Ed Cotton

Inspiring Futures - Lessons from the Worlds of Marketing and Advertising

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Inspiring Futures pulls back the curtain on the minds reshaping advertising and marketing today. Host Ed Cotton, former Chief Strategy Officer at Butler Shine and Stern & Partners, engages industry visionaries in raw, unfiltered conversations about their career pivots, creative breakthroughs, and strategic innovations. No canned responses. No PR filters. Just honest insights about navigating the complex world of brands, creativity, and agency life. Each episode delivers actionable wisdom from those who've mastered the craft and aren't afraid to share their failures alongside their successes.

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Mark Pollard 04.04.2019 59:08

Mark is the founder of Mighty Jungle- he is a writer and a strategist and basically believes in the importance of the two things going hand in hand. He wrote a piece for VICE on hip-hop when he was in his teens and drifted in the Sydney agency world as a digital producer- who also wrote and produced. He moved in the US- 9 years ago and had strategy roles in a variety of different NY shops. In this...

Colin Nagy 13.03.2019 51:55

Colin Nagy is currently Head of Strategy for Fred Farid, an agency based in NYC, Paris, Shanghai and LA. Previously he was Chief Media and Strategy officer at The Barbarian Group. In this conversation, we talk about the souring of the tech boom and the arrival of a new questioning culture and the debate about the impact of tech on humanity. We talk about the push towards the real and how that is i...

Episode 2- Gareth Kay 05.03.2019 46:11

The guest for Episode 2 of Inspiring Futures is Gareth Kay. and touches upon many things, including the future of advertising and the agency. Gareth is the founder of Chapter-SF- which describes itself as a new type of creative studio focused on designing soulful brands that thrive in today's world of unreasonable expectations. Our wide-ranging conversation-includes a discussion about Garet...

Episode 1- Ana Andjelic 27.02.2019 54:52

A conversation with Ana Andjelic. Named to Forbes CMO Next list, Ana is a strategy executive, writer, and doctor of sociology who specializes in the modern luxury brands. In this wide-ranging conversation- we covered the challenges of companies grabbling with the future, the importance of adaptability, whats is happening to brands, Tik-Tok and the challenges of the algorithm.