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.
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.
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.
We creep into the deadly deliciousness of the Halloween season by sharing our killer picks for favorite candy packaging design.
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.
We tackle the brand status of the national football league and audible some wild ideas to rush the NFL into the future.
We unveil the winner of our summer box office challenge and honor some incredible & impossible movies that defined the blockbuster season.
We laugh, chuckle and guffaw through a stream of countless brand tweets in an effort to crown the Twitter kings of comedy.
We rack our brains coming up with creative ways to upgrade products that haven’t taken a significant step forward in far too long.
We sweat out the dog days of summer by shouting out a few key brands we strongly associate with the hot and sunny season.
We spin our thoughts on the marketing power of cover art and hit play on our favorite album covers of all time.
We look back on 100 podcast episodes and share some of our favorite centenarian brands.
We ask and answer the most important social media question of 2018—Yanny or Laurel?
We make you wonder whether you’re listening to real people or artificial intelligence as we discuss Google’s latest innovation.
We premiere our predictions for the movies that will burn up the box office in summer 2018.
We lob up our picks for top NBA team names and slam down our winners for sweetest league logos.
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.
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.
We unwrap six classic holiday commercials and force them to face off in a showdown to see which ones yield more Yuletide power.
We give thanks for a basketful of brands that have delivered us a bounty of delicious flavors to feast on in 2017.
We phone in our thoughts on the new iPhone X and share our recommendations for some must-have iPhone apps.
We spice things up by talking about the tsunami of pumpkin spice products hitting store shelves this fall.
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!
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.
We order Google, Alexa, and Siri into our podcast gladiator arena to see who emerges victorious in the battle for best voice assistant marketing.
We venture on a quest to determine the impact of Facebook’s new mission, and uncover examples of other brands with magnificent mission statements.
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.
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.
We zoom past two defenders, pump fake, and fire off our list of the top five LeBron James commercials.
We prepare for the rise of the machines by discussing Marble the food delivery robot.
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.
What was the brand meltdown of the month?
We reveal our top 10 forgotten 90s brands
There are a lot of great brand jingles out there… but find out our picks for the most memorable.
From Chumby or Qriocity, there’s a lot of bad tech product names out there.
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.
Find out which brand earn the title for best of the best and worst of the worst.
We talk all things Amazon on this episode of the pod.
We unearth the year’s coolest cultural artifacts.
We applaud the most spectacular marketing efforts and trends of the year.
We slap on a pair of Spectacles to get a glimpse at the future of social sharing.
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.
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.
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.
We run into the future Marty McFly promised us by lacing up Nike’s new HyperAdapt sneakers.
We reel from a disappointing cinematic summer by picking our top five movie posters of summer 2016.
We hand out medals for the best “non-Olympic” Olympic marketing.
Is it fair or foul for brands to pay for positive internet mentions?
We “just do it”… and by “just do it” we mean share our picks for the best Nike commercials of all time.
How in the name of Pikachu did Pokémon Go become a global craze?
We drive into the future of bold and electric branding by looking at the rapid acceleration of Tesla Motors.
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.
We squat with a mystical unicorn who teaches us about proper pooping technique as well as a few lessons for marketing around taboo topics.
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.
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.
We flap through ten years of tweets to pinpoint the past, present and future impact of a little bird called Twitter.
We stay thirsty with the “most interesting man in the world” as we revisit one of the past decade’s most successful marketing campaigns.
We talk with voiceover artist Kelley Buttrick about the diverse work she does and the unique approach she has taken to market her services.
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!
We march through faces crying tears of joy, pizza slices, and piles of poo to crown the champion of our Emoji Marketing Madness Bracket.
We hop in the Wrangler and head off road to shine a spotlight on Jeep as the brand celebrates its 75th anniversary.
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.
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.
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We recap the amazing, astonishing and awe-inspiring marketing feats of 2015 by presenting the winners of our second annual Awesome Awards.
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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?
We get googly-eyed over a cardboard contraption that allows us to take a peak into a different reality.
We hack our way through USA Network’s clever giveaway to promote the show “Mr. Robot”.
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!
We project our thoughts on the biggest marketing blockbusters of the summer movie season.
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!
We drop our drumsticks in disbelief as Colonel Sanders and The Hamburglar return from the marketing graveyard to win back our brand loyalty.
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.
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We podcast our thoughts on the trials, travails, and triumphs of a topic very near and dear to our hearts: podcasting.
We witness a murder and get stalked by a hitman via phone, text, email, Twitter, and online video.
We flicker through 30 years of film intros to watch the evolution of the Disney logo from static to CGI to fully customized.
We pit four fast food chains against each other in a bracket to determine whose weird marketing effort won the month of March.
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.
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.
We veer off the road while gazing at outdoor ads covered in diamonds, human hair, and cans of snot.
We blitz the big game to find out which brands got the most out of their million-dollar investment on Super Bowl Sunday.
We rewind through the labyrinth of 2014, dodging soccer balls, ice buckets and Ebola to uncover all that was awesome in marketing this year.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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…
We grunt with everyone’s favorite Austrian bodybuilder, former governor and 80s action star as he flexes his comic muscle in a new marketing campaign for Realestate.com Australia.
We stare endlessly at the recently redesigned Airbnb logo in hopes of seeing all the strange interpretations that have surfaced on social media.
We declare our brand winners of the bloody, sweaty and hard-fought marketing battle that was the 2014 World Cup. Victory!
We marvel at the magnificent Marvel marketing machine by thoroughly examining Thor’s new anatomy, gauging audience expectations for Guardians of the Galaxy, and getting amped up early for the ultimate superhero sequel.
We toast our 21st episode by taking 21 shots, jumping in a Dodge Charger with the Duke boys, and watching them outrun the law while surfing Autotrader.com. Yee-haw!!!
We crash the World Cup to explore how Beats by Dre managed to become the world’s coolest brand by getting banned from the world’s biggest marketing stage.
On this episode of the Speaking Human marketing podcast, we celebrate the arrival of summer by sitting around the campfire, singing along to the S’more Song, and discussing DQ’s new marketing campaign.
We imbibe the latest packaging innovations from top beverage brands. We verify the icy-coldness of Coca-Cola; warm up to the holiday season with Starbucks; and get drunk on originality with Absolut vodka.
We celebrate and denigrate the latest bizarre celebrity-brand pairings. We ride in a Dodge Durango with Ron Burgundy; watch Jean Claude Van Damme make a double impact for Volvo; and try on clothes made from cool by Christopher Walken.
We discuss the high-stakes game of summer movie marketing. We’ll tell you what blockbuster marketing drove our butts to cinema seats and what films flopped at inspiring us to leave our air-conditioning and HDTVs.