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AI Marketing Wars Intensify in San Francisco With Posters and Plane Banners

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer#323inAI

San Francisco AI marketing wars.

From @polsia posters at street level to @MonacoGTM flying a plane.

When I spoke at Google’s first advertisers’ conference I had dinner with Kraft foods’ executives.

“Why do you spend so much money on advertising?”

“Because it works.”

@samdblond’s post about the story behind the plane makes the same claim.

Good morning! Maybe I need to do a better job of selling ads on my lists and https://alignednews.com/ai

I have been talking photos of every ad I saw this week on three trips to SF. Quite a week! Posting them in thread.

And I don’t have them all. There are so many.

Last time I was in Las Vegas all the billboards were from injury attorneys.

The ads are part of what makes San Francisco the city of the future in the Western World.

Sam Blond@samdblond

The Monaco Plane: Economics and Impact.

If you've been in SF over the last 10 days, you've likely seen the Monaco Plane flying around. I'm receiving countless messages asking about how expensive it is and if it's working.

So here are those answers:

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Users dismissed the AI marketing campaigns with posters and plane banners in San Francisco as intrusive 'AI SLOP' and sarcastically criticized ads appearing even on toilet seats.

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer
Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

San Francisco AI marketing wars.

From @polsia posters at street level to @MonacoGTM flying a plane.

When I spoke at Google’s first advertisers’ conference I had dinner with Kraft foods’ executives.

“Why do you spend so much money on advertising?”

“Because it works.”

@samdblond’s post about the story behind the plane makes the same claim.

Good morning! Maybe I need to do a better job of selling ads on my lists and https://alignednews.com/ai

I have been talking photos of every ad I saw this week on three trips to SF. Quite a week! Posting them in thread.

And I don’t have them all. There are so many.

Last time I was in Las Vegas all the billboards were from injury attorneys.

The ads are part of what makes San Francisco the city of the future in the Western World.

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nabu@nabu_lines

@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM sf is turning into one giant ai landing page fr

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Jason Barrett@JasonDigital

@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM The QR code reminds me of clients asking for ads to have them on the tube in London where there was no signal 🤣- no one could figure out a usage case back then.

Now it’s all about how does the experience continue.

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Ryan@ohryansbelt

@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM Excited for ai ads on the toilet seats i sit on to take a shit

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM the plane vs posters arms race is hilarious

one team maxing awareness, other going full guerrilla

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Feni@fenibelal

@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM lol imagine advertising crypto like this

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SomacoSF@somaco_sf

@Scobleizer @polsia is AI SLOP backwards

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@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM AI marketing is becoming performance art again. The hard part is proving which stunt changes pipeline.

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GraceAi@learn_ai_daily

@Scobleizer @polsia @MonacoGTM Advertising’s wild fr, but does it always pay off tho?

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