
Decoding AI for Marketing
Many speculate that marketing is the business realm poised to be fundamentally reshaped by Artificial Intelligence. However, the pressing issue is the prevalent lack of technical acumen and basic AI understanding among many marketers.
Decoding AI for Marketing (DAM) aims to mend this informational void, delivering insights for the technically adept and beginners alike. We demystify AI’s intricacies and furnish hands-on, applicable marketing approaches from those leading the charge.
DAM will host profound conversations with top marketers and foremost AI experts, all endeavoring to decipher AI’s potential to amplify marketing’s significance and influence, and presumably, their own efficacy and organizational productivity. It’s going to be a whole new world, but not one without serious risks.
Your hosts are the well-respected international marketing & AI experts Greg Stuart (CEO, Author, Investor, Speaker) and Rex Briggs (Founder/CEO, Inventor, Author, Speaker). Brought to you by MMA Global, the non-profit industry body ‘architecting a new future of marketing’ for the world’s smartest CMOs.
Latest episodes

Jun 4, 2024 • 34min
Startups like Pictory Tap LLMs to Improve Your Marketing Workflow
CEO of Pictory discusses revolutionizing video content creation with AI. Topics include repurposing content into videos, AI in marketing, challenges in entrepreneurship, and marketing insights. An entertaining and informative discussion for anyone interested in AI and marketing.

May 21, 2024 • 42min
MediaMonks is Pushing Marketing Boundaries with AI
Wesley ter Haar, Founder of MediaMonks, discusses cutting-edge AI use cases in marketing like consumer proxies, personalization scaling, and workflow streamlining. The podcast explores the power of AI for real-time data analysis, creating digital twins of consumers, and how AI is reshaping workflows within organizations.

May 7, 2024 • 40min
The Age of Agents is Coming and It Will Upend Marketing
Amit Shah, CEO of Instalily.ai, discusses the upcoming age of AI agents reshaping marketing. Topics include the transformative potential of AI agents, challenges in deploying them, data security in sharing, integrating liberal arts in coding, and the future of marketing with autonomous agents.

Apr 23, 2024 • 38min
How Salesforce Uses AI and Cloud to Improve Customer Relationships
Marty Kihn, Senior VP of Strategy at Salesforce, discusses the impact of AI on their business, focusing on Customer Data Platforms and AI models. They explore the evolution of CDPs, NLP with Transformers, decision-making models in AI, and AI's role in enhancing marketing strategies like customer relationships and operational efficiency. The future of AI includes virtual agents and career growth in understanding AI's technicalities.

Apr 9, 2024 • 38min
CPG and Why The Best AI Projects Start with a Business Problem
Lu Cotterill is Global Senior Director, Full Funnel Marketing AI / ML at Kellanova (which spun out of legendary brand Kellogg). As a marketer in the CPG space, she’s always searching for the best data available to inform business decisions. In her current role, she focuses on how AI can help them better reach customers. CPG has its own set of challenges, but Lu has found the best way to test use cases for AI and ML is by starting with a business problem - not the technology - first. For Further Reading: https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2024/02/29/kellogg-spinoff-kellanova-doubles-down-on-digital-transformation-and-commerce/https://www.adexchanger.com/content-studio/ais-impact-on-cpg-advertising-a-game-changer-for-achieving-business-goals/https://www.iab.com/blog/how-retailers-are-using-data-clean-rooms/https://www.mmaglobal.com/datt/consortium-for-ai-personalization
Listen on your favorite podcast app: https://pod.link/1715735755

Mar 26, 2024 • 40min
AI's Influence on Marketing: A Ripple Effect Across All Business Verticals
Gopi Kallayil, Chief Business Strategist for AI at Google, discusses AI's impact on marketing, emphasizing personalized content, consumer behavior shifts, and the transformative power of AI across various industries. The podcast delves into AI safety, governance, and the necessity for organizations to integrate AI tools for enhanced marketing effectiveness and consumer engagement.

Mar 12, 2024 • 34min
How AI is Helping Us Understand and Streamline Messy Customer Data
Barry Padgett, CEO of Amperity, discusses how AI streamlines messy customer data for large companies. Topics include managing disparate marketing tools, data quality, privacy regulations, and enhancing customer experiences. The conversation also touches on challenges of data management, future AI impact on marketing strategies, and the importance of innovation.

Feb 27, 2024 • 42min
What Walmart is Learning About Marketing Tech and AI
Large retailers like Walmart are in some ways at an advantage when it comes to implementing new technology like AI that depends on data, with insights being constantly aggregated across stores, products and customers. But large companies also come with complexity, and complexity is exactly what Saleel Sathe deals in every day. He’s the vice president of performance marketing at Walmart and has a bird’s eye view on all the ways technology and AI are being adapted at the company. He shares the lessons he’s learned there and from previous roles at Uber and eBay about implementing new technology effectively for internal teams and external customers. We talk about the future of SEO and GenAI, the end of the cookie, the best ways to measure and predict, making a better, more addictive app for the company, and more. For Further Reading: https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/12-ad-leaders-planning-cookieless-future/2393006https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/walmarts-saleel-sathe-explains-how-the-countrys-biggest-retailer-aims-to-get-even-bigger/
Listen on your favorite podcast app: https://pod.link/1715735755

Feb 13, 2024 • 41min
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Building a Smart AI Marketing Roadmap
The podcast explores the importance of having a structured and informed strategy for AI implementation in marketing. It discusses building a competitive advantage with AI, the potential impact of emergent behavior on brands, data ownership and privacy concerns, integrating AI into products and services, and the timeline and potential of Artificial General Intelligence in marketing.

Jan 30, 2024 • 34min
How AI Startups Can Show Us What’s Next in Marketing
Entrepreneur Tom Chavez delves into the exciting world of AI in marketing, discussing the challenges of cookie deprecation, experimenting across channels, and the innovative roles startups can play in the ecosystem. He explores the transformative impact of AI on marketing, emphasizing the importance of adaptation, innovation, and embracing ambiguity to drive success.