SaaS & apps

Explainer-style video ads for SaaS and apps

Software is hard to show. Screen recordings are dull in a feed, explainer videos take an agency and six weeks, and founder videos need a founder with time and confidence on camera.

Waffle Studio reads your landing page, finds the pain you solve, and writes a story where a character lives that pain and your product ends it. The ads are short and funny, and they explain without a single dashboard screenshot.

1. Your websiteWaffle reads your brand, products and voice
Sheety, The spreadsheet monster
2. SheetyThe spreadsheet monster
3. “Forty Tabs Tall”Made with Waffle Studio for Tabwise, a fictional demo brand

Why cartoon ads work for saas & apps

Sell the pain, not the UI

People buy software to stop a bad day. A cartoon story shows the bad day better than a feature tour.

A face for an invisible product

A mascot gives an abstract tool something to remember, the way great SaaS brands use characters.

Ship ads as fast as features

Every launch or changelog item can become a 30-second ad the same afternoon.

Three story ideas to steal

Written the way Waffle Studio structures every ad: a hook in the first two seconds, a problem, a twist, and a payoff that lands on your product.

Story 1

The Race Behind the MacBook

Hook It's hours before launch and the editor invoices keep coming.

A tiny CEO steps out from behind the laptop and fixes the problem in one tap, ending on your product doing the job. (Waffle Studio ran this story for itself.)

Story 2

The Spreadsheet Monster

Hook "It's grown another tab."

A character battles a spreadsheet that keeps growing until your tool tames it, ending on the time saved per week.

Story 3

The Meeting That Could Have Been

Hook A character is trapped in their fourth status meeting of the day.

Your product delivers the answer asynchronously and the meeting evaporates, and the payoff is the calendar clearing.

Who could star in your ads

  • The founder as a cartoon
  • The overwhelmed operator (your ideal customer)
  • A mascot for the problem itself, like the bug or the backlog

Style tip: 2D sitcom cartoon and soft 3D keep software stories fast and clear. Claymation makes a technical product feel warm and human. See all styles in how it works.

Questions from saas & apps

Can Waffle Studio make ads for a B2B product?

Yes. Stories are built around your buyer's pain as read from your site, and the tone can be dry and professional instead of zany. Ask by chat to make it calmer or more technical.

Does it replace a product demo video?

No. Waffle ads are top-of-funnel attention and explanation in 30 or 60 seconds. They work best driving people to a demo, a trial or your landing page.

More use cases

Your first ad can be rendering in the next ten minutes

Paste your website. Waffle builds your brand kit, designs your character and writes the story. You press render.

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