{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"Froggle, Goofstump, and the fake AI companies winning hearts online","slug":"froggle-goofstump-and-the-fake-ai-companies-winning-hearts-online","published_at":"2026-07-14T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/froggle-goofstump-and-the-fake-ai-companies-winning-hearts-online","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/07/14/froggle-goofstump-and-the-fake-ai-companies-winning-hearts-online","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/07/14/tech_20260714_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KXDZ4BX4Q11Z8TJHKNHP9A2K","summary":"Last month, comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross posted a series of advertisements for made-up tech companies around the New York City subway system. The ads are fake, but they bear an eerie resemblance to the real AI marketing campaigns proliferating throughout U.S. cities. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with the two comedians about why the joke resonated with so many people and what’s next in terms of AI mockery.","meta_description":"Last month, comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross posted a series of advertisements for made-up tech companies around the New York City subway system. T…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":542,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/froggle-goofstump-and-the-fake-ai-companies-winning-hearts-online/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/froggle-goofstump-and-the-fake-ai-companies-winning-hearts-online.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}