Talking to Ourselves
73 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 108 ratingsCreated by Omid Farhang, award-winning Creative Director and Founder of Majority. Featuring the marketing industry’s most admired leaders sharing advice, revealing process and routines, telling a few war stories, hopefully uplifting a few cynics, and divulging secrets to a fulfilling career in marketing.
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Alicia Tillman
February 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBAlicia Tillman is Chief Marketing Officer of SAP. In 2018 she was named among the 50 Most Influential CMOs in the World by Forbes. She has been covered by U.S. News & World Report, CNBC, Forbes, CMO.com and AdWeek. She has become a highly sought-after public speaker at marketing conferences around the globe. Prior to SAP, Alicia spent 11 years as a VP at American Express, working across public affairs, comms, marketing and business services. She joined SAP in 2015, first as the CM...
Cindy Gallop
January 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBCindy Gallop is a former advertising exec turned entrepreneur, public speaker and change-maker. In 1998 she founded the US branch of BBH, serving as Chairman and President for 7 years. In 2003 she was named Advertising Woman of the Year. Today she is the Founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, IfWeRanTheWorld, and AllTheSky Holdings. Business Insider named her one of their "15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today," number 33 on their list of "100 Most Influential Tech Women o...
Season Finale: David Droga
November 12, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBDavid Droga is Founder and Creative Chairman of Droga5, one of the most successful and influential agencies of the past decade. To date, Droga is the most awarded creative of all time at Cannes, with over 70 Lions, and six Grand Prix wins. He is the youngest person ever inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. In 2017, he received the Cannes Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lion of St. Mark. At 18, Droga began his career in the mailroom of Grey in Sydney. By 22, he was part...
Justin Gignac
October 23, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 67 MBJustin Gignac is co-founder of Working Not Working, the preeminent networking site where freelance creatives and companies go to connect. It has become an essential and transformative tool for thousands in the freelance community. Hundreds of companies now use Working Not Working to source talent, including Apple, Google, Droga5, Wieden+Kennedy, Airbnb, Kickstarter, IDEO, The New York Times, and Momentum. Prior to starting Working Not Working, Justin was an award-winning Art Director...
Jeff Kling
October 09, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBJeff Kling was Chief Creative Officer of Fallon until May of 2018, when he resigned his post. Jeff joined Fallon in 2012, where he led successful campaigns like "Get Your Taxes Won" for H&R Block starring John Hamm, and Arby's "We Have The Meats." Prior to Fallon, Jeff was ECD at Euro RSCG (now Havas), where he created the now mythic "Most Interesting Man Alive" campaign for Dos Equis. From 1996 to 2003 Jeff worked at Wieden+Kennedy, where he authored the famed Miller High Life ca...
John Mescall
September 25, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBJohn Mescall is Global ECD at McCann Worldgroup, and President of the McCann Worldgroup Creative Leadership Council. In this dual role, John provides creative leadership across the agency's global brands, while also partnering closely with the network’s creative and strategic leads around the world. Prior to that, John was Chief Creative Officer of McCann Australia, leading McCann Melbourne to become the world’s most awarded agency in 2013, thanks in large part to his legendary brain...
Greg Hahn
September 12, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBGreg Hahn is Chief Creative Officer of BBDO New York. Over the past year, Greg has helped lead BBDO to one of its most successful years ever, including a clean sweep of 'Network of the Year' honors across Cannes, D&AD, ADC and One Show. Greg joined BBDO as an ECD in 2005 and became CCO in 2013, leading some of the industry’s most ground-breaking work for brands like HBO, FedEx and AT&T. He did the award winning “HBO Voyeur,” which, was selected by the One Club as one of the “Best o...
Alex Bogusky
August 25, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBAlex Bogusky is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Engineer of Crispin Porter+Bogusky. Alex lead the legendary ascension of CP+B to become the world's most famous and awarded agency over more than a decade, and the first ever to win the Cannes Grand Prix in all five categories. The agency grew to over a thousand employees, with offices in Miami, Boulder, Los Angeles, London and Sweden, and with annual billings over $1 billion. Alex has been called the Steve Jobs of advertising. In 2008,...
Chris Beresford-Hill
August 13, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBChris Beresford-Hill is Chief Creative Officer of TBWA\Chiat\Day New York, whose clients include Adidas, Nissan and Pepsi. Prior to joining TBWA in 2017, Chris served as ECD of BBDO, where he led some of the agency’s most lauded work in recent years, for clients including Guinness, HBO, FedEx and Foot Locker. His early career was spent at Saatchi New York, Goodby San Francisco, and Modernista Boston. Chris has been named to AdAge's “40 under 40,” and Adweek’s “Creative 100." His wor...
Susan Hoffman
July 24, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBSusan Hoffman is Co-Chief Creative Officer of Wieden Kennedy. Susan joined W+K in the mid-eighties as employee number eight. Thirty years later, she has helped shape the most respected and revered creative agency in the industry, and in turn, the very industry itself. Aside from creative directing some of the most famous work of all time for clients like Nike, Old Spice, Chrysler and Miller High Life, Susan also opened the Wieden offices in Amsterdam and London, serving both as ECD. ...
Mike Byrne
July 10, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBMike Byrne is Founding Partner and Global Chief Creative Officer of Anomaly, whose clients include Nike, Coca Cola, Beats by Dre and Anheuser-Busch. Under Mike's leadership, Anomaly has become a revered creative powerhouse, winning every major award including AdAge Agency of the Year, and Fast Company's Most Innovative. Prior to Anomaly, Mike built his career at Wieden+Kennedy, where he served as the Co-Creative Chief on Nike. During his tenure, W+K amassed more awards than any o...
John Norman
June 25, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBJohn Norman is Partner and Chief Creative Officer and Translation, working with brands including the NBA, Nike, Google, Apple, Jeep and State Farm. Prior to joining Translation in 2014, John held positions as CCO of TBWA\Chiat\Day LA, and CCO of The Martin Agency. He also spent 8 years as ECD at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, where he led such legendary work as Coca Cola “Happiness Factory”, and Nike “Write the Future.” Part of his early career was spent as Design Director for Benetton i...
Tiffany Rolfe
June 08, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MBTiffany Rolfe is a partner and the Chief Creative Officer at Co:Collective, a strategy and innovation company. Co: specializes in inventing and re-inventing products, businesses and brands, for clients including Google, Infiniti, GE and NewsCorp. Tiffany also serves as co-Managing partner of The Pub, a new content strategy and publishing agency that helps brands and native creators collaborate on content in meaningful ways. The Pub has worked with some of today’s most interesting con...
Jaime Robinson
May 21, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBJaime Robinson is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Joan, a rapidly growing start-up shop that she created with partner Lisa Clunie in 2016. Prior to start-up life, Jaime served as co-Executive Creative Director of Wieden+Kennedy New York, helping shape work for clients like Delta Air Lines, Southern Comfort and Sprite. During her days in San Francisco at Pereira & O'Dell, Jaime did acclaimed creative campaigns for LEGO, Mattel and Airbnb, and she led Intel's "The Beauty Insi...
Ari Weiss
May 07, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBAri Weiss is Chief Creative Officer of DDB North America, where he has led a creative resurgence, including 2 gold Andys and 13 D&AD Pencils, spurring DDB's return to the AdAge A-List for the first time in 20 years. Prior to DDB, Ari spent 5 years at BBH, where he took the helm as Chief Creative Officer at the age of just 33, leading campaigns for Axe, Playstation and Netflix, and winning numerous awards including Integrated Grand Prix at Cannes. Ari has worked at Cliff Freeman,...
Gerry Graf
April 23, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBGerry Graf is founder and CCO of Barton F Graf. Over a 25+ year career spanning BBDO, Goodby, Chiat NY and Saatchi, there are few more decorated creative minds in our industry than Gerry. AdAge named three of his commercials to their list of the 20 Best Super Bowl Ads of All Time. In 2007, he was named the most awarded creative director in the world. In 2014 he appeared on Fast Company’s list of the '100 Most Creative People in Business.' Business Insider named him 'The Most Creati...
Hank Perlman
April 09, 2018 00:00 - 22 minutes - 72.8 MBHank Perlman is an acclaimed commercial director, and co-founder of the highly awarded production company Hungry Man. Hank is a trusted partner to some of the best creative agencies in the world, directing campaigns for Fedex, Amazon, AT&T, State Farm, Toyota, and American Express. Prior to directing, Hank was a copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy, where he created the fabled ESPN “This is SportsCenter” campaign. Together with partner Bryan Buckley in 1997, Hank launched Hungry Man New Yo...
Chloe Gottlieb
March 26, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBChloe Gottlieb is Chief Creative Officer of R/GA, where she guides hundreds of multidisciplinary teams in the creation of breakthrough products, services, and communications for global brands such as Nike and Samsung. Chloe was named one of the “Most Creative People in Advertising” by Business Insider in 2014 and 2015. Her work for Nike, Nokia, Verizon, Alvio, and the Ad Council has garnered the industry’s most esteemed awards at top competitions including the Cannes Lions, One Show ...
Rob Reilly
March 12, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBRob Reilly is Global Creative Chairman of McCann Worldgroup. Under Rob’s leadership, McCann has had a creative resurgence, earning “Agency of the Year” and “Network of the Year” honors at most every major award show. McCann enjoyed the most awarded campaign globally both in 2017 and 2016, and the agency’s creative work has been among the most celebrated both in the industry and in the culture at large, including State Street Global Advisors’ “Fearless Girl,” and Lockheed Martin’s “Fi...
David Lubars
February 26, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 137 MBDavid Lubars is Chairman/Chief Creative Officer of BBDO. During his tenure, BBDO has been named Agency of the Year by various industry publications more than 15 times. Most recently, David was inducted into The One Club Creative Hall of Fame, and was honored with a Clio Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also named one of the top ten creative directors of all time by Forbes. David has personally won over 150 One Show pencils and 160 Cannes Lions. His BMW Films was the first ever Tit...
Susan Credle
February 13, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBSusan Credle is Global Chief Creative Officer of FCB, where she took the helm in 2015. Before that, Susan spent over two decades at BBDO, working on some of the biggest brands in the world, including FedEx, Pepsi, Visa, and perhaps her claim to fame, humanizing the iconic M&M’S characters. In 2009 Susan joined Leo Burnett USA, where she became one of the first ever female CCOs of a large-scale network agency. She’s been one of Advertising Age’s 100 Most Influential Women in Adverti...
Andrew Keller
January 26, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBAndrew Keller is Global Creative Director of Facebook’s Creative Shop -- a team of creative strategists within Facebook and Instagram that partner with brands, businesses and agencies. Before that, Andrew spent his career at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where he was a driving force in reinventing the advertising industry for nearly two decades, winning every major accolade for brands including Burger King, Mini, Truth, Domino’s and Volkswagen, creating legendary work that infiltrated po...
Nick Law
January 11, 2018 00:00 - 52 minutes - 119 MBNick Law is Vice Chairman, Global Chief Creative Officer at R/GA. During Nick's tenure, R/GA has become one of the most awarded agencies in the world, winning every major creative accolade, including four Cannes Lion Grand Prix awards, a D&AD Black Pencil, and a GRANDY; and Adweek named R/GA Digital Agency of the Decade and Nike+ as Campaign of the Decade. Nick has been on every major award show jury, including being named Jury President for the Cannes Innovation Lions, and has twice...