Cheap Stories Know Best

📅 Today’s Topics:

🏆 Oscars prove cheap stories win big
🔥 Honda’s storytelling masterclass
🤖 AI is here… but does it have a soul?
📊 If you’re not tracking your content, you’re throwing money away

🏆 Cheap Stories Win Big at the Oscars

Sunday night, history was made.

The world is shifting. We don’t want overproduced, over-CGI’d spectacle anymore—we want real, human stories.

And that’s exactly what Anora delivered. A $6 million film (not exactly pocket change, but by Hollywood standards? It might as well be) that took home five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Director Sean Baker matched Walt Disney’s record for most Oscars won in a single night. Let that sink in.

Big-budget blockbusters? They might need to take a backseat for a while. Because right now, people are hungry for authenticity. They want stories that make them feel something—not just big explosions and high VFX budgets.

The lesson? High-quality storytelling beats high-budget production. Every time.

🔥 Honda Ripping Into Story

Storytelling is not just words—it’s tone, rhythm, feeling. And Honda nailed it.

Maybe you missed this ad from late 2024, but if you care about script, pacing, and emotional pull, watch this:
👉 Honda Ad Breakdown

Here’s what they did:
📌 The voiceover is read forward and then backward—same words, different intonation.
📌 The first half feels like chaos, a world falling apart.
📌 Then the shift happens—the same words transform into triumph.

That’s how you use tone and script to build tension, create payoff, and make an audience feel something.

Honda turned a car ad into a masterclass in storytelling.

🤖 Damn, Should We Be Worried?

Sora AI just launched. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch this now:
👉 Sora AI Video

First reaction? Insane. Second reaction? Terrifying.

This thing spits out gorgeous, almost perfect video scenes. No crew, no cameras, just a few text prompts and boom—you’ve got content.

But here’s the catch: it has no soul.

It can generate beauty, but can it capture imperfection? Tension? Human emotion? No. That’s the gap. That’s where real creators still win.

Sora won’t replace filmmakers. But it will make some things easier and cheaper. It’s a tool, not a takeover. For now.

📊 You’re Making Content… But Are You Tracking It?

Let me guess—you’re putting out content, feeling good, but not actually tracking your audience.

So what’s the plan? Pray for engagement? Hope someone drops a comment?

Wrong.

Video analytics = your ROI playbook. If you don’t know who’s watching, for how long, or what’s working, you’re throwing money into the wind and calling it marketing.

And here’s the thing—what works organically on TikTok won’t work on LinkedIn. They all have their own algorithms, their own quirks, their own reasons for pushing content.

👉 Watch what works organically for you on each platform.
👉 Once something clicks, test it as an ad.
👉 Put some dollars behind what’s already getting traction.

This isn’t about throwing content into the void and praying—it’s about playing the platforms right and turning organic wins into paid ones.

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