Playbooks
Yihook Playbooks
Field notes, benchmarks, and playbooks from the team shipping AI video that actually sells on TikTok Shop.
Model report · 2026-07-09Seedream 5.0 Pro Launch Review: More Than Image Generation, Built for Design Productivity
Seedream 5.0 Pro is now available on Yihook, bringing complex information visualization, precision editing, realistic imagery, and multilingual image generation into production workflows.
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Model report · 2026-06-25Seedance 2.5 Is Coming — Yihook Will Support 30-Second AI Video at Launch
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at the 2026 Volcano Engine FORCE conference: native 30-second video, richer multimodal references, and controllable editing. Yihook will support it as soon as it's available.
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Insight · 2026-06-08We Tested 10,000 AI UGC Videos. Here's What We Learned.
Inside Yihook's own TikTok matrix: 184 accounts, 10,000+ AI UGC videos, and the three lessons that separated the cuts that sold from the ones that died.
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Playbook · 2026-06-07Why Your TikTok Shop AI Videos Get Zero Views
Compliance gets you in the door; it doesn't make you go viral. The two requirements — audio-visual quality and value delivery — that decide which AI UGC videos convert.
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Playbook · 2026-06-068 AI Video Violations That Kill Your TikTok Shop Reach
ByteDance's moderation now flags AI UGC at scale. The 8 violations — non-original content, static frames, false claims and more — that throttle or remove your TikTok Shop videos.
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Playbook · 2026-06-05How to Test 5 Creative Angles for One TikTok Product
Sellers who win on TikTok don't find better products — they test more angles. The pain, price, visual-proof, lifestyle and gift hooks, with scripts and a test order.
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Playbook · 2026-06-04Pain Hook Product Video Recipe
Which products the Pain Hook works for and how to write the script: open on the buyer's problem, land the recognition in the first 3 seconds, then show the fix.
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Playbook · 2026-06-03TikTok Shop AI Content Policy 2026
TikTok Shop can now auto-detect and label AI content. The compliant use cases, the mandatory-disclosure rules, and the three red lines that get a store penalized.
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Insight · 2026-06-02AI Video Generator vs. UGC Creative Workspace
An AI video generator turns an idea into a video. A UGC creative workspace starts from a product and finds testable angles. Why TikTok sellers usually need the second.
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Model report · 2026-04-22HappyHorse-1.0 — Alibaba ATH’s Anonymous #2 AI Video Model, Explained
A 15B-parameter unified video + audio model from Alibaba ATH. #2 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena (TTV & ITV) with 87% cross-clip consistency. Coming to Yihook at launch.
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Model report · 2026-04-21GPT Image 2 — The Next Revolution in AI Image Generation
Ranked #1 on Arena ELO. Native 4K resolution, flawless text across 50+ languages, and photorealism that holds up under blind review. GPT Image 2 is coming to Yihook.
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