Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
The cost to advertise on the Academy Awards has gone up fivefold even as its audience declined by two-thirds, illustrating broadcast advertising's broken value equation.
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Mark asks about his daughter's advertising major. Scott declares broadcast advertising in structural decline, traces it from Steve Jobs to Google/Meta, and points to event marketing as the growth opportunity. [1] — Scott Galloway "Steve Jobs took $6B out of broadcast advertising and built 550 Apple Stores instead. That move crystallized what was already happening: Ame…" 11:30 [2] — Scott Galloway "RBC spent $2–3M on a 36-hour client event. Dreamforce budgets hit $10M. Netflix takes over chalets at Cannes Lions. Physical activations ar…" 15:40
The word 'advertising' is the problem — the actual skills (communication, storytelling, figuring out what moves people) remain valuable. Pivot to events, activations, and direct customer engagement. The ad agencies that were once masters of the universe are now running Irish bars at Cannes.
Steve Jobs took $6B out of broadcast advertising and built 550 Apple Stores instead. That move crystallized what was already happening: Americans no longer sit in front of three TV channels for five hours a day, and broadcast advertising's pricing power has inverted — costs up 5x, audiences down two-thirds.
Steve Jobs redirected $6 billion out of broadcast advertising into Apple's retail stores, marking a pivotal shift from pre-purchase branding to distribution investment.
Claude Pro/Max is sold at $200/month but costs Anthropic roughly $5,000/month in compute to deliver, meaning they're massively subsidizing growth.
The majority of high-margin brands do one of two things: make you feel closer to God, or signal that you'd be more attractive to a wider selection of mates. Ferrari doesn't sell cars — it sells the fantasy of desirability.
RBC spent $2–3M on a 36-hour client event. Dreamforce budgets hit $10M. Netflix takes over chalets at Cannes Lions. Physical activations are where brand money is flowing as broadcast collapses.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
More than 1 million people have visited SiteGPT's website since launch in March 2023, all through organic channels.
Approximately 90% of SiteGPT's Google search traffic comes from the free tools Bhanu built, not the main product pages.
Bhanu sold his first SaaS product, Feather, for $250,000 so he could focus fully on the faster-growing SiteGPT.
SiteGPT has generated approximately $500,000 in total revenue since its launch in March 2023.
The average customer lifetime value for SiteGPT is approximately $1,700 to $1,800, which Bhanu considers unusually high.
SiteGPT receives around 50,000 visitors per month, of which about 200 convert to leads and 60 start free trials.
SiteGPT hit $10,000 MRR within its very first month of launch, driven largely by early traction in the AI chatbot space.
Despite strong download numbers, PropGPT could not push past $1,000–$2,000 MRR due to poor product retention.
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