This Old Marketing

Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose cover the week of content marketing, media and digital 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.

Recent Episodes

March 28, 2025

The 5 Keys to Content Marketing Success [Special Episode] (473)

A very special episode on what makes a successful content marketer or content creator. Robert and Joe talk about what works today to successfully build and monetize an audience with these five keys. 1. For marketers, setting a clear goal up front -...

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March 21, 2025

Heading Toward Marketing Recession (472)

New data suggests that advertising growth is slowing. Overall marketing is soon to follow. Will the current political environment drive us into a marketing recession? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proclaims that AI will take over all coding in the next...

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March 14, 2025

Content Marketing M&A Starting to Heat Up

The boys are back and the buys are heating up. Food-delivery startup Wonder purchased Tastemade, now boasting content creation to meal preparation to delivery all in one. Is more on the way? We think so. Spotify paid $5 billion dollars to indie...

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March 7, 2025

Media's Death Creates Huge Opportunity for Brands (470)

The boys are back with commentary on the death of media. It's a sad case on both political spectrum. And the opportunity in the future belongs to non-media brands. Let's see what happens. In other news, more and more creators are going full AI. How...

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Feb. 28, 2025

Vertical AI Content Creation Next Big B2B Boom (469)

The boys kick off the show with Dow Jones news and their AI content marketplace of 5,000 publishers. The real news? Vertical content opportunities using proprietary LLMs may ultimately steal the show for B2B content creators. Differentiation is the...

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Feb. 21, 2025

Is Google Primed to Buy Reddit? (468)

Reddit announced quarterly results and the stock got hammered. Is Google's changing algorithm to blame? And, if it is, could Google be primed to acquire the 9th largest website on the planet? In other news, episodic video programs and shows are...

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Feb. 14, 2025

Super Bowl Ad Winners & Highest Ratings in History (467)

Our Super Bowl predictions were dead on, as Joe predicted an Eagles win and Robert predicted a Kendrick Lamar controversy. But more importantly, who were the advertising winners and losers? And...is the Super Bowl the last remaining moment where...

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Feb. 7, 2025

OpenAI's Deep Research and Super Bowl Marketing (466)

It's Super Bowl week and the boys make their predictions. Speaking of the Super Bowl, the boys talk about the ads, the value, and what a Super Bowl ad truly costs. And...will there be any winners? Robert does a comparison between OpenAI's deep...

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