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.

The techlash: Are people ready to fight back against Big Tech?

February 8th, 2018

Social media is getting dangerous, manipulating and monopolistc. The techlash: Are people ready to fight back against Big Tech?

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The new marketing career: What do you need to do to remain relevant?

January 25th, 2018

Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster peel back the curtains on their worklives and discuss their ideas on how to have a meaningful and relevant marketing career.

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The future of the digital marketing agency with Mitch Joel

January 11th, 2018

Mirum President Mitch Joel explains why the future of a digital marketing agency is reliant on navigating martech, hustling through new competition, and cozying up to Amazon.

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Cocooning consumers and other mesmerizing mega-trends

December 28th, 2017

A Ford Motor analyst provides her take on some of the biggest consumer trends on earth. Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster look at consumer cocooning and other ideas

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How writing a book becomes part of a marketing strategy

December 14th, 2017

Books and marketing seem to go together like a hand in a glove as more executives get in on the publishing bandwagon. Should you write a book?

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Is Facebook evil?

November 30th, 2017

Is Facebook evil? A Facebook insider called foul on the company’s efforts to use neuroscience to manipulate emotions and even our addictions.

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Digital marketing: A discussion on three touchy subjects

November 14th, 2017

Algorithms that hurt kids, marketing strategies that don’t work and “outing” on social media are three very touchy subjects covered in this discussion

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The future of humor in marketing with The Marketoonist

October 31st, 2017

Humor is a powerful elements we can add to our marketing efforts. But humor in marketing is difficult. Here’s some real advice from The Marketoonist

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It’s time to put an end to an era of lazy marketing

October 17th, 2017

Using new data from political research, there is an imperative for micro-segmentation and marketing fundamentals — a call for the end to lazy marketing.

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