This Old Marketing
Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, two of the most well-known experts in the marketing space, talk about the latest content, media and marketing trends and discuss how businesses can use content to attract and retain customers. Each podcast show features a discussion of marketing headlines and rants from Joe and Robert on what's going on in the marketing industry. Always useful, entertaining and pretty much 60 minutes long.
Episodes
Verizon changes course again by selling off AOL and Yahoo to Apollo. Joe and Robert think they'll purchase both back for more at a later date.
Rumors are swirling that Netflix may buy Discovery. Smart move considering how much Netflix is paying for original content these days.
And we've seen the future and it is Food52 with their purchase of Dansk.
Twitter Spaces moves aggressively into Clubhouse's turf, but Joe thinks ...
In this week's news, Neutrogena and Old Spice release the details on the creation of their internal brand studios. Is this Marriott all over again or something different? The answer is in promotion and audience building.
More acquisitions are in the works, as friend of #ThisOldMarketing Jay Acunzo sells his podcast. Are more to come?
Investors are getting into the content creation game by purchasing equity in shows and enewslet...
Is the biggest part of a paid advertising budget with influencers now? The boys think not.
Science seems to think that the web can survive without advertising. If so, there are huge opportunities for ungated media sites. And...it really doesn't matter what browser you advertise on.
In social audio news, Discord launches their own Clubhouse. So will Facebook. And with Microsoft not buying Discord, who will?
Breaking news: Apple ...
DraftKings hires a chief media offer, kicking off their formal program for content marketing and into actually buying media companies.
The latest Pew social media research is out. What do we think? Facebook might be in trouble. Oh, and Americans hate social media but are addicted to it.
The boys also discuss a rather lengthy article about the staying power of Clubhouse. Can the thrill continue?
Well, there's a new Facebook data leak, and Facebook is blaming users instead of taking responsibility. The good news? Facebook is updating their feeds so you can have more of what you want. Will it matter? Probably not.
Clubhouse, the social audio unicorn, is now speculated at being worth $4 billion dollars. Robert thinks less. Joe thinks more.
Clubhouse is also adding creator payment options. Robert is still not happy.
I know, it's hard to believe, but Episode #1 of This Old Marketing still has not sold yet as an NFT. Maybe you forgot? You can bid on it here at Opensea.
The social audio battle continues this week, with Spotify buying social radio player Betty Labs, while LinkedIn is about to release their own version of Clubhouse.
And guess what? Medium is pivoting again. This time, they are looking at a Substack model.
Bid on the first This Old Marketing NFT - Episode #1 now...proceeds going to charity.
In this episode, Verizon announces the launch of a robust Yahoo Plus. All we can say is "ouch."
Roku continues its Quibi-filled dominance by announcing a marketing services group that might actually work.
The New York Times puts down its virtual foot on reporter side gigs. The boys wonder how that happened.
And finally, MEL magazine from ...
The Oscars are back and guess what? Netflix absolutely crushed it (and yes, we called it years ago).
Facebook is launched a new creator model for writers and journalists that is truly seductive, and will work for inhibiting creators from developing out their own platforms.
In NFT land, Charmin has developed an NFT(P) that is sure to kill the entire NFT market (kill as in bad, not good).
In rants and raves, Joe raves about Google...
After a royal analysis courtesy of Robert, the boys dissect Disney's subscription program as they hit over 100 million paid subscribers worldwide.
The conversation pivots to NFTs (non-fungible tokens), as they discuss Seth Godin's latest blog post about the negatives of NFTs. Robert sides with Seth. Joe thinks Robert should take a ride to the old folks home. Regardless, creator business models are changing.
To kick off the show, Joe and Robert detail their "advanced" Clubhouse experience (likes and dislikes) and why it may have legs.
And did you check out the Tom Cruise deepfakes?
Roku buys Nielsen's Advanced Video property, and increases its chances to corner the personalized TV advertising market.
Axios details the ever-increasing amount of gambling properties getting into the content marketing game.
In headline news, Facebook makes a deal with the Aussie press, doing exactly what we said they would do last week. At the same time, Facebook commits to $1 billion for the news industry. A generous gift or more of the same from Facebook?
Macy's media network is taking off to a tune of more than $35 million. Can their business model be saved? Robert and Joe believe the opportunities are great in number.
Print is back again, whi...
This week Joe and Robert cover the big news that, after the passage of a media bargaining law, Facebook bans all media companies from its app. Shock abounds, with a number of sites that are "not" media companies being affected.
YouTube tries to be more like TikTok and Snap and launches a number of "short-video" strategies.
And news from the passion economy with the launch of Li Jin's Atelier Ventures, a $13 m...
It's our annual "rip apart the Super Bowl ads" show, which may not mean much since viewership sank to a 15-year low.
Twitter announced stellar earnings, including a possible subscription plan roll out. In addition, Twitter is getting aggressive with Spaces (their Clubhouse competitor). Facebook's getting into the mix as well. How much time does Clubhouse have? Will it survive?
Twitter was abuzz this week when Hubspot announced their purchase of newsletter/small-business media company the Hustle. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. That said, everyone is very happy (except tech companies and traditional media).
Clubhouse, now worth a billion dollars, says it's getting into the subscription game. Good idea? Maybe...but a better idea for Twitter.
The boys go in-depth on the future of social audio. Joe...
The big news of the week was Twitter buying Revue, a Substack competitor that launches Twitter into the subscription business.
What could save or kill the media business? SPACs! Media SPACs are off to a roaring start for 2021, with no end in sight.
Rolling Stone does a Forbes and starts a pay-to-play "culture" council, further destroying the once-great media brand, while Clubhouse becomes a Unicorn and is the big social med...
Forbes announced the launch of their own version of Substack, a paid newsletter program driven by independent writers.
As the war for content creators heats up, rumors swell around Apple launching a podcast-plus subscription program to compete with Spotify for exclusive (and walled off) audio content.
And as the fight for creators continues, media companies begin to decide who owns the RSS feed as media consumption hits over 70 hou...
This week on This Old Marketing, Joe and Robert cover Amazon taking down Parler. Does it tell us anything about free speech?
And, while that was happening, someone scraped all Parler's data.
The run on music archives continues, with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder getting a boat load of cash for songs we've never heard.
How does the media rebound? By becoming human again of course.
In episode 253 of This Old Marketing, Joe and Robert kick off the show with Roku's possible purchase of Quibi content (yes, that Quibi). Roku, whose stock has appreciated over 1,000 percent in just a few years, is taking its playbook directly from the Netflix content model.
There is a podcasting gold rush and it looks like it may turn out to be a two-company party (Amazon vs. Spotify). But the opportunity isn't just podcast...
This Old Marketing will never be the same. This episode is taken over by Jay Acunzo, who goes inside how the podcast is made, including the early days, the process and the minimal success (and major failures) of Pulizzi and Rose.
Special thanks to Jay for spending one agonizing hour with This Old Marketing. Find Jay at 3 Clips with Jay Acunzo (podcasters take you inside their best work) and Growable Shows -- Jay's course on sh...
In this episode, the FTC sues Facebook for illegal monopolization. Thanks Captain Obvious!
For decades, as newspapers declined, local news suffered. The University of Kansas found a solution, but Joe and Robert feel corporate dollars could be the real savior.
KFC launches a Lifetime mini-movie starring Mario Lopez. Joe and Robert simply can't wait to see it.
Substack is on fire! More and more journalists and reporters are floc...
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