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 "slug": "plain-for-technical-buyers",
 "name": "Plain screen recording for technical buyers",
 "category": "publish",
 "group": "Paid",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "It looks like a user showing a tool, which is what this buyer trusts.",
 "use_when": "Ads for developer tools and products bought by older or technical people.",
 "phrase": "a plain 9:16 screen recording of someone using the product, 30 to 60 seconds, one line of text on top",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A practitioner's claim from one programme: for technical or older buyers the plainer ad performs better. Match the polish to the buyer and let spend decide.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Paid UGC on performance (Hector Serrano, Wispr Flow)"
  },
  {
   "text": "He also says a paid winner can rarely be planned; keep the bar to run an ad low.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Paid UGC on performance (Hector Serrano, Wispr Flow)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "creator-ads-on-performance",
  "pov-phone-scroll",
  "format-screen-led"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair notes on Paid UGC on performance (Hector Serrano, Wispr Flow)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/publish/plain-for-technical-buyers",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/publish/plain-for-technical-buyers.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me a step-by-step plan I can follow this week, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is plain screen recording for technical buyers: it looks like a user showing a tool, which is what this buyer trusts. How it works: a plain 9:16 screen recording of someone using the product, 30 to 60 seconds, one line of text on top. It is right for: ads for developer tools and products bought by older or technical people. A practitioner's claim from one programme: for technical or older buyers the plainer ad performs better. He also says a paid winner can rarely be planned; keep the bar to run an ad low. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}