Marketing Trends

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What happens when marketing’s sharpest minds pull back the curtain? Hosted by Stephanie Postles, Marketing Trends drops listeners into the world of trailblazing CMOs, CEOs, and visionaries who share their journeys and groundbreaking strategies. From navigating the balance between automation and human touch to leading teams through unprecedented transformation, you’re getting an unfiltered look at the lessons and ideas driving the industry forward. Whether you're leading a team or aspiring to innovate, Marketing Trends is your new secret weapon.

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20 episodes
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Spotlight: The 5,000-Year-Old Method of Making People Remember You
How do you get your brand into the 90% of memory that's subconscious?
Wednesday · 16 min
Marketing Has Forgotten What It’s For
Are you just busy working? Or are you adding value?
July 15 · 51 min
Why Agents Will Buy, But Marketing Must Stay Human
A bank just issued the world's first loan to an AI agent.
July 1 · 1 hr 3 min
Why 90% of Your Brain Ignores Ads
What if everything you're optimizing for in marketing — attention, clicks, engagement — is a proxy for the one thing that actually drives action?
June 17 · 1 hr 20 min
The SEO Blog Era Is Over. Here's What Replaces It.
Your blog will never earn an audience. Ever.
June 3 · 55 min
Stop Counting Your AI Agents. Customers Don’t Care.
Every CMO is being told to replace people with AI agents as fast as possible.
May 19 · 53 min
Marketing Spotlight: How Simple Personalization Dramatically Increased Engagement
Most CMOs think personalization requires complex AI and endless customer segments.
May 6 · 6 min
Twilio's CMO Scrapped His 2026 Plan in One Month
What happens when your next customer isn't even human?
April 15 · 52 min
Why There’s More Content in 2026… But Worse Results
Merriam-Webster named "slop" the 2025 word of the year - and it explains everything about where AI-generated content is heading.
April 1 · 49 min
Spotlight: AI Context Windows Will Kill Forrester, Gartner, and G2 (Yext CEO Explains)
Best practices told you to optimize reputation across all 10,000 locations equally—but granular competitive data just revealed that 7,000 of those stores don't need it, and you're wasting millions on the wrong priorities.
March 25 · 15 min
What's Silently Killing Growth: The 2-Second Rule That's Destroying Your Website Traffic
Most websites are bleeding traffic before visitors even see the page… and Google Analytics can't tell you it's happening.
March 18 · 14 min
B2B Teams Are Chasing AI Trends While Underfunding What Actually Matters
What if the marketing channel getting the least resources is actually shaping your entire brand reputation?
March 11 · 1 hr
Scaling Past $20M (Spotlight): When to Move Upmarket
Every startup hits the same ceiling: your founder customers love you, but they won't get you to $200M.
March 4 · 14 min
What Is an AI Agent? The Plain English Explainer for Marketers
Stephanie is joined by guest cohost Lacey Peace to break down what AI agents actually are in plain English, why they are fundamentally different from automation, and what this shift means for marketing jobs and the skills that will matter most going forward.
February 25 · 24 min
Ex-TikTok CMO (Spotlight): Your 90-Day Campaign Cycle Is Killing You
Most brands think viral marketing takes months of planning and massive budgets.
February 18 · 14 min
He Built FaceTune's AI… Here's What He Says Marketers Get Wrong
The marketing teams winning with AI today are not the ones chasing every new model release. They are the ones who found the boring, repetitive tasks their teams hate and automated those first.
January 21 · 46 min
Website Expert: These Mistakes will Make or Break Your Entire 2026
The websites that win today are not the ones with the most content. They are the ones that deliver a fast, clean experience in the very first second a visitor arrives.
January 7 · 1 hr 1 min
The CMO Who Never Becomes Obsolete
The most future-ready marketing leaders aren’t the ones chasing trends… they’re the ones who can reinvent themselves every time the industry changes.
Dec 17, 2025 · 53 min
Two Executives Living Under One Roof: The System That Keeps Them Sane
The strongest marketing leaders are not the ones with perfect plans. They are the ones who know how to lead through real life.
Dec 3, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min
TikTok’s Ex Head of Marketing Reveals The Playbook for Viral Content
The brands everyone talks about are not the safest ones. They are the bold ones.
Nov 19, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min

Marketing Trends

Spotlight: The 5,000-Year-Old Method of Making People Remember You

Marketing Has Forgotten What It’s For

Why Agents Will Buy, But Marketing Must Stay Human

Why 90% of Your Brain Ignores Ads

The SEO Blog Era Is Over. Here's What Replaces It.

Stop Counting Your AI Agents. Customers Don’t Care.

Marketing Spotlight: How Simple Personalization Dramatically Increased Engagement

Twilio's CMO Scrapped His 2026 Plan in One Month

Why There’s More Content in 2026… But Worse Results

Spotlight: AI Context Windows Will Kill Forrester, Gartner, and G2 (Yext CEO Explains)

What's Silently Killing Growth: The 2-Second Rule That's Destroying Your Website Traffic

B2B Teams Are Chasing AI Trends While Underfunding What Actually Matters

Scaling Past $20M (Spotlight): When to Move Upmarket

What Is an AI Agent? The Plain English Explainer for Marketers

Ex-TikTok CMO (Spotlight): Your 90-Day Campaign Cycle Is Killing You

He Built FaceTune's AI… Here's What He Says Marketers Get Wrong

Website Expert: These Mistakes will Make or Break Your Entire 2026

The CMO Who Never Becomes Obsolete

Two Executives Living Under One Roof: The System That Keeps Them Sane

TikTok’s Ex Head of Marketing Reveals The Playbook for Viral Content