Brixton AI + Automation Newsletter 5/20

Another exciting week learning how to monetize with AI + Automation

Author

Steven Brixton
May 20, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

🌟 Editor's Note
Welcome to another exciting week in AI + Automation. Where we’re giving you the tools you need to build high revenue, successful online strategies.

🗓️ Exciting AI News This Week That Affects YOU

TikTok Launches AI Alive to Animate Photos with Prompts

  • TikTok has rolled out “AI Alive,” a new feature that transforms static photos into dynamic short videos using text prompts, directly from the TikTok Story Camera.

  • The tool applies movement, stylistic effects, and atmosphere to user images, generating videos in minutes. Outputs are labeled as AI-generated, with TikTok embedding metadata and moderation to ensure safety and authenticity.

  • AI Alive aims to help creators produce visually compelling content without editing software, lowering the barrier to short-form video creation and boosting engagement through automation.

Instagram Launches ‘Edits’ App for Mobile Video Creation

  • Instagram has launched a standalone video editing app called “Edits,” aimed at simplifying mobile content creation for Reels and Stories.

  • The app includes AI-powered animations, green screen support, and real-time editing tools, allowing creators to build short-form videos quickly and natively on their phones.

  • By streamlining the production workflow and integrating directly with Instagram, Edits helps creators boost engagement with high-quality content—without needing third-party apps or advanced skills.

This Week: A True Social Media Level Up

Listen I know the importance of being on all the social platforms to grow my brand, but how can I be everywhere all at once?

The Ultimate Meta Posting Automation

Let me tell you how often Meta recommends you post for maximum engagement:

  • Instagram: 5x Reels per day

  • Instagram: 3x Stories per day

  • Facebook: 5x Reels per day

  • Facebook: 3x Stories per day

  • Facebook: 1x Full long format post per day

  • Threads: 5x per day

Now seriously think about this. I don’t use Instagram, Facebook, or Threads as my main focus of my brand. I have a few YouTube channels, which takes up a ton of my time (scripting, recording, video editing), my main career, and my consulting company. How the hell can I put out that much content every single day?!!

I needed the social media presence, but I didn’t have the time to do it. So I’ve been in the lab all day and all night this week and I figured out how to automate Threads, Instagram, and Facebook posting

In the video, I break down:

  • The Make.com workflow (I’m still on the free version btw)

  • The pipedream workflow

  • The reason why I use both

  • How you can get access to the full workflow and pipedream template. Literally so easy to get all of this up and running.

The Video And Guide

Since I’ve done this automation (5 days ago) I have:

  • Instagram (@stevenbrixton): 310 followers/20 posts/889 views

  • Threads (@stevenbrixton): 53 followers

  • X (@stevenbrixton): 32 followers (template and video coming soon, significantly more complicated than the rest of them)

Now the auto posts allow me to focus just on dms and comments while still building out my profile and training the algorithm. Im posting 5x per day on X and threads and 4x per day on IG and Facebook.

I’m going to be honest, I hate TikTok, but I’ll figure that out too and let you guys know. Once I am able to automate short form content, I’ll be posting that across platforms as well, I’m just not sure yet if I want to spend the money on ai video generation software (literally none of it is free unless it’s crap, don’t let these other creators lead you on).

Anyway, here is the video:

What's Coming Next?

I'm currently working on tons of other automations, custom APIs, and applications that I'll be releasing to our community completely free. From content analytics tools to cross-platform publishing systems, my goal is to give you agency-level automation without the huge price tag.

Some projects in development:

  • X automation (Complete but I still need to make the video and write the guide)

  • TikTok Automation

  • Full viral trends automation (This one is HUGE)

  • Content repurposing workflows

  • Custom API integrations for creators

Help Me Help You!

I really want feedback. Seriously. So respond to this email, DM me on instagram, or DM me on X. I really value your input, and any automations you’d like me to make would be fun for me and I’d love to help all of you out.

My Favorite AI Fact Of The Week:

AI when left completely alone band together to form societies.

AI with no knowledge at all learns on it’s own and ends up smarter than if we trained it.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

I'm incredibly grateful to have such an amazing community. Your support, feedback, and enthusiasm are what make all of this worthwhile. Thank you for being part of this journey!

Until next week, Steven

P.S. Did you catch last week's newsletter about YouTube comment response automations? If you missed it, check it out here to learn how to leverage keywords in your videos to drive engagement while keeping your audience happy.

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Don’t Forget

If you're truly serious about scaling your content and building a real presence online—now is the moment to start thinking like the algorithm... and then beating it at it’s own game.

Don't just create content—create content that wins. Your future audience is waiting!

Stay efficient, stay automated

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