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Ben Gilbert: belief

23 May 2016 Acquired Snapchat

“Anyway, I guess the point I’m making is I think the context of Snapchat isn’t necessarily any better but since they’re doing brand ads and you have the opportunity to create a much more rich advertisement that it makes it a more valuable brand platform because you don’t actually care about that granular of targeting.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 May 2016
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Snapchat

Transcript context

…You don’t think there are psychological associations between content and advertising? I do. I just don’t think that seeing an ad on Facebook is contextually worse than seeing it on Snapchat. I’m already in entertainment mode. I can see that if you’re advertising to me when I’m on Google search and I’m on a quest for information and I’m like, “Coca-Cola, get out of here right now.” But on Facebook, I’m open to being entertained. Anyway, I guess the point I’m making is I think the context of Snapchat isn’t necessarily any better but since they’re doing brand ads and you have the opportunity to create a much more rich advertisement that it makes it a more valuable brand platform because you don’t actually care about that granular of targeting. Fair enough. I still think when I’m on ESPN and discover and I get Axe body spray, I would never wear Axe body spray, so I claim on the internet. But I don’t know, to the extent you can make an argument that television is still very valuable, this is the argument.…

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