The Marketing Week Podcast: Marketing’s pay gap problem and recruitment challenges
Molly InnesExclusive data from Marketing Week’s 2025 Career & Salary Survey shows pay gaps are widening, while recruitment woes continue for many marketers.
The Marketing Week Podcast: Does marketing have an early talent problem?
Molly InnesIn this episode, we’re tackling the industry’s early talent issue and highlighting the importance of opening up marketing.
The Marketing Week Podcast: Inside marketing’s imposter syndrome crisis
Marketing Week ReportersIn this episode, we discuss why 80.1% of marketers have experienced imposter syndrome at some point in their careers, featuring insight from Nishma Patel Robb, founder of Glittersphere and former Google marketing leader.
This Much I Learned: Virgin Media O2 and VCCP on keeping their long-standing partnership ‘fresh’
Marketing Week ReportersVirgin Media O2’s marketing director Simon Valcarcel and Charles Vallance, founder of VCCP, Marketing Week’s Agency of the Year, discuss the importance of honesty and consistency during their 23-year partnership.
The Marketing Week Podcast: Growth in 2025, TikTok fallout and RTO mayhem
Marketing Week ReportersThe Marketing Week Podcast is back for 2025 and we’re starting with a look at some of this week’s biggest marketing stories.
The Marketing Week Podcast: The big marketing stories of 2024
Marketing Week ReportersWe end the year with the inaugural Marketing Week podcast quiz and a look back at the biggest stories of 2024.
This Much I Learned: M&S on how consistency is fuelling its transformation
Amrit VirdiM&S marketing directors Anna Braithwaite and Sharry Cramond discuss the transformation project that led to the retailer being named Marketing Week’s Brand of the Year.
The Marketing Week Podcast: The BBC on how to build a high-performing marketing team
Marketing Week ReportersIn this episode, we discuss how CMOs are shaping marketing teams, including an exclusive interview with the BBC, our Marketing Team of the Year.
The Marketing Week Podcast: Award-winning marketing and PwC’s CMO on career resilience
Molly InnesIn this episode, we interview our Marketer of the Year Antonia Wade, and discuss why M&S is the worthy winner of Brand of the Year.
The Marketing Week Podcast: Marketing’s social class problem and creating a positive team culture
Marketing Week ReportersIn this episode, we discuss what the industry can do to encourage and support marketers from more diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and share key take-aways from Specsavers’ global marketing forum.
The Marketing Week Podcast: CMO ambitions, AI and the reality of working in B2B
Marketing Week ReportersIn the first episode of The Marketing Week Podcast, we explore the transition from CMO to CEO, the implications of the HFSS ad ban, gen AI fears and the reality of working in B2B.
This Much I Learned: Asos’s top marketer on transforming a brand
Josh StephensonAsos’s executive vice-president of customer, Dan Elton, on the challenges he is facing in turning the fashion retailer into a more brand-led organisation – and why marketers shouldn’t take measurement tools as gospel.
This Much I Learned: TK Maxx’s top marketer on 30 years of selling an idea
Josh StephensonDeborah Dolce has been with TJX Europe, best known for owner TK Maxx, for 30 years and joined as the ‘off-price’ fashion store launched in the UK. She praises culture and curiosity as being key to her longevity at the business.
This Much I Learned: Tesco and BBH unpack an award-winning agency/client relationship
Marketing Week ReportersIn the latest episode of Marketing Week’s podcast series, Tesco marketing boss Emma Botton and BBH London CEO Karen Martin share the secrets of their partnership.
This Much I Learned: Boots’ CMO Pete Markey on marketing leadership
Marketing Week ReportersIn the latest episode of Marketing Week’s podcast series, Boots’ chief marketing officer and Marketing Week’s Marketer of the Year Pete Markey discusses the importance of being choiceful, his approach to career management, breaking silos and how to avoid being ‘typecast’ as a marketer.
Marketing Week Meets…McDonald’s UK CMO Gareth Helm
Russell ParsonsOne of the UK’s most experienced and respected marketers explains why marketers need a plan to make money in the future, not just the present.
Marketing Week Meets…Galdem CEO Liv Little
Marketing Week ReportersLiv Little founded Galdem, a magazine for women and nonbinary people of colour, while still at university. She tells Molly Fleming how she copes with imposter syndrome and what brands need to do more of.
Marketing Week Meets…WPP CEO Mark Read
Marketing Week ReportersMark Read has been in the WPP hot seat for a year. He tells Marketing Week editor Russell Parsons about being tasked with serving more demanding clients in the face of profit pressure and increased competition.
Marketing Week Meets…Philip Kotler
Russell ParsonsThe so-called “father of modern marketing” helped create the template for marketing today.
Marketing Week Explores: How MoneySuperMarket pivoted to reflect the ‘economic mood’ of Covid-19
Marketing Week ReportersIn this latest edition of Marketing Week Explores, MoneySuperMarket and creative agency Engine discuss how they joined forces to develop a new campaign in a matter of weeks to support customers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Marketing Week Explores: B2B marketing and M&S’s ‘This is not just food’
Marketing Week ReportersIn this latest edition of the podcast, Marketing Week lifts the lid on B2B marketing and revisits how Marks & Spencer unwittingly kicked off the trend for ‘food porn’.
Marketing Week Explores: Why marketing needs to seize the moment to reclaim its confidence
Marketing Week ReportersIn the latest edition of the Marketing Week Explores podcast, we discuss why now is the time for marketers to change the conversation around confidence and assert themselves among their C-suite peers.
Marketing Week Explores: 2020 Career and Salary Survey special
Marketing Week ReportersIn the latest edition of the Marketing Week Explores podcast we analyse the implications of the diversity crisis revealed by the 2020 Career and Salary Survey and ask, what change is needed to rebalance opportunities in marketing?
Marketing Week Explores: The best campaigns of 2019 and 2020 trends
Marketing Week ReportersIn the latest edition of the Marketing Week Explores podcast, we look back at the best campaigns of the past 12 months and offer our predictions for the biggest marketing trends for 2020.
Marketing Week Explores: The trouble with Pornhub and the value of NPS
Marketing Week ReportersIn the latest edition of the Marketing Week Explores podcast, we discuss the brand reputational woes for Unilever following Dollar Shave Club’s appearance on pornography site Pornhub and debate the true value of NPS.
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