

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 16, 2019 • 20min
RXBar CMO thinks beyond bars
Victor Lee joins Marketer's Brief to discuss the evolution of its no B.S. message and taking the brand further beyond the bars that put it on the map.

Jul 9, 2019 • 29min
Branded Entertainment
Dan Sanborn spent 16 years at Diageo overseeing its entertainment marketing. Now he’s at Wheelhouse Labs, whose holdings include Kimmelot, a content and development company launched last fall by Jimmy Kimmel. Dan talks about his new gig and gives his take on ways to get brands plugged into pop culture.

Jul 3, 2019 • 24min
Pizza Hut's brand heritage
Pizza Hut Chief Brand Officer Marianne Radley dishes on the new use of the old red roof logo with a bit of a modern touch and other ways the 61-year-old chain is trying to reconnect with past diners and entice new ones.

Jun 24, 2019 • 26min
America's Hottest Brands
Ad Age reporters detail what brands are making waves in 2019, from a tiny collectible toy maker to a cannabis purveyor.

Jun 19, 2019 • 26min
What the NFL's new ad code means for beer
Active players can now appear in beer ads during games. Nick Kelly, head of sports marketing for Anheuser-Busch, talks about what this means for Bud Light, while dishing on the brewer's overall sports marketing strategy.

Jun 14, 2019 • 33min
A Marketer’s Brief guide to Cannes
This episode of Marketer’s Brief features a roundtable of Ad Age marketing journalists breaking down what brands should know heading into this year’s festival.

Jun 4, 2019 • 27min
Why Twitch is a treat for brands like Hershey
Charlie Chappell, Hershey Co.’s head of media, chats about the company’s decision to boost its marketing with Twitch, as well as the overall appeal of digital platforms that are becoming more popular, especially with younger consumers.

May 28, 2019 • 37min
Sunscreen Dreams
Tony Palmer joins us at the unofficial start of the summer and shares why he left the Fortune 500 executive life to pursue a passion project: making a sunscreen that’s safe for reefs and people that doesn’t show up on skin like the mineral ones he used growing up in Australia.

May 21, 2019 • 43min
It’s sugar time
Greg Guidotti, general manager of Ferrara Candy Co.’s non-chocolate business, discusses new products including Wonder Woman ropes and the tailwinds he sees in the candy industry even as people say they want to eat healthier.

May 14, 2019 • 23min
Non-profit marketing
As the chief marketing and communications officer at Feeding America, Catherine Davis is using knowledge from her prior roles at agencies and brands to help the organization modernize its outreach. She joins Marketer’s Brief to discuss the differences of working at a non-profit, misconceptions about hunger in America and where organizations can innovate to grow their reach beyond traditional media.