Many speculate that marketing is the business realm poised to be fundamentally reshaped by Artificial Intelligence. However, the pressing issue is the prevalent lack of technical acumen and basic AI understanding among many marketers.
Decoding AI for Marketing (DAM) aims to mend this informational void, delivering insights for the technically adept and beginners alike. We demystify AI’s intricacies and furnish hands-on, applicable marketing approaches from those leading the charge.
DAM will host profound conversations with top marketers and foremost AI experts, all endeavoring to decipher AI’s potential to amplify marketing’s significance and influence, and presumably, their own efficacy and organizational productivity. It’s going to be a whole new world, but not one without serious risks.
Your hosts are the well-respected international marketing & AI experts Greg Stuart (CEO, Author, Investor, Speaker) and Rex Briggs (Founder/CEO, Inventor, Author, Speaker). Brought to you by MMA Global, the non-profit industry body ‘architecting a new future of marketing’ for the world’s smartest CMOs.
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Many speculate that marketing is the business realm poised to be fundamentally reshaped by Artificial Intelligence. However, the pressing issue is the prevalent lack of technical acumen and basic AI understanding among many marketers.
Decoding AI for Marketing (DAM) aims to mend this informational void, delivering insights for the technically adept and beginners alike. We demystify AI’s intricacies and furnish hands-on, applicable marketing approaches from those leading the charge.
DAM will host profound conversations with top marketers and foremost AI experts, all endeavoring to decipher AI’s potential to amplify marketing’s significance and influence, and presumably, their own efficacy and organizational productivity. It’s going to be a whole new world, but not one without serious risks.
Your hosts are the well-respected international marketing & AI experts Greg Stuart (CEO, Author, Investor, Speaker) and Rex Briggs (Founder/CEO, Inventor, Author, Speaker). Brought to you by MMA Global, the non-profit industry body ‘architecting a new future of marketing’ for the world’s smartest CMOs.
Steve Erbentraut, Managing Director at Marketbridge, works with clients every day in highly regulated industries who are caught in a tug of war: innovate with AI enough to beat out the competition, but minimize risks so as not to break down the trust of customers. It’s a delicate dance, and Erbentraut spells out what it means for implementing AI solutions in the marketing arms of organizations in the financial services, healthcare, and other regulated sectors.
Vikrant Batra, cofounder of Maximon.ai and former CMO at HP, says that if you aren’t already well on your way in your AI journey, your marketing organization is in serious trouble. He details why he left his former corporate employer to strike out in an AI business, how fast change is coming, and why the financial side of companies will be coming for the marketing department - if they haven’t already. And he shares why traditional marketing organizations and artificial intelligence are on a collision course.
Mark Polyak, Chief Product and Technology Officer at MINT.ai, says that embedding agents is transforming every step of the advertising resource management process. He explains how his background in counterterrorism helps shape his approach to AI and data integration today. Plus, he shares how MINT.ai is using multi-agent systems, synthetic data, and emerging protocols like MCP to help marketers do their jobs better.
Doug McColgin, Director of Marketing Strategy at UScellular, says that AI tools aren't enough to build an effective marketing strategy. As more and more companies adopt AI, the playing field will be leveled when it comes to productivity gains. But McColgin thinks AI can be used in more creative ways to differentiate from your competitors. He explains the tests his organization has done, and how two foundational frameworks—Clay Christensen’s Jobs-to-be-Done and Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints—can shape smarter, more strategic AI adoption - focusing on problems, not products.
Jen Kattula, CMO at Microsoft Advertising, has been testing out ways to improve the jobs of marketers through AI - while at the same time trying to improve organizational effectiveness. She shares use cases from Microsoft, how she thinks about agents and human intervention, and the hurdles around getting people trained up and in the habit of using AI.
Paul Roetzer, founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute and Smarter X, left his agency world behind and now spends his days training marketers on how to better use AI to move their organization forward. When it comes to AI adoption at marketing organizations, there’s still a wide range of adoption - and Roetzer shares what he’s seen in terms of what trips people up, and where they should be putting their resources. Plus, how the agency model is changing, and some of his favorite tools and tricks.
Sadie Thoma, director of US B2B marketing at Google, and Derek Rodenhausen, managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, say that artificial intelligence is having a major impact on marketing - especially when it comes to the consumer journey. They partnered on new research that shows that the four main consumer behaviors today are streaming, scrolling, searching, and shopping - and that they are often done in tandem. Thoma and Rodenhausen share more insights from their research that can influence marketers across industries as they reshape their organizations in a world of AI.
Michael Lacorazza, CMO of US Bank, and Mike Barrett, Founder and CSO at Supernatural AI, set out to break the mold: to partner together on an advertising campaign for the large financial institution using innovative AI methods and achieving fast results. If you’re interested in how to partner with AI agencies to take your work to the next level, listen to this case study about “The Power of Us” campaign, and walk away with lessons for your own organization.
Shiv Singh, co-founder of AI Trailblazers and the author of Marketing with AI For Dummies, knows that there’s still a huge range of adoption in the marketing space when it comes to artificial intelligence. He shares tips for those still early in their journey, and predictions for 2025 when it comes to how the marketing industry will be further upended by the technology.
Abhay Parasnis, founder of Typeface, is making a big bet on where artificial intelligence will truly reshape the marketing industry. After experience at Adobe and other large organizations, Parasnis ventured out on his own in 2022 to work on a tool to solve the fundamental problem in marketing today, the “content paradox.” He explains why there’s a gap between data and cloud technologies, and the ability to use those to effectively make and distribute content. He walks Greg and Rex through some of the cutting-edge functionality that Typeface offers its partners.
Shelly Palmer, Professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and CEO of The Palmer Group, reports on the AI marketing trends he is most excited about coming out of this year’s Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. He talks about what’s over and underhyped - from superautomation and agents to content creation and beyond. And we’ll hear predictions as to how AI in marketing is evolving in 2025.
Ashok Kalidas, Chief AI Scientist at Kantar, helps Fortune 500 companies think about the cutting-edge technologies they need now and the best ways to implement new AI and ML tools into their organizations to take their marketing strategies to the next level. He explains the technology behind some of Kantar’s latest use cases and where he thinks the industry is going next.
Jacqueline Woods is the Chief Marketing Officer at the software company Teradata. She has a unique vantage point as both a CMO herself and as someone who works with other companies every day to better leverage technology, data, and artificial intelligence. She explains how companies can think more strategically about their AI implementation, where personalization is heading next, and the most effective use cases for impacting customers.
Jeremy Fain, CEO and Co-founder at Cognitiv, is on a mission to better predict consumer behavior with the help of artificial intelligence. The deep-learning advertising platform was founded in 2015 and has since built tools to help brands connect with their customers in a more precise way - a necessary capability for marketers now and into the future. He walks us through the use cases that are most effective for them now and what the next few years might look like.
Omar Rodriguez-Vilá is a professor of marketing at Emory University and a partner at MarCaps, and was previously a practitioner at Coca-Cola. He’s looked at the ways some of the best marketing organizations out there have changed their structure and habits in the wake of the AI revolution, and he has data to share. He argues that great marketing leaders in today’s environment need to both explore and exploit for strategic advantages, and other ways to change your marketing culture to see real results.
Adam Brotman, co-founder and co-CEO at Forum3, an AI lab, has spent his whole career helping brands embrace technologies to lead them into the future. Now, with his co-founder Andy Sack, he’s taking what he’s learned about places like Starbucks and J. Crew and building and testing tools around artificial intelligence that can help marketers at every size organization. In this episode, he talks about their AI marketer product for SMBs, Spok, lessons he learned from getting Starbucks to embrace mobile pay, and how he thinks organizations can and should change in the coming years to become AI-first companies.
Yaniv Makover, CEO and cofounder of Anyword, says that no company - large or small - will end up with a one-size-fits-all AI stack for their marketing teams, Instead they will be vertical, horizontal, and native. The best marketers - and best organizations - will take that into account and think of ways for different systems to more effectively communicate with each other. Anyword is an AI writing platform made for enterprise marketing teams, and Makover explains the technology and use cases behind it.
Joshua Browder, CEO and Founder of DoNotPay.com, thinks one of the biggest ways AI will change marketing is in its power to help consumers advocate for themselves. While companies are finding all kinds of efficiencies and competitive advantages for themselves with AI, there’s also a huge opportunity for individual consumers. What started as an attempt to fight his own parking tickets has now grown into a major business: using AI agents to help people with everything from canceling subscriptions to getting refunds. He talks through how his technology works - and what businesses need to know.
Marketers - and businesses overall - face a fundamental conundrum about artificial intelligence: it has an incredible power to recognize patterns, but not all patterns are reliable. Host Rex Briggs and Caleb Briggs set out to explore that tension in their new book, The AI Conundrum: Harnessing the Power of AI for Your Organization--Profitably and Safely. They explain what people still don’t understand about AI, and the greatest potential uses of AI for marketers in the near future to maximize both profit and effectiveness.
Jonathan Nelson, CEO of Omnicom Digital, works with clients at the world’s largest organizations to shape the future of marketing. He’s spent his career picking the winners: deciding which technologies to invest in to help his company get an edge in the increasingly competitive marketing landscape. In the AI space, he’s partly doing that by not putting all his eggs in one basket; instead, his company has partnered with major players like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and more. He explains why you need to be all in - but also be able to pull out as things shift in the weeks and months ahead.
Many speculate that marketing is the business realm poised to be fundamentally reshaped by Artificial Intelligence. However, the pressing issue is the prevalent lack of technical acumen and basic AI understanding among many marketers.
Decoding AI for Marketing (DAM) aims to mend this informational void, delivering insights for the technically adept and beginners alike. We demystify AI’s intricacies and furnish hands-on, applicable marketing approaches from those leading the charge.
DAM will host profound conversations with top marketers and foremost AI experts, all endeavoring to decipher AI’s potential to amplify marketing’s significance and influence, and presumably, their own efficacy and organizational productivity. It’s going to be a whole new world, but not one without serious risks.
Your hosts are the well-respected international marketing & AI experts Greg Stuart (CEO, Author, Investor, Speaker) and Rex Briggs (Founder/CEO, Inventor, Author, Speaker). Brought to you by MMA Global, the non-profit industry body ‘architecting a new future of marketing’ for the world’s smartest CMOs.
