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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Why People Are Addicted to Likes and Followers

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The importance that people and brands place on follower counts or the impressions their content receives is grossly overvalued. I can’t say numbers don’t matter, but the value everyone places on these numbers needs to be reconsidered. There is just too much emphasis on the width of engagement—how many potential connections they make—rather than the depth of those interactions which, in my eyes, is far more important...

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0:04.8

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0:13.2

actually, in general, before I go into this promo with T with Gary Vee, which is the promo.

0:17.6

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0:23.1

thinks it's the best I think it might be the best content I've ever done. So please tune in.

0:27.9

But also, please make sure you're following me on Twitter. If you drop Twitter, like,

0:31.7

like, if you add your notifications to my account on Twitter, so you get pushed notified, like,

0:36.0

Twitter is besides my 2129-3157-31, Twitter is absolutely the pulse of my universe. And if

0:42.9

you're not following me there, you're missing out on a lot of stuff. Anyway, T with Gary Vee,

0:47.1

multiple times a week, usually 9am to 10am, Eastern Time, big shout out to the West Coast.

0:51.8

See a lot of you in the 6am fam, just emotionally, strategically, the best content I've ever put out

0:57.5

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1:02.8

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1:09.2

because I'm from Russian descent. T with Gary Vee, check it out.

1:12.6

This is the Gary Vee audio experience.

1:17.0

The single most important thing that I think about these days is that I am blown away

1:24.2

by the level of insecurity there is in our society. We have so much insecurity that Instagram

1:31.3

had to take likes away because you're not capable of actually talking about what you actually

1:37.8

want to talk about. You are so addicted to other people's opinions that you start posting only

1:44.3

things that you think will get likes, not what you actually want to talk about.

1:50.7

This is very important. Thank you. It's very important.

1:57.6

Thank you. It's very important. I promise you the reason that I stand on stage is because

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