Human Creativity Benchmark - Ad Video (Ideation) - Visual Appeal: leaderboard

Human Creativity Benchmark (Hopkins et al., 2026): professional creatives rate anonymized product advertising videos at the Ideation stage, where outputs should propose a promising creative direction. The score is the mean 1-5 rating of how visually interesting, cohesive and polished the output is, over the evaluators and prompts of this domain and stage; higher is better.

Metric: Mean expert Likert rating (1-5) of visual interest, cohesion and polish; product advertising videos at the Ideation stage, rated by professional creatives. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Veo 3.13.78
2Grok Imagine Video3.33
3Kling 3.0 Pro3.06
4Seedance 1.5 Pro2.94

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=human-creativity-benchmark-ad-video-ideation-visual-appeal · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.