Advertising experts Faris and Rosie Yakob, Co-founder’s of Genius Steals, and Kim Malcolm, Director of Product Marketing at Zappi, share their reactions to this year's Super Bowl ads, what made some brands score major points with consumers and others fumble in the red zone. Want more? Check out our complete learnings from this year’s big game here 👉 https://bit.ly/3E8kT5V (Previously live streamed Monday after the Super Bowl)

Kim Malcolm, Director of Product Marketing at Zappi and advertising research legend, shares what this year’s top UK Christmas ads are based on her recent research, the five key elements that make them so effective (and why it’s so critical to win) as well as the influence of the recession on consumer responses. For more on her advertising research, check out this content.

Jorge Calvachi, Director of Insights at La-Z-Boy, talks about what it’s like to be the first insights hire in the company’s 95 year history, shares his strategy for creating a consumer-first mindset throughout the organization and reveals the only two questions you need for customer-centric decision making. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 48 minute mark.

Lauren Governale, Head of Consumer Insights & UX Research at Hims & Hers, delivers a masterclass in using insights to create groundbreaking content, shares how she built an insights function from scratch - including making space to fail - and reveals her process for attributing insights and measuring her team’s success. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 52 minute mark. Here’s the link to the TED Talk with Will Guidara we mentioned in this episode.

Clay Parker Jones, Managing Director of Black Glass Consulting, discusses why companies still struggle to create great digital experiences, explores how true teamwork can slash time spent on pointless admin and gives away his three killer ways to get the most out of meetings.  Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 57 minute mark.

Bianca Pryor, VP of Insights at BET, shares her amazing learning journey through the insights world, discusses how concept-testing research translates to evaluating TV shows, and describes how she and her team use insights to make magic for writers and creators. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 41 minute mark.

Jing Mertoglu, VP of Insights & Analytics at Beam Suntory, discusses how to elevate category thinking to include the intersection of humans and culture, shares how her team uses the Japanese concept of Gemba and reveals how to create a high-functioning insights team. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 53 minute mark.

Part two of our interview with Mark Ritson, brand consultant, marketing professor and Marketing Week columnist, covers why he believes marketers should kill products, why digital marketing is a misnomer and reveals which part of marketing changes all the time and which hasn’t changed for over 2,000 years. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 30 minute mark.

In our first-ever two part episode, Mark Ritson, brand consultant, marketing professor and Marketing Week columnist, explains the key things that marketers get wrong, discusses what leadership really is and reveals his silver bullet for great marketing. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 58 minute mark.

In this summer bonus episode, co-hosts Ryan Barry and Patricia Montesdeoca distill and discuss the skill sets that make up an ideal insights partner, leader and supplier, based on what our guests shared this past season (as well as a few of their own!).

Natalia Lumpkin, VP, Insights & Analytics at Central Garden & Pet, talks all things insights transformation, from bringing stakeholders and suppliers into the heart of her lean insights team (and in turn bringing her team into the heart of business decision-making), what it really means to be customer-centric and reveals the skills future insights leaders need to become the ‘whole enchilada.’ Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 49 minute mark.

Previously recorded live at IIEX North America, Shazia Ali, Director of Community at Zappi, explores the importance of empathy when tapping into a growth mindset, the role of community building in creating strong customer - and internal - relationships and being comfortable with the uncomfortable to create ripples of change. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 44 minute mark. Content we discussed in this episode: Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy...

Previously recorded live at IIEX North America, Michelle Gansle, Vice President of Global and Strategic Insights at McDonald’s, shares the challenges in becoming and evolving as a leader, discusses how to use coaches and mentors to power your career and reveals her best sources of learning and inspiration for continued growth. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 47 minute mark. Content we discussed in this episode: Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen...

Steve Phillips, Founder and CEO of Zappi, reflects on what he has learned through building an industry-changing company (turns out, data quality is pretty important), reveals some of the mistakes that were made along the way and shares his vision for the future of the sector — an opportunity that insights professionals must not fail to seize. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 48 minute mark. Read more on Andreessen Horowitz here. 

Marie Van Blaricum, Global Head of Insights at Anheuser-Busch, explores how knowing your personal purpose is critical to modern leadership, shares the advice she wishes she had been given when making the step up to a global insights role and why we need to start an insights operations movement. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 50 minute mark.

Christian Niederauer, Global Head of Insights at Colgate-Palmolive, reflects on how previous roles in academia, B2B and local insights have informed his global FMCG role, explains why getting innovation wrong is like being bad at golf, and reveals the three key characteristics he looks for when hiring insights professionals. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 54 minute mark.

Tony Costella, Global Consumer and Market Insights Director at Heineken, reveals why insights professionals sometimes fail to influence decision making, shares his 3E model for leadership and change management and explains why it's important to think like a four-year-old but act like a seven-year-old. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 48 minute mark.

Udi Ledergor, CMO at Gong, explains why ‘different’ is better than ‘better’ when it comes to brand, and spills the beans on the success of Gong’s Super Bowl ads, including revealing why he had to trust data over his own intuition. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways around the 39 minute mark.

Jo Rigby, Strategic Channel Director at Zappi, discusses libraries and local politics, why advertising creatives should act more like musicians or comedians and shares how being targeted for abuse on Twitter has made her fearless. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 40 minute mark.

Giles Jepson, Chief Operating Officer at Been There Done That and former Chief Marketing Officer of Kraft Heinz, discusses why so many marketing failures are due to not asking the right questions, shares the two fundamental concepts that underpin the way he works and reveals why it's better to be a ‘learn-it-all’ than a ‘know-it-all’. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 47 minute mark.

William Lunderman, Principal Partner at Lunderstorm LLC and Instructor at the Parsons School of Design, shares how to apply four key principles of design thinking to create a hit in the market, every time, and reveals why creative leadership is more like being in a jazz ensemble than an orchestra. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 50 minute mark. And if you’d like to learn more about how to apply design thinking to your work, read our latest blog.

Jennifer Picard, Head of Centre of Excellence for Mix Optimization at Pernod Ricard, shares how to manage change across an extremely decentralized organization, explains why people come first and tools come last when democratizing the insights function and reveals what her job title actually means. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 43 minute mark.

Dr. Nora Infante, clinical psychologist, (Ryan Barry’s) executive coach and founder of Biomimetic Leadership, shares her expertise on leadership, reveals the single most important attribute that a good leader needs and explains the amazing things that happen to your brain when you spend time in nature. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 53 minute mark. 

Stephan Gans, SVP, Chief Insights and Analytics Officer at PepsiCo, discusses his vision for digitized global insights, shares his journey to making research faster, cheaper and better, and reveals the three key attributes that he looks for when hiring an insights professional. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 51 minute mark. To listen to the winning advertising episode Ryan and Stephan mentioned, click here. 

James Sallows, Head of Transformation and Capability at GSK, discusses how he's transforming the insights function in the wake of the demerger of GSK’s consumer products division, how to move away from low-value commoditized research and reveals how to tell if what you have is really an insight. Pressed for time? Catch the key takeaways at the 45 minute mark.