Nudge
Nudge is the UK's #1 marketing podcast, breaking down the hidden psychology behind what we do and why we do it. No BS, just smart, science-backed insights that actually work.
Episodes
October 20, 2025 • 23 mins
Five Guys was the fastest-growing fast food chain in the world.
And that’s partly due to one clever bit of menu psychology.
Today on Nudge, Richard Shotton explains:
- The psychology behind the Five Guys menu
- How Kraft made a healthier Mac & Cheese (without losing customers)
- Why 99% of marketers would have ruined Pumpkin Spice Latte
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October 13, 2025 • 24 mins
In 2020, the UK government told its citizens not to meet in groups of more than two.
Despite this rule, the UK government were caught holding lockdown-breaking parties, which involved the Prime Minister.
This ultimately led to Boris Johnson’s resignation in July 2022, but why?
Why did this specific scandal make voters so angry?
Today, with the Chief Behavioural Scientist at the Behavioural Insights Team, Michael Hallsworth,...
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October 6, 2025 • 26 mins
Kipp Bodnar is HubSpot’s CMO. He’s also an AI expert. Today, I interview him about how he uses AI, how he expects marketing teams to change, and his four tips to help you adopt AI in your business.
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The Loop Marketing Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/45054c
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September 29, 2025 • 23 mins
In 2011, Coca-Cola introduced a white version of their Coca-Cola can. The drink inside was identical to original Coca-Cola, but customers drinking from this white can hated the taste.
The white can made buyers think the Cola tasted worse.
To explain why, I need to delve into the science of sensehacking. With Professor Adrian North, I’ll explain why tennis players grunt loudly, why cars smell different when new, how a tablecloth...
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September 22, 2025 • 37 mins
Is the classic forming, storming, norming, performing model wrong? In this episode of Nudge, Professor Colin Fisher challenges one of the most famous team-building frameworks and reveals what really drives teams to succeed.
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Reading the Mind In the Eyes: https://embrace-autism.com/reading-the-mind-in-the-eyes-test/#test
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September 15, 2025 • 28 mins
Ever felt like your team isn’t pulling its weight or sat through a meeting where nothing gets done? In this episode of Nudge, Professor Colin Fisher reveals why sometimes it’s actually better to work alone than in a group.
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September 8, 2025 • 24 mins
Most people prefer AI art until they know it’s AI-generated.
Today on Nudge, Professor of Consumer Psychology Matt Johnson explains why.
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September 1, 2025 • 25 mins
What determines who you vote for?
You probably think it's due to rational reasons.
Economy. Sustainability. Immigration. Growth.
But research shows that your choice of vote isn’t as logical as you might expect.
In fact, all of our votes can be swayed by a largely irrelevant factor.
And this factor can be used to change what we eat, wear, drink and buy.
Hear how, on today’s episode of Nudge with Phil Graves.
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August 25, 2025 • 37 mins
Have businesses become less accountable?
If something goes wrong with your flight, train, or takeaway, you’ll probably struggle to get a helpful response from someone.
Today’s guest on Nudge, economist Dan Davies, says this is by design.
He calls them Unaccountability Machines, and they’re taking over.
He explains that they’ve caused the world’s largest defamation settlement against Fox News, almost destroyed Boeing, and even m...
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August 20, 2025 • 20 mins
I joined The Hustle Daily Show to chat about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's and how his campaign cracked the code of modern political psychology by embracing vulnerability, leading with policy over aesthetics, and masterfully triggering psychological reactance against establishment dismissal. I chatted with The Hustle Daily Show's Jon Weigell about attention economy, authenticity and psychological factors that made the Mamd...
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August 18, 2025 • 29 mins
A few weeks back I debunked five studies on priming.
But did I get it wrong?
Today’s guest on Nudge thinks I missed something.
Tune in to hear consumer behaviour expert Philip Graves explain his view on priming.
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August 11, 2025 • 29 mins
In 1985, Coca-Cola changed its flavour.
You probably know that this was a complete failure.
‘New Coke’ was discontinued after just 79 days.
But you probably don’t know the true reason why New Coke failed.
Many claim it was due to poor market research, but today’s guest on Nudge, leading consumer behaviour expert Philip Graves, disagrees.
Philip says New Coke failed not because the research was poor, but because market research...
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August 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Paul Zak can predict what customers buy without speaking to them.
He’s even able to boost charitable donations by spraying a donor with hormones.
Find out how in today’s episode of Nudge.
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July 28, 2025 • 25 mins
97% of independent films fail. Boiling Point did not. Today, I chat with executive producer Paul Mellor to learn how this movie applied psychological principles to outperform its peers and compete against blockbusters like James Bond.
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July 21, 2025 • 26 mins
How would you encourage sustainable behaviour?
You might assume logical messages work best.
Stuff like “the average three-hour flight creates ~250–400 kg of CO₂”.
But today’s guest on Nudge has tested logical messages.
And they don’t work.
Today on Nudge, Toby Park from the Behavioural Insights Team explains how renaming a meat-free dish doubled its sales. Why targeting home-movers made Americans 400% more likely to cycle...
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July 14, 2025 • 21 mins
Super Mario Bros is 40 years old. It’s an incredibly simple game (it takes up the same memory as a smartphone wallpaper), yet it’s incredibly popular. Over 40 million people have played it. Why? Because it’s packed with psychological tips that hook players in and keep them playing. Today, Ramli John explains the subtle behavioural science tricks Super Mario games use to keep us playing.
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July 7, 2025 • 22 mins
Can one text message save 100s of girls from cervical cancer? Today on Nudge, Niall Daly and Dr Giulia Tagliaferri discuss their county-wide study involving 55,000 girls. Their experiment had some eye-opening results, so I decided to copy it. I ran my own study on my listeners to see if I could increase my sales. Did it work? Listen to find out.
My study emails: https://ibb.co/HTdMDHxT
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June 30, 2025 • 25 mins
It’s a psychological principle that helped end South African apartheid.
It reversed the Pope’s declining popularity.
It reduced university students’ binge drinking by 30%.
And can predict romantic breakups with 60% accuracy.
Today, bestselling author Will Storr reveals the surprisingly effective way to persuade (almost) anyone.
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June 23, 2025 • 25 mins
I interviewed 60 Brits to debunk one of psychology’s greatest myths. Priming is one of the best-known biases in behavioural science. Kahneman mentions it 35 times in his best-selling book Thinking Fast and Slow. And yet, I’m not convinced it really works. In five separate experiments, I tested it. Does priming work, or is it a myth?
The studies:
Authenticity study: https://ibb.co/5W14DM2N
Creativity study: https://ibb.co/FbxxN...
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June 16, 2025 • 26 mins
Most marketers will remember Apple’s 1984 ad.
Many consider it the “greatest ad of all time”.
But you probably don’t know that just 12 months earlier, Apple released a similar ad that failed.
Why?
Today on Nudge, bestselling author and storytelling expert Will Storr explains why.
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