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Vibe Marketing: How to Stop Overpaying for Promotion

Date: 2025-09-18 | Time of reading: 8 minutes (1512 words)
Background
AI is taking over business, and marketers are among the first to use it to speed up work and solve tasks. 45% choose AI for content creation. More than 28% use neural networks to create email newsletters. Although the internet is full of talk about AI replacing humans, we’re still far from that. Today, marketing management is built on collaboration between natural and artificial intelligence: instead of trusting a neural network with tasks 100%, people use it as an assistant. This approach has been dubbed Vibe marketing. In this article, we’ll explain what it is, how it works, and how to get marketers and AI to work together.

What Is Vibe Marketing

Vibe marketing is an approach where a single person, using AI, runs core marketing communications instead of a full specialist team. The human’s role is to set tasks, refine outputs, and stay in control. In other words, AI becomes an assistant and co-author in marketing, without replacing the marketer. The marketer sets the “vibe” — the atmosphere, tone, and visual language. Based on that, AI generates copy, images, video, and other formats in a consistent style. The result is cohesive content that holds the chosen mood and develops the original idea.

How Vibe Marketing Differs from Regular Marketing

AreaRegular marketingVibe marketing
People & rolesDifferent specialists handle each task — copy, design, etc.Lean setup: one person drives the work with AI; much of the flow is automated.
Speed & deliveryLots of handoffs and waiting (e.g., until design is ready).Fewer handoffs; faster from brief to launch.
Testing & experimentsPreparing many variants eats time and budget; a failed test wastes effort.AI spins up lots of versions from one brief; easier to A/B and iterate in hours.
CostMultiple salaries and overhead.Lower spend: one operator plus affordable AI tools.
AutomationMostly about collecting, storing, and processing data.Deeper automation, including content creation and quick adjustments; add a Customer Data Platform (CDP) for best results.

What Vibe Marketing Solves

This approach is used at every stage of marketing strategy development—from analytics to the creative track:

  • Sourcing ideas and information. AI quickly processes huge volumes of data that are hard for a person to handle. A neural network presents information in a convenient form that might otherwise take a marketer hours to find. However, all of these findings must be verified.
  • Content creation. Today’s models can do almost everything: write copy, generate photos, animation, and video, and analyze data. The results can look so convincing that it’s often hard to tell they aren’t real people.

For example, deepfakes use AI to learn a person’s face and voice from sample footage, then synthesize new frames and audio that match their appearance and speech. This lets editors convincingly swap faces or make someone “say” new lines or languages. Brands have used the technique for large-scale localization—for example, Zalando produced about 290,000 localized versions of an ad with Cara Delevingne, using AI to vary the visuals and voice so she seemed to address different towns and languages across Europe.

You can also create short clips with entirely fictional characters—for example, a new platform called Showrunner recently went viral in the U.S. by letting fans generate full episodes from text prompts,
Some of the art styles that can be used to create scenes and shows
  • Analysis. First, competitors’ creatives and their overall mood are analyzed; then your own versions are generated in the desired “vibe.” Next, the emotional response is captured—sentiment, engagement, clicks, completions, brand lift—and the results are benchmarked against competitors. Strong tactics are scaled; weak ones are phased out.
  • Brand identity support. Brand content is created according to defined principles—visual identity and the brand’s tone of voice—so all marketing communications present a consistent image. Human error and misinterpretation are minimized. For example, if an external copywriter struggles to grasp and convey the brand’s tone of voice, AI can handle it reliably—though human editing is often still needed.
  • Offer personalization. AI processes vast amounts of data, making marketing much more precise. Campaigns become personalized, and users feel the brand is offering exactly what they need at the right moment.

How Vibe Marketing Improves Marketers’ Efficiency

  • Faster campaign launches. Strategy, copy, and creative production shrink from weeks to hours.
  • Budget savings. With no need for a large team, marketing costs drop. The savings can be redirected to media spend across platforms.
  • Content variety. AI generates ideas with high speed and diversity. Execution is just as fast: the model produces many variations instantly, and humans select the best.
  • Better A/B testing. AI lets you test more hypotheses in less time and with minimal resources—while speeding up the discovery of effective personalization variants.
How can you use A/B testing, and what’s it all about? Here we explain how this type of marketing campaign optimization works with Altcraft.
  • More time for brainstorming. Neural networks handle routine and manual tasks, allowing marketers to focus on ideas. A strong strategy takes time and resources, but when a team is stretched across dozens of processes, both are always in short supply. With AI, hours are freed up for developing hypotheses, testing concepts, and driving the creative work.

How to Implement Vibe Marketing

1. Start with an audit of your current marketing processes. Document each stage of work step by step and evaluate the resource costs for completing them. Identify where the most time is being spent and which processes can be optimized.
2. Set goals and objectives for Vibe Marketing. Define both quantitative and qualitative growth indicators, such as the metrics you want to improve. Then outline specific tasks by area: which actions will help you reach your goals, and where AI should be introduced.
3. Plan the interaction between humans and AI, as well as budget allocation. Decide which tasks are handled by automation systems and which remain with humans—such as content creation, analytics, and idea generation. For example, a specialist reviews and edits texts produced by a neural network. Editing cannot be skipped—even the most advanced AI models still make mistakes or hallucinate.
4. Choose AI tools that can fulfill the defined tasks. Consider both budget and system capabilities, and compare free and paid versions based on their effectiveness.
Here’s a closer look at which neural networks are actually effective in 2025.
5. Learn to work with AI. To get good results, try to make your prompts as precise as possible. Specify the style, format, and tone you need, and include examples if you can. The clearer and more detailed your request, the better AI will handle the task. Example of a good prompt: “Write a post on the topic ‘How to choose AI tools for business.’ Use an informative style, avoid complex terminology, and make the text easy to read. Include examples, links to research, and recommendations for beginners.” Example of a poor prompt: “Write a post about AI.”
Implement tools. Test them on real cases and make adjustments as needed. Once human–AI workflows are running smoothly, expand this approach to other areas. For example, if you’ve learned to generate banners effectively with neural networks, use AI for analytics as well.

Challenges of Using Artificial Intelligence

Despite the appeal of this approach, there are nuances worth considering: AI won’t replace a marketer. You can’t simply hand off all your tasks to a neural network, which is far from perfect. Vibe marketing is a strategy that speeds up and simplifies the work—it’s not a full-fledged marketer. Lack of uniqueness in content. AI-generated content often comes out formulaic: neural networks tend to reproduce mass trends rather than propose new solutions. This leads to endless “images in the style of Miyazaki” and generic visuals, making communication feel repetitive and quickly tiresome. Data security concerns. To get results, you often have to share a lot of information with AI systems, and some of it may be confidential. There’s no guarantee that this data won’t end up elsewhere.

Summary

Vibe marketing is a modern approach where a marketer uses artificial intelligence tools to handle creative and other tasks. This allows one person to replace the work of an entire team and cut marketing budgets. With AI, Vibe marketing helps build strategies, create content, analyze data, personalize offers, and maintain a consistent brand identity. The result is faster execution and hypothesis testing, greater audience engagement, and more content produced with a smaller budget. It also unlocks more creative solutions and gives marketers more time to plan future growth.

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