AI ads from food and drink brands
Every food and drink brand ad in AI Ad Index made with generative AI, newest first. Industry groupings are ours, based on each brand's main business.
- 21 ads from 18 brands, released 2022 to 2026.
- 13 of 21 publicly credit at least one AI tool. Most credited: Google Veo (4), Kling (3), Luma (3), Runway (3).
- Formats: TV (9), Social (8), Online video (3), Brand film (2), Interactive (2).
- 19 official brand ads and 2 spec ads (unofficial work not commissioned by the brand).
- 6 drew documented public backlash, and 3 were pulled or taken down.
Take Your Time (spec)
An unofficial, semi-autobiographical tribute to Guinness ads: a life lived inside the slow pour of one pint.
Lil Lean promo images
Editorial-style images of models posing with the ice cream brand's 'Lil Lean' treat, which Entertainment Weekly confirmed used AI-generated models.
Pelicana AI chicken-family ad
Anthropomorphized fried-chicken characters in a comedy about a baby that looks like seasoned chicken and a suspicion of infidelity.
Shake Your Bots Off
Svedka's Fembot and new partner Brobot dance at a human party in the brand's first Super Bowl spot. Human dance performances were translated onto the robots through a custom AI pipeline.
Strog Drama
Real fan posts begging for Steak Stroganoff's return are turned into over-the-top AI mini-dramas: a raft survivor, an astronaut, a storm-soaked man.
Liberá tu cocodrilo
A live shoot in Quito combined with AI-generated characters and environments.
Snapple Real Facts films
Hundreds of under-the-cap 'Real Facts' turned into surreal short films, like a conga line of migrating spiny lobsters. AI use was disclosed in the social posts.
It's the Most Terrible Time of the Year
A montage of holiday disasters (smashed gifts, caroling mishaps, Santa in traffic) ending with 'hide out in McDonald's till January'.
Holidays Are Coming (2025)
A second AI remake of the 1995 truck spot, now centered on animals (polar bears, penguins, puppies) watching the trucks pass.
AI Commercial
A Turkish snack brand's commercial generated start to finish with AI, including the music, by a 12-person team.
Pulled Over (spec)
Unofficial fan-made Liquid Death ad built entirely in Veo 3.
(w)Rap Battle
A diss-track music video aimed at McDonald's returning Snack Wrap, billed as the first AI-generated diss track. Made in about three days after the team scrapped image-to-video and switched to Veo 3 only.
Chingu Ya!
An iced drink becomes a portal into K-pop-flavored fantasy worlds with three flavor mascots, aimed at Gen Z across Southeast Asia.
Break from Artificial (Holiday Edition)
A parody of Coca-Cola's AI holiday ad: Santa on a drone, a polar bear eating presents and uncanny people drinking brown soda, before cutting to real people drinking Zevia.
Holidays Are Coming (2024 AI remake)
An AI remake of the classic 1995 Christmas truck ad, made by three AI studios.
Field of Fake
Opens on an uncanny AI-generated sports world of distorted athletes, then snaps to real athletes with the line 'No substitute for real.'
Million Dollar Whopper
Fans picked toppings and AI generated an image of their custom Whopper plus a shareable ad with a personalized jingle.
Different Every Time
Two friends eat a Starburst and get pulled into AI-styled worlds. A modular pipeline produced 20 world styles and 320 video variants so viewers rarely see the same ad twice.
Masterpiece
A Coke bottle passes through famous artworks that come to life. AI sped up painterly animation alongside live action, CGI and hand animation.
Create Real Magic
A custom AI art platform that let artists remix Coca-Cola archive assets, with winning works shown on landmark billboards.
A.I. Ketchup
Heinz prompted an AI image generator with 'ketchup' and variations like 'ketchup renaissance', and the results kept looking like Heinz. A follow-up to its 'Draw Ketchup' campaign.
Brands in Food & drink
- Coca-Cola4
- BodyArmor: Field of Fake
- Burger King: Million Dollar Whopper
- Chingu Cafe: Chingu Ya!
- Doyuyo: AI Commercial
- Guinness: Take Your Time (spec)
- Heinz: A.I. Ketchup
- Liquid Death: Pulled Over (spec)
- McDonald's Netherlands: It's the Most Terrible Time of the Year
- Noodles & Company: Strog Drama
- Pelicana: Pelicana AI chicken-family ad
- Popeyes: (w)Rap Battle
- SMiZE & DREAM: Lil Lean promo images
- Snapple: Snapple Real Facts films
- Starburst: Different Every Time
- Svedka: Shake Your Bots Off
- Tango: Liberá tu cocodrilo
- Zevia: Break from Artificial (Holiday Edition)