Better Offline

Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by Ryan Barwick of Marketing Brew to talk about how the entire tech ecosystem is controlled by ads - and whether companies like OpenAI and Perplexity can hope to plug the gaps in their leaky revenue models. Follow Ryan:  <a href="https://x.com/Ryanbarwick)">https://x.com/Ryanbarwick</a> <a href="https://www.marketingbrew.com/contributor/ryan-barwick">https://www.marketingbrew.com/contributor/ryan-barwick</a> --- LINKS: <a href="https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a> Newsletter: <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/</a> Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/">https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/</a>  Discord: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/QUUQUP9szv">chat.wheresyoured.at</a> Ed's Socials: <a href="https://twitter.com/edzitron">https://twitter.com/edzitron</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/edzitron">https://www.instagram.com/edzitron</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com">https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com</a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.