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24 statements about Advertisers, every show

SOURCERY Insight
Foroughi: Creative investment creates alpha when ad systems are fully automated
“The advertisers that invest in creative and are good at it, whether they're using AI tools to develop them or they're using people to develop them, can create lifts in an advertising system where everything else is automated.”
Adam Foroughi Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 41:30 Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rory O'Driscoll: Advertisers will shift budgets to LLM optimization tools
“If all the people are showing up In the LLMs, then all the advertisers are going to want to show up in the LLMs. And if you can help them get there, you can probably clip some of that money.”
Rory O'Driscoll Nov 27, 2025 ▶ 1:18:17 Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Advertisers will fund feeds of AI slop if they attract user attention
“If there's attention, they will pay for people's attention. So even if it's a feat of AI slop, if open AI can somehow win millions and millions of users over then AG one will be right there and work out some deal to sell their very healthy supplements and all …”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 4, 2025 ▶ 27:17 Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
20VC Assertion Open · timeframe Sep 2026
Alex Schultz: Meta's AI sticker click targets increase ad CTR by 6%
“When advertisers take advantage of that, they get a six percent boost in click-through rate and a commensurate increase in conversion rate.”
Alex Schultz Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 39:49 20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
MAD Insight
Valenzuela: Advertisers adopt new tech faster due to intense competitive pressure
“And I think videos and specifically advertisers are faster to adopt new technologies because there's less of Tendency to maintain what used to work. It's too competitive. It's too fast. Customers want more.”
Cris Valenzuela Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 11:15 AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
TBPN Insight
Hays: Advertisers should allocate 5% of their budget without expecting direct ROI
“If you're an advertiser, take five percent of your budget and spend it with spend it with groups that, you know, maybe don't have a direct ROI, but can give back to the world and entertain you and your team in some way.”
Jordi Hays Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 1:36:06 How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
a16z Assertion Supported
Immerman: Perplexity is actively talking to advertisers to monetize search
“It's been in the news that perplexity is already talking to advertisers. They have a high income, highly educated user base that should be attractive to these advertisers.”
Alex Immerman Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 10:29 The 2025 AI Search Race
20VC Insight
Hudack: Advertisers care about sales outcomes, not complex targeting tools
“They don't really want to target their ad. They don't want to think about optimization. They don't want to think about, like, they want to sell more products, you know, and so the simpler machine you can give them to do that effectively, the better.”
Mike Hudack Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 7:54 Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Ohanian: Women's sports is the most brand-safe platform for advertisers
“Now in the world of sports, those conversations are so much easier because there's nothing more brand safe for these advertisers than sports, and specifically women's sports.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 27:39 Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Insight
Simo: Conversational search exhibits clearer commercial intent than keyword queries
“And these are placements that are, you know, gonna be really interesting for advertisers to tap into because, again, there's a much Clearer expression of intense and just a keyword and things that didn't exist before.”
Fidji Simo Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 26:03 No Priors Ep. 22 | With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
Medeiros: Meta's biggest problem is that it does not care about advertisers
“And I think that's meta's biggest problem is just like, doesn't care about advertisers even though it's their business.”
Isaac Medeiros Feb 28, 2023 ▶ 17:31 How a 26-Year Old With Autism Built a $10 Million Samurai Sword Business
ALL-IN Insight
Friedberg: Ad auctions reach competitive pricing with only a few dozen advertisers
“But I will tell you that when you get to a certain volume, and it's not a big volume, you don't need a million advertisers bidding against each other. You only need a few dozen advertisers. And once you have a few dozen advertisers bidding against each other, …”
David Friedberg Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 10:44 E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: TikTok advertisers will soon face major pressure
“I think the next big shoe to drop is going to be advertisers who come under a lot of pressure.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 20, 2023 ▶ 1:03:43 E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
FOUNDER'S JOURNAL Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lieberman: Morning Brew sees advertising softness over recent months
“We're a media business, we have advertising revenue, we have absolutely seen softness in advertisers over the last few months”
Alex Lieberman Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 3:34 How Spirit Halloween Makes $600M in 2 Months, The Journey of a CEO & Is a Recession Coming?
Rushkoff: Advertisers keep consumers second-guessing choices to drive more purchases
“And I feel like it benefits advertisers and certain companies to get people second guessing all their choices. So put them back in decision mode. So they buy more stuff.”
Douglas Rushkoff Nov 16, 2021 ▶ 1:02:49 #124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media
Cowan-Brown: Most ad buyers do not know where their ads actually run
“Most of the people responsible for ad spending have actually no idea how their ads are actually running, where they're using, where they're running, sorry. And if they're being, if they're actually performing”
Toni Cowan-Brown Mar 14, 2021 ▶ 11:02 Trying to understand Ad Tech
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ghonim: Social platforms adopted content moderation due to advertisers, not public pressure
“Facebook YouTube did not want to be the ministry of truth until the advertisers decided they're not happy. And then the ministry of truth was launched you know, which is fine. I mean, I guess I guess at the end of the day, it's their platform, but I'm just say…”
Wael Ghonim Feb 24, 2021 ▶ 1:00:45 Arab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril
FOUNDER'S JOURNAL Assertion Not checkable as stated
Advertisers sought to sponsor Founder's Journal within weeks of launch
“In the last three weeks, there have been advertisers asking to sponsor Founders Journal, which I think is pretty amazing.”
Alex Lieberman Aug 19, 2020 ▶ 5:39 Future of The Founder's Journal
Morgan DeBaun: Brands avoid running ads alongside social justice coverage
“You know, people are very sensitive about running ads or campaigns against black death or murder or social justice, because that's not always ad safe or ad friendly.”
Morgan DeBaun Jul 11, 2020 ▶ 9:19 How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun
Armbrust: Local newspaper ad revenue depends on community-level personal relationships
“One of the big reasons why people work with newspapers is they know that they can go down to the local office and talk to the guy, you know, or talk to the gal that, you know, is on their PTA with them, and that's why they continue to advertise in the newspape…”
Lloyd Armbrust Apr 6, 2019 ▶ 18:37 1351 Why OwnLocal CEO Turned Down $17m Offer to Keep Helping Newspapers Digitize
Wilson: Advertisers often dismiss high-quality ad inventory if it lacks volume
“Oftentimes, you know, you hear things related to quality and when you approach advertisers with things that are pristine quality, but it's on the lower end of the volume spectrum, a lot of times it gets ignored or dismissed entirely, and so volume is a big par…”
Lauren Wilson Sep 1, 2018 ▶ 10:32 1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation
Advertisers want integrated platforms instead of stitched-together ad tech stacks
“What they really want to have is one platform that they can use to do everything in one single stack, right? They don't want to have a Frankenstein, Any longer where they have to stitch things together, they really truly won't have a one platform, which is sim…”
Mark Grether Jul 11, 2018 ▶ 3:34 1082 Why Public Sizmek Went Private to Fuel Growth via M&A in Buy Side Programmatic Space
Johnson: BET Made Double Revenue on Zero-Cost Video Content
“All you got to do is come up with a business where you get free music videos, cable operators pay you, and advertisers pay you, so you get paid twice for nothing.”
Robert "Bob" Johnson Dec 14, 2017 ▶ 24:31 Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most YouTube advertisers do not know what video content they target
“Most YouTube, I mean, advertisers don't really know what's going on in the YouTube videos they advertise against.”
Evan Macmillan Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 13:27 Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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