Welcome to the world’s most entertaining marketing podcast.

With a spicy blend of good fun and powerful insight, The Marketing Companion has been the world’s most entertaining business podcast for more nearly a decade!

Mark Schaefer is a globally-recognized marketing author, futurist, college educator, consultant, and keynote speaker. Every other week, Mark brings one of his “marketing companions” alongside him to do a deep dive into the trends of today that forge the marketing innovations of tomorrow.

The Marketing Companion –among the top 1 percent of all podcasts on iTunes — is always fun, always interesting, and always on-target with insights and ideas that will turn up your marketing intellect to an “11.” Find a topic in the guide below or push one of the subscribe buttons to get episodes delivered free to your email account every other week.

Facebook. Fake news. There are no easy answers.

November 14th, 2019

The ethics and legal implications of Facebook and fake news is very complex. But there are three changes that can help.

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Is Facebook primed for disruption?

October 31st, 2019

A few years ago, Mark Schaefer predicted Facebook would disrupt itself. But he missed something — and Facebook could be primed for disruption.

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To fight the online eCommerce onslaught, add emotion

October 3rd, 2019

Great marketing builds emotion between your product and your audience. In fact that may be a key to survival in the digital world!

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Is it possible to remain relevant in a hyper-changing world?

September 19th, 2019

Is it possible to remain relevant in an era of overwhelming change? Mark Schaefer and Brooke Sellas discuss.

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CEOs band together to build tech we trust. But will it work?

September 5th, 2019

On the latest episode of The Marketing Companion Brooke Sellas and I talk about a group of CEOs who have banded together and pledge to build trust into their tech […]

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Is this the worst marketing tactic ever?

August 22nd, 2019

Companies intentionally taking customers to their breaking point? Can this be real? Believe it. Marketing is whacked out.

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Video everywhere: Exploring marketing ubiquity

August 8th, 2019

Video everywhere is a new social strategy from Gatorade discussed on the Marketing Companion podcast.

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Big company or small: Advertising at a crossroads

July 25th, 2019

That photo? An explanation is coming, I promise. But first an observation. I always follow the deliberations at the annual Cannes Lions Festival. It’s an opulent, sun-drenched gathering of advertisers, […]

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