This Old Marketing

Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose cover the week of content marketing, media and digital content news. Always around an hour and, if not educational, surely entertaining. If you aren't getting your marketing news from these two, are you really in marketing? Give it a listen.

Recent Episodes

April 18, 2025

Sam and Elon's Billionaire Pillow Fight (476)

The boys are back with news that OpenAI (led by Sam Altman) is considering a social media platform that may compete with Elon's Twitter/X. Let's face it...we know what this is really about. Joe and Robert bring it home for you. META's big lawsuit with...

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April 11, 2025

Thou Shalt Build on Rented Land (475)

Has AI finally killed search? Does Google even matter anymore? Must we now build our content on rented land? The boys go through each of these questions and talk about if "do not build your house on rented land" is still a thing. In other news, the...

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April 4, 2025

Into the Dumbery (474)

Possibly our dumbest episode yet. Joe and Robert go deep into the dumbery to try to make sense of an incredibly weird (and dumb) week. TikTok is for sale. No it's not. Maybe it is. Will we know this week? Elon Musk merges his two companies into one,...

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March 28, 2025

The 5 Keys to Content Marketing Success [Special Episode] (473)

A very special episode on what makes a successful content marketer or content creator. Robert and Joe talk about what works today to successfully build and monetize an audience with these five keys. 1. For marketers, setting a clear goal up front -...

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March 21, 2025

Heading Toward Marketing Recession (472)

New data suggests that advertising growth is slowing. Overall marketing is soon to follow. Will the current political environment drive us into a marketing recession? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proclaims that AI will take over all coding in the next...

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March 14, 2025

Content Marketing M&A Starting to Heat Up

The boys are back and the buys are heating up. Food-delivery startup Wonder purchased Tastemade, now boasting content creation to meal preparation to delivery all in one. Is more on the way? We think so. Spotify paid $5 billion dollars to indie...

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March 7, 2025

Media's Death Creates Huge Opportunity for Brands (470)

The boys are back with commentary on the death of media. It's a sad case on both political spectrum. And the opportunity in the future belongs to non-media brands. Let's see what happens. In other news, more and more creators are going full AI. How...

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Feb. 28, 2025

Vertical AI Content Creation Next Big B2B Boom (469)

The boys kick off the show with Dow Jones news and their AI content marketplace of 5,000 publishers. The real news? Vertical content opportunities using proprietary LLMs may ultimately steal the show for B2B content creators. Differentiation is the...

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