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Ad Age Insider — 205 episodes

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Cannes Lions pre-brief: indies and creators surge plus key topics, with Brian Bonilla and Ewan Larkin

2

CMOs on CMOs: Hippo and Solo Stove on AI and grassroots marketing tactics

3

Best World Cup campaigns and the new sports marketing playbook, with Tim Nudd and Jon Springer

4

Publicis-LiveRamp deal: what to know and how to react, with Garett Sloane

5

AI marketing brief: trust, creativity and careers—ICYMI

6

CMO Lessons: Brand trust, creative strategy and agency audits—ICYMI

7

Winning Gen Z brand loyalty—quality, service and community, with Erika Wheless

8

Inside the TV upfronts—winners and losers, measurement and AI, with Brandon Doerrer

9

Agency hiring in the AI era: What grads need now, with Lindsay Rittenhouse

10

What's driving marketing impact: lessons from award-winning campaigns, with Tim Nudd

11

Testing ChatGPT ads—what brands need to know about AI strategy, with Asa Hiken

12

Brand community strategy: turning reach into participation, with Mark Fischer and Sabrina Sanchez

13

'Fruit Love Island' brand lessons: skip this viral trend, with Gillian Follett

14

Identity marketing and how beverage brands are winning Gen Z, with Jon Springer

15

NewFronts 2026 survival guide, with Garett Sloane, Brandon Doerrer and Gillian Follett

16

How to win the Ad Age A-List, with Judann Pollack

17

How to win new business in 2026, with Brian Bonilla

18

What are media rebates? Agency transparency in the hot seat, with Ewan Larkin

19

Your AI ad playbook: red flags, hard lessons and brand wins, with Asa Hiken

20

Your 2027 Super Bowl strategy starts here: Big Game takeaways from Ad Age reporters

21

The Super Bowl ad formula and Olympics marketing trends, with Tim Nudd and Jon Springer

22

Going viral in 2026: strategy, subcultures and engagement, with Gillian Follett

23

Microdramas and ad strategy: Lessons from long-form brand storytelling, with Brandon Doerrer

24

Decoding 2026 hype vs. reality for marketers, with E.J. Schultz and Adrianne Pasquarelli

25

2026 marketing predictions: Ad Age reporters on industry trends and pivots

26

Laid off from an agency? What to do now and next, with Lindsay Rittenhouse

27

How to win Marketer of the Year, with E.J. Schultz and Adrianne Pasquarelli

28

Omnicom-IPG deal: industry ripple effects, with Brian Bonilla and Ewan Larkin

29

AI in 2026: What's hype vs. what's real, with Garett Sloane

30

Starbucks' Bearista cup and viral drop strategy, with Gillian Follett

31

AI and entry-level ad roles—how marketers, educators and junior talent are adapting, with Lindsay Rittenhouse

32

Can RFK Jr. ban pharma ads? What it means for marketers, with Jack Neff

33

Best Halloween ads 2025, with Tim Nudd

34

Social bots and brand crises—how to fight fake accounts, with Erika Wheless

35

Bad Bunny and brands: Hispanic engagement lessons, with Adrianne Pasquarelli

36

Agencies under pressure—who survives, who shifts: Ad Age Future of Advertising 2030

37

Loyalty, influencers and consumers: Ad Age Future of Advertising 2030

38

Future-proof your marketing career: Ad Age Future of Advertising 2030

39

How tech will reshape marketing: Ad Age Future of Advertising 2030

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How tech will reshape marketing: Ad Age Future of Advertising 2030

41

AI search ads 101—everything marketers need to know, with Asa Hiken

42

Inside agency hold co power dynamics, with Ewan Larkin

43

Firing your ad agency? Try marriage counseling first, with Lindsay Rittenhouse

44

Cracker Barrel, American Eagle and surviving social uproar, with Erika Wheless and Gillian Follett

45

Marketing Trends of 2025 so far, with Tim Nudd

46

Introducing Ad Age Insider

47

Why Rick Astley is never gonna give up snacks or drums

48

How The Lincoln Project's endless stream of viral ads were actually made (in record time)

49

Behind Hendrick's Gin's quirky ad approach

50

Behind Calm's unexpected Election Night win

51

How Activision Blizzard found success amid a global pandemic

52

How streaming news channels made their mark in the 2020 election

53

How to not miss the mark in multicultural marketing

54

The state of the CMO

55

How a microbe from Yellowstone could shake up the food industry

56

LinkedIn's head of global sales on the early pandemic ad panic

57

Omnicom Media Group CEO on how covid has changed the ad landscape

58

Marketing a Mexican import

59

Main Street One CEO Curtis Hougland on the launch of a senior political influencer network

60

Defeating D.C. Council's ad and personal information tax

61

Moving from CMO to CEO

62

Marketing the (delayed) Olympics

63

The latest ad law news

64

Mark Robinson

65

Taking Latin-inspired creative to the mainstream

66

Publicis CMO Justin Billingsley on the Power of One and what his client-side past brings to his new role

67

Behind the AP's new marketing push

68

There's no mistaking Leeann Leahy

69

Auto marketing during the pandemic

70

The pandemic paradox

71

Marketing cannabis during the pandemic

72

Finding creative inspiration in a pandemic

73

Behind the e-commerce surge

74

Brian Braiker, former editor, Ad Age

75

Jason DeLand, founding partner, Anomaly

76

Nick Kokonas, author and restaurateur

77

Mira Kaddoura, founder and ECD, Red &. Co.

78

Debra Lee, former Chairman and CEO, BET

79

Taylor Lorenz, New York Times reporter

80

Bill Koenigsberg, founder and CEO, Horizon Media

81

Louisa Wong, COO, Carat

82

Martin Sorrell, S4 Capital

83

Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, founders of Goodby Silverstein & Partners

84

Amy Astley, editor-in-chief, Architectural Digest

85

Mark Read, CEO/executive director, WPP

86

Wyclef Jean

87

David Droga (Repeat)

88

Andrew Robertson, CEO, BBDO Worldwide

89

Terence Kawaja, CEO, Luma Partners

90

David-Michel Davies, CEO, the Webby Awards

91

Live from Ad Age: Next

92

David Angelo, co-founder, David & Goliath

93

Jarrod Dicker, vp commercial technology and development, Washington Post

94

Paul Woolmington, CEO, Canvas

95

Jessica Pels, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan

96

Barak Moffit, Universal Music Group

97

Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker, and David Littlejohn, founder of Humanaut

98

Mark Penn, chairman and CEO of MDC Partners

99

Jen Wong, COO, reddit

100

Andrew Essex, co-founder and CEO, Plan A

101

Ad lawyer Jeffrey Greenbaum, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

102

Why Ryan Kutscher joined the circus

103

Kai Devereaux Lawson, advocate, agitator and associate operations director at Essence

104

David Droga, founder & creative chairman, Droga5

105

Lindsey Slaby, founder, Sunday Dinner

106

Laurent Ezekiel, chief marketing and growth officer, WPP

107

David Fischer, CEO and publisher, Highsnobiety

108

Rob Reilly, Global Creative Chairman, McCann Worldgroup

109

Richard Edelman, president and CEO, Edelman

110

Bradley Johnson, director of data analytics, Ad Age Datacenter

111

Nick Kelly, Anheuser-Busch

112

Avi Dan, CEO, Avidan Strategies

113

Linda Yaccarino & Josh Feldman, NBCUniversal

114

Bhavana Smith, chief client officer

115

Rishad Tobaccoawala, chief growth officer, Publicis

116

DDB's Keith Reinhard: 'Betty Crocker was my first pin-up girl'

117

Peter McGuinness, CMO of Chobani

118

Alex Magnin, Giphy head of revenue

119

Shelly Lazarus, chairman emeritus, Ogilvy

120

Jeff Goodby, Chairman and co-founder, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

121

Ad Block: Tiffany R. Warren, chief diversity officer and SVP at Omnicom, founder and president of the diversity advocacy organization AdColor

122

Alicia Hatch, CMO, Deloitte Digital

123

Ad Block: Deutsch North American CCO Pete Favat on woodworking

124

Nicolas Bidon, CEO, Xaxis

125

Ad Block: Joan CCO Jaime Robinson on knitting

126

Bryan Yasko, president, Johannes Leonardo

127

Marketer's Brief

128

Sebastian Tomich, global head of advertising, New York Times

129

Marketer's Brief

130

Ryan Ford, Chief Creative Officer and EVP, Cashmere

131

Marketer's Brief

132

Ben Lerer, CEO, Group Nine Media

133

Bob Pittman, CEO, iHeartMedia

134

Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX

135

Marla Kaplowitz, president and CEO, 4A's

136

Laura Hutfless, FlyteVu Agency

137

Azania Andrews, Michelob Ultra

138

Erika Nardini, CEO, Barstool Sports

139

Keith Grossman, Bloomberg Media global chief revenue officer

140

Meg Goldthwaite, CMO, NPR

141

Shannon Simpson Jones and Yadira Harrison, co-founders, Verb

142

Ben Wiener, CEO, Wongdoody

143

Edward Felsenthal, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Time magazine

144

Julio Bruno, CEO of Time Out Group

145

Karina Wilsher, Anomaly's next global CEO

146

Aaron Walton, co-founder, Walton Isaacson

147

Lizzie Widhelm, Pandora svp of ad innovation

148

Rich Antoniello, CEO of Complex Media

149

Troy Ruhanen, president and CEO, TBWA Worldwide

150

Frances Webster, co-founder and CEO, Walrus

151

Andrew McKechnie, chief creative officer at Verizon

152

Jon Steinberg, Cheddar founder

153

Refinery29's Philippe von Borries and Piera Gelardi

154

Nick Brien, CEO Americas of Dentsu Aegis Network

155

Studio 71 co-founder Reza Izad

156

Wondery founder and CEO Hernan Lopez

157

Sub Rosa founder Michael Ventura gets empathic

158

How Terry Young, CEO of Sparks & Honey, is mapping culture

159

USA Today Network CRO Kevin Gentzel

160

Arnold Worldwide CEO Kiran Smith

161

Carla Serrano, CEO of Publicis New York and Chief Strategy Officer of PublicisCommunications

162

Bill Holiber, President & CEO of US News

163

Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business

164

Mark DiMassimo, CEO of DiMassimo Goldstein

165

The Trade Desk's Brian Stempeck

166

Michael Wolff

167

Shingy, digital prophet, Oath

168

Havas Creative North American Chairman and CEO, Paul Marobella

169

Mastercard CMO Raja Rajamannar

170

Ken Auletta, 'Frenemies' author

171

Andrew Swinand, Leo Burnett North America CEO

172

Terri & Sandy's Terri and Sandy

173

Upfront and personal: The week's big TV takeaways

174

Ogilvy Worldwide CEO John Seifert

175

Tim Leake, RPA

176

Bonnie Kintzer, Trusted Media Brands

177

Hanya Yanagihara, novelist and T Magazine editor

178

Intermarkets' Erik Requidan

179

Intel's Alyson Griffin

180

Patch CEO Warren St. John

181

Forbes' Randall Lane

182

Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finoccio

183

Hearst's Troy Young

184

360i's Sarah Hofstetter

185

Po.et CEO Jarrod Dicker

186

Pop-Up Magazine's Chas Edwards

187

Aardman's Heather Wright

188

HP's Antonio Lucio

189

Hungry Man Productions, Bryan Buckley

190

Avocados From Mexico's Kevin Hamilton

191

Capitol Music Group's Brian Nolan

192

Havas' Harry Bernstein

193

Fresh Digital Group's Doug Robinson

194

Quartz's Jay Lauf

195

Rafat Ali

196

Dave Morgan

197

Wendy Clark and Ari Weiss

198

Adam Moss

199

Michael Rothman

200

Michael Kuntz

201

Kay Hsu

202

Neil Vogel

203

Jonah Disend

204

Where Creativity Meets Strategy

205

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