🗞️ Miniature People go Viral💥🚀

AI for eCommerce Newsletter - 35

March 11, 2025

🚀 Trending Now: The Miniature People Phenomenon🔥

The miniature figurine trend is absolutely EXPLODING across social media right now, and it's a game-changer for e-commerce brands looking to stand out! These tiny, incredibly detailed figurines placed on products create magical, eye-catching scenes that audiences can't stop sharing and engaging with.

What's so brilliant about this approach is how it transforms standard product photography into delightful mini-stories that capture immediate attention! By featuring miniature workers "polishing" sneakers or "constructing" makeup palettes, brands are creating irresistible content that stops scrollers in their tracks.

So I decided to try it out myself! I took this image (which I created with AI):

And turned it into this eye-catching, scroll stopping animation:

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AI is revolutionizing how brands can be seen and heard! Advanced image generation models including Glam, Krea, Vidu and Kling can now create these types of animation without the need for physical props and complex photography setups. Using text-to-image AI tools, marketers can describe exactly the miniature scene they envision, and AI generates photorealistic compositions featuring products with tiny figurines in various creative scenarios.

For e-commerce marketers, using AI creatives is delivering amazing results:

  • Engagement rates are skyrocketing compared to traditional product shots

  • Share counts are multiplying as users can't resist showing friends

  • Products are showcased from fascinating new angles customers haven't seen before

  • Brand content instantly pops in crowded social feeds

Do you want AI Creatives like these for your brand? Contact us at [email protected]

Make.com - Automating Your Business Operations

I've been absolutely obsessed with Make.com lately, and for good reason! This powerful automation platform is transforming how businesses streamline their operation workflows.

What makes Make.com stand out is its incredible visual interface that allows you to create complex automation scenarios with drag and drop connections, without writing a single line of code.

The real magic behind Make.com is its expert use of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) - the digital connectors that enable virtually unlimited integration possibilities. These powerful tools act as universal translators between different software systems, allowing them to communicate and share data seamlessly.

I’ve used Make.com to build workflows for:

1) Applicant screening

2) Social media posting

3) AI Image generation at scale

I'm not going to lie, there's definitely a learning curve to start using Make.com, but don't let that scare you off! YouTube is packed with amazing tutorials that break everything down. If you're the type who enjoys figuring things out (and I know most of you reading this are), just one weekend of diving into these tutorials will have you building pretty sophisticated automations. Trust me - that first "aha!" moment when your automation runs perfectly is totally worth the initial head-scratching!

How much you ask? It’s free for upto 1000 transactions and beyond that it’s a nominal $10/month.

A Chinese AI Agent: Manus AI - Smarter than ChatGPT?

China has unveiled its latest innovation in artificial intelligence, an autonomous agent called Manus AI. This isn't just your average thinking AI; it delivers concrete results! Could this be our introduction to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)?

What Does Manus AI Do?

Manus AI, a versatile agent, excels at both work and life tasks, helping you get things done while you can relax.

Here's a glimpse of what it can do:

  • Resume Screening: Automate the resume review process to make hiring a breeze.

  • Property Research: Find suitable properties based on set criteria, such as the perfect school districts, your maximum budget, and so on.

  • Task List Breakdown: Complex task? No problem! Manus AI will first break everything down into a to do list for simplicity.

A Sneak Peek into the Future

It's claimed that Manus AI surpasses ChatGPT in depth research. Although currently available by invitation only, the buzz is so great that invitations are already being traded! The website "manus.im" is now offline due to server crashes as so many people are attempting to connect to it to try out its features.

Coming Soon: Open Source

Later this year, an open-source version of this powerful AI agent will be available, allowing anyone to use it freely. The website "manus.im" shows some practical use cases, from B2B supplier sourcing to podcast editing, which makes people excited about future use.

Hot Off the Press: Amazon's Rufus Gets a Visual Upgrade!

I just read Andrew Bell's fascinating article about Amazon's AI shopping assistant, and it's WAY more impressive than I initially thought!

Here's what's actually happening: While Rufus has always been able to read text in images using OCR, what's revolutionary is that it now interprets entire images holistically AND can render visuals directly in the chat interface. This creates a much richer shopping experience!

But the real game-changer is something called MIVC (Multiple Instance Visual Component) - and it's brilliant! Instead of analyzing just one product image at a time (like most AI systems), MIVC intelligently combines information from multiple product images - the lifestyle shot, the close-ups, different angles - into one comprehensive understanding.

Think about it: When you're shopping for a rug, you want to see the pattern up close, how thick it is, AND how it looks in a room. MIVC weighs the importance of each image based on what you're asking! If you ask about texture, it prioritizes the close-up shot. Ask about room styling, and it focuses on the lifestyle image.

The article shows amazing examples of this in action - like when someone asked about a rug's pattern, MIVC gave most attention (0.65 weight) to the close-up image that showed the details best.

For us e-commerce folks, this means every single product image matters now. The days of just having one good hero shot are OVER!

I'm already rethinking our product photography strategy to take advantage of this. Who else is excited to optimize their listings for this new visual AI approach?

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