Episodes
This Week: Ian Baer, Rose Cameron, and Mike Monello join Bob to discuss Walmart buying Vizio, whether AI copywriting is more effective, the Reddit IPO, Amazon ending FreeVee, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 02/26/24
This Week: Farrah Bostic, Saul Colt, and Joseph Jaffe join Bob to discuss this year's analysis of the Super Bowl ad game , plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 02/19/24
This Week: Joseph Jaffe, Jonathan Sackett, and Tamsen Webster join Bob to discuss brands ditching X for SB convos, the final implosion of local news, understanding deinfluencers, TikTok to make all content shoppable, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 02/05/24
This Week: Saul Colt, Sloane Kelley, and Ron Tite join Bob to discuss social as a public health crisis, Apple hindering VisionPro, gamifying grocery shopping, Google's latest AI tool for advertisers, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 01/29/24
This Week: Peter Levitan, Matt McDermott, and Jerlyn O'Donnell join Bob to discuss Google's layoffs, retail media networks going broadcast level, Snap's CEO declares social is dead, ad-supported streaming is working, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 01/22/24
This Week: Farrah Bostic, Dave Delaney, Augie Ray join Bob to discuss whether apps are evolving away from phones, what will kill Twitter, AI wasted on advertising, a look at the Kochava suit, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 01/15/24
This Week: Saul Colt, Lisa Laporte, and Joey Scarillo join Bob to discuss 2024 social media challenges, device mic data, how “shallow living” hampers marketers, another streaming merger, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 01/08/24
This week: Rose Cameron and Joseph Jaffe join Bob for the 2023 Year-End Review.
Published 12/17/23
This Week: Saul Colt, Mitch Joel, and Jonathan Sackett join Bob to discuss controlling election advertising, Musk's war with Iger, Disney+ trying to get "stickier," news sites crater after social pulls the plug, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 12/11/23
This Week: Saul Colt, Joseph Jaffe, and Matt McDermott join Bob to discuss Elon's outburst, whether network ad sales are too complicated, how brands and governments are dealing with political AI usage, Ubisoft's "mistake," plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 12/04/23
This Week: Ian Baer and Saul Colt join Bob to discuss AI's impact on below-the-line creative, the future of Hulu, whether the metaverse still matters, why voice marketing is MIA, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 11/13/23
This Week: Scott Monty, Augie Ray, and Janell Townsend join Bob to discuss YouTube blocking ad blockers, how consumers really feel about social selling, paying for Meta, the CBS Super Bowl sellout, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 11/06/23
This Week: Brandi Boatner, Saul Colt, and Jason Lonsdale join Bob to discuss Twitter after a year with Elon, Google’s big play for beauty, how generative AI is helping SEO, Amazon ad revenue surpasses AWS, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 10/30/23
This Week: Saul Colt, Tamara Prewitt, and Jonathan Sackett join Bob to discuss the new VML mergers, how brands should address wars, leveraging senior influencers, Netflix raising prices again, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 10/23/23
This Week: Emily Binder, Saul Colt, and Ron Tite join Bob to discuss streaming's messaging problem, the problem for Tesla, gaming's surprising demographics, why cafes are banning influencers, plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 10/16/23
This Week: Farrah Bostic and Sloane Kelley join Bob to discuss paying for social access, the splintering conversation online, the demise of Facebook News, deepfakes are a'comin', plus this week's #FairFailFoul.
Published 10/09/23
This Week: Augie Ray, Colby Vogt, and Mat Zucker join Bob to discuss X’s CEO at Code, how brands treat their agencies, Grocery Shop takeaways, knowing which social channels to use, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 10/02/23
This Week: Saul Colt, Jason McCann, and Samuel Monnie join Bob to discuss Climate Week NYC, X going subscriber-only, the next big TikTok audience, Amazon’s approach to a streaming ad tier, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 09/25/23
This Week: Allen Adamson, Saul Colt, Joseph Jaffe, and Jerlyn O’Donnell join Bob to discuss dissatisfied social marketing execs, managing risk when going edgy, royalties for Netflix ads, TikTok Shop arrives, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 09/18/23
This Week: Rose Cameron, Saul Colt, and Peter Levitan join Bob to discuss influencer farms, Disney’s bet on gambling, learning from DeSantis’s birthday ad, the entertainment strikes and influencers, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 09/11/23
This Week: Jo Darby, Matt McDermott, and Jonathan Sackett join Bob to discuss Cannes winners and losers, ending sexual harassment at the festival, Gannet suing Google, Twitter starts paying bills again, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 06/26/23
This Week: Saul Colt and Colin Glaum join Bob to discuss B2B’s “unlikable” ads, Twitter’s “turnaround” story, Reddit’s mod strike, why we don’t see 10,000 ads a day, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 06/19/23
This Week: Joseph Jaffe and Scott Monty join Bob to discuss Apple’s Vision Pro headset, faces vs. logos, the problem with engagement marketing, Unilever pledges to support disabled creators, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 06/12/23
This Week: Rose Cameron, Saul Colt, and Jerlyn O’Donnell join Bob to discuss the perils of Pride, branded ecosystems, content over saturation, YouTube best for influencers, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 06/05/23
This Week: Saul Colt, Ben Kunz, and Peter Levitan join Bob to discuss free TVs for ads, Tesla’s reversal, why there’s no cookie replacement, math for creatives, plus this week’s #FairFailFoul.
Published 05/22/23