Episode 62 Brand Building in Web3

Episode 62: Brand Building in Web3

Episode 62

Brand Building in Web3

Avery Akkineni is the President of Vayner3. We cover how traditional marketing works, how brands successfully leverage blockchain technology like NFTs, and her personal experience with VeeFriends.

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(00:02:36) - (First question) - How her background in marketing informs her work at Vayner3

(00:07:12) - The competitive and dynamic nature of the marketing industry

(00:10:55) - How Vayner3 leverages agility and keeps up with trends

(00:14:00) - Her pivot from corporate marketing to Web3 brand-building

(00:16:24) - What attracted her to the NFT space in the early days

(00:19:48) - Balancing risk aversion versus early adoption in marketing

(00:22:30) - How different brands have come online to Web3 and how Vayner3 enables them

(00:25:55) - Common mistakes made by brands trying to enter the space

(00:29:00) - What she learned from the launch of VeeFriends

(00:33:29) - How VeeFriends came to be and how it keeps momentum up

(00:36:27) - How she approaches brands following the recent crypto downtown

(00:39:59) - The aspects of Web3 adoption and growth that she’s most excited about

(00:41:56) - What she’s most excited to see built over the next six months and six years

Brand Building in Web3

Introduction

Eric
This is Eric Golden. And my guest today is Avery Akkineni. As President of Vayner3, Avery has been at the forefront of guiding chief marketing officers, brands and corporations into Web3. This conversation is a little different for me as we focus on marketing and how to both connect and grow audiences in Web3.

I am fascinated by Avery's work on Super Bowl commercials and learning what it is really like to work with creative brands like Budweiser and Pepsi. To start this episode, I asked Avery to teach me about how traditional marketing works before diving into case studies of how brands successfully leverage blockchain technology like NFTs. We then go behind the scenes with VaynerMedia and their rapid testing on ideas on Gary Vee himself and her personal experience with their project VeeFriends. Please enjoy my conversation with Avery Akkineni.

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