MOCK, the Podcast | Creative Agency Podcast

Join Don and Cuyler for Episode 179 as they dig into the strange state of political advertising, and what happens when AI joins the campaign trail. They start with why political ads shifted from “vote for me” to “don’t vote for them,” and why attacking a competitor rarely works. Along the way they look at Miller Lite, the Pepsi Challenge and why Coke never brings up Pepsi, then compare two very different ad strategies in Georgia, including an AI-generated ad that shows how convincing synthetic video has become.
From there, they ask whether political ads could finally push lawmakers to regulate AI, why customers of Adobe and Sony are rebelling against subscription-everything, and what AI means for Hollywood and the creative arts. They don’t fully agree on how worried to be, but it’s a candid, sometimes funny look at advertising, technology and trust.