Vaynerchuk: Digital marketing wastes money just as easily as traditional media
Gary Vaynerchuk · GaryVee wants your attention w/ VaynerX’s Gary Vaynerchuk (Masters of Scale Complete Interview) · Nov 16, 2023 · at 4:08
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerX, explains why modern advertising failure is not simply a digital versus traditional divide while discussing his book 'Day Trading Attention'.
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“I think that I know, because I live in it every day, you can waste an ungodly amount of money on influencers, on Facebook, on Instagram, on TikTok, on Spotify just as easily as you can in a newspaper or billboard or radio.”
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