Champions of Growth Podcast
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How Marketers Tap into the Cultural Zeitgeist
Champions of Growth Podcast August 21, 2024JuHee Kim, president of ad agency MuteSix, joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss some of the key questions marketers need to ask when they want to align their brand with a cultural moment (or movement) and why serendipity may play a bigger part in such activations than brand managers appreciate.
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Tracking Influencer Marketing Trends
Champions of Growth Podcast August 7, 2024Tapping into Gen Z is at the heart of a new influencer marketing network launched by Rubix Foods. Shannon O’Shields and Megumi Robinson join host Matthew Schwartz to talk about the network, as well as some of the larger trends swirling around influencer marketing.
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Is the Ad Agency Model Broken?
Champions of Growth Podcast July 24, 2024Michael Farmer, chairman and CEO of strategic consultancy Farmer & Company, joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss the growing schisms between client-side marketers and their advertising agencies, and how to enhance their relationships.
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Marketers Face Data Privacy Reckoning
Champions of Growth Podcast June 26, 2024Arun Kumar, author and former chief data and marketing technology officer at The Interpublic Group of Cos. joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss why the marketing field may be making a grave mistake deferring to Big Tech when it comes to influencing the conversation about fostering online privacy.
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How Marketers Bolster Engagement with the LGBTQ+ Community
Champions of Growth Podcast June 12, 2024June marks “Pride Month,” which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and provides an opportunity for brands to boost engagement with gay and trans people. However, Todd Sears, CEO of Out Leadership, says it’s crucial that marketers go beyond “Pride Month” and engage the community for the long term rather than a moment in time.
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How Marketers Weather Climate Change
Champions of Growth Podcast May 29, 2024Climate change is getting worse, with an increasing number of storms, wildfires, and downright freakish weather happening with increasing frequency. Randi Stipes, CMO of The Weather Company, joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss how marketers can leverage weather-related data.
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The Performance Marketing Versus Branding Debate Heats Up
Champions of Growth Podcast May 15, 2024Lou Aversano, CMO of The Cigna Group, joins host Matthew Schwartz, to discuss the performance marketing versus branded advertising debate heating up throughout B2B precincts, why there’s a growing onus on B2B firms to thread more emotional elements throughout their messaging architecture, and more.
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How Marketers Become Better Leaders
Champions of Growth Podcast May 1, 2024Sally Percy, journalist and author, joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss how senior marketers bolster their leadership skills, why remote work is changing the so-called “70/20/10” rule of communications, and the increasingly key role empathy plays among successful leaders.
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How Marketers Tame the Data Beast
Champions of Growth Podcast April 17, 2024Claravine's Chris Comstock joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss how marketers bolster their data standards, why embracing failure is underrated in the battle to tame the data beast, and what the pending demise of third-party cookies means for brand advertisers and consumer engagement.
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Handicapping the ANA’s Marketing Capabilities Framework
Champions of Growth Podcast April 10, 2024Greg Boosin, EVP of global B2B and product marketing at Mastercard, joins host Matthew Schwartz to break down the ANA’s 2023 Marketing Capabilities Framework.
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How B2B Marketers Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Ad Creative
Champions of Growth Podcast March 20, 2024Ryan Kutscher, founder and CEO of ad agency Launch Party, joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss how B2B marketers recalibrate their ad-creative strategy, why less is more when it comes to quality content, and the marketing benefits of listening to the Broken Record Podcast hosted by legendary music producer Rick Rubin.
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Marketers Need a Sharper Antenna for Programmatic Advertising
Champions of Growth Podcast March 6, 2024Bill Duggan, group EVP at the ANA, joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss the results of an ANA study on programmatic advertising. Duggan offers several tips to help marketers optimize their investments in programmatic media and provides the key questions that marketers need to ask sellers so they don’t get burned.
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How to Strengthen the Relationship Between Marketing and PR
Champions of Growth Podcast February 14, 2024M&T Bank's Francesco Lagutaine and Peppercomm's Jacqueline Kolek join host Matthew Schwartz to discuss their long-standing relationship and why it’s increasingly important that client-side marketers view their PR agencies as partners and not vendors.
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Marketing Communications Amid the Rise of Generative AI
Champions of Growth Podcast January 31, 2024Peter Prodromou, president of marketing and PR agency Boathouse, joins host Matthew Schwartz to talk about how the rise of generative AI is affecting marketing communications as well as agency-client relations.
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How Brands Bolster Their DEI Efforts Amid Growing Turbulence
Champions of Growth Podcast January 17, 2024Gilbert Dávila, cofounder of AIMM and President and CEO of Dávila Multicultural Insights, joined host Matthew Schwartz to discuss where the marketing industry’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts go from here and how companies brace for what’s expected to be a turbulent year.
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A New Framework for Selling Creative Effectiveness
Champions of Growth Podcast January 10, 2024WARC's Ann Marie Kerwin joins host Matthew Schwartz, to discuss a new study that provides a road map for brand managers who are eager to make a business case for the value of marketing and advertising and develop a valid framework for their entire organization.
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Bridging the (Expanding) CMO-CEO Divide
Champions of Growth Podcast December 13, 2023Ed See and Robert Tas, partners at McKinsey, join host Matthew Schwartz to discuss the results of their recent survey and offer some salient and actionable advice for how chief marketers can foster a more productive relationship with their CEO.
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Seeing the “How” in Business Transformation
Champions of Growth Podcast November 22, 2023Allen Adamson, former chairman, North America of branding agency Landor, joins host Matthew Schwartz to talk about why it’s incumbent upon brand managers to “zoom out” on their audiences to bolster consumer engagement and generate better returns.
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Can B2B Brands Shift to a Full-Funnel Marketing Strategy?
Champions of Growth Podcast November 15, 2023Google's Doug Novack joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss the ongoing debate throughout the B2B field about performance marketing versus brand advertising, the rapidly growing role of generative AI in both branding and lead generation efforts, and why it’s incumbent upon B2B companies to pivot to a full-funnel marketing strategy.
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Rebranding Effort Is a Marathon for New York Road Runners
Champions of Growth Podcast October 11, 2023Erika Katz, head of brand marketing and studio at New York Road Runners (NYRR), joins host Matthew Schwartz to discuss the NYRR’s rebranding campaign getting the message out for the upcoming New York City Marathon and making sure the event’s marketing and advertising efforts resonate with a global audience.
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