Memes & Machines

We're back and this week's topics include: 🔗Major AI updates: ChatGPT-5, Google, ElevenLabs, Runway, Grok 4. 🔗 The front-runners in the AI tool space (Udio, Riffusion/Producer AI, ElevenLabs, Suno, Mureka AI). 🔗 How to monetise AI content and turn your content into a business. 🔗AI security threats, ethical hacking, and the risks no one's talking about. 🔗5 steps to position yourself ahead of t...

We're back again! This week's topics include: 🔗Networking & filtering noise: The importance of in-person connections. 🔗Dopamine loops & the future of content: Are AI characters here to stay or are we just diluting content even further. 🔗The MrBeast thumbnail controversy: MrBeast pulls AI thumbnail generator after backlash - Should all AI tools be held to the same standards? 🔗Real Use Cases for...

We're back! This week's topics include: 🔗Higgsfield: The new leader in AI content creation? 🔗Who wins? Competing in a content world that never stops evolving. 🔗The AI baby podcast trend: What's the long term value? 🔗Zuckerberg's advertising theory: New gen marketing or the death of human emotion in feedback loops? 🔗Leveraging your existing skills in to AI– How to apply what you already know t...

The return of Catty! This week's topics include: 🔗Vibe marketing: The next step from vibe marketing. 🔗Agentic era: The best marketing use cases, for smarter tools and bigger wins. 🔗The power of distribution: Are the accumbens (Apple & Microsoft) best placed to win the AI war? 🔗Ethics and privacy: Do people actually care? 🔗How to win: The steps we're taking to stay ahead and get the most out o...

We've took the pod live! This week's topics include: 🔗The New Benchmark: Why ChatGPT's latest update Is a actually a true game-changer this time. 🔗 Text is here: Prompting text to 100% accuracy is here and why it feels like the next step in AI generation. 🔗The AI Impact on Young People: How younger generations will navigate an AI-driven world. 🔗The Metrics of AI Harm: Exploring risks, scams an...

This week's topics include: 🔗Manus AI: The Deepseek 2.0? 🔗Truth seeking operators: How great products gain mass adoption without the need of marketing. 🔗The importance of being a practitioner, not just a reporter: Real platforms - Giving real opinions. 🔗Short form content is dying? Shorts plagiarism, clickbait, lack of integrity and even a Vine comeback on the cards🧐? Oliver Yonchev, Catty Be...

This week's topics include: 🔗Creator marketing in 2025: Pricing structures and how to target your ads more effectively. 🔗 The world of faceless influencers: How it differs and do the same trust principles apply? 🔗 UGC ads are not user generated content: Here's why. 🔗AI ads should be banned: The overwhelming argument needed with advertising standards over UGC advertising. 🔗The dark side of AI...

This week's topics include: 🔗A playground for entrepreneurship: The Google VO2 release & why big tech is playing catch-up. 🔗Y Combinator: Why starting with AI ideas as a first principle may not be as effective. 🔗Measuring trust: An exposé on the scammers and creators stealing your business. 🔗The key benefits of partnering with industry insiders early in your entrepreneurial journey. 🔗Our new...

This week's topics include: 🔗LinkedIn's Big Shift: How to get ahead of the evolution. 🔗Which is more important: Follower based feeds or discoverability? 🔗Winning on LinkedIn and the steps you need to take. 🔗How to stand out and get noticed using these engagement behaviour hacks. 🔗Finding you're self-serving motivation. Oliver Yonchev, Catty Berragan, Chris Branch & Ben Kaluza have supported t...

This week's topics include:   📱 The TikTok Ban: What's next, and how we think it'll shake out.   📱 Impact on Music: Why this could be a major blow to artists and the U.S. music scene.   📱 The Domino Effect: Will other countries follow suit, and what could it mean globally?   📱 Winners & Losers: How brands are reacting—and who stands to gain if TikTok disappears.   Oliver Yonchev, Catty Berraga...

This week's topics include: 📖The good, the bad and the ugly: The full rundown of our AI predictions for 2025. Oliver Yonchev, Catty Berragan, Chris Branch & Ben Kaluza have supported the world's biggest brands for over a decade and want to give you their unfiltered, honest and occasionally humorous opinions on the industry. Follow Catty on LinkedIn:  / cathal-catty-berragan-8a2270a0 Follow Olive...

Thank you for tuning in to Memes and Machines throughout 2024 🍾 This week's topics include: 🎄 What we got wrong this year: Unpacking the turkey and trimmings of everything that missed the mark. 🎄 What we got right this year: A festive sprinkle of cheer as we celebrate all our right predictions from this year. 🎄What we predict for next year: Peeking under the tree at what Santa may deliver in 2...

This week's topics include: ✔️TikTok Battles & Creator Scams: The growing trend of creators exploiting impressionable audiences for financial   gain.   ✔️Australia to implement ban on social media for U16's: A positive step in tackling phone addiction and how it applies to the older generations.   ✔️'Context is seldomly thought about': Why ad placement is often overlooked.     Memes & Machines is...

This week's topics include:   🐐Redefining celebrities and influence: Why your favourite sports stars are opting for content creation.     🐐AI first businesses which are taking over: The importance of staying ahead and how to maximise your workflow.   🐐Time is money: How small teams can achieve more by simply valuing time.     Memes & Machines is a podcast for marketers, entrepreneurs or anyone...

This week's topics include: 🦅Memes and Machines: Our new format! 🦅The rise in content influencer houses and the evolution of co creation. 🦅Runway's new features: The next step for AI and the importance of staying ahead. 🦅Trumps election: Why the social landscape of the election was the final nail in the coffin for traditional media. Memes & Machines is a podcast for marketers, entrepreneurs or...

This week's topics include:   🎃The Adobe Max event: An AI infused future and the benefits for creators.   🎃AI and copyright: Where's the Line? Ethics, Ownership, and the Future.   🎃Elon's AI robot scam and why this is the new precedent for product launches.     🎃Unlimited PTO and four day work weeks: Progressive step forward or productivity nightmare.     🎃AI agents: The next big phrase we wi...

This week's topics include: 👾James Blunt's ad of the year: Why leaning in to meme culture is so important. 👾The best internet trends: Novel ideas that just work! 👾Personalised GPTs: Are hyper personalised algorithms the future of social? 👾Staying ahead: Practical AI use cases and why prioritising consuming over creating is so important. 👾Video creation top tips: Tools and advice.   Memes & Ma...

This week's topics include: 🎬Marques Brownlee's new app: Why the Internet is calling MKBHD a hypocrite. 🎬Zuckerberg the goat? Meta's new 'Orion' glasses and why they're the augmented baby step into a virtual world. 🎬Culture battles: Meta, Spotify, and YouTube's AI translation roll out. 🎬James Cameron: The godfather of CGI joining the AI board of Stability and why you should be jumping on the h...

This week's topics include: 🗣️Content creation: Our definitive top tips. 🗣️Starting from a blank canvas? Here's our step-by-step creation process. 🗣️10x'ing your creative output: The best tools you need to know. 🗣️The full production process and how to distribute your work effectively. 🗣️Culture over everything: The value of having creative sparring partners. Memes & Machines is a podcast for mark...

This week's topics include: 🤟 OpenAI's latest innovation, 'Strawberry': Why this release is truly a gamechanger this time. 🤟 The newest tools (Adobe, Heygen, MiniMax, Hedra, Loopy): A full breakdown. 🤟How this six-person startup is taking on tech giants — and winning: What's behind their success? 🤟The best AI search engine: How Perplexity are setting the gold standard and what you can apply to...

This week's topics include: 📊LinkedIn's play for vertical video: How you can garner millions of views by being an early adopter. 📊Content is king: Why perfecting video content will always keep you ahead of the curve. 📊 Perplexity now implementing ad products? The new era of advertising. 📊 Hardware developments and why they're lacking in an AI age. 📊The dangers of big tech superpowers. 📊Is ph...

This week's topics include: ✅ A16Z's Top 100 Gen AI tools: Some unexpected picks. ✅ Proactive or reactive: Why is no-one talking about Predictive AI? ✅ The asch paradigm: The psychological principles that influence our online habits ✅ How to maintain authenticity and our guide to steering clear of those pesky 'binfluencers'. ✅ The Trust Dilemma: Why you should aim for the magic 4.6-star revie...

This week's topics include: 🔥Why within the next ten years, we will see the death of the 9-5. 🔥The gig economy: Why people are opting to go independent. 🔥Is remote working detrimental to your mental health, friendships and work ethic? 🔥The importance of prioritising friendships and the struggles of nurturing real connection post covid. 🔥Are 'workplace families' a scam? 🔥The top three 'boring...

This week's topics include: 🙋‍♂️Flux AI: Why no censorship may be detrimental for brands. 🙋‍♂️How far is too far?: How creators, small and big businesses should be acting. 🙋‍♂️The bad guy redemption arc: The importance of your online reputation. 🙋‍♂️Knowing your mission: Which pockets should you as an individual, and as a brand play? 🙋‍♂️Steven Bartlett's ad disclosure controversy: Injustice...

This week's topics include:   👟Business models of the future: How you can adapt. 👟How open source is revolutionising the game for tech companies. 👟Navigating business as a small agency: Why the incumbents are at risk. 👟 Influencer & creator marketing: Why are companies so damn lazy? 👟 Do you really care about your data? 👟 Abusing brand influence: The benefit of bringing the creators onboard....