B2B Marketing Podcast

How do you build a B2B growth services business from scratch? That was the key question that we wanted to ask Craig Dempster, the founding CEO of Trilliad, which has announced its arrival with a clutch of acquisitions (including 2023 Global B2B Agency of the Year Just Global) and the promise of more to follow. We interviewed Craig for the latest episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, where we discu...

In this week’s episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, Paul Collier, Fractional CMO and Business Development Consultant at FunnelFuel sat down with Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing, to talk about their newest report: Future-ready: How to adapt to fading cookies: https://www.b2bmarketing.net/reports/future-ready-how-to-adapt-to-fading-cookies/ As B2B marketers face a huge shift away...

In this week’s episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing spoke with Ross Howard, Product Marketing Director, Inbox Insight. The two chat about the research Inbox Insight presented at our Propolis Leader’s Forum this year. They chatted about some of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to purchasing decisions, what content channels buyers are utili...

In this week’s episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing spoke with Alison Dodd, Chief Strategy Officer, Revere and Chris Scott, Chief Digital Officer, Revere. The three delve into how buying behaviors have changed and what the new process looks like today. Plus, Alison and Chris give sage advice on how to handle the start and stop for a potential buy...

In this episode of The B2B Marketing Podcast, Joel Harrison, Editor-in-Chief of B2B Marketing, caught up with Gabie Boko, the CMO of intelligent data infrastructure company, NetApp. Gabie is a passionate advocate for: the evolution of the CMO in response to changing corporate responsibilities; the importance of marketing agility; the opportunity to use AI to improve CX and sustainability, and much...

In this week’s episode of The B2B Marketing Podcast, we’re joined with Colin Wheeler, Managing Director, Survey Solutions and Jason Talbot, Managing Director, The Croc to discuss the B2B Marketing Awards 2024 shortlist which was announced earlier this month. Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing spoke with the duo about some of the exciting categories from ‘Most commercially successfu...

It’s an open secret that B2B lead generation has some big problems. The sector has grown exponentially in recent years, with growth in self-service tech platforms and offshore telemarketing expanding the options available to marketers, driving down costs but too often taking quality with it. As an industry veteran of 30 years standing, Tony Uphoff felt it was time to speak out, writing an open let...

In this episode of The B2B Marketing Podcast, David Rowlands caught up with Adam Preis, Director of Product/Solution Marketing, and Marta George, Head of EMEA ABM Programmes – both of Ping Identity. In this episode, Marta and Adam chat through the importance of working in close alignment with the product team in order to drive commercial success. This follows the recent revelation in Propolis – th...

In this week’s episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing, spoke with the Creative Director at Revere, Dan Sillifant, alongside the Chief Digital Officer at Revere, Chris Scott. The trio discuss Revere’s journey with AI from both a creative and business point of view. Plus, the two share advice for those who aren’t implementing AI into their agency, as...

Juniper needed a bold approach to make its new campaign, which highlighted its ability to enable the ongoing AI revolution via its network technology and stand out amidst a tidal wave of AI-related messages. Its solution? Front the campaign with Hollywood and former Mad Men star Christina Hendricks – the latest in a growing trend for B2B brands to buy into star quality. But as Jean English explain...

Which marketing tools should you prioritize if you’re launching a new business banking brand into the crowded UK market? That was one of the questions that Joel Harrison, Editor-in-Chief, B2B Marketing asked Conrad Ford, Head of Innovation and Strategy at Allica Bank - which was recently crowned the UK’s Fastest Growing Company by The Sunday Times, when he interviewed him for the B2B Marketing Pod...

Dassault Systémes is a €4.5b tech company that’s highly successful in multiple markets but is remarkably little known outside its core customer segments and home nation of France. In a bid to change that, VP of marketing Victoire de Margerie has embarked on an ambitious marketing program focused on its sustainability credentials – including a high-profile takeover of London’s Piccadilly Circus dig...

We’re all used to sharing images and video from major summer concerts and sporting events, and just expect social channels and telecoms companies to seamlessly enable that, without considering the tech and B2B brands that provide the critical infrastructure. Ericsson’s new ‘#makeitmemorable’ campaign hones in on exactly that, highlighting the critical role its tech provides in enabling cultural eu...

Martech is fundamental to producing great B2B marketing in 2024, but outlandish vendor claims, integration problems and functional redundancy have led to a high level of cynicism amongst many B2B marketers. But Clevertouch’s latest ‘State of Martech 2024’ report has revealed cynicism on the wane and positivity on the rise – so why are we falling in love with martech again, and what do we need to w...

In this week’s episode of the podcast, Joel Harrison, Editor-in-chief, B2B Marketing spoke with Shane Redding, Propolis Strategy Expert and Scott Stockwell, Senior Brand Strategist, IBM about all things B2B Ignite 2024. Hot off the event, the trio discussed the essential takeaways from the event, from bettering your brand to how HR can support marketing and leading through crisis. Plus, they talk...

In the latest episode of our B2B podcast, Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing spoke with Beatrice Alabaster, Podcast Host, Senior Strategist, Earnest to discuss how women in the B2B sector can advance in their careers. The duo delve into everything from how to break through the glass ceiling in a traditionally male-dominated industry and the importance of mentorship to how women can...

The Cannes Festival has been a landmark for the advertising industry for decades, and more recently for the burgeoning adtech sector, but historically it's been irrelevant to B2B. That started to change three years ago, when Cannes Lions launched a B2B category, and LinkedIn started arranging B2B-specific activities. So how credible was Cannes 2024 as an event for B2B marketers, and B2B marketing?...

In this week’s episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing spoke with Callum Miskell, Strategist & Intel Analyst, MOI Global about some of the findings from their latest report ‘A B2B Marketer’s Guide to Data Creativity’. The two talk about some of the most interesting stats from the report. For example, MOI revealed that even though 85% of marketers us...

In this week’s episode of the B2B Marketing Podcast, we explored how Korn Ferry has taken podcasts from an experiment to a central part of the company's marketing strategy, leveraging the journalism expertise of CMO Jill Wiltfong. We learned how Jill’s career evolved from TV news anchor, to sales trainer and finally into a corporate marketer, and how she translated her media skills to bolster Korn...

All too often, ABM becomes a bolt-on strategy reserved for a handful of accounts, and which doesn’t have any clear connection with broader business strategy. In this podcast episode, Robert Norum, our Propolis Expert for ABM & Demand Strategy, outlines a new vision for ABM, using his full-stack model. This model shows you how to use ABM as your entire GTM market strategy, and how to ensure you’re...

Lead generation is maturing fast as a B2B marketing discipline, with new players driving higher standards of output, a more professional approach and a more customer-centric and responsible ethos. That includes the growing category of self service lead gen platforms, which enable marketers to manage their own programs as part of a more structured programmatic approach. B2B Marketing has produced t...

In this episode of The B2B Marketing Podcast, David Rowlands caught up with Ryan Miles, Director – International Marketing at Microsoft Advertising, to discuss the nature of marketing at one of biggest household names in the world. Ryan and David also chat through the realities of omnichannel marketing, what’s driving innovation in marketing today, and the possibilities provided by AI. If you want...

The Olympic Games is globally recognised as the pinnacle of sporting excellence and is consequently a massive marketing opportunity for Deloitte which is a strategic partner for the games in 2024. So how is Deloitte leveraging this opportunity to maximise marketing impact, whilst at the same time conforming to the IOC’s tight rules on commercialisation and buyers’ expectations of a more nuanced, l...

Google recently announced that they are delaying the deprecation of third party cookies for the third time in four years. In this week’s episode, Kavita Singh, Senior Content Editor, B2B Marketing, spoke with Paul Collier, Fractional CMO, Funnel Fuel, to talk about the recent news and how digital programmatic advertising space will be impacted. They talk about everything from why marketing leaders...

In this episode of The B2B Marketing Podcast, Joel Harrison, Editor-in-Chief of B2B Marketing, caught up with David Burnand, CMO of Unicorn and Centaur, Staffbase – an employee communications cloud, intranet and employee app. Joel and David discuss David’s impressive career, which spans the likes of Atos, Adobe and Siemens on the client-side, and Stein IAS on the agency-side, and what he's learned...