AI and the Marketing Department- Mixtape Partners

AI and the Marketing Department- Mixtape Partners

From Inspiring Futures - Lessons from the Worlds of Marketing and Advertising by Ed Cotton

April 30, 2026 · 55 min

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Mixtape Partners about the role of AI in marketing and the consultancy's approach to helping marketers navigate this new landscape.

AI and The Marketing Department For a recent Inspiring Futures podcast, I had the opportunity to spend time with Mixtape Partners' Nirm Shanbhag, Andy Bateman, and Sarah Lent/ Mixtape is a management consultancy designed specifically for marketers navigating the AI era. Between them, they've spent careers inside the big agency networks (Omnicom, WPP, IPG, Interbrand, R/GA), led innovation and customer strategy at Deloitte, and sat on the client side as senior marketers and CMOs.&n...

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Host: Ed Cotton

Guests: Nirm Shanbhag, Andy Bateman, Sarah Lent

Topics covered

  • AI in marketing
  • management consultancy
  • marketing strategies
  • innovation
  • customer strategy

Keywords

  • AI
  • marketing
  • consultancy
  • innovation
  • customer strategy
  • Mixtape Partners
  • advertising

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mixtape Partners, Omnicom, WPP, IPG, Interbrand, R/GA, Deloitte

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