Guest

Mike Malek

1 indexed appearance on the show — AI, Consumer Trends, Agencies & Vendors, Attribution & Measurement, Creators & Influencers

Appearances

• Meta's Massive Outage2026-06-13 · A Friday episode of EcommCowboy covering Meta's outage, Claude Code ad kickbacks, and YouTube DMs returning, built around guest interviews w…

Takes from the episode

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1. 2026-06-13 AI

   AI dubbing/narration tech has gotten good enough to convincingly reproduce a podcast host's voice in another language.

   I did mine in German and it's actually funny when you hear it back for the first time. But the tech is incredible.

2. 2026-06-13 AI

   A truly 'AI native' company keeps 100% of its business context inside a single AI tool so a strategic change instantly flows through everything instead of being re-socialized team by team.

   100% of the business context is inside our Agentyc tool... it'll flow through everything moving forward. No more socializing that for your teams

3. 2026-06-13 Consumer Trends

   Podcasting will keep shifting from pure entertainment toward content listeners can apply to make their lives healthier and more meaningful.

   you'll continue to see a shift from entertainment podcast to how can I apply what I'm hearing to my life to make my life a more you know meaningful

4. 2026-06-13 AI

   Trying to one-shot the perfect prompt is a trap; getting good results from AI requires an iterative process and real expertise.

   I think people often want to like try and one-shot prompt something... And there is an iterative process to this.

5. 2026-06-13 Agencies & Vendors

   Legacy holding-company agencies underperform because clients get bogged down fighting procurement instead of running unified acquisition/retention/creative strategy.

   you're fighting procurement conversations more than you are strategy

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