Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips
Neil Patel and Eric Siu deliver daily actionable digital marketing lessons covering SEO, content marketing, social media, email marketing, conversion optimization, and online marketing strategies. With nearly 100 million downloads and over 2,500 episodes, the podcast provides practical advice from experienced marketers for both new websites and established businesses.
Episodes
How To Rank #1 On ChatGPT By... Gaming It?
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A cafe in San Francisco lets startups pay to brand the drinks, so you can order an ElevenLatte or a MongoDB Greens. Eric thinks it is genius and cheap. Then the segment eve
WD-40 Turned AI Ad Production Into A Growth Lever
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China is releasing models that are not as good and are good enough, at a fraction of the cost, and getting real penetration in the United States. Neil and Eric work through
Will This Be The Info Marketer's Decade In Software?
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Clay Collins predicts the indie hacker is about to get crushed by the direct response marketer who learned to ship software, and Neil and Eric react as two people who hav
Why We Start SEO With The Customer, Not The Keyword
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Most SEO starts with keyword research. Neil and Eric start somewhere else entirely: the customer. Neil breaks down audience-first SEO, the approach Single Grain's Nicky La
PLG Is Dead. It's Now About ALG
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Vercel's Guillermo Rauch says agent-led growth replaces product-led growth: let agents adopt your product first, take meetings only if you have to, and treat months of meet
The Best Marketers Are Becoming Part-Time Engineers
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A Procter & Gamble study shows every single role is now part marketing and part engineering, whatever the job title says. Eric maps it to the Coinbase pot-of-one idea and a
NVIDIA's Unusual Bets That Made Them The Biggest Company In The World
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Would you burn an entire year of profit, walk away from your core customer, and bet the company on unproven technology that falls flat for its first twelve months? That is
Airtable's Acquisition Tells Us One Lesson
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Airtable sold to Bending Spoons for $1.25B in cash, and the internet immediately called it a down round. Eric pulls up Jason Lemkin's numbers and the actual purchase agreem
Content vs Paid Ads: The Answer Is Both
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Eric listens to two people argue organic content versus paid ads and calls the whole debate stupid, because the answer is both. From there into the ROI of podcasting after
What We Got Wrong About Social In 2026
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A full, honest audit of their own social strategy. They set a 2025 plan to ramp volume, raise quality and lean more personal, and here they grade it. Neil puts social at tw
The AI Models That Are 100x Cheaper
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Neil spends 60 to 70% of his time reaching out to companies to buy, and explains when he wants founders to stay and when he does not, plus where global agency RFPs actually
Google Is Burning Its Free Cash Flow To Win AI
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Neil and Eric open on Google going negative on free cash flow to win the AI race, and ask whether it is a reckless bet or the only move a company with that much distributio
I Tested Sol 5.6 vs Fable 5 on Real Marketing Work (Clear Winner)
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Eric ran Sol 5.6 against Fable 5 on real marketing work: an Amazon investment analysis, one-shot website builds, YouTube thumbnails that hit 6-7% CTR, and clip selection wi
Ben Affleck Sold His AI Startup to Netflix for $587M (Here's the Real Lesson)
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A VC asked Eric the classic question about SingleBrain: if anyone can build it, what's the moat? His answer: maintenance, optimization, and upgrades are the real business.
AI Token Spend Just Matched Payroll at This Company (This Is the Future)
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Eric shares Sahil Lavingia's chart: June 2026 was the first month Gumroad spent as much on AI tokens as on human payroll. They debate what that means at scale, then dig int
The Most Popular Brand Isn't the Most Profitable (Beckham, Claude & a $1B Raise)
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Eric brings marketing lessons from Lake Como: a fourth-generation craftsman selling $1,000-quality shoes for $150, and why a couple of grand a month on a hotel display case
GPT Sol 5.6 vs Claude Fable 5 For Marketing (Which Wins?)
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Eric tested GPT Sol 5.6 against Claude Fable 5 on real marketing jobs: websites, thumbnails, clips, recruiting, and growth analysis. Final score: Sol 4, Fable 0 - even thou
AI Marketing Loops That You Should Build Today
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Eric shows Neil the AI marketing loops Single Grain actually has live: a CRO loop, an AEO/SEO loop that drafts TOFU-MOFU-BOFU content straight to the CMS, and a sponsorship
What Part Of Your Company Would You Rebuild From Scratch With AI?
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Neil and Eric answer the question Eric asked a room of 9-10 figure operators: what part of your company would you rebuild from scratch if AI were native from day one? They
What Eric Learned From Hosting A 9-10 Figure AI Operators Dinner
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Neil and Eric break down what Eric learned hosting a dinner of 9-10 figure AI operators, and why AI is forcing companies to redesign compensation. They get into AI margin e
How We're Raising Money for SingleBrain (The Clean Story for VCs)
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Eric and Neil go behind the scenes on raising for SingleBrain: building a clean story for VCs, what the numbers have to say, and how to position a services-plus-software na
Your Website Has to Sell Before the Sales Call
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Neil and Eric argue the B2B website is turning into a sales rep, a proof engine that has to sell before the sales call. From there the conversation turns to investing and b
Your Brand Is Invisible in AI Search (Here's the Fix)
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Neil and Eric dig into AI search visibility: why your brand may be invisible when buyers ask ChatGPT, how organic click behavior is changing, and what still moves revenue.
Software Is Becoming Marketing
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Neil and Eric explain why software itself is becoming the best marketing channel: free tools, calculators, agents, and lightweight products now do the demand-gen work
Palantir's Best Marketing Strategy Is Not Talking About Palantir
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Eric breaks down what Marc Andreessen calls the single best marketing strategy he has ever seen: Alex Karp goes on CNBC and talks about the military, super intelligence, and
The Data Is In: AI Is Creating Jobs, Not Killing Them
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Eric pulls up a Financial Times chart showing that the companies spending most on AI are hiring more people, not fewer, and he and Neil use it to take apart the everyone-los
Who Controls Your AI Marketing Stack? (AI Sovereignty)
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After Anthropic quietly shipped a Figma competitor and handed Figma only a basic version of its updated design tool, Eric and Neil dig into the David Sachs warning that is r
The AEO Panic Is Here — And It's The Best Thing To Happen To SEO
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Eric opens with Eli Schwartz's viral take that the AEO panic is the best thing to happen to SEO budgets in years, and he and Neil unpack why every CMO is suddenly fighting o
Founder Mode Is Real (And Airbnb, Flexport & Apple Prove It)
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Eric and Neil open on "founder mode" — Brian Chesky stripping out professional C-suite layers at Airbnb, the Flexport founder returning to reignite growth, and Steve Jobs'
Jeff Bezos: "Never Hire Your Friends Under 40"
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Eric opens with a Jeff Bezos maxim from a Walter Isaacson interview: never hire your friends if you're under 40, but always hire them after 40, once you have the pattern re
The Most Valuable Marketing Skills Right Now (Per Greg Isenberg)
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Eric and Neil unpack Greg Isenberg's tweet on the most valuable marketing skills right now, working through community building, storytelling, the forward deployed marketer
Google CEO: Learn AI Agents Now Or Spend 2027 Playing Catch-Up
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Neil and Eric open by dissecting LVMH's 16 straight quarters of decelerating growth, arguing the COVID spike distorts the story and that 172-year-old brand power, not a han
Nobody Is Prompting AI Anymore (Here's What Replaced It)
"No one's prompting anymore. Everyone just uses loops." That one line from Matt Van Horn kicked off a 3.4M-view firestorm, so Eric Siu sat him down to explain what he actually meant.
Chapters
00:00 "Nobody's prompting anymore" — and who Matt Van Horn is
03:00 What a loop actually is
04:57 The AI "money printer" that made $0
06:05 Why the barrier to building anything just collapsed
08:30 How to
Your Business is Invisible to AI (How To Fix it)
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Neil Patel breaks down what's actually changed in e-commerce, and why the brands winning right now are the ones adapting to AI search before everyone else.
In this session, Neil shares the data behind the new buying behavior: why AI search (GEO) is quietly becoming the highest-converting channel he's ever measured, how shoppers now research and buy acr
How I Run a Marketing Agency With 6 AI Agents
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Eric reveals how he's restructuring his entire company around AI agents, building what he calls a "single brain" that connects every tool and data source into one unifi
AI Won't Save Your Marketing. This Will.
Everyone's pouring money into shiny AI marketing. Neil Patel and Eric Siu think most of it is a trap. Live from the Social Commerce Summit, they break down what AI will NEVER replace, the "boring and ugly" tactics still quietly printing money, and the moves you should actually be making instead.
In this episode:
- The "clipping economy" and why a 10-person podcast is on track for $30M
- Why borin
AI Is Costing Companies More Than the Employees It Replaced
Neil Patel and Eric Siu go deep on what's actually changing in business right now: why trading ideas faster (not a bigger brain) is the real unfair advantage, how AI agents like Hermes and OpenClaw break when you overload them, and the hidden token bill that's quietly eating the savings companies expected from replacing headcount.
They also cover how to show up inside ChatGPT and AI search, where
Tokenmaxxing is DEAD
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Eric and Neil break down why token maxxing is dead. Cognition is betting that AI should be priced on outcomes rather than token usage, with adaptive routing, spend attribution, and an AI productivity guarantee that funds your usage if Devin delivers less value than you pay for. They unpack the rise of the forward-deployed marketer, the m
The Best AI Tools for Marketing in 2026
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Eric and Neil rank the latest AI tools they've tested for marketing, from
autonomous agents like Hermes, OpenClaw, Codex, and Cloud Code to MCPs
from HeyGen, Riverside, a
The Pricing Model of The Future?
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Neil and Eric dig into McKinsey shifting a quarter of its fees to outcome-based pricing and what that means for agencies built on billable hours. Then they run through
Your Brain Hasn't Changed in 190,000 Years
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Neil and Eric open with a fascinating look at how human progress accelerated 50,000 years ago — not because our brains got bigger, but because we started trading ideas.
The Real AI Bottleneck Nobody Is Talking About
Neil and Eric discuss the biggest AI bottleneck for companies: extracting internal knowledge and turning it into usable company context. They break down AI cost optimization, DeepSeek vs. frontier models, AI productivity guarantees, rising demand for AI implementation experts, and why channels like SEO, email marketing, SMS, direct mail, and live events still drive growth. They also cover how podc
Why ChatGPT's Most Cited Pages Don't Rank on Google
Neil and Eric break down Google’s latest AI search guidance, AEO and GEO myths, AI search optimization data from Ahrefs, ChatGPT citation trends, Google AI Overviews, and why YouTube visibility may matter more than traditional SEO signals. They also discuss the future of AI-powered shopping, agency growth opportunities, global marketing events, and lessons from international business travel. Learn
How 57% of Website Traffic Is Now Bots
Neil and Eric discuss why AI may be creating more jobs than it replaces, breaking down new JOLTS job openings data, AI’s impact on engineering and marketing teams, the rise of AI-powered product development, and why businesses are hiring more to keep up with faster innovation. They also explore AI agents, bot traffic surpassing human traffic, and what marketers must do to optimize for the future o
If You Are Not Working 7 Days A Week, You Will Lose
Neil and Eric discuss extreme startup culture, whether founders must work seven days a week to win, and the tradeoffs between success, longevity, and personal fulfillment. They break down lessons from a fast-growing startup, debate paid work trials, and explore how AI is creating high-leverage employees. The conversation also covers AI-powered content creation, social media growth, productivity, a
Top 1.4% of Ad Accounts Are Responsible for 36% of All Meta Ads
Hosted by Neil and Eric, this episode explores Meta advertising data, the 80/20 rule in e-commerce, Jeff Bezos’ views on AI and business impact, Claude Opus 4 dynamic workflows, AI-powered revenue opportunities, networking strategies for entrepreneurs, and how LLM traffic compares to traditional SEO traffic. Learn how top advertisers scale creative production, how AI can improve business operation
70% of SEO Teams Aren't Ready for AI
70% of SEO teams still haven’t restructured for AI, and Neil and Eric explain why that’s creating massive opportunities for AI-native professionals. They discuss how companies are struggling to adopt AI effectively, why most organizations already have the tools they need but fail to use them, the growing AI mindset gap between the US and China, and how businesses can build AI training systems that
The Real Reason Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs
Neil and Eric break down how ChatGPT and Google treat Wikipedia differently, why AI search is reshaping SEO, and where AI-generated content wins or fails. They discuss AI content marketing, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT citations, AI SEO workflows, content automation, 100x employees, ClickUp layoffs, and how creators can use AI for thumbnails, content updates, translations, and scaling marketing wi
I Built an AI to Watch How I Work
Neil and Eric discuss AI in business, hiring, marketing, and self-driving technology. They break down the trade-offs between Tesla and Mercedes autonomous driving, why AI should enhance employees instead of replace them, and how companies can use AI apprenticeships to scale talent faster. They also explore AI-powered workflows, marketing efficiency, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT visibility, and the
Is ChatGPT Officially Dead?
Neil and Eric break down the AI coding wars between OpenAI and Anthropic, debating whether Claude Code or Codex is winning developer mindshare. They cover AI marketing tools, MCPs, APIs, Slack agent workflows, content strategy, and why pipeline matters more than vanity metrics. You’ll also hear insights on AI-powered productivity, ad creative feedback loops, Tesla self-driving, and the future of A
The Clipping Strategy Every Brand Will Copy
Neil and Eric break down why clipping is taking over B2B tech media, why horizontal videos may outperform vertical content on X and LinkedIn, and how companies like Ramp, Lovable, and Replit are building content factories for distribution. They also unpack Google’s latest AI SEO guidance, including why traditional SEO still matters for GEO and AEO, plus the biggest AI SEO myths marketers keep fall
Why The OpenClaw Founder Spent $1.3M on AI Tokens
Neil and Eric break down OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger’s $1.3M AI token spend and what it reveals about lean AI startups, automation, and scaling with minimal payroll. They discuss Hermes vs OpenClaw, AI CMOs replacing marketers, why taste and experience still matter in business, Brian Chesky’s comments on people managers, and how AI tools like Claude and OpenAI guaranteed capacity are reshap
The AI Search Strategy That Actually Works
Neil and Eric break down why AI search tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews heavily cite listicles, why Google is cracking down on self-published SEO listicles, and how AI-generated content is causing major traffic declines. They also discuss GEO vs SEO, token optimization opportunities, Google’s AI search evolution, and the future of AI consulting, content marketing, an
Neil Patel Gets 57x More Leads From LinkedIn Than X
Neil and Eric unpack how to measure the real value of an X account beyond views, why LinkedIn drives 50x more leads for Neil, and the trap of chasing audience capture instead of revenue. They dig into ICP-focused content vs broad TAM plays, parabolic AI stocks like AXT and Lumentum tied to indium phosphide bottlenecks, and the storytelling lessons behind them. The episode closes with a sharp break
How To Send 1 Million Emails For $100/Month
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Neil and Eric break down how to send 1 million emails a month for $100 using Amazon SES, why deliverability beats price when choosing an email provider, and the shared
CEO Warns: SEO Traffic Will Be Zero?
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Neil and Eric break down the etiquette of podcast collaborations, why giving raw recordings drives reach, and how a give-to-get mindset shapes long-term wins. They shar
How to Get Ahead of 99% People in Podcasting
Neil and Eric break down the etiquette of podcast collaborations, why giving raw recordings drives reach, and how a give-to-get mindset shapes long-term wins. They share lessons from speaking at the Social Commerce Summit, including QR code lead capture tactics, why case studies supercharge AI sales presentations, and how to calculate ROI on paid speaking gigs. A practical episode on collaboration
Why One-Person Teams Win
Neil and Eric break down the rise of one-person startup teams, Coinbase’s “pod of one” model, AI-native company structures, and how AI agents are reshaping product, marketing, and service businesses. They discuss judgment as the ultimate competitive advantage, Amazon’s new supply chain services, China’s growing tech influence, and how startups can use AI automation to move faster, scale leaner, an
Google Search Is Winning Again
Neil and Eric break down why autonomous AI commerce is accelerating after Stripe introduced agentic payments and Cloudflare enabled AI agents to create accounts, buy domains, and deploy apps autonomously. This episode explores AI agents with spending power, Google’s continued search growth in the AI era, hiring elite talent, scaling marketing channels, and the future of AI-driven business operatio
The AI Spending Trap
Neil Patel and Eric Siu break down the rise of “token maxing,” why AI token spend without ROI is dangerous, and how companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are battling for AI dominance. They also cover TBPN’s X growth strategy, AI-powered advertising, enterprise AI services, and the marketing playbook behind Grüns’ $1.2B exit. A must-watch for marketers, founders, and AI operators
Why AI Won't Kill Jobs
Neil and Eric break down why the AI job apocalypse narrative is wrong, using fresh data on software engineering demand, AI-powered productivity, product manager hiring trends, and the rise of “AI-pill” talent. They discuss how AI is increasing output instead of replacing workers, why companies still need top engineers and marketers, and how AI is reshaping business efficiency, hiring, and organiza
What Founders Can Learn From Students Cheating With AI
Eric and Neil break down 3 marketing roles they believe AI will kill first, why entry-level execution work is getting compressed fast, and what marketers need to do now to stay valuable. They also cover why specialists are likely to beat generalists, why human judgment matters more than ever, and how AI is reshaping the structure of marketing teams.
They also get into what separates unacceptable,
How I Cut My $7,500 Claude Cost To Almost $0
Eric and Neil break down how Eric cut his AI token spend from around $7,500 a month to nearly $0 by changing his model hierarchy, fixing fallback issues, and reducing unnecessary API usage.
They also get into why usage-based AI pricing is changing software, why some tools become more valuable in an agent-driven world, and what founders, marketers, and agencies need to understand as AI costs shift
6 Signs Your Agency Is About To Fire You As A Client
Eric and Neil break down how AI is changing software and what founders need to understand as user behavior, distribution, and product expectations keep shifting. They unpack why building around websites, dashboards, and traditional UI patterns may matter less going forward, and what happens when people increasingly want outcomes instead of more clicks.
They also get into what this means for marke
You Won't Believe How Much Clavicular Spends On Clips Each Month
Eric and Neil break down how Clavicular built a viral marketing machine, why clipping is starting to look a lot like paid media, and what businesses can learn from that playbook. Reports on Clavicular’s growth describe a large clipping operation that helped make his content unavoidable across platforms, which is the bigger distribution shift they unpack in this episode.
They also share 10 marke
GitHub’s Trust Problem Just Got Worse
Eric and Neil break down the fake GitHub star economy, why startup credibility signals are easier to manipulate than most people realize, and what that means for trust online. They also get into employee-generated content, the marketing channels they would bet on if they were starting over today, and why they are still doubling down on SEO even as the game shifts away from clicks and toward revenu
MrBeast's New Flywheel Is INSANE
Eric and Neil break down the new media flywheel, why clips, live shows, and community now work together, and why entrepreneurs need to think more like media companies.
Key takeaways
◾ The strongest media businesses now run on video, streams, clips, and community.
◾ The biggest opportunities are often in boring, unsexy businesses with large markets.
◾ AI is a multiplier for top performers, no
This New Marketing Strategy Is INSANE
Eric and Neil break down why clips are becoming more valuable than the actual show, and why the real shift in media has less to do with long-form content and more to do with packaging, distribution, and platform-native monetization. They unpack the TBPN playbook, why some podcasts are really vehicles for generating clips, why legacy media is still missing the shift, and what marketers can learn fr
OpenAI Just Bought TBPN For $200M But Nobody Knows This
Eric and Neil break down why marketing feels different now, and why the real shift may have less to do with long-form content and more to do with clips, packaging, distribution, and platform-native media strategy. They unpack the TBPN playbook, why OpenAI reportedly bought the company, how clipping is becoming a true moat, and what marketers can learn from the way modern content is being engineere
This Pool Builder Uses AI To Actually Close Deals (Whilst Sleeping)
Eric and Neil break down a genius AI prospecting system a pool builder is using to target high-value homes, render custom backyard pools, and mail personalized postcards on autopilot. They also unpack Sequoia’s thesis that the next trillion-dollar AI company will sell work, not software, why AI works best when paired with human strategy, and how smart operators are using AI to create better conten
Anthropic's New MOAT Is Insane
Eric and Neil break down why Anthropic’s next big moat may have nothing to do with raw model intelligence and everything to do with permission, governance, and trust inside enterprise systems. They also unpack the difference between individual AI and institutional AI, why most companies still aren’t ready to let agents act inside real workflows, how AI helped cut major costs without cutting headco
Uber Just Exposed AI’s Biggest Cost Problem
Eric and Neil break down why Uber’s AI spend is skyrocketing, what it means when tools like Claude Code become too useful to cut back, and why token costs may become the next big enterprise bottleneck. They also get into why AI may create more jobs than people expect, how smart teams should think about ROI on token spend, and why the companies that learn to scale AI efficiently will have a major e
We Did 320 Predictions, And The Results Just Came Back..
Eric and Neil break down how they used AI and the YouTube API to analyze 320 episodes worth of predictions, score who was more accurate over time, and uncover the deeper pattern behind why the podcast works. They also get into why marketers need to stop protecting their opinions, how APIs can surface content opportunities faster, why speed now matters more than polish, and what today’s “AI-forward
Anthropic Just Revealed a New Marketing Channel
Eric and Neil break down GitHub as the next major marketing channel, why AI voice agents are finally good enough for discovery calls, and the trap of "AI theater" that's killing marketing ROI. They unpack the eye-watering $4.7M midroll pricing on Acquired FM, what makes elite peer groups actually valuable, and round it out with seven AI tools driving real growth right now.
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This Guy Built a $1.8B Company That Shouldn’t Exist
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Eric and Neil break down how one founder used AI and 800 fake doctor profiles to scale a GLP-1 telehealth business toward $1.8B in revenue, and why aggressive AI-powered mar
OpenAI Just Made a Desperate $200M Investment
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Eric and Neil break down OpenAI's $200M acquisition of TBPN and whether owning media is actually worth it for AI giants. They unpack Neil's co-branded conference playbo
IKEA Just Found the AI Strategy Most Companies Missed
Neil and Eric break down how IKEA turned an AI chatbot's failures into a $1B design consultancy, why creative is now the real ceiling on paid ads, and where API pricing and in-LLM advertising are heading. They unpack agentic commerce, dynamic personalized ads, and who actually wins the LLM race long term — Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, or OpenAI. A sharp episode on reskilling instead of cutting, s
The BEST Social Media to Market On Right Now (It's Not Even Close)
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Most marketers still default to Meta and Google first, but that may no longer be the smartest place to start. In this episode, Eric and Neil break down the underpriced chann
Branding Just Changed Forever
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Chamath says brands could go to zero as AI makes products cheaper, faster, and easier to copy. In this episode, Eric and Neil break down why they disagree, why status s
Meta Is Firing Anyone Who Doesn't Use AI
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Meta is reportedly pushing engineers to use AI for most of their code, and it may be one of the clearest signs yet that AI adoption is becoming mandatory inside major companies. In this episode, Eric and Neil break down why AI works differently in coding than in marketing, why engagement without revenue means nothing, and how the smart
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