Ad Age Marketer's Brief Podcast
1) Nick Kokonas on how restaurants can make it through COVID-19
The co-owner and co-founder of the Alinea Group and founder and CEO of reservations system Tock joins Marketer's Brief to discuss how he helped his own restaurants and others pivot from high-end dinin...Show More
2) Evidence-based marketing—why reach matters more than loyalty, with Byron Sharp
Byron Sharp, author of "How Brands Grow," and director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute of Marketing Science, espouses an approach that flies in the face of much modern marketing wisdom about the impor...Show More
Evidence-based marketing—why reach matters more than loyalty, with Byron Sharp
21:37 | Dec 17th, 2025
3) Creating better client-agency relationships
Former Mediahub CEO John Moore and former BMW CMO Trudy Hardy on how clients and agencies can work better together, including why CMOs should take some control back from their procurement departments....Show More
4) From insight to impact: How Octagon helps brands win in the sports and entertainment economy
In today's fragmented sports and entertainment economy, brands face unprecedented competition for cultural relevance and authentic fan connection. In this episode, Lou Kovacs, President of Marketing, ...Show More
5) How to do travel marketing that stands out with Tourism Australia CMO
Susan Coghill, who has been overseeing Australia's tourism marketing since 2019, on how the Come and Say G'day campaign localizes is marketing for the U.S., U.K., China and other countries, including ...Show More
6) CMOs, social media and why AI isn't everything with VaynerX's Avery Akkineni
Avery Akkineni, VaynerX's chief marketing officer, has tips for CMOs riding the social media lightning, and she tells us why VaynerMedia has not followed the whole industry into an AI rebranding.
CMOs, social media and why AI isn't everything with VaynerX's Avery Akkineni
20:41 | Nov 26th, 2025
7) How LocalX is advancing the local ad-buying ecosystem with its unified data platform
Local advertising is one of the most effective methods for brands of all sizes to reach the audiences that matter most, and platforms like Locality's LocalX are becoming industry leaders by enabling a...Show More
How LocalX is advancing the local ad-buying ecosystem with its unified data platform
11:48 | Nov 24th, 2025
8) Bridging the AI-human gap with Stitch Fix CMO
Debbie Woloshin talks about the brand's generative AI-powered styling tool
9) Tips on building a beauty brand with former Walgreens CMO
Linh Peters, now CMO at science-backed hair care brand Seen, talks about marketing as a growth engine
10) Sam's Club new CMO on holidays, Chris Pratt and arriving right after an agency review
Chris Curtin arrived as chief marketing officer of Sam's Club in May just after the retailer, little sibling of Walmart, finished an agency review. But the veteran of Bank of America was familiar with...Show More