Beats' Latest Ad Campaign Features Baseball Superstar Shohei Ohtani

Apple's Beats brand is no stranger to collaborations with big-name celebrities on marketing campaigns, and the brand's latest effort involves Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani.

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The new campaign created in collaboration with photographer Daniel Sannwald features a massively oversized Ohtani sporting Beats products in various Los Angeles settings.

Against iconic LA backdrops, each image amplifies Ohtani's scale—not just physically, but metaphorically. He becomes an elevated figure of pride, strength, and aspiration. Through dramatic scale and surreal energy, the campaign transforms LA into Ohtani's playground—a cityscape where sport and culture intersect.

Beats' choice to pair its most iconic products with Ohtani in this visual story was deliberate. As an LA-born brand rooted in sports, music, and entertainment, Beats shares both its home and its spirit with Ohtani—a journey defined by ambition, performance, and unmistakable boldness.


In the images, Ohtani wears several of the latest Beats products, including Beats Studio Pro, Powerbeats Pro 2, and Powerbeats Fit.

"Los Angeles is a city of energy, culture, and ambition," says Shohei Ohtani. "Wearing Beats and seeing myself rise above the skyline feels symbolic of the connection I have with this city and our fans. We rise high together."

Ohtani has won four Major League Baseball MVP awards in Los Angeles, including two American League awards with the Los Angeles Angels in 2021 and 2023 and two National League awards with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024 and again in 2025 as the Dodgers won back-to-back World Series titles.

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Rychiar Avatar
1 day ago at 02:41 pm
looks like AI
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
poematik13 Avatar
1 day ago at 03:04 pm
Those are AI photos lmao. Wow

This is a new low for apple for sure, the brand that was once like the king of creative industries
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DevOliga Avatar
15 hours ago at 04:55 am
I think it's AI, he's not that big in real life i've seen him
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
poematik13 Avatar
1 day ago at 04:12 pm

Is it AI or just composite images? I haven't had a chance to look closely but it seems like a normal editing job to me.
It has the telltale signs of generated imagery with the overly smooth and shiny skintones, dead eyes, uncannily distorted text (like on the hollywood sign), and the generally plasticky look of everything.

I think Shohei was a real photo, heavily edited and airbrushed, and then composited over an AI generated background/landscape.

Really ****ing sad and shameful that Apple is doing this, the company once seen as like the best of the best in ad creative and they always do stuff as practical as possible
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JMalone Avatar
17 hours ago at 03:19 am

Those are AI photos lmao. Wow

This is a new low for apple for sure, the brand that was once like the king of creative industries
They are not “AI photos”.

****ing hell.

They are just a little overretouched (You know…something that has been done for decades) and the compression of the uploaded images makes some of the details look rough.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Sigvard Avatar
1 day ago at 02:48 pm

looks like AI
It's an uncanny valley for me.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)