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21st Jul 2025

Social Media Marketing & Ad Agencies: AI Will Replace You by 2027 Unless You Build This (Jordan Ross Solo)

🚨 Emergency Episode for Marketing Founders, Ad Agencies & SMMAs🚨

If you're still relying on public AI tools and duct-taped SOPs, your agency is already falling behind.


In this episode, Jordan Ross (Founder, 8 Figure Agency) delivers a blunt warning for marketing and creative agency owners:

AI is not coming—it's already here. And unless you build your own vector database, implement agentic workflows, and truly own your IP, you'll be replaced by someone who did.


🎙 What You’ll Learn:

Why most agencies are sleepwalking into extinction


The 3 types of AI (and which don’t give you a competitive edge)


Why building a vectorized database is your moat


How top agencies are using proprietary data to automate campaigns, improve results, and grow margins to 80%+


The massive mistake founders make trying to build AI systems with traditional engineers


Why it takes 12–18 months to build a defensible AI foundation—and why starting now matters


How AI will collapse the cost of acquisition for smarter agencies


The real reason most agencies won’t survive past 2027


📌 Quote:

“If your business breaks when you stop working, you don’t own a company—you own a liability. The agencies building custom AI systems will dominate. Everyone else? Obsolete.”


💡 For Ad Agency Founders, Creatives & Media Buyers:

This episode is your wake-up call. The AI revolution isn’t theoretical anymore. This is the dot-com moment for agencies—and most of the market won’t make it.


🔗 Subscribe + Resources:

→ Subscribe to the podcast

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→Learn how to stay alive with AI: https://newsletter.8figureagency.co/

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About the Podcast

How to Scale an Agency 🚀
Everything you need to know about scaling your marketing agency.
Jordan Ross, Lucas James, and AJ Cassata share everything you need to know about scaling your agency. The hosts are each running their own 7 figure agencies and while on the podcast, bring on guests and conduct solo episodes on how you can easily scale your agency. You'll gain expert insights on lead generation, sales, operations, offers, pricing, retention and SO much more!.

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