Podcast
Shiny New Object - a Marketing Podcast
Hosted by Tom Ollerton · EN
Shiny New Object is a podcast about the future of data driven marketing. Each episode is a conversation with an insightful and influential leader in the industry about the latest tech, trend or talking point to catch their eye. Host: Tom Ollerton, Founder of www.automatedcreative.net
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You can't fake taste - with Charlotte Tilbury's Marukh Budhraja
1w ago00:24:37Tap to summarizeIt's now easier than ever to copy content until all digital marketing starts to look the same - this is where taste becomes a shiny new object, says Marukh Budhraja, Global Head of Social Media Marketing at Charlotte Tilbury. What really differentiates brands and how can you use today's tools, without your content looking copied? She tells us more on this episode of the Shiny New Object podcast.
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Throwing tokens in a Virtual Trevi Fountain with Tim Sparke
2w ago00:26:54Tap to summarizeFor Tim Sparke, feedback is something marketers should seek relentlessly, but one thing companies and people aren't really set up to receive. And that includes data in... data driven marketing. On the Shiny New Object Podcast latest episode, he explains why relentlessly seeking feedback is key to developing, and how to set up a system for this rather than simply thinking about gathering data as a goal. But most importantly, we talk about his and Congregation Partners' ambitious new project: the Trevi app. A safe sandbox for marketers to test ideas, explore data, and compare different generative models. Find out all about it in this latest episode.
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Cutting through podcast overwhelm with BT Group's Nevra Yagmur
3w ago00:26:32Tap to summarizeDrowning in content? Nevra has a solution. With vibe coding and bridging gaps between sources, BT Group's Digital Performance Manager, Nevra Yagmur, shares her "podsome" project. Plus, find out her skills of choice to make it in data driven marketing when depth alone isn't enough and performance stops happening in isolation.
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Avoid data paralysis & embrace performance AI - Evergreen Finance's Dan Saunders
4w ago00:20:01Tap to summarizeDan Saunders is the Head of Performance Marketing at Evergreen Finance London and our latest guest on the #ShinyNewObjectPodcast. He swears by "The Way of the Wolf" to teach us why everything we do is ultimately, a sales job. He believes the best thing to do with data is get stuck in, finding your starting point and just using it - not being paralysed by how much of it you've got. And he tells us why the future of marketing sits with Performance AI that quantifies everything we used to look at as subjective. As long as humans are at the helm, that can yield highly effective conversion results. Tune in to learn how.
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Productive curiosity keeps shopper marketing relevant - learn how with Jack Link's' Vanessa Atanasov
Apr 1700:20:42Tap to summarizeData is never static - just like people and the world as a whole. Vanessa Atanasov, Shopper and Trade Marketing Manager at Jack Link's and BiFi Benelux, tells us how she uses the "before & after" of banana bread during Covid lockdowns to illustrate how things can change, including our understanding of them. We talk about shopper vs consumer marketing and how to use productive curiosity to make your in-store campaigns stand out. Tune in to the #ShinyNewObjectPodcast to get some of the worst, and best, marketing advice ever. #marketingpodcast #datadrivenmarketing
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The future of marketing: Predicting why, and how people feel | Vella Bioscience's Joy Allen-Altimare
Apr 900:23:56Tap to summarizeWhat if the future of marketing is not just knowing what people will do, but understanding why they feel the way they do? In this episode, Joy Allen-Altimare unpacks predictive emotional modelling, and why the next leap in data driven marketing will come from combining behaviour, context and human emotion.
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A culture of curiosity is non negotiable: PMG's Jack Chape
Apr 200:18:48Tap to summarizeTesting is simple, but underutilised in data driven marketing. And it has such potential to uncover incremental wins and breakthrough ideas. Jack Chape, Head of Integrated Media EMEA at PMG, joins the #ShinyNewObjectPodcast to discuss the power of curiosity, making it into a cultural staple, and the benefits of a continuous "test and learn" approach. Learn how to ask better questions, get the insights you need, and gain competitive advantages when your competitors are never standing still. #marketingpodcast #datadrivenmarketing #testandlearn
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Smart marketers make small bets - ft. Jimdo's Justinas Vaičiulis
Mar 2500:26:06Tap to summarizeAsking questions and digging deep beyond the first layer of data is what's going to help grow in a climate where there are so many unknowns and changes every day. Justinas Vaičiulis, Head of Performance Marketing at Jimdo, tells us why it's smart to make small bets, test, validate, and move up from there. On the #ShinyNewObjectPodcast, we also talk about picking the clients no one wants to work with and why he has built a career out of "digging into stuff." Top marketing career tips and advice for growing intelligently. #marketing #marketingpodcast
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Moving from marketing as solo heroics to teamwork & trust with Swapfiets' Anna Soldatova
Mar 1900:22:45Tap to summarizeWhen the people behind tools actually care, work becomes faster, smoother, and more impactful. It's why Anna Soldatova, Performance Marketeer at Swapfiets, believes that investing in people relationships will save marketing from becoming a burnout-inducing quest for solo heroics. On the Shiny New Object Podcast, we discuss: How improv has made her more attuned to others' reactions and more confident in presenting Why you need to be okay with dropping channels, walking away, and experimenting with new things The secret to managing multiple channels by turning vendors into collaborators and looking beyond tools, to betting on people.
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ROAS as a watermelon & optimising your tool stack with Bissell's Antoine Deventer
Mar 1200:22:07Tap to summarizeA great ROAS can be a watermelon: green on the outside, bleeding on the inside. Antoine Deventer, Senior Integrated Performance Marketing Specialist at Bissell, joins the Shiny New Object Podcast to talk about what happens when you stop optimising to vanity metrics and start focusing on real growth. We cover Amazon's evolution into a full-funnel media powerhouse, why "tool stack navigation" is a modern marketer's superpower, and the daily discipline that turns impressions into intelligence (breakfast: budgets + KPIs; lunch: root-cause analysis with the agency; dinner: we'll see...) #marketingpodcast #modernmarketing #toolstackactivation #roas
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