MarTech Podcast ™ // Marketing + Technology = Business Growth

Agency or in-house: which builds better marketers? Damien Voita is Principal Campaign Manager at AdRoll, with nine years of agency and in-house experience across B2B and B2C brands. He picks agency work as the better teacher because it forces you to ask what the right approach is for each company, again and again. He also warns that in-house marketers can tie their identity to the brand instead of the craft, and says the best work comes from people who see themselves as marketers first.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Marketers chase new tools before fixing the basics. Damien Voita, Principal Campaign Manager at AdRoll, has nine years of agency and in-house experience in paid media and integrated campaign strategy. He covers how to optimize media strategy for the holidays, including full-funnel campaigns across the open web for mid-sized brands. He also explains why you should get the baseline fundamentals right before adding new tactics or tools to your stack.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Holiday demand compresses into a few weeks, which makes late-season ad spend inefficient. Damien Voita is Principal Campaign Manager at AdRoll, with nine years of agency and in-house experience in paid media and integrated campaign strategy. He covers a three-phase measurement model that moves from platform metrics like CTR and CPM to branded search impressions to year-over-year CPA comparisons. He also explains how to shift budget into open web channels like CTV, native display, and audio, and how to build third-party validation that LLMs recognize. Finally, he outlines how to pitch brand investment to a CFO as a way to lower CPA and then shift to retargeting before shipping cutoffs.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

FIFA covered every brand logo at the World Cup stadium, including Levi's. Jordan Koene, CEO and Co-Founder of Previsible, explains why the blackout backfired for the league and worked in Levi's favor. Koene breaks down how brand recognition functions as an AEO signal, and how Levi's silhouette logo became a case study in owning your brand identity when competitors try to erase it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Search optimization terminology is splintering into competing acronyms. Jordan Koene, CEO and Co-Founder of Previsible, previously led SEO and content strategy at eBay and served as CEO of Searchmetrics before building a practice that prepares enterprise brands for AI-driven discovery. He and the host debate which term survives the next five years: SEO, GEO, or AEO. Koene argues SEO endures because search behavior persists even as the underlying engines shift from Google to LLMs, while the host draws a sharper line between optimizing for traditional search engines and engineering content for AI answer consumption.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI gives confident answers without the context to back them up. Kelly Hopping, four-time CMO and current CMO at 6sense, breaks down where AI's missing context creates risk for go-to-market teams. She explains how GTM intelligence platforms fill gaps that generic AI models miss, why context depth matters more than model size, and what marketers need to validate before trusting AI-driven insights across the customer journey.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI gives confident answers built on missing context. Kelly Hopping, four-time CMO and current CMO at 6sense, breaks down where that context gap hits go-to-market teams and how her CPG training shapes the fix. She explains treating brand marketing as full P&L ownership, not logo management, and applying classic 4P discipline—pricing, distribution, promotion, and messaging—as one system instead of disconnected levers. She contrasts this GM-style, cross-functional execution model with the narrower brand role common at most B2B SaaS companies.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI segments and messages without full context can be confidently wrong. Kelly Hopping, four-time CMO and CMO at 6sense, explains why more automation doesn't equal more pipeline. She breaks down multi-touch attribution across a six-month lookback, the shift from bottom-of-funnel demand gen to owned content that surfaces in LLM answers, and using gifting for deal acceleration instead of last-touch meeting bait.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.