The Marketing Millennials

Wait a minute - are you still sending ad traffic to your homepage? Val Riley, VP of Marketing at Unbounce, says Google's noticed, and your landing page might be the reason your ads stop showing up.Val got into Marketing because her writing set her apart, and she was an Unbounce customer at her last 3 companies before she ever worked there.She and Daniel get into what Google's ad quality updates mean for your landing pages, and why changing even a single word per channel can pay off more than a full rebuild would.Plus, the hill Val is willing to die on for every Marketing team (and why most companies won't pay for it).If you're a Marketer who wants landing pages that convert, this episode is for YOU. Breakthrough 2026 is the Agentic GTM Conference, happening November 2-5 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Join 1,300 revenue leaders for three days of real research, hands-on skill-building, and a certification to prove you can apply it. Learn more at https://6sense.com/breakthrough/This episode originally aired October 29, 2025.If this one saves you from running one more bad homepage ad, hit follow and leave a rating. It helps more Marketers find the show.Follow Val:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-riley-marketer/Follow Daniel:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featuredTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketingSign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennialsDaniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit:www.workweek.com

What does your brand SOUND like? (Yep, it has a sound, whether you picked 1 or not.) Steve Keller is the Sonic Strategy Director at Studio Resonate, SiriusXM Media's audio-first creative consultancy. He's also one of the world's top experts on "sonic strategy": helping brands blend art & science to make audio ads and sonic identities that stick. Today on the pod, he shares what an audio ad has to nail in the first few seconds, and the most underused brand asset in Marketing.Plus, how the music playing in a store can change what shoppers buy, and why Steve wants you eating dinner with earplugs in. If you're a Marketer who wants audio ads and a brand sound people remember, this episode is for YOU. If this one has you rethinking your brand's sound, hit follow and leave a rating. It helps more Marketers find the show. Own every listening moment with SiriusXM Media. As the access point to the most valuable audiences, we make it easy for advertisers to reach people across premium audio, creators, video, and live experiences—all through one connected ecosystem that's built for scale, quality, and measurable results. Learn more about the largest addressable audio ecosystem at https://www.siriusxmmedia.com/daniel Follow Steve: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekeller1/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

What if your ads are only driving 10% of your sales? Sorin Patilinet, Global Marketing Effectiveness Lead at PepsiCo, says most Marketers are measuring the smallest lever they've got. This engineer-turned-Marketer spent 13 years building the Marketing effectiveness practice at Mars before bringing his measurement obsession to PepsiCo. He also literally wrote the book on it.He and Daniel get into why measurement should never start with your data (what??) and what testing hundreds of ads on real brains will reveal about your creative. Plus, why Sorin doesn't trust surveys and the one metric he'd track over engagement. If you're a Marketer who wants to prove your Marketing actually drives sales, this episode is for YOU. If this one changes how you look at your dashboard, hit follow and leave a rating. It helps more Marketers find the show. Breakthrough 2026 is the Agentic GTM Conference, happening November 2-5 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Join 1,300 revenue leaders for three days of real research, hands-on skill-building, and a certification to prove you can apply it. Learn more at https://6sense.com/breakthrough/ This episode originally aired November 14, 2025. Follow Sorin:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patilinet/Website: https://marketing-effectiveness.com/ Follow Daniel:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featuredTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com

Q4 inboxes and feeds are about to get crowded, and last quarter's tactics might not be enough to stand out. Jay and Daniel trade the subject line plays they're betting on right now. Daniel puts a specific number like 7, 5, or 8 (never a round 10) at the front of his subject lines, and he mixes lowercase with a single all-caps word. Jay capitalizes the entire first word, like NEW, and opens with the offer in brackets. He also moves emojis to the middle or end of the subject line, or bookends them in the preheader, because a leading emoji causes problems for screen readers. They also break down LinkedIn's new collaborative posts, which push one post into up to five feeds (including company pages) without counting as sponsored. Then they get into why Instagram's new AI agents in Edits are worth using now but could turn everyone's feed into a wall of sameness later. Daniel's workaround is to test new hooks with trial reels so they reach non-followers first. The bigger lesson is that when a platform launches a new feature, you should lean in early, because that's when it gets the most distribution. If you're a Marketer who wants more opens and more reach heading into Q4, this is the episode for YOU. Follow Jay: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/ Podcast: Do This, Not That Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:https://themarketingmillennials.com/ Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit:https://workweek.com/

How do you get an entire Super Bowl stadium to sing along to your ad? Peter Giorgi, SVP, Creative Excellence and Brand Experience at Rocket, figured it out...2 weeks before kickoff. After his time at Airbnb and the agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Peter helped Rocket stop selling mortgage rates and start selling homeownership, and he and Daniel get into why that idea was just sitting there for the taking in the first place. Plus, a live TV risk that could have fallen completely flat, what happened when Rocket listed an NBA arena on Redfin (and a tornado rolled in), and why a great ad doesn't need a blockbuster budget. And his Marketing hill to die on? Let's just say AI won't love it.If you're a Marketer who wants to build brand campaigns people actually feel, this episode is for YOU. Hit follow and leave a rating if this one has you humming Country Roads. It helps more Marketers find the show.-- Own every listening moment with SiriusXM Media. As the access point to the most valuable audiences, we make it easy for advertisers to reach people across premium audio, creators, video, and live experiences—all through one connected ecosystem that's built for scale, quality, and measurable results. Learn more about the largest addressable audio ecosystem at ⁠⁠https://www.siriusxmmedia.com/daniel⁠⁠ --Follow Peter: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergiorgi/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit www.workweek.com

Should your AI agents have job titles? Today, Daniel, Kris Rudeegraap, Co-CEO of Sendoso, and Jessica Vose, Head of Marketing at Kana, debate the best way to build AI Marketing agents: role-based digital colleagues or one Marketing operating layer that connects everything. Kris shares how Sendoso went from hundreds of invisible automations to agents with managers and performance reviews, and why building them was actually the easiest part. Plus, Jessica breaks down where the Marketer stays in the loop, the 2 use cases CMOs, AI leaders, and data leaders all agree on, and why Marketing needs a seat at the table before someone else picks your AI stack.If you're a Marketer who wants to build AI agents that actually work, this episode is for YOU. Enjoyed this one? Follow the show and leave a rating. It helps more Marketers find us (and honestly makes my whole week). -- Own every listening moment with SiriusXM Media. As the access point to the most valuable audiences, we make it easy for advertisers to reach people across premium audio, creators, video, and live experiences—all through one connected ecosystem that's built for scale, quality, and measurable results. Learn more about the largest addressable audio ecosystem at ⁠⁠https://www.siriusxmmedia.com/daniel⁠⁠ --Follow Kris: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudeegraap/ Follow Jessica: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicapettusvose/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit:www.workweek.com

Your landing page is probably leaking visitors, and the fixes are smaller than you think. Jay and Daniel break down how to increase conversions on those pages and offer pages, from the fields you force people to fill out to the button nobody can find. Plus, why every extra must-fill field silently costs you registrants, where to put social proof so it actually does something, and the 1 thing on your page that sends 30% of visitors running for the exit. Plus, a HEATED debate about airplane hygiene and the birth of Jay's new favorite word. If you're a Marketer who wants more conversions without building anything new, this episode is for YOU. Enjoying Bathroom Break? Follow the show, leave us a rating, and we'll see you at the next one. --- Follow Jay: LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/⁠ Do This, Not That Podcast: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/podcast Follow Daniel: YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing⁠ Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:⁠https://themarketingmillennials.com/⁠ Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit:⁠https://workweek.com/

Want a reason to be optimistic about the future of Marketing jobs? Duarte Garrido, Co-Founder of DOJO AI, makes a pretty great case for why great Marketers are about to matter more than ever. He ran Marketing for over a decade at giants like Coca-Cola and Sky, then set out to rebuild the broken Martech stack from scratch. He and Daniel talk about the difference between automation and intelligence, why Duarte can smell AI copy from 10 miles away, and why he says everything AI touches becomes a commodity...except this 1 thing it still can't do. If you're a Marketer who wants to use AI without turning your work into slop, this episode is for YOU. Hit follow and leave a rating if this one got your brain going. It helps more Marketers find the show. -- Own every listening moment with SiriusXM Media. As the access point to the most valuable audiences, we make it easy for advertisers to reach people across premium audio, creators, video, and live experiences—all through one connected ecosystem that's built for scale, quality, and measurable results. Learn more about the largest addressable audio ecosystem at https://www.siriusxmmedia.com/daniel -- Follow Duarte: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duartegarrido/ Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials

After years of digital everything, audiences are craving something real again…and Haley Janisch knows exactly how to deliver it. As the Head of Creator Community at Kit, Haley has built experiences like Craft and Commerce and Kit Studios that connect creators beyond the screen. In this episode, Haley joins Tamara to unpack the art and strategy behind unforgettable events. They explore why offline connection matters more than ever, how to design experiences that stick in people’s minds, and the small details that make a huge difference. You’ll also hear the story behind ConvertKit’s Taylor Swift–themed studios, why vulnerability creates stronger communities, and how smart marketers should rethink the ROI of events. If you’ve ever wondered how to build moments people can feel (not just attend) this episode is your blueprint. Follow Haley: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haley-janicek/ Follow Tamara: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaragrominsky/ Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter: www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com