This Old Marketing Podcast with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose

This Old Marketing podcast, from Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, has been downloaded over two million times in 150 countries. Every week, since 2013, Joe and Robert share their insights into the media, marketing and content marketing worlds. Always useful, mostly entertaining and pretty much 60 minutes long.

See all the past episodes at the This Old Marketing site.

Yahoo Plus Nothing While MEL Goes Belly Up (264)

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In this episode, Verizon announces the launch of a robust Yahoo Plus. All we can say is “ouch.”

Roku continues its Quibi-filled dominance by announcing a marketing services group that might actually work.

The New York Times puts down its virtual foot on reporter side gigs. The boys wonder how that happened.

And finally, MEL magazine from Dollar Shave Club goes belly up…but can you actually sell a custom magazine? I guess we will find out.

In rants and raves, Joe raves about Microsoft’s decision to buy Discord, while Robert comments on NBC’s new platform, NewsPassID and how the big three continue to steal almost all advertising dollars.

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Charmin’s NFT Jumps the Shark (263)

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The Oscars are back and guess what? Netflix absolutely crushed it (and yes, we called it years ago).

Facebook is launched a new creator model for writers and journalists that is truly seductive, and will work for inhibiting creators from developing out their own platforms.

In NFT land, Charmin has developed an NFT(P) that is sure to kill the entire NFT market (kill as in bad, not good).

In rants and raves, Joe raves about Google’s career certificate program launch while Robert rants about AT&T and net neutrality.

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NFTs: It’s Happening Sweetheart! (262)

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After a royal analysis courtesy of Robert, the boys dissect Disney’s subscription program as they hit over 100 million paid subscribers worldwide.

The conversation pivots to NFTs (non-fungible tokens), as they discuss Seth Godin’s latest blog post about the negatives of NFTs. Robert sides with Seth. Joe thinks Robert should take a ride to the old folks home. Regardless, creator business models are changing.

Oh, and as the conversation was happening, Beeple sold his NFT for over $60 million dollars.

Robert raves about Zapier buying Makerpad and rants about IAB’s new plans. Joe rants and raves about event companies divesting their media properties.

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Twitter Goes Full Twitch (261)

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To kick off the show, Joe and Robert detail their “advanced” Clubhouse experience (likes and dislikes) and why it may have legs.

And did you check out the Tom Cruise deepfakes?

Roku buys Nielsen’s Advanced Video property, and increases its chances to corner the personalized TV advertising market.

Axios details the ever-increasing amount of gambling properties getting into the content marketing game.

Twitter does a Twitch and plans to launch a “Super Follows” program, which will most likely integrate into Twitter Spaces.

And finally, Facebook launches a huge ad campaign against Apple’s privacy restrictions. Can anyone say Philip Morris?

In rants and raves, Joe discusses Wall Street Bets move to decentralization and Kings of Leon’s new NFT while Robert rants about Google’s privacy bomb.

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How Evil Is Facebook? (260)

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In headline news, Facebook makes a deal with the Aussie press, doing exactly what we said they would do last week. At the same time, Facebook commits to $1 billion for the news industry. A generous gift or more of the same from Facebook?

Macy’s media network is taking off to a tune of more than $35 million. Can their business model be saved? Robert and Joe believe the opportunities are great in number.

Print is back again, while the great ad tech consolidation is upon us.

Rants and raves include social money creator tokens from an Oregon-based band and the worldwide web is ending as we know it.

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This week’s sponsor: accessiBe

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