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The MARKETING podcast brings you marketing science, case studies that reveal successful marketing techniques and teach strategic marketing analysis where we model the data and turn it into financial forecasts so you have predictable revenue.Your host Brandon White has over two decades in marketing from building his first company on solely organic SEO to working in marketing at America Online in the early days of the Internet. Brandon can't promise you instant marketing success after each episode. But...he guarantees that you will find each MARKETING episode always reliable, always actionable, and always useful for your marketing efforts.

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June 8, 2026Episode 917 min

The Pratfall Effect: Why Flawed Brands Win More Trust Than Perfect Ones

The Pratfall Effect, what it is, the brands that used vulnerability as a strategy, what the research says, and 3 marketing moves you can use to put this marketing psychology principle to work immediately.STUDY CITATIONSAronson, E., Willerman, B., & Floyd, J. (1966). The effect of a pratfall on increasing interpersonal attractiveness. Psychonomic Science, 4 (6), 227–228.Helmreich, R., Aronson, E., & LeFan, J. (1970). To err is humanizing sometimes: Effects of self-esteem, competence, and a pratfall on interpersonal attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16 (2), 259–264.Ein-Gar, D., Shiv, B., & Tormala, Z. L. (2012). When blemishing leads to blossoming: The positive effect of negative information. Journal of Consumer Research, 38 (5), 846–859. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

June 5, 2026Episode 907 min

BONNE MAMAN MARKETING PLAYBOOK: How a French Jam Company Sold Americans a Memory They Never Had

We're looking at Bonne Maman, the French jam brand that became the #1 premium preserve in the United States without running a single national ad campaign. We'll break down the packaging strategy that did it, the insight behind it, how they deployed it across 50-plus years and eventually turned a jar of jam into one of the most coveted holiday items in the country, the research that explains exactly why this works in the brain, and finish with a 3-step marketing playbook you can start applying to your own product or service today.STUDY CITATIONS Lasaleta, J.D., Sedikides, C., & Vohs, K.D. (2014). "Nostalgia Weakens the Desire for Money." Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 713–729. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

June 4, 2026Episode 897 min

SEO vs. GEO: Why Ranking on Google Doesn't Mean AI Will Recommend You

The real difference between SEO and GEO, why ranking #1 on Google doesn't guarantee you'll show up in a single AI answer, what the research says about the gap between these 2 disciplines, and 5 steps to make sure your brand is visible in both.STUDY CITATIONSAggarwal, P., Murahari, V., Rajpurohit, T., Kalyan, A., Narasimhan, K., & Deshpande, A. (2024). GEO: Generative Engine Optimization. In KDD 2024, Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Pages 5–16. Qwairy AI Citation Analysis (2026). Analysis of 118,000+ AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Claude. January–March 2026. Semrush (2025). We Studied the Impact of AI Search on SEO Traffic. SparkToro / Datos (2024). 2024 Zero-Click Search Study. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 29, 2026Episode 886 min

Marketing News This Week May 28, 2026: OpenAI Builds a Full Ad Stack Inside ChatGPT, Google's May Core Update Hits Hard, and Display Ads Just Got Absorbed Into Demand Gen

This is your marketing news for the week of May 28th, 2026. This week we have three big marketing stories.OpenAI shipped a wave of upgrades to ChatGPT ads and the trajectory tells you exactly where they're headed. Google dropped another core update and sites started feeling it over the weekend. And Google just folded an entire campaign type into another one, with a stat that might change how you think about that move. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 21, 2026Episode 875 min

Marketing News This Week: Google's New AI Ad Formats Change Everything, the Google Search Box Gets Its First Redesign in 25 Years, and a 55,000-Article Study Reveals How Much Content Is Now Machine-Made

This is your marketing news for the week of May 21, 2026. This week we have three big marketing stories.Google just held I/O and Marketing Live back to back and the way ads show up inside AI Mode is about to look completely different.Then, the Google search box. Google just redesigned the Google Search Box for the first time ever.And a new study landed on a number that changes how all of us should think about content strategy. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 16, 2026Episode 869 min

The Transparency Effect: How Showing Your Work Builds the Trust That Converts

The Transparency Effect, what the Transparency effect is, the brands that have built entire pricing and culture strategies around it, what the research from Harvard and MIT says, and 3 marketing moves you can put into play immediately.STUDY CITATIONSBuell, R. W., & Norton, M. I. (2011). The labor illusion: How operational transparency increases perceived value. Management Science, 57(9), 1564–1579.Buell, R. W., Kim, T., & Tsay, C. J. (2017). Creating reciprocal value through operational transparency. Management Science, 63(6), 1673–1695. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 13, 2026Episode 855 min

Marketing News This Week May 13, 2026: ChatGPT Turns Product Catalogs Into Ads, Google Kills FAQ Rich Results, and an Ahrefs Study Debunks SEO's Most Popular AI Tactic

This is your marketing news for the week of May 13, 2026. This week we have three big marketing stories.ChatGPT just changed how product ads work on its platform. Google killed a search feature that's been live since 2019. And a study by Ahrefs tracking nearly 6,000 web pages just contradicted one of the most repeated recommendations in AI search optimization. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 8, 2026Episode 848 min

Comfrt Marketing Playbook: The Marketing Strategy a Weighted Hoodie Used to Build a $1 Billion Brand in 3 Years

We’re breaking down Comfrt’s marketing strategy, the weighted hoodie brand that went from zero to over $1 billion in sales run rate in just a few years, with no outside investors, no retail stores, and no celebrity endorsements. We break down how they positioned their product to stand out why that repositioning unlocked a distribution strategy their competitors couldn't copy, what the research says about why what they did works, and finish with a 3 step marketing playbook you can apply to your own product or service’s marketing strategy starting today.STUDY CITATIONS: Les Binet and Peter Field, "The Long and the Short of It: Balancing Short and Long-Term Marketing Strategies." Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), 2013. Analysis of over 1,400 advertising effectiveness case studies spanning 30 years. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 7, 2026Episode 835 min

Marketing News This Week: Bing's 1 Billion User Milestone, Google's All-Time High Query Volume, and Why Organic SEO Isn't Dead

This is your marketing news for the week of May 6 2026. This week we have three marketing big stories for you.Everything most of us believe about the state of search just got updated by hard data. Bing posted a number this week that changes how you think about your media plan. The biggest search platform on earth reported its quarter and the number that matters most is not the revenue headline. And a study tracking two billion data points just flipped the narrative on AI Overviews and organic traffic. Let's dive in. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...

May 4, 2026Episode 826 min

The AI Marketing PROMPT Framework: How to Get Better Output from Any AI Agent For Your Marketing

We're explaining the P-R-O-M-P-T framework, the six-component system for writing AI prompts that get you usable output for your marketing on the first try. We walk through each component of the prompt framework with a short marketing example so you can hear exactly how it works and start using it for your marketing as soon as you finish this episode.STUDY CITATIONSChen, B., Zhang, Z., Langrené, N., & Zhu, S. (2023). Unleashing the potential of prompt engineering for large language models. arXiv:2310.14735.SurveyMonkey. (2025). AI in Marketing Statistics: How Marketers Use AI in 2025. SurveyMonkey. Please follow the Marketing Podcast in your podcast player and tell a fellow marketing friend about the MARKETING Podcast.CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Marketing EdgeA weekly email written by your host Brandon White that gives you an edge in your marketing.Over 20,100 subscribers--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6SHOW INFORMATIONMARKETING Podcast Websitehttps://PodcastOnMarketing.comOTHER GREAT PODCASTS YOU'LL LOVE FROM THE BEST PODCASTS NETWORKPRODUCTIVITYProductivity and peak performance tips in under 5 minutes per episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productivity/id1694396715The EDGERanked in the top of the charts, 505 episodes, you get conversations worth listening. About business, technology, peak performance, health, sports, exploration, music, art, science, philosophy, love, and power.https://MyEdgePodacst.comBUSINESS PLAN PodcastEverything you need to know on how to write a business plan in 11 slides.https://businesspla...