This AI Workflow Does 10 Hours of Ad Research in Minutes

*Get our 5 AI workflows + 15 prompts to automate social trends research:* https://clickhubspot.com/smv Shownotes What if you could automate 10 hours of TikTok research into 10 minutes of actionable ad briefs? In this episode, Kipp sits down with Mike Futia, who built an AI-powered TikTok trend research tool using Claude Code and Replit. Mike demonstrates how his workflow scrapes TikTok for trending videos, uses Gemini to analyze video content and comments, and automatically generates creative briefs for ad campaigns. 00:00 — Intro: Meeting Mike Futia 01:00 — The problem: Manual TikTok trend research 03:00 — How agencies use TikTok trends for Facebook ads 04:00 — Demo: The TikTok scraper tool (Appify + Claude Code) 06:00 — Gemini analyzing TikTok videos in real-time 07:00 — Mining insights from video comments 09:00 — Generating ad creative briefs automatically 10:00 — Taste profiles and brand bibles for AI 13:00 — Why Meta wants creative volume 16:00 — Where to draw the automation line 18:00 — Why AI video generation isn't ready yet 21:00 — AI agent hype vs practical automation 23:00 — N8n learning curve: 4 months to proficiency 25:00 — Why Claude Code beats N8n for most marketers 27:00 — Gemini's secret: It watches 1-hour videos 28:00 — Mike's advice: Start with Claude Code, not N8n Mentions Mike Futia ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-futia-108709126 Apify ⁠https://apify.com Claude ⁠https://claude.ai n8n ⁠https://n8n.io Zapier ⁠https://zapier.com Host Links: 📲Kipp Bodnar, https://twitter.com/kippbodnar 📲Kieran Flanagan, https://twitter.com/searchbrat ‘Marketing Against The Grain’ is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Produced by Darren Clarke. About the Show Kipp Bodnar, HubSpot’s CMO and Kieran Flanagan Hubspot's SVP of Marketing, lead you down the rabbit hole of marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation. On the way you’ll pick up undiscovered strategies to give you that slight edge for success. These are not your typical twitter thread regurgitated marketing tactics that everyone is doing. These are new methods, with unfiltered examination of successful fresh ideas.