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Awesome Chat: AI Event Marketing That Feels Human | Sam Eitzen from Snapbar

September 17th, 2026  |  50 mins 27 secs

aeo, ai entrepreneurship, ai image generation, ai marketing, ai models, ai photo booth, ai photo experiences, ai stories, artificial intelligence, audience engagement, b2b marketing, brand activations, business distribution, conference technology, customer experience, digital marketing, digital prize wheel, event activations, event marketing, event networking, event swag, event technology, experiential activations, experiential marketing, fan engagement, gemini, generative ai, gpt, lead generation, marketing technology, martech, personalized marketing, photo booth technology, prompt engineering, qr code marketing, sam eitzen, seo, snapbar, trade show giveaways, trade show marketing, trade show technology, world cup marketing

What happens when the photo booth becomes an AI-powered experiential marketing platform?

Michael Sorg and Katie Dudas talk with Sam Eitzen, CEO of Snapbar, about the company's evolution from physical event photo booths to web-based activations that can run on an iPad, touchscreen, QR code, or attendee's phone.

Sam shares how Snapbar uses AI photo experiences and AI Stories to build personalized brand activations, what they've learned from major sporting events and conferences, and why understanding the audience is still more important than simply adding AI.

They also dig into the messier realities of generative AI: prompt engineering, model updates, unexpected results, cloud reliability, testing, and why businesses shouldn't treat AI like an infallible employee.

Plus, Sam explains why he believes AI making products easier to build actually makes distribution, customer relationships, and good old-fashioned business fundamentals more important than ever.

Learn more: https://snapbar.com

AwesomeCast 774: Artemis II Moon Mission, AI Chatbot Risks, Apple TikTok & LEGO Zelda

April 1st, 2026  |  1 hr 1 min

3D printing, Katie Dudas, NASA, Xbox, adobe illustrator, ai chatbots, ai sycophancy, animation tools, apple tiktok, artemis ii, article analysis, awesomecast, awesomecast 774, browser extension, chachi, channelsurfer, chatgpt, claude, dave podnar, deepseek, digital vs physical games, epic games layoffs, etsy shop, finder mascot, gaming news, geek culture, gemini, great deku tree, heinz ketchup, heinz verified, hidden figures, kalpana chawla, katherine johnson, lego zelda, moon mission, nancy grace roman, nintendo, ocarina of time, patricia cowings, pittsburgh podcast, plastic fun time, project turntable, sorg, stanford study, tech podcast, vera rubin, whats up with that, women’s history month

This week on AwesomeCast 774, Sorg, Katie, and Dave Podnar talk about the upcoming Artemis II moon mission, the surprisingly useful Heinz Verified restaurant map, and Chachi’s growing 3D printing Etsy shop. They also dig into a Stanford study on AI chatbot sycophancy, check out the What’s Up With That research assistant browser extension, react to Adobe Illustrator’s new 2D-to-3D Project Turntable, explore Apple’s TikTok mascot strategy, and get excited about LEGO Ocarina of Time sets.