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Meme Team: The Pop Culture Marketing Podcast — 71 episodes
Craft Is the New Luxury: Sam Altman's Movie, HarperCollins' Secret AI & the AI Wife Nobody's Buildin
Winners and Losers: Warner Bros, Paramount, YouTube, Amazon, Apple
Disney, Taylor Swift, Letterboxd, and Meta Are All Living on Borrowed Trust
Choose Equity: Mbappe, Lili Reinhart, Netflix, & Xbox
Document for Content: Hollywood, Mamdani, American Tourists, and Hilary Duff
When Your Differentiator Stops Working: Meta, Bumble, Obama & the FAA
Fans deserve better: Disney, Vinyl, Flock, BTS
The End of Mid: Zendaya, Nolan, + Marvel
Authenticity Wins: Jennifer Lawrence, Christopher Nolan, Apple & Letterboxd
When Brands Should Participate: Taylor Swift's Wedding, Trump's FIFA Call & TikTok's AI Soap Operas
What Partnerships Signal: Meta + Kylie and A24 + Google Deepmind
Brands That Know Ball: Obama, Mamdani, and Norway vs. Shrek 5 and DoorDash
Why Sincerity Scales: Freddy at the World Cup, the Knicks Win, and Ferrari's PR Disaster
Scarcity as Strategy: The Odyssey in IMAX, Norwegian vikings & Harvard’s F*** AI Speech
Own Your Audience: Spielberg's Podcast Debut, Celebrity Narratives & YouTube's New Directors
Lessons from Hollywood: Storytelling, Building Your Audience & the YouTube-to-Horror Pipeline
Hollywood & AI: Reese Witherspoon, Spencer Pratt, CMO Fatigue + Spotify
AI, Accountability & Ads: Coinbase, Netflix, OpenAI, + Cannes Lions
The Loyalty Trap: OpenAI, Disney Adults, Devil Wears Prada, & The World Cup
Brand Reset vs. Brand Regret: Xbox's Nostalgia Win, Nike's Marathon Fail, & Netflix's TikTok Play
The Clipping Economy: Why Every Band, Brand & Startup Is Faking Organic Growth
Video-First Marketing: Hot Democrats, Literary AI Scandals + Zendaya's Fake Wedding
Optimism as Content Strategy: Project Hail Mary and Artemis II + How to Pitch the Media
Manufacturing Demand: AI Backlash, Miley Cyrus + Beehiiv's Social Strategy
Word of Mouth 2.0: Claude, Twitter, Timothée & Sinners
5 Marketing Fails: Friend AI, OpenAI, AMC, McDonald's & H&M
AI Agents are here: ChatGPT, Google Pomelli & OpenClaw
Zendaya's Fake Wedding, Frida Baby Backlash, & Free Groceries
Super Bowl Ads Ranked: OpenAI vs Claude Beef, Levi's Genius, Coinbase's Fail with Dr. Marcus Collins
Brand Wars: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Coke vs Pepsi + Disney Goes All-In on Parks
Video First Strategy: Substack TV, Heated Rivalry, Mamdani's Competency Porn, & The California Post
X Is Buying What Webflow, Netflix & DoorDash Are Earning: Attention
The Authenticity Playbook: Netflix, DoorDash, Shopify, Tailwind
From Rage Bait to Real Feelings: Grok, Polymarket, Chevrolet & Stranger Things
My Top 5: Marty Supreme, Mini Cities, Morse Code, and More
Amazon vs. Sephora: $99 Advent Calendars
Substack ads, Storytelling Over Slop, & Kim K. In Fortnite
“Opt-In” Marketing: How Granola, Nvidia & Percy Jackson Won
Stripe and Shopify Crushed Black Friday & Cyber Monday
Give Your Audience A Voice: Hulu, Hunger Games, Shopify, & Miu Miu
Memeable Marketing is Winning: Timothée's Zoom Call, Steph Curry & Under Armour, Disney AI & YouTube
Anthropic’s IRL NYC Popup, Taylor’s Future Wedding, K-Pop is Golden
AI to ROI: OpenAI’s Ads + Instant Checkout Playbook
Re-Releases, Scarcity Plays, and a $11B Ring | Meme Team 026
The Pitt’s Tuxedo Scrubs, Nike’s New Motto, Lessons from the NBA Spurs
Reese Witherspoon’s AI Take, Builder.ai’s Flameout, and Instagram's iPad App
Sabrina shuns Tommy, YouTube Hypes Creators, & Horror's Killer Marketing
Bonus: Cadillac's American F1 Dream Team
Weirdness, Wellness, Weapons, and the End of Monoculture | Meme Team 022
Trendjacking Taylor, Tariffs & Coach Bags, and Creating Timeless Brands
Bonus: Dropping Her Album on a Podcast Was Genius
Over-Hype, Under-Deliver: Lessons from ChatGPT, Cluely, and More | Meme Team Ep. 020
Marketing in a World of Bots, Burnout, and Brand Missteps | Meme Team #019
Sydney Sweeney's Jeans or Genes? + Get Cited in AI Tools
Kiss Cam Crisis Comms, Colbert Cancelled, Delta's AI, & Dumb Logo Updates
Attention does NOT equal influence... even if it made you click
Why Being Real Wins: Mamdani, Oasis & Penguin Books
When Brands Listen to Fans: F1, Superman & Star Wars
Zohran Mamdani’s Social Genius, Apple’s F1 Fail, Forensic Fandom, and the Doormat That Drove $500K
Controversy Creates Cash: From Cluely to F1 to Canva | Meme Team 012
Amazon & Roku's Ad Network + Influencer Lawsuit + Apple's F1 Movie + Sprout Social | Meme Team 011
Coco Gauff wins, Uber Eats creates their own TikTok, and Wedding Content Creators | Meme Team 010
From Taylor Swift to Hailey Bieber: When to Own vs. Sell Your Brand
Google Redoing SEO with AI, Dyson Disrupts, and Red Lobster Calls NSYNC
What Duolingo Got Wrong — and What Tom Cruise Gets Right
Netflix + Sesame Street Is a Smart Brand Deal. HBO’s Rebrand? Not So Much.
Skechers’ $9B Play, Apple and Bono (ugh), and the Vatican’s Brand Moment
Duolingo Goes AI-First, KIND Rebrands, and Brands Bet on the Bots
Slate’s Truck Launch, Bot Farms, and Brands in Disguise
Protein Marketing, Katy Perry in Space, and Cultural WTFs
Luxury Brand Myths, Rory McIlroy’s Halo Effect, and Ryan Coogler’s Quiet Influence