How to Automate UGC Video Ads?
Description
Create and publish social video ads from one place. The flow writes a script with AI, makes a UGC style video, posts it to many social channels, and logs every post back to Airtable. It helps marketing teams, creators, and agencies that want steady output without doing the same steps over and over.
It runs on a manual start or a daily schedule. Past scripts are pulled from Airtable and combined to guide the AI agent so ideas stay fresh and avoid repeats. The agent returns structured JSON, which is saved to Airtable. A video is generated through the Arcads API, then the workflow waits and checks until the file is ready. The video is uploaded to Blotato and published to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter X, LinkedIn, and more. Titles, captions, and voice settings are handled with helper nodes, and each post ID is written back to Airtable. Timeouts and a fail path prevent stuck runs.
Setup needs API keys for Airtable, Arcads, Blotato, and either OpenAI or Anthropic. Enable only the social nodes you plan to use and enter your account IDs in the input node. Expect faster content cycles, clear tracking in Airtable, and the ability to scale output across multiple channels.
Tools Required
Video Tutorial
What this workflow does?
- Dual start options with manual trigger and daily schedule
- AI agent writes scripts using Anthropic or OpenAI with past Airtable data as context
- Structured JSON parsing to keep titles, hooks, and captions clean
- Arcads API creates realistic UGC style videos from the script
- Polling with wait and timeout nodes until the video file is ready
- Upload media to Blotato and publish to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, and Pinterest
- Set variables for titles, captions, and tags to keep messaging consistent
- Quality controls for voice settings and removing negative emotion words
- Write back each platform post ID to Airtable for reporting
- Enable or disable channels with one click to match your distribution plan
What are the benefits?
- Reduce manual work from 5 hours to 20 minutes per campaign
- Automate up to 80 percent of repetitive posting tasks
- Connect Airtable, AI, Arcads, and Blotato in one flow
- Publish the same video to up to nine social channels
- Track post IDs in Airtable to remove copy and paste errors
- Lower failed publishes with built in status checks and timeouts
How to set this up?
- Import the template into n8n: Create a new workflow in n8n > Click the three dots menu > Select 'Import from File' > Choose the downloaded JSON file.
- You'll need accounts with Airtable, Arcads, Blotato, OpenAI and Anthropic. See the Tools Required section above for links to create accounts with these services.
- In the n8n credentials manager, create an Airtable Personal Access Token credential. Double click each Airtable node and select your credential. Choose your base, table, and fields for scripts and post IDs.
- Create API keys for OpenAI or Anthropic from their dashboards. In the n8n credentials manager, add OpenAI and Anthropic credentials. In the AI nodes, select the credential you want to use.
- Get your Arcads API key from your Arcads settings. In the Enter Input Data node, paste the key. Open the Arcads HTTP nodes and confirm the header uses the key from the input node.
- Get your Blotato API key and your social account IDs from your Blotato settings. Paste them into the Enter Input Data node. Open the Blotato HTTP nodes and verify the header references the same key.
- Open the AI Agent node and review the system message. Adjust brand voice, product details, and structure. Keep JSON keys aligned with the parser node.
- Check Airtable field mappings in the Update Record and Update Post ID nodes so titles, captions, and platform IDs match your base schema.
- Choose which social channels to use. Enable or disable the related posting nodes with the power toggle so only your targets run.
- Run a manual test. Confirm a new script is saved in Airtable, Arcads returns a video URL, Blotato uploads the media, and posts are created. Verify post IDs write back to Airtable.
- If the video takes too long, the timeout path will mark it as failed. Check API keys, account IDs, and the Arcads job status, then try again.
- When everything looks good, connect the schedule trigger to the input node and set your desired time window for daily publishing.
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