I Cloned a $6.5 Million Super Bowl Ad With AI (And Put Myself In It)
I cloned a $6.5 million Super Bowl ad, put myself in the lead role, and built the whole thing in one afternoon using a single link. Below you can watch the original and my remake back to back, and the video above walks through the exact click-by-click process so you can do the same with any ad you love.
The original: $6.5 million for 30 seconds
The ad I cloned is the Pringles "Stuck In" commercial from the 2022 Super Bowl, when a 30-second slot cost $6.5 million. A guy gets his hand stuck in a Pringles can at a party, and the ad rolls through everyone else it happens to: surgeons, judges, airport ground crew, game show contestants, a Meghan Trainor cameo, bowlers, even little cousin Timmy. All of it scored to Tina Turner's "The Best."
Here is the original Pringles ad:
And here is my cloned version, a fictive Nutella ad, with me in the lead role:
It's short, but there is a lot inside it. When Clone Studio broke it down, the 30-second ad turned out to have almost 30 separate scenes. That's the first lesson before we even start: a great commercial almost never holds a shot longer than two or three seconds. That cutting rhythm is the winning structure, and that structure is exactly what we're going to clone.
What I changed in my remake
I didn't want to reuse anything I shouldn't. So my version has:
- Me as the main character. Why not? I uploaded a photo of myself and took the lead role.
- Nutella instead of Pringles. The joke works because you can get stuck in the jar, so the gag survives the product swap.
- A grandma instead of the grandpa, consistent across every shot she appears in.
- An invented celebrity. The original had Meghan Trainor. I wasn't going to use her likeness, so my ad features "Elvis Jackson," a completely made-up star.
- Cousin Mary instead of cousin Timmy, and "Thanks, Grandma" instead of "Thanks, Grandpa."
- A brand-new soundtrack. The original uses a Tina Turner track I could never afford to license, so I generated a similar-feeling song with the Music Maker inside the AI Media Machine. It even stops dead where the scene requires it.
How to clone an ad, step by step
1. Paste the link
Find an ad you love on YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook and copy the link. Open the AI Media Machine, click Clone Studio, paste the link (or upload the video file), and let it run. It breaks the ad down into every cut and every shot, each with its own description.
2. Swap the actor with one sentence
Take scene one: the guy walks into the birthday party. I uploaded a photo of myself and typed "replace the guy with the reference image but keep the look and the light." The AI rebuilt the frame with me in it, same room, same lighting, same camera feel. If you don't have a reference photo you can just describe the change, like "replace this guy with a woman," and it applies it across the shots.
3. Reanimate the shot
Each scene already knows how long it should be, because the original scene was that long. The action is prefilled too: the AI wrote out that the guy enters the room slightly happy, what the camera does, and what audio effects are present. You can edit any of it, then click reanimate and it generates the moving shot. Sometimes you regenerate a couple of times to nail the motion, but I often get it on the first try.
4. Swap the product
The product shot was the fun one: a hand picks up the can and gets stuck. I told it to replace the Pringles with Nutella jars, with the open jar half full of chocolate. It got it on the first try, matching the colors, the depth of field, and the camera look of the original. Nutella is famous enough that I didn't even need a reference image. For your own product, upload a photo and say "use the product from my reference image."
5. Add the dialogue and characters
When the grandma appears and says "Don't worry," the lip sync is generated with the line, and you can change the words to whatever you want. Adding her took one instruction and two reference images: one of her, one of me, plus "replace the young man with the bald man from the reference image." You explain it the way you'd explain it to a friend, and it understands.
6. Generate the music
Original Super Bowl music is licensed for millions. The Music Maker inside the AI Media Machine builds a track that fits the same energy, timed to the edit, for nothing.
Why clone instead of inventing your own ad
If you invent a brand-new ad concept, with AI or without, you're gambling that the concept works. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe you don't know enough cinematography to design 30 shots with this kind of color, focus, and pacing. This is high-end film craft you cannot shoot on an iPhone, and the people who made the original spent millions proving the structure converts on the biggest stage in advertising.
Cloning flips the risk. You start from a pattern that already won, keep the structure, and swap in your product, your actors, and your message. That's the entire philosophy behind the AI Media Machine: don't guess, model what's proven. Clone Studio is the newest app inside it, and the founding-member deal is still running, 30 days for $1.
One more thing. I want to clone a couple more famous ads, so if there's an ad you love and you'd like to see your kind of product dropped into it, leave a comment on the video above and tell me which one. I read them all.
