16: Marketing's Torrid Trio: Storytelling, Data + Tech

Digital rock star and Spotify's Global Vice President for Growth & Marketing, Mayur Gupta, joins us in this week's podcast to talk predictive marketing, lack of separation in online and offline worlds, and why quality beats quantity when it comes to consumer acquisition. With over 15 years of experience in leading the digital transformation, Gupta shares insights on how brands and marketers can ease into predictive marketing, and explains how Spotify is using this method to unify online and offline worlds, delivering relevant, contextual experiences for their users that inspires them to keep coming back for their musical needs. While most of us are driving into the future of marketing with limited visibility, Spotify's Mayur Gupta not just sees what's ahead, but also shares his vision with helpful precision. In this episode, Gupta talks about how he views marketing and innovation from the eyes of an engineer, and the importance of putting human's needs at the top of the marketing ecosystem, which consists of technology, data, and storytelling. As the Global Vice President for Growth & Marketing at Spotify, Gupta emphasizes that you cannot effectively market only using technology, or data, or storytelling – the three are completely intertwined, and wholly dependent on the marketer's understanding of unmet human needs. To see what's ahead, just listen!