This Week in Content Marketing: Could Digital Advertising Be Ready to Pop?

PNR: This Old Marketing with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose can be found on both iTunes and Stitcher. Download this week’s PNR: This Old Marketing podcast Show details (00:01): An advertising blast from the past: “Gumball Bank” (00:30): Robert muses on this week’s theme: Are you curious enough? (04:30): Welcome to Episode 190: Recorded live on July 3, 2017 (Running time: 1:06:05) The PNR perspective on notable news and trends (08:32): Cannes delivers a lesson on the perils of the great, gushing fountain of content. (Source: The New York Times) (20:40): Don’t throw out the marketing practice “baby” along with the terminology “bath water.” (Source: Inside Intercom) (34:24): Digital advertising has become a “nightmarish joke.” (Source: Digiday) Rants and raves (46:46): Joe’s commentary: Seeing so many amazing works of art on my recent family vacation in Europe got me thinking about three qualities that seem to unite so many of the world’s most creative minds. It all leads to an important lesson that I’d like to share with our listeners. (52:50): Robert’s rant-y commentary: CPA Australia’s CEO Alex Malley – considered to be a business celebrity, of sorts, in that country – was recently let go from his position with the company. Robert explores the potential risks that can result when a brand hitches its content wagon to a high-profile figurehead. (Source: Mumbrella) This Old Marketing example of the week (59:54): Botticelli: While this may not fit the mold of a classic This Old Marketing example, I think it’s well worth mentioning. On my recent vacation, my son and I had the chance to see the Botticelli painting, The Virgin and Child with Two Angels and the Young St John the Baptist (shown below). Image source For a full list of PNR archives, go to the main This Old Marketing page.