Creative Chas Bayfield launches new service 21 Madison fixing bad AI-made ads
An Australia-based creative has launched a new industry offering aimed at using a human touch to rescue AI-generated ads.
21 Madison, founded by Chas Bayfield, is aimed at small businesses using AI, or tools like Canva, to build ads for Instagram or similar.
Chas Bayfield
Bayfield, who made his name in London as a creative director and copywriter, revealed the new businesses in a podcast with Mumbrella’s sister title Unmade. He has been based in Hobart Tasmania, for around five years.
Despite having worked for some of the most famous agency names, Bayfield argued that the industry needs to accept the disruption being created by AI and work with it.
He said: “We can sit around and shake our fists at the system and the way it is, a bit like blacksmiths in the early 1900s, just angry at cars. And where does that get you?
“So you have to work out, what can I do to move it on? I’ve never been one just to sit back and go, ‘this is always going to be the same forever.’”
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The model for 21 Madison sees businesses uploading their ads and paying a $79 fee for a human review to improve the copy and sales message, through to a $999 cost for an outsourced creative director for a month.
Listen to the full podcast on Unmade, and podcatchers.
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Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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