Episode 160: How Brands Can Avoid Being Commoditized by AI
Two UM executives — the global chief strategy officer and the global chief product officer — on what happens to a business when the thing it sells can be generated for free. We were talking about brands. The book asks the same question about culture.
Episode 141: The Metaverse Mid-Year Check-In (Ft. Joshua Lowcock)
Six months after Facebook renamed their company, a check-in with UM's global chief media officer on whether any of it was working. Joshua and I spent an hour being politely unconvinced. The polite part hasn't aged as well as the unconvinced part.
Episode 69: The Future of Live Events (with Ian Daly, Live Nation)
Month three of no concerts, with Live Nation's head of brand strategy, on drive-in shows, Instagram livestreams, and whether any of it counted as a show. The question underneath that episode is the question underneath the book.