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tonyedgecombelast Monday at 10:23 PM1 replyview on HN

I have a feeling that it is mostly unsophisticated advertisers bidding up the price of AdWords.


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tsunamifurylast Monday at 10:55 PM

As someone who leads large parts of ad tech for TikTok and worked at Google for 10 years, it’s the K shaped economy that is pressing SMBs out. Pure and simple

Everyone can make up some complex theories but I see it in the numbers every day. Spend distribution is now k shaped and SMBs simply can’t compete at top end performance levels.

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