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101

What Makes Strategy Communities Awesome? With Kim Mackenzie (LWS)

102

Why Is It Hard For Ad Agencies To Get Credit For Their Work?

103

Do Marketers Overuse Celebrities In Advertising?

104

What Makes "Comms Planning" So Valuable? With Tattiana Bamba

105

Is Contrarianism Good For The Industry?

106

How Do You Best Research The Questions That Matter? With the NonFiction team

107

Does Web 3 Matter For Brands And Marketers? With Nilesh Ashra

108

Is It Ethical To Use Fear To Market Products?

109

Is Moving At The Speed Of Culture Sustainable For Marketers?

110

Are NFTs Making It To The Mainstream?

111

How To Unshackle Strategic Planning From Powerpoint?

112

Does The World Need More Brands, And More Growth? With Katie Dreke

113

Has The Job Of Marketing Gotten Harder?

114

How Do You Mentor A Strategist?

115

Why Are So Many Celebrated Campaigns One Trick Poneys

116

Can Meta Save Facebook's Brand?

117

What Makes A Good Brief?

118

Can Marketers Serve A Purpose Beyond Profits?

119

Is Advertising A Dying Profession?

120

Why Is "Marketing" Such A Dirty Word For Consumers?

121

100th episode! Who Do We Find Inspiring In The Marketing Industry?

122

Why Is The Advertising Industry Still So Dominated By Men?

123

How Can Clients Get The Most Out Of Their Agencies?

124

What Is The Role Of Strategy In Pitches?

125

How Do You Deal With Underperformers In Your Team?

126

Wouldn't It Be Great To Just Drop It All And Quit?

127

How Can Innovation Hurt Your Business?

128

Is Data Driven Marketing The Future Or The Hill Our Industry Will Die On?

129

Is It Still Possible To Be A Generalist In Marketing?

130

How Does It Feel To Found A Business After Years In Strategy?

131

What Is Wrong With Strategy? With JP Castlin

132

What Is The Next Big Tech In Experience Design?

133

Is There Such A Thing As An Opinion-free, Objectively Formed Strategy?

134

Is Purchase Based Behavior The Future Of Consumer Segmentation? With Anil Malhotra

135

Will Brands Survive The Decline Of Linear TV?

136

How Do You Stop Yourself From Overthinking Things?

137

How Do You Find Happiness When Work Feels Like A Failure?

138

Can Agencies Afford The Talent They Need?

139

Can You Deliver Great Work Without A Solid Process?

140

Is The Ad Industry Dangerously Reliant On Pitches?

141

How Does Company Culture Influence Its Marketing? With Minjae Ormes

142

How Does Strategy Inform Customer Experience Design

143

What Makes A CMO A Great CMO?

144

How To Build The Confidence To Shape A Strategic POV?

145

Why Are We Still Debating The Difference Between Planning And Strategy?

146

What Fuck Ups Have You Learned From?

147

Can A Good Brand Save A Bad Product?

148

Has Community Marketing Lived Up To Its Hype? With Christina Garnett

149

Is In-housing A Positive Trend For The Industry?

150

Has The Quality Of Advertising Gone Down In The Last 20 Years? With Derek Walker

151

How Can Creative And Media Work Better Together? With Murray Calder

152

Are Industry Accolades Worth Anything Anymore?

153

Why Do Emotions Matter So Much In Advertising? With Claire Strickett

154

Do Tentpole Media Events Still Matter For Brands?

155

Do Independent Agencies Still Stand A Chance In The Current Climate?

156

How Do You Grow A Purpose - Driven Company? With Nicki Sprinz, Ustwo

157

Should You Fight For Your Beliefs From Inside Or Outside Of Your Organization?

158

Where Does The Job Of Strategy End?

159

How Do You Delegate Strategic Thinking?

160

What To Do When You're Feeling Burnt Out?

161

What Does Great Leadership Look Like?

162

Is The Trade Press A Source Of Truth, Or Hype? With Lara O'Reilley

163

How To Deal With Your Own Sense Of Mediocrity?

164

Are Ad Agency Creatives Second Class Creatives?

165

Should Brands Publicly Respond To Cultural Crises?

166

Is It More Important To Be Right Or To Be Interesting?

167

Are Media Agencies Eating Creative Agencies' Lunch?

168

Can Performance Marketing Build Brands?

169

Is The Playbook Of "Rapid Brand Building" Sustainable? With Ana Andjelic

170

Are Brands A Dying Breed?

171

Do You Need To Bullshit Your Way To Grow In A Career In Advertising?

172

Are Ad Agencies Losing The Talent War?

173

How Do You Let Go And Let Others Progress Their Own Way?

174

How Do You Switch From Student To Junior Strategist?

175

How Can Brands Be More Sustainable In Their Media Choices? With Bennett D. Bennett

176

Does Creative Testing Get In The Way Of Great Ideas?

177

Can You Swtich Roles From Digital Strategist To "planner"?

178

Should Creative And Media Merge Back Together?

179

How Can You Handle Difficult conversations With Your Teams And Clients? Alex Jamieson & Bob Gower

180

Is There Such A Thing As A Perfect Strategy?

181

What To Do When You've Peaked In Your Career? With Mark Pollard and Tom Goodwin

182

How Do You Reconcile Your Ethics With The Clients You Work For?

183

Are Frameworks Essential To Strategy?

184

How Do You Overcome Workoholism?

185

How Do You Switch From CSO To CEO? With Thas Naseemuddeen

186

How Can We Continue To Push Ourselves And Our Clients In Addressing Racism?

187

How Can We Do Better To Support Black Communities In The Ad Industry? With Cole Habersham

188

What Is It Like To Do Strategic Planning For An Entertainment Company? With Zoe Scaman

189

Do Strategists Work In An Ivory Tower?

190

Why Should You Record Another Marketing Podcast?

191

Are Ad Agencies Equipped To Drive Digital Transformation? With Ana Milicevic

192

Culture Vs Behavior, What Is More Important For Strategy?

193

Are Brands Fucking Up Their Response To COVID19?

194

Will The Industry Really Miss Cannes This Year?

195

How To Partner With Other Teams In Your Agency?

196

How Are The Next 6 Months Going To Change For Ad People? With Rosie Yakob

197

Coping With COVID

198

What Soft Skills Should We Be Better Prepared For In Advertising?

199

Can You Switch To Strategic Planning Later In Your Career?

200

How Do You Collaborate As An Introvert? With Tom Goodwin And Mark Pollard