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Episode 118: Decoding Social Slang
We decode the meaning behind a handful of slang terms currently making the rounds in pop culture and social media.
Episode 117: Brands Branching Out
We expand our horizons by talking about brands branching out from their core business or philosophy by launching unexpected products, services or media efforts—and discuss if that’s ever a good idea.
Episode 116: Sports Commercial Champions Bracket
We reveal the sports-based commercials that emerge victorious in our highly selective tournament to crown the ultimate athletic ad of the past three decades.
Sports Commercial Champions Bracket Voting
Vote for your favorite sports-based commercials in our highly selective tournament to crown the ultimate athletic ad of the past three decades.
Episode 115: Outstanding Celebrity Spokespeople
We endorse our favorite brand-celebrity pairings and explain what makes them masterful marriages of marketing, audience, and influence.
Episode 114: Great Brand Song Selections
We sing the praises of a band of brands whose powerful use of popular songs in their marketing and advertising plays like sweet music to our collective ears.
Episode 113: ABCs of Super Bowl Ads
We boil this year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials down to the ABCs—animals, bevs, and celebs—and tell you which brands won the big game in each of these key categories.
Episode 112: Flashback to 2009
We leap back in time to the age of Obama, netbooks, and The Black Eyed Peas to revisit some of the most notable brands, marketing, and pop culture of 2009.
Episode 111: Buzziest Brands of the Year
We hum with excitement as we share the 10 brands that captured our eyes, brains, hearts, tongues, and screens in 2018.
Episode 110: Best Toys Ever
We come to play… with suggestions on the hottest gifts for kids this holiday season and share our picks for the greatest toys of all time.
Episode 109: Fall Maple Mania
We tap into the seasonal flavor that could be the next pumpkin spice and answer three burning questions about the past, present, and future of fall marketing.
Episode 108: Best Candy Wrappers
We creep into the deadly deliciousness of the Halloween season by sharing our killer picks for favorite candy packaging design.
Episode 107: Advertising Trivia Challenge
We test our knowledge of classic advertising campaigns by answering trivia questions about memorable commercials, slogans and brands that have permeated pop culture over the past several decades.
Episode 106: NFL Improvement Ideas
We tackle the brand status of the national football league and audible some wild ideas to rush the NFL into the future.
Episode 105: 2018 Summer Movie Awards
We unveil the winner of our summer box office challenge and honor some incredible & impossible movies that defined the blockbuster season.
Episode 104: Wittiest Twitter Brands
We laugh, chuckle and guffaw through a stream of countless brand tweets in an effort to crown the Twitter kings of comedy.
Episode 103: Creative Product Upgrades
We rack our brains coming up with creative ways to upgrade products that haven’t taken a significant step forward in far too long.
Episode 102: Brands of Summer
We sweat out the dog days of summer by shouting out a few key brands we strongly associate with the hot and sunny season.
Episode 101: Top 3 Album Covers
We spin our thoughts on the marketing power of cover art and hit play on our favorite album covers of all time.
Episode 100: The Century Mark
We look back on 100 podcast episodes and share some of our favorite centenarian brands.
Episode 99: Yanny Vs. Laurel
We ask and answer the most important social media question of 2018—Yanny or Laurel?
Episode 98: Google Duplex
We make you wonder whether you’re listening to real people or artificial intelligence as we discuss Google’s latest innovation.
Episode 97: Summer Movie Box Office Predictions III
We premiere our predictions for the movies that will burn up the box office in summer 2018.
Episode 96: Winning NBA Team Names & Logos
We lob up our picks for top NBA team names and slam down our winners for sweetest league logos.
Episode 95: Best Brand Slogans
We snap, crackle and pop through decades of brand slogans from “Got milk?” to “Taste the rainbow” to determine which ones are the best of the best.
Episode 94: New Diet Coke
We guzzle down four new flavors of Diet Coke to tell you if they can beat the real thing and share our picks for favorite Coke can designs.
Episode 93: Classic Holiday Commercial Showdown
We unwrap six classic holiday commercials and force them to face off in a showdown to see which ones yield more Yuletide power.
Episode 92: Brands We’re Thankful For
We give thanks for a basketful of brands that have delivered us a bounty of delicious flavors to feast on in 2017.
Episode 91: iPhone X & iPhone App Recommendations
We phone in our thoughts on the new iPhone X and share our recommendations for some must-have iPhone apps.
Episode 90: Grading Pumpkin Spice Products
We spice things up by talking about the tsunami of pumpkin spice products hitting store shelves this fall.
Episode 89: Top 3 Fall Movie Trailers
We gaze in wonder at the winner of our game of summer box office predictions, and share our picks for favorite fall movie trailers. This episode is like a great trailer—all of the best parts with none of the crap in between!
Episode 88: Santander Bank “Beyond Money” / Best Brand Short Films
We rack our brains trying to remember whether Santander Bank’s short film “Beyond Money” is marketing or entertainment, and share our picks for a few other pieces of fantastic brand filmmaking.
Episode 87: Home Assistant Marketing Wars
We order Google, Alexa, and Siri into our podcast gladiator arena to see who emerges victorious in the battle for best voice assistant marketing.
Episode 86: Facebook’s New Mission / Magnificent Mission Statements
We venture on a quest to determine the impact of Facebook’s new mission, and uncover examples of other brands with magnificent mission statements.
Episode 85: Cookie Coated Chicken / Fast Food Funk Awards
We chomp into Popeye’s new cookie coated chicken to determine its marketing tenderness, and share our award winners for funkiest fast food menu items.
Episode 84: Brand Comebacks / eBay Takes Aim at Amazon
We auction off our thoughts on eBay’s new brand campaign taking aim at Amazon, and share our bids for some of the best brand comebacks in recent memory.
Episode 83: Top 5 LeBron James Commercials
We zoom past two defenders, pump fake, and fire off our list of the top five LeBron James commercials.
Episode 82: Marble Food Delivery Robot / More Brand Robot Ideas
We prepare for the rise of the machines by discussing Marble the food delivery robot.
Episode 81: Best Movie Posters of All Time
We forecast the five summer movies that will deliver the biggest returns at the box office, and share our picks for best movie posters of all time.
Episode 80: Jingle Champion / Brand Meltdown of the Month
What was the brand meltdown of the month?
Episode 79: Bracket Results & Best Forgotten 90s Brands
We reveal our top 10 forgotten 90s brands
Episode 78: Most Memorable Brand Jingle Bracket
There are a lot of great brand jingles out there… but find out our picks for the most memorable.
Episode 77: Nintendo Switch / Terrible Tech Product Names
From Chumby or Qriocity, there’s a lot of bad tech product names out there.
Episode 76: The Last Jedi / Exceptional Company Names
We name our thoughts on the much-buzzed-about title of the new Star Wars movie and identify what makes the force strong with a company name.
Episode 75: All-Time Best & Worst Super Bowl Commercials
Find out which brand earn the title for best of the best and worst of the worst.
Episode 74: Amazon Go / 5 Burning Brand Questions
We talk all things Amazon on this episode of the pod.
Episode 73: The Cool List
We unearth the year’s coolest cultural artifacts.
Episode 72: 2016 Awesome Awards
We applaud the most spectacular marketing efforts and trends of the year.
Episode 71: Snapchat Spectacles / Creative Social Integration Ideas
We slap on a pair of Spectacles to get a glimpse at the future of social sharing.
Episode 70: NES Classic Edition / Top 5 Nintendo Games
We plug in to the marketing power of Nintendo’s “new” retro gaming system, the NES Classic Edition, and then push start on our favorite NES Classic games.
Episode 69: Finding The Noid / Favorite Animated Brand Characters
We catch up with the elusive creature that tried to destroy our fresh, hot Domino’s pizzas back in the late 80s and share our picks for most memorable animated brand characters.
Episode 68: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 / Biggest Brand Disasters
We explode with thoughts on the early extinction of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and share our picks for the all-time biggest product blunders.
Episode 67: Nike HyperAdapt / Top 3 Product Innovations
We run into the future Marty McFly promised us by lacing up Nike’s new HyperAdapt sneakers.
Episode 66: Summer Movie Marketing III
We reel from a disappointing cinematic summer by picking our top five movie posters of summer 2016.
Episode 65: Unofficial Olympic Marketing
We hand out medals for the best “non-Olympic” Olympic marketing.
Episode 64: Online Reviews
Is it fair or foul for brands to pay for positive internet mentions?
Episode 63: Best Nike Commercials
We “just do it”… and by “just do it” we mean share our picks for the best Nike commercials of all time.
Episode 62: Pokémon Go
How in the name of Pikachu did Pokémon Go become a global craze?
Episode 61: Tesla Brand Spotlight
We drive into the future of bold and electric branding by looking at the rapid acceleration of Tesla Motors.
Episode 60: Chewbacca Mom
We howl like Wookiees as we watch a woman in a Chewbacca mask go viral and give Kohl’s enough free marketing to fill a Star Destroyer.
Episode 59: Squatty Potty
We squat with a mystical unicorn who teaches us about proper pooping technique as well as a few lessons for marketing around taboo topics.
Episode 58: Box Office Predictions
From Bourne and Bad Moms to Star Trek and Suicide Squad, we predict the five movies that will bank the most money at the box office this summer.
Human Interview: Jacob Farrar
We talk with Jacob Farrar, Director of the Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing at the University of Akron, about the education, interests and influence of the next generation of marketers.
Episode 57: A Decade on Twitter
We flap through ten years of tweets to pinpoint the past, present and future impact of a little bird called Twitter.
Episode 56: Dos Equis Most Interesting Man
We stay thirsty with the “most interesting man in the world” as we revisit one of the past decade’s most successful marketing campaigns.
Human Interview: Kelley Buttrick
We talk with voiceover artist Kelley Buttrick about the diverse work she does and the unique approach she has taken to market her services.
Episode 55: More Emoji Marketing Madness
We announce the champion of our Emoji Marketing Madness Bracket and reward them with a trophy, a crown, and a gold medal… in beautiful emoji format!
Episode 54: Emoji Marketing Madness
We march through faces crying tears of joy, pizza slices, and piles of poo to crown the champion of our Emoji Marketing Madness Bracket.
Episode 53: Jeep Brand Spotlight
We hop in the Wrangler and head off road to shine a spotlight on Jeep as the brand celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Episode 52: Pre-Game Super Bowl Advertising
We tackle the big game to tell you which brands dominated the digital playing field when it came to building early buzz for their ads.
Episode 51: Periscope Marketing
We peer into Periscope to give you a glimpse of the popular new social platform and explore the value of live streaming as a marketing tool.
Episode 50½: The Year in Cool
What's in Episode 50½? We freeze, chill and serve our thoughts on the coolest things to come out of 2015. In the...
Episode 50: 2015 Awesome Awards
We recap the amazing, astonishing and awe-inspiring marketing feats of 2015 by presenting the winners of our second annual Awesome Awards.
Episode 49: Cutting the Cable Cord
What's in Episode 49? We sharpen our scissors, grab our cable boxes, cut off all the cords, and stare at our screens...
Episode 48: Star Wars Overload?
We use the force to force our bodies to sit through an endless array of new marketing efforts incorporating a Star Wars theme while pondering the epic question: Is it ever a good idea to jump on the marketing bandwagon?
Episode 47: Google Cardboard
We get googly-eyed over a cardboard contraption that allows us to take a peak into a different reality.
Episode 46: Mr. Robot Giveaway
We hack our way through USA Network’s clever giveaway to promote the show “Mr. Robot”.
Episode 45½: Cannes Lions Winners
On this special bonus episode, we share our scattered thoughts on this year’s Cannes Lions award winners. Get ready to hear our roar because this podcast cannot be tamed!
Episode 45: Best Summer Movie Marketing
We project our thoughts on the biggest marketing blockbusters of the summer movie season.
Episode 44: Cornetto Two Sides
We experience young love from two different points of view via an interactive video from a frozen dessert maker. Get ready for a sweet podcast treat that may leave you with brain freeze!
Episode 43: Brand Mascot Reboots
We drop our drumsticks in disbelief as Colonel Sanders and The Hamburglar return from the marketing graveyard to win back our brand loyalty.
Episode 42: #LowesFixInSix
We consume clever home improvement tips in easily digestible six-second chunks and then regurgitate our thoughts on choosing the right social networks for your brand.
Episode 41: Greatest YouTube Ad
What's in Episode 41? We YouTube twenty of the greatest brand moments from the past decade to tell you what video...
Episode 40: Talking Podcasting
We podcast our thoughts on the trials, travails, and triumphs of a topic very near and dear to our hearts: podcasting.
Episode 39: Kill Me Three Times
We witness a murder and get stalked by a hitman via phone, text, email, Twitter, and online video.
Episode 38: Disney Logo Evolution
We flicker through 30 years of film intros to watch the evolution of the Disney logo from static to CGI to fully customized.
Episode 37: Fast Food Marketing Madness
We pit four fast food chains against each other in a bracket to determine whose weird marketing effort won the month of March.
Episode 36: SNL Anniversary App
We swipe, tap and laugh through four decades of Saturday nights spanning from Belushi to Murphy to Carvey to Sandler to Ferrell to Fey to Samberg to Wiig.
Episode 35: Dreaming With Jeff
We nod off to the intriguing sounds, noises and grumblings of Jeff Bridges as he shows us how to bring our wildest dreams to life on the World Wide Web.
Episode 34: Bringing Billboards Back
We veer off the road while gazing at outdoor ads covered in diamonds, human hair, and cans of snot.
Episode 33: Super Bowl Special
We blitz the big game to find out which brands got the most out of their million-dollar investment on Super Bowl Sunday.
Episode 32: The 2014 Awesome Awards
We rewind through the labyrinth of 2014, dodging soccer balls, ice buckets and Ebola to uncover all that was awesome in marketing this year.
Episode 31: The Force of Teaser Marketing Awakens
We pilot our X-wings into the Star Wars universe for 90 mouth-watering seconds of mysterious wonder to explore the power of teaser marketing.
Episode 30: A Glorious Feast of Marketing Goldblum
We give thanks for the elaborate feast of Goldblum that GE serves up in their latest commercial. Oh, and did we mention it also comes with an extra side of Goldblum
Episode 29: Android Tagline Ties Humans Together
We compute the new tagline that has Android aiming to unite all the unique people of the world by plugging them into the same mobile operating system.
Episode 28: Halloween Horror from Bloodthirsty Brands
We terrify our listeners with blood-curdling reactions to the latest gruesome collection of horrifying Halloween commercials from ravenous brands who want to rip out your eyeballs, hold your beating heart in their hands and devour the dollars in your wallet.
Episode 27: Endless Fun With Fiat GIFS
We ride in a Fiat through a magical and twitchy world of crazy beats, horse heads and angry robots, all in hot pursuit of endless fun. My brain is melting!!!
Episode 26: iHeart Brand Name Changes?
We behold the amazing transformation that takes place when a caterpillar called Clear Channel creates a cocoon and emerges as the butterfly known as iHeartMedia.
Episode 25: Apple and the Annual Announcement Event
We take a bite out of the latest Apple event to find out if the products and presentation from Tim Cook and co. live up to the mammoth media buzz. Mmmmm, apples…