As of 13 August 2026, AI can make social media videos for your business.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current price list, product pages, brand guidelines and consent records, then gather the approved facts, logo, product images, existing footage and destination link for the video.
   2. Choose one business goal, one audience, one platform and one call to action, and write them into the prompt together with the target length and tone.
   3. Paste the completed prompt into a chatbot and replace every bracketed slot with your own information, leaving missing items marked as [NEEDS CONFIRMATION].
   4. Put the resulting script and storyboard into a video tool such as VEED, InVideo AI, Pictory, HeyGen or Synthesia, or use the editing brief to assemble your own footage.
   5. Add only assets you own or have permission to use, and compare every spoken and on-screen claim against your current product information before exporting.
   6. Watch the exported video on a phone with sound off and on, check captions, spelling, branding, pacing, accessibility and the call-to-action link, then send it to a colleague for a second opinion if the post is important.
   7. Publish the approved version on the chosen platform and keep the final script, asset licences, consent evidence and approval record with your marketing files.

   Prompt

   Create a social media video package for my business using only the information I provide below. Do not invent product features, prices, results, customers, reviews, locations, qualifications or legal claims. If information is missing, mark it as [NEEDS CONFIRMATION].
   
   Business: [business name and what it does]
   Product or offer: [what is being promoted]
   Target audience: [who should care]
   Goal: [awareness, enquiries, sales, event sign-ups or other]
   Platform: [TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn or other]
   Length: [target length]
   Tone: [for example, practical, warm, direct or playful]
   Call to action: [what the viewer should do]
   Brand rules: [colours, fonts, phrases to use or avoid]
   Available assets: [logo, product photos, footage, testimonials, music and website link]
   Required facts and restrictions: [paste approved facts, prices, claims and compliance wording]
   
   Return:
   1. A concise spoken script with timestamps.
   2. A shot-by-shot vertical storyboard, including on-screen text, visuals, transitions and captions.
   3. A list of the exact assets needed, separating supplied assets from assets to create or source.
   4. A suggested title, caption and call to action.
   5. A final fact and compliance checklist.
   
   Keep the opening useful within the first few seconds. Make captions readable on a phone. Use British English. Make the video feel specific to this business rather than generic. Do not use stock footage or music unless you label it as a suggestion and state that I must check its licence. Where a video tool can generate the video, give production instructions that can be pasted into it. Where it cannot, give an editing brief that a person can follow. Do not publish anything or claim that an asset, link or fact has been checked.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.