Ep 3. How to lose a pitch without trying

Smack My Pitch Up · Oct 29, 2026 · 11m

Pitch disasters, told by the people who lived through them.

In this episode of Smack My Pitch Up, the panel trade their worst moments in the pitch room. There’s a 2011 Skype pitch that accidentally went to video, straight out of the pool, in front of ten senior marketers. There’s an art director in a banana costume chanting “save our bananas” through a client’s office while redundancy consultations ran in the room next door. And there’s a business partner who spent a two-hour pitch hiding in the stationery cupboard.

Not every story ends in a loss. One pitch was won over a phone call taken…