Content Disrupted: Bold Takes on Brand Marketing

How often does your marketing team produce content based on internal opinions or requests? Many of us are guilty of this practice, despite knowing it’s ineffective and wasteful. In this conversation with Axel Kirstetter, VP of Global Product Marketing at Guidewire, we explore methods to enhance your marketing’s precision, effectiveness, and efficiency through just-in-time content operations—an approach that combines audience insights with streamlined execution for timely and relevant content delivery.

At Autodesk, content marketing started as a program to drive demand within a new audience segment. Today, it’s crucial to the enterprise’s overall growth strategy. In this episode, we talk to the marketing leader behind that evolution, Dusty DiMercurio, about how to ensure content marketing plays a high-impact role in the business, from the content activation strategies that work to the kinds of wins that get Sales and the C-suite to lean in.

Generative AI is reshaping brand marketing, with its impact on the fusion of creativity, analytics, and purpose—the "growth triple play"—taking center stage. McKinsey reports that brands successfully combining these elements typically achieve more than double the growth of their industry peers. So, how do triple-play brands like Coca-Cola use AI to sustain their leading global position? Abbas Arslan has the insights.

Buyers are fed-up with irrelevant, unhelpful B2B content. As business buyers have become more self-reliant, their needs and expectations have evolved and, sadly, we’re not doing enough to keep up. Delivering the content we ‘think’ our customers want has proven ineffective. According to Forrester, a whopping 85% of marketers say their content doesn’t deliver business value. What can we do to change that? Ardath Albee has the answers.

Navigating the challenges of unifying messaging and adopting data-driven marketing processes is especially complex for large enterprises. Reckitt, the parent company behind renowned brands like Lysol, Clearasil, Woolite, and Enfamil, confronted these obstacles when recognizing the need to shift from traditional to digital marketing practices. In this episode of Content Disrupted, Sameer Amin, Reckitt's Global Director of Data-Driven Marketing and Media, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the brand's digital marketing strategy, emphasizing how it integrates products, purpose, people, and methods. In the process, he shares best practices for rallying teams and stakeholders around an enterprise-wide digital transformation initiative.

In the fierce battle to gain a marketing edge, it's easy to be swayed by the allure of data-driven targeting and the vast array of digital tools promising precision. But as marketers, our true success lies not in how accurately we target, but in how effectively we emotionally connect. In this episode of Content Disrupted, Doug Zarkin, Retail & Brand Marketing Expert, and Author of "Moving Your Brand Out Of The Friend Zone,” delves into the power of emotionally-driven consumer decisions, unravels his transformative "think human" approach to marketing, confronts the pitfalls of over-relying on data, and uncovers the art of crafting a brand that truly distinguishes itself in an overcrowded market.

As a marketer, think about how often your decisions are questioned internally. The truth is, if you can quickly build a reputation as someone who uses marketing to drive business results, most of these questions will disappear. In this episode of Content Disrupted Patrick Ward, the Vice President of Marketing at Formula.Monks gets real about how to gain trust in marketing, unlock your marketing superpower (being the ultimate customer expert), and tackle brand building in stages to boost marketing’s bottom-line impact.

Digital behavior is full of contradictions. We expect to absorb information in seconds, yet we’ll spend hours binging content we find interesting in the moment. What implications do these habits have for how marketers think about the brand storytelling? In this episode of Content Disrupted, Todd Unger, Chief Experience Officer and SVP of Marketing and Member Experience at the AMA introduces the concept of the 10-second customer journey and its impact on brand storytelling in the digital age.

As marketers, it’s easy to get so caught up in content creation and tactics Scott's insights offer marketers a beacon, highlighting the imperative to deeply comprehend buyer profiles, consistently measure platform impacts, and focus on delivering tailored, impactful content throughout the extended and fragmented customer journey.

Welcome to Content Disrupted, a podcast that explores the art, science, and people behind cutting-edge brand storytelling. Join us every other week for candid conversations with pioneering CMOs, researchers, and creatives who will inspire you to think differently and bring clarity to the major changes underway in marketing—subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform, and become part of the Content Marketing Revolution.