advertising

6 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 14, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about advertising, oldest first

Mar 14, 2021 neutral
Insight
Evans: E-commerce converged retail rent, shipping, and advertising into one budget
“Retail, rent, advertising, marketing, same day returns, free shipping, free returns. These in the past were all separate budgets. Now they're all kind of the same thing.”
Benedict Evans Mar 14, 2021 ▶ 23:13 Trying to understand Ad Tech
Jun 14, 2021 negative
Opinion
Evans: Silicon Valley's anti-advertising sentiment is 'really fucking childish'
“There's a kind of person in Silicon Valley that thinks that advertising is evil, and advertisers shouldn't want to know anything about us, and I never bought anything from advertising either, and I think this is really fucking childish.”
Benedict Evans Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 17:18 Paying attention to Apple again
Jun 14, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: US newspaper employment dropped 75% due to lost advertising
“The reason why the newspaper business as a quarter has a 100,000 employees in the US now and had 400,000 employees 20 years ago is advertising. The advertising went away.”
Benedict Evans Jun 14, 2021 ▶ 17:07 Paying attention to Apple again
Nov 8, 2021
Insight
Evans: Legacy industries face disruption 15 years after tech hype peaks
“That retail that that retail tv and so on advertising and now being completely overturned by stuff that people in tech were obsessed by 15 years ago”
Benedict Evans Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 36:28 How to think about tech
Dec 8, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: Instacart generates almost all of its profits from advertising
“Almost all of Instacart's profits come from advertising.”
Benedict Evans Dec 8, 2024 ▶ 8:15 Ai eats the world
Dec 8, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: Amazon generates $55 billion in annual advertising revenue
“Amazon has a three, has a fifty-five billion dollar ad business.”
Benedict Evans Dec 8, 2024 ▶ 8:08 Ai eats the world
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