The Marketing Companion podcast

The Marketing Companion

The world's most entertaining marketing podcast! Mark Schaefer and a rotation of brilliant guest hosts provide new marketing insights and timely advice that help you navigate the future of digital business, The Marketing Companion is always fun, always interesting, and always on-target with ideas that will turn up your marketing intellect to an "11."

The world's most entertaining marketing podcast! Mark Schaefer and a rotation of brilliant guest hosts provide new marketing insights and timely advice that help you navigate the future of digital business, The Marketing Companion is always fun, always interesting, and always on-target with ideas that will turn up your marketing intellect to an "11."

 

#341

Sustaining a personal brand in trying times

Jay Acunzo and Mark Schaefer discuss their success in sustaining their personal content pr... more

01 Dec 2025

33 MINS

33:35

01 Dec 2025


#340

Truth is now a luxury

Mark Schaefer begins the show with a significant announcement about the future of The Mark... more

17 Nov 2025

38 MINS

38:48

17 Nov 2025


#339

The OG Marketing Ideas We Need Today

Let's put AI on the corner of a moment and remind ourselves of the OG marketing ideas that... more

03 Nov 2025

30 MINS

30:51

03 Nov 2025


#338

The AI Solopreneur

Special guest Ethan Pierse argues that AI isn't just for developers or technical founders.... more

20 Oct 2025

38 MINS

38:40

20 Oct 2025


#337

Case studies in AI for lead generation

Mark Schaefer and Dana Malstaff discuss how they are utilizing AI in distinct ways to attr... more

06 Oct 2025

37 MINS

37:07

06 Oct 2025


#336

How AI is Changing Your Customers

A new research report shows how AI is re-wiring our customers — literally changing their p... more

22 Sep 2025

34 MINS

34:47

22 Sep 2025


#335

How AI impacts the sales process

One of the most urgent and interesting questions in business today: How does AI affect the... more

08 Sep 2025

36 MINS

36:25

08 Sep 2025


#334

Our children, their education, and AI

Mark Schaefer has a new grandchild. Amanda Russell has a toddler. Both of them wonder what... more

25 Aug 2025

35 MINS

35:21

25 Aug 2025


#333

AI Signals to influence the purchasing decision

As use of AI soars and customers place more trust in AI, the bots are making decisions for... more

11 Aug 2025

44 MINS

44:44

11 Aug 2025


#332

Attention Economy 2.0

Gini Dietrich is a well-known thought leader, author, and entrepreneur in the corporate co... more

28 Jul 2025

26 MINS

26:56

28 Jul 2025


#331

Create an AI Bot to Build Your Business

Mark Schaefer and Dana Malstaff discuss practical applications to use ChatGPT to build you... more

14 Jul 2025

32 MINS

32:33

14 Jul 2025


#330

AI marketing agents gain ground

In this wide-ranging talk with AI marketing strategist Mathew Sweezey, we cover a lot of g... more

30 Jun 2025

34 MINS

34:13

30 Jun 2025


#329

Content and compromise

Are you creating content to build an audience, build a brand, or win the SEO sweepstakes? ... more

16 Jun 2025

35 MINS

35:52

16 Jun 2025


#328

The Curse of Authenticity

Other than AI, is there any word about marketing more prevalent than "authenticity?" And y... more

02 Jun 2025

35 MINS

35:04

02 Jun 2025


#327

The Frontier Agency Model

New research from Microsoft provides a glimpse of the near-term future of marketing agency... more

19 May 2025

34 MINS

34:33

19 May 2025


#326

How to be an AI Forward Company

As AI marches forward with speed and power, new questions emerge about how humans thrive i... more

05 May 2025

31 MINS

31:01

05 May 2025


#325

How do you work through the suffering?

In this highly intimate and vulnerable show, Mark Schaefer and Dana Malstaff discuss the t... more

21 Apr 2025

41 MINS

41:59

21 Apr 2025


#324

The Crisis of Imagination

How do we break through the noise in industries that have normalized dull? You're about to... more

07 Apr 2025

43 MINS

43:20

07 Apr 2025


#323

Staying ahead of the learning curve

It's harder than ever to keep up with the world and you can't do it alone. Mark Schaefer a... more

24 Mar 2025

31 MINS

31:25

24 Mar 2025


#322

The personal brand pivot

Are you working on your personal brand? I hope so! It's like an insurance policy for your ... more

10 Mar 2025

32 MINS

32:05

10 Mar 2025


#321

The AI impact on SEO

New co-host Andy Crestodina unwraps the hottest topic on the web these days — the impact o... more

24 Feb 2025

35 MINS

35:47

24 Feb 2025