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For the sports-fuel brand Gatorade and video game software company Electronic Arts, entertainment has been blurring the line between the business and their audiences. From partnerships with Snoop Dogg and Keyshawn Johnson to bringing sports to digital via Twitch like having Marshawn Lynch and more athletes recreate the Pro Bowl during the pandemic, both brands have seen an incredible digital transformation in the past years.Discover the moves David and Kalen are taking to fuel sport, how playing the video game Madden came full circle for the marketers' strategy, and how embracing the community as a shared experience allowed them to tap into unique insights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With a long and exciting history in the retail space, Lisa Pillette is pioneering the mattress industry with authenticity and warmth. After spending time at some of the world’s most exciting brands such as Ralph Lauren, Lacoste, and HSN, it’s no wonder the young direct-to-consumer brand, such as Casper, is thriving.Tune into this special guest-hosted episode of CMO Moves to hear Lisa talk about tapping into the creative process and what her favorite summer sweet treat is! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Special Edition: The Business of Marketing Season 2! Adweek’s Chief Innovation Officer, Toby Daniels sits down with Hulu President Kelly Campbell to discuss her role managing Hulu’s suite of on-demand and live streaming businesses, as well as, overseeing Disney’s digital media and Movies Anywhere business. They also dive deep into Kelly’s extensive career, which includes serving as Hulu’s CMO where she led the brand’s overall marketing across their subscription video on demand and live TV businesses, and her previous roles at Google Cloud and JPMorgan Chase.Kelly also discussed navigating the new role as President during the pandemic, how she has been onboarding new people into her teams, how the Hulu culture has evolved since she has taken on this new role and the importance of having clearly articulated values within the organization. Kelly is truly an incredible and inspirational C-Suite leader, and this conversation only scratches the surface of the insights and experience she has.Subscribe to The Business of Marketing here: anchor.fm/business-of-marketingFor the latest episodes and upcoming guests, visit: www.adweek.com/the-business-of-marketingApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-business-of-marketing/id1550810638?uo=4Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/62skwx4yeMFcYwpy4MtoE3Anchor: https://anchor.fm/business-of-marketing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After 12 years of experience in the New York dating scene and now married with children, Melissa Hobley is currently in 32 different dating apps—and so is her husband. But that shouldn't come as a surprise since Melissa acts as the current Global Chief Marketing Officer for OKCupid, so she must keep a close eye on what the digital dating landscape looks like.Tune in to the latest CMO Moves episode to discover how OKCupid is using their profile set-up to weed out some of the negative tropes of the dating scene, how they're facilitating conversations with like-minded individuals to encourage more matches and where the future of dating is headed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Jenkins is no stranger to working for exciting brands. His impressive career history includes Yum! Brands, Taco Bell, and even NASA to name a few. Jeff’s decision to take on a new role at Carter’s came easy saying he found a deep emotional connection with the brand as a parent of two young children.Tune in to this CMO Moves episode as Jeff Jenkins talks about mentorship, brand history, and advice for recent graduates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To continue our guest-hosted series of CMO Moves, Kate Gunning, CMO of IEX sits down with Nathaniel Ru, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Sweetgreen to discuss healthy fast food at scale and their love for summer salads.It all started in college for Nathaniel Ru where he met his business partner Jonathan Neman in their first day of accounting class freshman year of college. Nathaniel and John bonded over their passion for food and shared experience of growing up with parents who are immigrant entrepreneurs. From there, the idea of Sweetgreen was born. “We had this vision: how do we re-imagine fast food so that it can be synonymous with healthy food?”To find out more about Nathaniel’s unpredictable path to Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer or simply to find out what is in the Naomi Osaka Bowl, tune in to this latest episode of CMO Moves now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kelly Cook has a reputation for three things: a straight-shooting, big-hearted leadership style, a laser focus on what the customer needs, and the ability to turn around marketing departments that are ready for digital transformation. After leadership roles at DSW, Waste Management and others she took on the CMO gig at David's Bridal in 2019, just as the company was recovering from bankruptcy and right before the global Covid pandemic all but shut down the wedding business.In this podcast episode of CMO Moves, Cook pulls back the curtain to show us how David's Bridal has masterfully weathered the pandemic and taken the opportunity to speed up its digital transformation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kicking off the guest-hosted CMO Moves episodes is an incredible duo: Eric Toda, global head of social marketing at Facebook, sits down for a chat with eos Products' first-ever CMO, Soyoung Kang.Tune in to this very special episode of CMO Moves on how you can learn just as much from your failures as you can from success, how having an appetite for risk to keep up with fast-paced consumers can reshuffle your campaigns, how having trust from your organization is essential for marketers, and lastly a full-on masterclass on community building and how speaking the language of the community-led eos Products to rename their shaving cream to "Bless Your F#@%ing Cooch" based on a viral TikTok influencer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While most would find changing roles and marketing strategies during a pandemic challenging, Away’s CMO Selena Kalvaria saw it as a perfect opportunity. “We brought everything in together. We redeveloped our processes, how we work together, and we just moved in lock step. It's been a fantastic journey. The company has had explosive growth even as a pandemic has set us back. I feel like in many ways it's driven us forward.” Before joining Away as their VP of Brand and now CMO, Selena graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor's Degree in archaeology and finance and started her career on Wall Street before leaving to work in marketing for brands like Diageo and Anheuser-Busch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Her current position at fintech start-up Happy Money may be Sadira Furlow’s first-ever CMO role (and this her first-ever podcast!) but don’t let the rookie façade fool you. The 2020 Brand Genius honoree has a string of noteworthy career achievements under her belt, including viral Superbowl campaigns like Mountain Dew’s “PuppyMonkeyBaby” and one of her proudest career wins in building from the ground up, PepsiCo’s first premium water brand LifeWTR.She’s also an incredibly humble leader whose path to CMO was far from expected. Today, she’s building the Happy Money brand house as well as the brand voice through digital content that speaks to consumers in the way that they like to talk about money (debt-hacks, anyone?). Tune in to hear Sadira’s faith-fueled career journey, her must-have marketing skills, advice to those starting a new role remotely and what she would be if she wasn’t a CMO, which she could (and should) totally still do even as a CMO! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.