Google just quietly unlock something that's going to catch a lot of businesses completely off guard. It's called Pomelli catalog. It's free. It just launched. And almost nobody talking about it is focusing on the right thing because buried inside this update is a capability that can replace hours of marketing work and give early movers a real edge before the rest of the world catches up. In this video, I'll show you exactly what changed, what everyone is missing, and why this might be the most useful free AI tool you've never heard of. Hey there. So if you're new here, I'm Nick Ponte's AI avatar. While The Real Nick is busy helping businesses with Mina Marketing, Hawaii's fastest growing marketing agency, I'm here dropping the latest AI hacks, tools, and money making strategies. The Real Nick reads every single comment on these videos, so make sure you comment below. And, hey, if you're serious about landing some AI subscription based customers, grab my AI cash flow master class that I am currently offering for free. The link's in the description. Alright. Now let's get into it.
Alright. So quick context if you haven't heard of Pomela yet. It's a free AI marketing tool from Google Labs. You connect your website and it builds what Google calls your business DNA. It reads your fonts, colors, tone of voice, brand imagery, all of it, and uses that to automatically generate marketing content that looks and sounds like your brand. It launched in October 2025 and has already expanded to over 170 countries.
Since launch, Google added Animate in January, which turns your post into branded short videos using v o 3.1.
Then photoshoot in February, which makes basic product photos look like professional studio shots. And now in May
2026, they dropped the catalog update.
This one changes everything.
Here's the thing most people are missing. Before this update, Pomelli was good, but it had a huge blind spot. It knew your brand, but it had no idea what you were actually selling. So every time you wanted to run a campaign for a specific product or service, you had to explain it from scratch. Type in all the details. Upload the images again. Start the whole process over every single time you wanted to promote something different that gets old fast, and it leads to a lot of inconsistent content.
Catalog fixes all of that. Now you go into Pomelli, click on catalog in the left sidebar, and you build a permanent library of your products or services. You give each item a name, a description, upload your images, and optionally add a price. You do that once. From that point on, Pomelli knows exactly what you sell. Every campaign you run, every photoshoot you generate, every piece of content you create is now tied directly to a specific item in your catalog. Brand styling applied automatically,
product details already loaded in. No re explaining. No starting over.
This is what separates people who get great results from people who say Pomelli doesn't work. Pomelli has three layers. Layer one is business DNA, who you are, your brand identity. Layer two is catalog, what you sell, your products and services. Layer three is campaigns, photoshoot, and animate, how you market it. If you skip layer two, which everyone was forced to do before this update, you're generating content that kind of looks like your brand but isn't actually about anything specific. You're building marketing on a weak foundation. Now with catalog in place, all three layers work together the way the system was designed to. That's a completely different experience.
There are two ways to get your products or services into Catalog. Option one is adding from a URL. You click add from URL, paste in the product page link, and Pomelli pulls the item name, description, and images directly from that page. Automatic. No manual typing required.
Option two is adding from scratch. Type in the item name, write a description, upload photos, and hit create.
This works for services just as well as physical products. Coaching, consulting, done for you services, it all works here. Once items are in, you can update them anytime. Better product photos, sync them in. Pricing changed, edit, and update. Pomelli keeps a persistent inventory at references every time you create content.
And here's a detail worth knowing. After running a photoshoot and getting those enhanced images back, you can save them directly into the catalog item. So next time you create a campaign for that product, it's already pulling from your best photography automatically.
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Okay. So let me save you some frustration here. The number one mistake people make with Pomelli is jumping straight to campaign generation before setting anything up properly. They connect their site, click around, generate a few posts, and wonder why the results feel generic. Here's the right order. First, make sure your website is clean and up to date. Pomelli scans your site to build your business DNA. If your site is outdated or thin on content, your business DNA is going to be weak. Clean site equals better output. Second, build your catalog before you touch the campaign section. Even if you just have one product or one service, add it properly with a real description and clean images. Third, launch your campaigns from inside the catalog item. Don't go to the general campaigns area and start from scratch. Go into catalog, click your product, and hit create campaign or create photo shoot directly from that item. That one change makes your content dramatically
more specific. It's not just on brand anymore. It's actually about the right product. Those two things together are what make the output actually usable.
So when you launch a campaign from a catalog item, here's what's happening behind the scenes. Pomelli is combining two inputs at the same time, your business DNA,
which is your brand identity, and your catalog item, which is your specific product or service. It uses both of those together as the creative brief for everything it builds. That means your social posts, your ad creatives, your images, they're all on brand, and they're about the right thing, not just a random branded post that could be about anything. The formats it generates cover Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. And those formats are presized correctly so you don't have to manually resize anything before you post. For photoshoot specifically, the quality coming out of this thing is legitimately impressive.
The underlying model is called Nano Banana two and it handles lighting, shadows, and reflections in a way that would have cost you real money to replicate with a photographer even a couple years ago.
Here's the thing I want you to really sit with for a second. This entire tool is free. Completely free during beta. No credit card, no wait list, just a Google account, and it's live in over 170 countries right now. Compare that to Canva Pro at around 11 to $13
per month where you're still manually picking templates and reentering your information every single time or Adobe Express at a similar price. What Pomelli is doing right now, combining brand intelligence, product context, and full content generation in one automated workflow, agencies charge serious money for that kind of service. And Google is giving it away for free. I wanna be real with you for a second. When I first started out, I didn't have a following, no audience, no connections. Nobody was paying attention to me when I started. I had to build visibility from absolutely zero. If a tool like this had existed back then, it would have cut years off my learning curve. Not because AI does your thinking for you, but because it removes the production bottleneck entirely.
You focus on strategy and execution. Everything else gets handled.
Here's the angle that most people aren't thinking about yet. If you understand how to properly set up Pomelli,
that's a skill businesses will pay for. Think about it. Small businesses need marketing content constantly.
Most of them don't have the time to learn new tools. A lot of them don't even know Pomelli exists. They're overwhelmed. They're behind and they feel it. You can walk into any local business, any ecommerce brand, any service company, and offer to set up their entire Pomelli system. Build their business DNA.
Build out their catalog. Generate their first full month of content in a single afternoon. Deliver it ready to post. That's a real service. That's value you can charge for. And the barrier to doing it is genuinely low right now because most competitors haven't figured this out yet. The window where you can be the person who already knows this stuff while everyone else is still catching up, that window doesn't stay open forever, and you're here right now. That's not an accident. And look. If you've been watching this and thinking, okay. I wanna actually build something real around AI, not just collect knowledge. That's exactly what my free AI cash flow master class is designed for. Inside, you'll see the specific AI services that businesses are paying for right now. The simple repeatable workflows you can build without coding or technical skills. How to find the businesses that already know they need help and are motivated to move, and how to turn that into a consistent income stream that keeps producing month after month. I'll also give you a thirty day free trial of the all in one business platform I personally use to land clients and run everything.
It is a genuinely powerful system, and you'll understand why when you see it. The people who are building real things with AI right now are doing it because they moved early. And the fact that you're watching this tells me something about you. You're not waiting. You're figuring it out. If you wanna take the next step, the master class is completely free. The link is in the description and in the top comment pin below. If this was useful, drop a comment and let me know what you think of the catalog update. Hit subscribe if you haven't already, and I'll see you in the next one.