

Ad Age Marketer's Brief
E.J. Schultz & Adrianne Pasquarelli
Actionable marketing strategies and insights from the leaders steering the world’s most influential brands.
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Jul 27, 2022 • 20min
Behind a brand refresh, and a new campaign, for Noodles & Company
CMO Stacey Pool discusses why the fast-casual chain sought a different way to express ‘different’ in a still challenging environment for restaurants

Jul 20, 2022 • 19min
TopGolf’s rise
TopGolf is winning both hard core golfers and casual fans with its high tech driving ranges and entertainment and food options. The brand’s CMO, Geoff Cottrill, joins the pod to discuss its marketing strategy and growth plans.

Jul 18, 2022 • 20min
How to avoid Greenwashing
In the latest installment of our purpose marketing series, Thomas Kolster, founder and creative director at Copenhagen-based Goodvertising Agency, shares tips on environmental marketing.

Jul 13, 2022 • 20min
How baseball’s CMO is pitching new fans
Karin Timpone discusses a game plan around courting new baseball fans, including big events like the upcoming All-Star Game

Jul 6, 2022 • 23min
New Progressive CMO talks spending strategy amid downturn and marketing to Gen Z
Remi Kent is focusing on new ways to connect emotionally with younger consumers

Jun 29, 2022 • 23min
How Michaels is marketing its brand amid rising prices
Marketing executive Heather Bennett talks about how the brand is dealing with inflation, connecting with Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and boosting the crafting-tech trend

Jun 22, 2022 • 26min
P&G’s Brent Miller on how the company goes way beyond Pride Month
Brent Miller, who has what appears to be a unique role in marketing as senior global director of LGBTQ+ equality for P&G, talks about how the company is approaching marketing to the community strategically and staying the course despite pushback in legislatures nationally on LGBTQ+ rights.

Jun 15, 2022 • 26min
Morgan Stanley CMO on economic downturn and its agency search
Alice Milligan talks about integrating E-Trade and how the brand is messaging its customers

Jun 8, 2022 • 22min
Inside A&W Restaurants’ Recipe for Survival
Once quite literally left for dead, A&W Restaurants has fought back behind clever and efficient campaigns and is now turning toward scientific solutions, Liz Bazner, senior marketing director, tells the Marketer’s Brief podcast

Jun 6, 2022 • 24min
Pride marketing
We look at how brands are approaching LGBTQ+ advocacy with Thomas Kolster, founder and creative director at Copenhagen-based Goodvertising Agency.