ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 dropped June 23 with native 30-second 4K, 50 multimodal refs, and unified joint audio-video. The spec bumps got all the attention. The bigger shift for marketers is the access and licensing posture, which determines whether you can actually ship anything this quarter.
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Three weeks, one skincare client, 24 ad variants at $40 compute. A field-tested look at what ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 actually changes for paid ad creative — and where it still falls short.
