Lead Balloon - Marketing, Public Relations and Strategic Communications Stories
Sep 29, 2026 · 51 min · 16 segments
As they promote their new AI technologies, executives at tech startups have said some outlandish things. Making bold claims gets headlines. It secures meetings. It closes funding deals. It also runs…
Dusty WeisHost
Jeanine WrightGuestRonald Young Jr.Guest
You and I, and a lot of the podcast industry, we were feeling pretty peeved about a year ago.
And those of us who make our living in this space, we were unhappy about that for a variety of reasons.
fabricated by an LLM and who wants to listen to that anyways but there's also a limited pool of advertising dollars and we're already fighting over it and now we have to fight robots for it too there was a whole lot to be upset about there well Here, Ronald Young Jr., is the update that I wanted to share because I'm going to be speaking on a panel this month about this very topic.
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And further, Ron, they appear to have abandoned or be in the process of abandoning their AI generated podcast content business model.
You have to look at the numbers and say, what were the advertisers looking at in terms of the return on the investment? And it had to be remarkably low, even if they're only spending pennies to get it.
You and I, and a lot of the podcast industry, we were feeling pretty peeved about a year ago.
And those of us who make our living in this space, we were unhappy about that for a variety of reasons.
fabricated by an LLM and who wants to listen to that anyways but there's also a limited pool of advertising dollars and we're already fighting over it and now we have to fight robots for it too there was a whole lot to be upset about there well Here, Ronald Young Jr., is the update that I wanted to share because I'm going to be speaking on a panel this month about this very topic.
Managed infrastructure that turns the catalog you already own into video, audio, and short form.
And further, Ron, they appear to have abandoned or be in the process of abandoning their AI generated podcast content business model.
You have to look at the numbers and say, what were the advertisers looking at in terms of the return on the investment? And it had to be remarkably low, even if they're only spending pennies to get it.
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