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Episode #567: SEO is Dying and AI is Rewriting Marketing from Scratch
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In this episode, Stewart Alsop sits down with Mark Quadros, founder of GrowthOG and former link-building agency owner, for a wide-ranging conversation covering the state of Facebook ads and paid marketing, the decline of traditional SEO and backlink building in the age of AI, how Google and Cloudflare are jockeying for position as AI search reshapes the internet, and the messy economics of AI-generated video versus real footage (including Mark's work with Google Omni and Epidemic Sounds). They also get into monetization shifts across YouTube, Substack, and TikTok, the "reality disturbance" thesis behind Stewart's show with his father, and where...
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. This podcast is for you if you have an insane drive to find the truth of things. It's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there. My guests go there and you benefit.
Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always subscribe on iTunes Spotify or wherever you listen to the podcast. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. I've got Mark Quadros here and he was working on a link building agency and is now on to a new venture which is called Growth OG. Very excited to have
you talk about Chiang Mai or Thailand where you are now as well and a whole bunch of other stuff and video and ads and we're gonna get into it. So welcome to the show. Thanks for having me Stuart. So you're into ads, you're into video ads. What is the deal with Facebook ads? What is the deal with Facebook in general? Do
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