Brooke Howard-Smith is the founder of Otterfish that is at the heart of the creator economy and influencer marketing. He's also a cofounder of Non-Fungible Labs which is now a part of Futureverse. Brooke and I broadly cover what's happening with AI and how its affecting everything digital and where Web3 fits in. We jump right in Brooke is talking about everyone leveraging what they love, being commercial and non commercial at the same time in the creator economy.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro 

00:56 monetizing & creator economy

05:15 web3

12:26 spotify, superapps, & AI

18:15 instagram & influence marketing

23:08 client AI tools in the creator economy 

28:40 personal AI use 

38:46 non fungible labs

41:55 fluf launch & futureverse

46:22 gemini's mis-launch

51:58 rapidfire

1:02:31 fin

Some notes from the show:

• Gino the Ghost on music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2NG6NWyhjisymBWg8aSXQ 


• Kurzweil's singularity https://www.singularity.com/ 


• Otterfish https://otterfish.com/ 


• Brian Armstrong AI use https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1779946210226577913 


• Futureverse https://www.futureverse.com/ 


• unstoppable art machine https://www.instagram.com/unstoppableartmachine/?hl=en 


• fluf launch https://nfts.wtf/what-the-fluf-3d-bunnies-break-the-blockchain/ 


• Gemini's mis-launch https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/ 


• Asian shopping https://youtu.be/p3RhRB3YJks?si=M-y5cZab34sQ3Q5G 


• Ready Player One announcement https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/ready-player-one-metaverse-warner-bros-discovery-1235862190/ 


• Golden https://heresgolden.com/ 

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Recorded at blockheight 839555. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.