Walmart wants to convert your living room TV into a billboard for them.
So two weeks ago it was reported that Walmart wanted to buy Vizio for 2 billion dollars. That's about $9.30 in today's money.
Walmart has historically been Vizio's largest customer and Vizio is historically the largest television brand sold at Walmart by sales and Walmart is moving its focus to its connect service.
This is just another move from a massive retailer to become a data broker. And let's talk about it.
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Chapters -
📺 0:00 - Intro - Why did Walmart buy Vizio for $2 billion dollars. What's in it for them?
📺 0:06 - Part 1 - History of the purchase.
📺 0:39 - Part 2 - What does Walmart get from this purchase? (Data, our privacy, consumer insights)
📺 0:57 - Part 3 - Why retailers can't just be retailers anymore and why Walmart wants to be more competitive with Amazon (Jeff Bezos and his little bookshop)
📺 1:14 - Part 4 - The business of loss leaders and making more money on our data than the purchase.
📺 2:13 - Part 5 - Vizio went public in 2021. How did they make more money from our data than the TVs?
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Simon Caine is an English award-winning comedian, writer, author, podcaster and human based in Edinburgh Scotland. He makes a video a week, released every Sunday.
Over the last decade, he's performed all over the world, from London to NYC to Australia. His most recent show "every room becomes a panic room when you overthink enough" got 5* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe where he sold out the run.
Previously he opened for Trevor Lock, Ben Miller and Henry Ginsberg as well as gigged on the same bill as people like Terry Alderton, Mark Dolan, Matthew Crosby and Bec Hill.
He's been featured in the Huffington Post “Tweets of the Week” feature several times and had jokes/writing appeared in The Poke and other publications. He hates writing in the third person.