This Old Marketing Podcast

This Old Marketing is the longest running marketing news podcast in the world.

Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose cover the week of marketing, media and digital/ai content news. Always around an hour and, if not educational, surely entertaining. If you aren't getting your marketing news from these two, are you really in marketing? Give it a listen. Can over three million downloads be wrong?

Recent Episodes

Aug. 22, 2025

The Golden Age of Content Marketing (494)

Are we entering a new golden age of content marketing? In this week’s This Old Marketing , Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose dig into why the industry feels more alive than ever and what this resurgence means for brands and creator...

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Aug. 15, 2025

Have the Search Wars Started Over Again? (493)

Big news in the tech and marketing world this week. AI search leader Perplexity stunned the industry with a $34 billion offer to buy Google Chrome. Is this just a headline-grabbing PR stunt… or could it actually give Google a...

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Aug. 8, 2025

The Future of Influencer Marketing Is NOT What You Think (492)

The boys are back (and better than ever) with a brand-new episode on what influencer marketing will look like soon (including AI).

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Aug. 1, 2025

How to Future-Proof Your Brain, Body, and Business [Special Episode] …

This is the last special solo episode for a while. Thankfully, Robert and Joe will be back next week to make nonsense about marketing and content news. But today’s episode is something a little different. In 1937, Napoleon Hi...

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July 25, 2025

The Mullet Content Strategy [Special Episode] (490)

In this solo episode of This Old Marketing, Robert dives headfirst into the uncomfortable - and increasingly urgent - tension at the heart of modern content strategy: Can we still create truly human content, full of nuance, v...

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July 18, 2025

The Marketing Profession Is In Danger. Here's One Solution [Special E…

Get ready for this special episode that you needed to hear years ago. Let me say this plainly: Working for someone else is the riskiest thing you can do right now. For decades, we believed that a "good job" was the ultimate s...

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July 11, 2025

OpenAI Needs a Nap and So Do You [Special Episode] (488)

This week Robert flies solo (Joe’s busy revolutionizing dairy on the blockchain) to ask a question: What if slower is the new smarter? After riffing on OpenAI’s burnout‑induced shutdown, he unveils a sneak peek of his upcomin...

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July 4, 2025

Critical: Your Marketing Job Plan B [Special Episode] (487)

After a quick cover of the Cloudflare news where it will be possible to select and make money from AI companies crawling your site, Joe and Robert dive into marketing plan B. Specifically - The New Normal: Why Everyone Needs ...

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