They Made a Big Game (Super Bowl 2026) Ad in 5 Days With AI — Full Breakdown

Full evidence

Verdict: The five-day Artlist ad workflow is a useful production case study, but the $60,000 challenge was time-limited and should be shown as an expired campaign fact, separate from current Artlist subscription pricing.

This companion separates what the video demonstrates from what the retained evidence can establish. Prices are dated observations, official links are limited to reviewed sources, and gaps are stated directly instead of being filled with estimates.

Disclosure

This video was produced as a paid sponsorship with Artlist. Artlist provided no-cost product, account, credits, or access for the review. Curtis reports no affiliate or referral commission, no separate direct payment, no travel or event support, no other material support, no brand editorial approval or control.

The disclosure above comes from Curtis’s supplied commercial facts for this exact video. It distinguishes the reviewed product from any separate sponsored segment and records whether a free product or account was supplied, without inferring payment or editorial control.

What was tested

• Breakdown of the AI-assisted ad workflow, iteration process, and production choices shown in the video.

Evidence boundary

Supported by the reviewed record

• The challenge advertised a $60,000 prize and ended February 18, 2026.
• Artlist describes producing its in-house Big Game ad in five days using its AI Toolkit.
• As recorded in the August 12, 2026 source observation, AI Starter with 16,500 credits was $19.99 monthly or $11.99 per month billed annually; the then-listed AI Creator tier with 80,000 credits was $69.99 monthly or $41.67 per month billed annually. These figures are historical observations.

Current official material can support present-day product, plan and billing context. It does not retroactively prove a publication-date promotion, benchmark or checkout price. Those boundaries remain visible so readers can tell hands-on observations from sourced facts.

Relevant tools and products

• Artlist Big Game challenge — Primary campaign; no matching live Kingy profile is linked.
• Kling — Related model

Kingy links appear only where a matching live profile was verified. Other products remain clear, unlinked labels, preventing placeholder or guessed destinations from becoming broken reader journeys.

Pricing history

At publication: authoritative publication-date price was not retained in the approved evidence. No historical amount has been invented.

Historical observation: The chart and table below preserve the US monthly prices captured on August 12, 2026. They are not the current plan comparison.

Current Artlist AI Suite prices shown on the Canadian page on October 11, 2026: AI Starter is CA$29.99 monthly or CA$17.99/month billed annually, with 16,500 credits; AI Core is CA$59.99 monthly or CA$35.99/month billed annually, with 40,000 credits; AI Creator is CA$103.99 monthly or CA$61.99/month billed annually, with 80,000 credits. The annual figures are monthly equivalents billed annually. The page says prices exclude VAT and local taxes, calculated at checkout. This Canadian-page observation is separate from the historical US prices recorded on August 12; confirm your market, taxes, and checkout total before purchase.

Historical official plan or configuration comparison (observed August 12, 2026)

Official sources

• Win $60K in the Big Game Ad Challenge – Artlist — Official Product, reviewed 2026-08-12.
• Artlist Big Game Ad – Artlist — Official Product, reviewed 2026-08-12.
• Get the perfect AI plan for you – Artlist — Official Pricing, reviewed 2026-08-12.
• AI Suite pricing – Artlist — current plan prices observed 2026-10-11.

These are the first-party destinations approved for this packet. Their titles describe the scope used here; a link does not imply that every statement in the video was confirmed. Observation dates allow later checks to be appended without rewriting this release record.

Update policy

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