BMW pushed Spider-Man promotional content to every car made after 2020 as part of a confirmed paid brand partnership. The same company whose Senior VP said the in-car screen is 'a private space' in 2023 just sold that space to Sony Pictures.
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Marques kicks off the first segment by describing YouTube's new social sharing feature, which converts shared video links into tracking URLs that identify who sent the video and then surfaces a reply-to-sender panel below the video instead of the regular comments. [1] — Marques Brownlee "YouTube's new social video-sharing feature opens an in-app messaging thread between sender and recipient — and the touch target to dismiss …" 01:33 The touch target to swipe past this panel to the general comments section is, as Andrew demonstrates, a near-impossibly thin strip in the center of the screen. The group diagnoses the root problem: YouTube is trying to copy Instagram's DM-sharing success, but Instagram evolved into a messaging platform organically, while YouTube has always been a pure consumption app where nobody talks to each other. Marques pitches his preferred alternative — a friends' recommended-video feed — as a better antidote to the 'dead internet' personalization effect. David argues Google's real failure isn't being too early but killing things too soon, pointing to Google+ as the product that could have solved this elegantly. The segment veers into a long tangent about Watch Later playlists (Marques has 716 videos; Ellis has 910), workarounds for cross-device video watching, and a wish-list of features YouTube should build.
YouTube's new social video-sharing feature opens an in-app messaging thread between sender and recipient — and the touch target to dismiss it is razor-thin. The feature satisfies YouTube's engagement metrics while making the experience worse for everyone actually using it.
Sam built Algrow, a SaaS for finding viral content formats, with zero coding experience using ChatGPT and Cursor. Six months later: 10,000 users, $14K/month in revenue.
Sam's first MVP threw an application error on its very first user — and he shipped it anyway. The core idea worked, and that was enough to validate the product and keep users coming back.
Sam joined Discord voice chats, muted himself, and silently screen-shared his product. Users in the chat started tagging him asking what the tool was. No pitch needed — curiosity did the selling.
Most founders post links in Discord and immediately get banned for self-promotion. Sam's approach was the opposite: build rapport, help people with the tool, let word of mouth do the work.
Find where your ICP lives. Listen before building. Validate with DMs and Loom recordings. Build in public with users inside your own Discord server. Turn early adopters into advocates with free access.
Instead of fearing the self-promo ban in large Discord servers, create your own private server for your product. You funnel in ideal customers and build a relationship that email can't replicate.
Algrow helps creators find and replicate viral video formats, starting at $25/month. It analyzes subscriber counts, average views, and trending formats — and can even generate the videos with AI.
After weeks of Sam silently screen-sharing in a Discord server, the server owner — unprompted — made a full YouTube promotional video about Algrow. Sam paid nothing and asked for nothing.
Producer Gus admits Discord never crossed his mind as a customer acquisition channel. Pat connects the insight to a broader lesson: match your distribution channel to where your actual customers live.
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