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When a bunch of students from Delft University of Technology hit on a new way to do online dating, they decided to test their idea on campus armed with printed paper profiles and a mobile phone. Having proven the concept they dropped out of university to build Breeze, a challenger dating brand. Since then, Breeze has facilitated over 250,000 dates and is gearing up for a big expansion into the UK in 2024.
In this episode, co-founder Marsha Goei shares the story behind Breeze's rapid rise, offering insights into launching a business, tackling early-stage marketing challenges, and navigating the dynamic world of online dating.
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How do you become a CMO? What skills does the modern CMO need? What should you do in the first 100 days? How has the role changed as technology has developed? And how do you become that rare thing - the multi-category CMO? If anyone should know the answers, it's Stephen Taylor. Stephen started his career in the world of FMCG, with Gillette and Procter & Gamble, before rising to CMO for Samsung, PayPal, Nokia Phones and Pizza Express. Thanks to Stephen for sharing his insights and anecdotes along with some good advice for aspiring marketers looking to take on the CMO role themselves.
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Poppy Mason-Watts is co-founder of WaterBear, an 'impact media platform' that brings human stories and action together. We asked Poppy why the founders quit their jobs to start WaterBear, how they've gone from Day 1 to a community of 3m people, how you deal with the content rights to over a thousand films and what advice Poppy would give to CMOs when it comes to the controversial subject of 'Brand Purpose'.
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Hugo Barbera is an award-winning art-director and AI creative specialist. His AI work ranges from the cover of Vogue magazine to exhibitions in Milan and New York. Hugo's talk in Cannes was one of the most interesting things we saw out there, so we were delighted to get him onto the pod to discuss his ideas in more depth. In this wide ranging conversation, we talk about the latest developments in AI creativity, how to prompt an AI image generator for the best results, how brands are using AI to creative more effective campaigns and what the future holds for human creatives.
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In this episode, Jo Fox provides the insights as we explore the streaming wars. Who's winning? What are the latest trends in the sector? And where are we headed?
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, Hulu, Peacock, ESPN+, Apple TV, AMC+, YouTube, Tubi, Pluto... With so many players launching so many brands, the future of TV has never been more exciting - or uncertain. Jo has has been right at the heart of this battle in recent years, as the former SVP, Consumer & Content Marketing, for NBCU, former Director of Marketing for NOW TV and former Director of Content Marketing for Sky. With experience of launching Peacock into the US market and driving growth for NOW TV and Sky in the UK, Jo shares some top insights on this dynamic sector as well as revealing her passion for paleontology.
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Jimmy McLoughlin OBE, is a former special advisor to the Prime Minister on business, technology and entrepreneurship. During his 3 years at No.10, Jimmy's role was to brief the Prime Minister on what was happening to the economy and where the jobs of the future were coming from. On leaving No.10 he put all this experience to good use by creating the hit podcast 'Jimmy's Jobs of the Future', which is now in the top 0.5% of global podcasts and has charted as Apple's No.1 careers podcast. We spoke to Jimmy to find out how he went from Downing Street to podcast presenter, what he thinks the future of the British economy looks like and how he fits his passion for stand-up comedy into his day job.
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Alfie and Matt, founders of Elo AI, are two of the smartest (and youngest) entrepreneurs in the AI sector. We caught up with them to find out how AI actually works, what it means for the creative industries and what it's like to raise $3m at an average age of just 21 years old.
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The world of sports media is complex and rapidly changing. New sporting franchises and formats are popping up all around the globe, while VR and AI are threatening to change the way we watch sports forever. To understand what's going on, we spoke with Peter Hutton, former Sports Business Person of the Year. Peter has enjoyed a stellar sports media career, from starting out as a Sky Sports presenter at the dawn of the Premier League to being a Board Member of the Saudi Pro League today (via creating India's first national football league from scratch, directing the biggest Bollywood movie awards show and becoming CEO of Eurosport.) This is a good episode for any sports-fan marketers, with particular relevance for those in sports media, marketing or broadcasting.
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On 14th January 2020 the Royal Caribbean share price was $133. Eight weeks later it was down 80% as the global pandemic took hold and ships around the world stopped sailing. Jo Vaughton was at the centre of the storm as Director of Marketing & PR. We caught up with Jo to hear how the cruise industry steered its way through the crisis, as well as delving into audience insight and hearing some of the marketing strategies that drive this fascinating sector.
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Josh Higgins' career history reads like something out of a novel. He began his working life touring the USA in a van with rock band Fluf, going on to release seven albums with MCA Universal. And that's before the chapters where he becomes Design Director for President Obama and builds a 200 strong team at Facebook. Josh is now VP Global Creative at Atlassian, the software business with a multi-billion dollar market-cap. It's a fascinating story and a particularly good episode for anyone interested in political advertising, the rhythm of an election campaign or for designers wondering what life might look like beyond the walls of their creative agency.
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The UK greetings card industry has traditionally been dominated by brick-and-mortar retail chains. But now anyone with a creative streak can take a slice of this two billion pound market. Pip Heywood, Managing Director of Thortful, explains how uploading a hit card could pay off your mortgage, tells us how Thortful is disrupting the card market and reveals what she's learnt from moving out of the CMO role and into the management hot seat. This is a good episode for marketers with ambitions to one day run a business - and for creatives who think they could upload a million selling greetings card design.
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The marketing and advertising industries can be stressful places to work, as David Meikle discovered to his personal cost. But then a life-changing moment gave David a new perspective, allowing him to manage his stress and get his work-life back under control. In his new book, Tuning Up, David explains his insight and introduces The Meikle Matrix - a powerful tool to help others reduce stress in their own lives. The book makes particular reference to the marketing and advertising industries and is a good episode for anyone who's ever had a sleepless night because of a stressful work situation. "What took me three decades and a series of panic attacks to understand, David's book will teach you in a few hours." - Rory Sutherland
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Barbenheimer is the movie-marketing phenomenon that blew up the box office. But its origins are surprising and it left some unexpected winners and losers in its wake. Who better to give us the inside track on all this than Karen Stacey, CEO of DCM (Digital Cinema Media) and Media Leader of the Year at the 2022 Media Week and 2023 Media Leaders Awards.
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Cazoo is the fastest British company ever to have reached unicorn status. But having been valued in excess of US$1 billion, the wheels came off and it lost 97% of its value. Where did it all go so right - and so wrong? We caught up with Lucas Bergmans, Group Marketing Director for Cazoo throughout this extraordinary journey, to get the inside track.
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In this episode we're talking Personal Branding on LinkedIn with Scott Millward. What is a personal brand? How can it contribute to business success? And what LinkedIn tips, tricks and secrets can Scott share, to make our own content more successful? Scott is a Personal Branding & LinkedIn specialist and founder of Voir.
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Gareth, FMCG marketing guru and founder of Big Black Door, shares his tips for making FMCG marketing simpler and more effective. Plus the story behind Beans on Weetabix, a reading of the John Smith's No Nonsense scripts that never got made and staying resilient in the face of the Doom Loop.
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Ally tells us the inspirational story of creating Brixton Finishing School and how she turned a big idea into reality via three remortgages. With hundreds of under-represented people now being helped into the creative, media and tech industries each year, Ally explains how everyone can get involved to support this equitable super highway.
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Lucie Greene, futurist, trend forecaster and founder of Light Years, takes us through the forces driving a revolution in B2B Marketing. From the rise of the BETAs - a new generation of corporate decision makers - to a focus on design-led brands and epic, cut-through creative.
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Andrew, founder of Frank PR, reveals the secrets behind some of the UK’s most successful PR ideas. We hear how the meerkats saved Compare the Market, why changing Jimmy White’s name to Jimmy Brown sent sales of HP Sauce through the roof, and why getting to the point is so vital in the discipline of PR.
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