New Research Reveals Marketers and Creators are Turning to "Vibe Marketing": Using AI to Combat Rising Creative Fatigue

Dec. 04, 2025

New independent research by global social-first agency with Creator InstinctTM, Billion Dollar Boy Group, reveals how the creator economy is increasingly turning to AI to help alleviate growing creative fatigue - with two thirds (66%) of both marketers and creators frequently experiencing it as a challenge.

AI Offers a Solution to Growing Creative Fatigue 

In today’s fast-moving feeds, content lifecycles are shortening, putting pressure on brands and creators to produce a greater volume and greater diversity of assets. As a result, the creator economy is increasingly experiencing creative fatigue - with UK marketers (74%) more affected by this challenge than their US counterparts (59%). 

The industry has identified AI as a solution, with four in five marketers (77%) and creators (82%) agreeing that it helps them to overcome creative fatigue.

In particular, the results show how AI removes production barriers and enables rapid creative prototyping, letting teams test, refine, and visualize ideas early in the process without heavy investment: 

• 82% of marketers and 87% of creators say AI helps them to produce more assets.
• 81% of marketers and 85% of creators agree that AI enables them to explore a wider range of creative concepts. 

Vibe Marketing on the Rise

AI is not only emerging as a solution for combatting creative fatigue, but marketers are also turning to it to create emotionally compelling content - a practice sometimes known as ‘vibe marketing’ - AI-powered content that captures and translates emotion, feeling, or brand personality.

Three-quarters of marketers (77%) and creators (78%) say AI is effective at crafting content that emotionally connects with audiences, while 80% of both marketers and creators say that AI can accurately interpret and express a brand’s personality. 

The findings point to a broader marketing shift towards more emotive and experimental AI strategies.

Consumers Approach Vibe Marketing with Caution

While marketers and creators increasingly trust AI for emotional storytelling, consumers remain more cautious. Nearly half (48%) agree that emotional resonance in marketing is important, yet only a third (33%) believe that generative AI is currently effective at delivering it. 

Similarly, just a quarter (26%) say that AI-generated creator content resonates with them emotionally more than traditional creator content. 

These findings suggest that while ‘vibe marketing’ can be an effective marketing practice, human creativity and direction remain essential to building and maintaining consumer trust. 

Whether a brand aims to evoke feelings of boldness, nostalgia, or inspiration, creators have the cultural awareness, creativity and audience insight needed to guide AI tools with impact. 

Becky Owen, Global CMO of Billion Dollar Boy, commented: 

“We’re in an interesting moment. The initial excitement around new production tools has faded, and for many, the output is starting to feel flat and one-note. But this recalibration isn’t a sign of decline - it’s a sign of maturity. And across all our research, the brands breaking through are the ones using these tools to open up creative possibilities for creators rather than narrowing them. When creators have room to experiment with new formats, the work immediately feels more distinctive. It cuts through fatigue. It helps brands stand apart in feeds that increasingly look the same. And it earns a longer life because people return to it. That’s the essence of vibe marketing: a more expressive, emotionally charged style of storytelling that creators are naturally wired for - bringing mood, nuance and atmosphere to the forefront, and giving brands a new dimensionality on social. And this is where generative AI comes into its own. When used intentionally, it becomes the accelerator - democratising production, unlocking fresh creative directions, and enabling creators to build visually and emotionally layered content that simply wasn’t possible at this speed or scale before. As the industry recalibrates, that’s the bright spot emerging: a richer wave of creativity powered by creators, amplified by generative AI.”

 

This research forms part of Billion Dollar Boy’s latest research report: Muse Two: The Real Impact of AI on the Creator Economy. It is the second volume in a series of reports by Billion Dollar Boy exploring generative AI in the creator economy. The first, Muse One: How Generative AI is Influencing the Creator Economy, launched in November 2023 following the creation of Billion Dollar Boy’s innovation unit, Muse, in April 2023.

The first edition explored AI’s early impact on the industry, during the technology’s honeymoon phase. Two years later, this new report examines how opinions have shifted and explores the technology’s expansion into new areas, including: the rise of ‘vibe marketing’, AI personas, ethical blind spots, and the impact of AI on trust in creator marketing.