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

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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June 27, 2025

AI Slop and What Mamdani's Win Means for Marketing (486)

AI hits the headlines again. Anthropic wins a lawsuit for its training data procedures, but the judge leaves room for additional lawsuits. In the greater scheme, will any of the lawsuits really matter? John Oliver's AI Slop v...

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June 20, 2025

Marketing Survival Tips Post AI & Social (485)

Huge research uncovers the obvious. Television and "traditional media" is going obsolete, as social media revenues and watch/listen time dominates. It is indeed the end of the living room. The boys review reports from WPP and...

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June 13, 2025

The Future of AI [Report] (484)

Joe and Robert break down Mary Meeker's "Future of AI" report and discuss the biggest opportunities and threats for marketers and creators in the future. Disney sues Midjourney in yet another lawsuit against AI companies. Whe...

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