Oh, the fun that could be had by starting a meme of "subliminal advertising for bots"; part-inspired by that "alexa buy a doll house" thing, we float a startup that will pitch audible product placement in YouTube/etc videos, in the hope that your Amazon Echo / Google Whatever will buy it for you. We make millions on VC and then skip the country. Deal?

How would you know whether that product's maker pays for that sort of marketing? Perhaps if you tried ten products and got one positive, that would suffice.

OK, we just made up a big fake conversation in the presence of a desktop and laptop running fb, an iphone running the ap, and an iphone only accessing via Safari.

We mentioned Target, including a request for upcoming sales and target credit cards, Advil, Colgate, Liquid Plumber, Scott toilet paper, Wells Fargo (though we need to rule that out bc my daughter's been googling them re DAPL), Citibank, Marriott, Red Lobster, and an imaginary pending trip to Maine.

I will report back what we see.

edit: none of these do we use or see ads for.

10 hours later: nothing convincing. I got one for an Amex card and he got one for Discover, but nothing exact. His other ads were verizon, geico, halls, lay's, AT&T. Mine were only local news sites -- paper, radio and tv.

Still no winner.