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Expert Market: podcast-style ad for SaaS

A podcast guest warns business owners they may be overpaying for their phone system, then points them to a free Expert Market price comparison.

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Brief

Expert Market offers a free price comparison for business phone systems. The ad sets the bar at a current phone system “with call recording and remote access built in,” and the last line is “Tap below to compare phone system prices for free.”

It speaks to anyone paying a provider for business phone lines, opening with “Your business is probably overpaying for its phone system right now.” In about 22 seconds the ad has to plant the doubt that “Most providers are quietly charging you for features you don't even use” and move the viewer to the comparison.

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Format and style

A single-guest podcast frame: a woman with a black fringe, a black turtleneck and gold hoops sits in a pale armchair behind a black studio mic on a boom arm. Bookshelves, trailing plants and white flowers on a round wooden table fill the room, and she sits off-center, turned toward a host the camera never shows, so the viewer lands mid-interview.

Bold white captions with a black outline tilt across the lower middle of the frame, and a key word in each line lights up in green, orange, blue or purple: “overpaying,” “phone system,” “switch,” “savings.” A cost warning sounds like inside advice when a guest on a talk show delivers it, and AI SaaS video ads for a comparison service need that borrowed trust before the brand appears.

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How it was made

I open on the guest mid-gesture with “Your business is probably overpaying for its phone system right now,” and the host she turns toward never speaks. On the hidden charges line I cut to a woman in glasses and a pale blue blazer frowning at a bill between towers of paper, then back to the guest, who raises a finger as she names the features a current phone system should have.

The feature list plays over a young man in a headset on a waterfront bench, scrolling his phone against a city skyline. “You're already behind” runs from him to a woman in a headset at an open-plan office desk, who starts “The kind of savings you can see almost overnight are crazy” before I cut back to the guest to finish it. The ad ends on a white card with the Expert Market logo and an outlined button that reads Tap below to compare prices.

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Deliverables

  • One podcast-style ad, vertical 9:16

  • Runtime 0:22

  • Built for Meta

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