AiCandy launched in July 2025 as a production company built specifically around AI filmmaking for advertising and brands. The idea started around Cannes Lions 2024, followed by six months of building, testing and assembling a roster of AI film directors. Since then, the company has moved quickly from proving the model to producing commercial work, building its own creative roster and positioning AI filmmaking as a serious production discipline rather than an experiment.
Now Campaign Brief’s THE WORK 2026 has ranked AiCandy #2 among Australasian production companies, based on the number of accepted pieces of work credited to each company across more than 4,000 entries. AiCandy says it was the only AI production company on the list. The interesting part is not the ranking alone. It is how quickly an AI-native production company has moved into the same conversation as established commercial production houses.
That says something bigger about where the industry is heading. AI production is no longer sitting in a separate experimental category waiting to be taken seriously. The work is increasingly being judged inside the same creative ecosystem, against the same expectations of storytelling, craft and execution.
