sentences without proper grammar.

And if you want to fix those errors, you have to re-generate the entire video, which runs about $10 each time in my experience.

That's partly on me though — I didn't closely read over the prompt Buzzhooks generated before hitting go. It didn't occur to me that it would make those mistakes or cost that much per video, so I was just playing around to see what it could do. The AI video platform controls the majority of the video quality, so Seedance may well be the one that produced the typos and bad grammar.

Now the positives: it's new, so there's grace for sure. It's great if you don't want to write out a script (or use AI to write one) and you're not sure what to create. It'll come up with something creative and it'll be decent. Very user friendly layout, pretty clear how to use it, and it looks nice. Video will come down in price over time, so locking in a platform that could become great in the near future isn't a bad idea. I'm not keeping it personally — it's too far from my specific needs at the moment but I think it's worth trying it out yourself.

For the team: if you're pitching business ads as your USP, you may want to add far more templates that apply to service businesses and not just eComm. Consider adding more AI models to the roster so people can use their favorites. The cost of both Buzzhook credits and API usage is high — I know you're small and you can't buy in bulk, but that's definitely something to work on. If there's any way to make your video generation more efficient to save credits, I'd look into that. And obviously, make the videos editable so you don't have to regenerate the whole thing over one typo.