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Sleeping Barber - A Marketing Podcast
Ready to rethink business strategy and supercharge your marketing game? Join hosts Marc Binkley and Vassilis Douros as they break down big questions at the crossroads of strategy, marketing effectiveness, and creative impact. From real-world case studies to hot-off-the-press business news, each episode dives deep into how modern companies navigate complexity. Plus, interviews with global thought leaders bring you fresh insights and actionable strategies to drive growth and build unforgettable…
Episodes
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 248: The PostPod - Lessons from Jo Lepore, Foresight Doesn’t Get a Free Pass
Send us Fan Mail Marc and Vassilis debrief their foresight conversation with Jo Lepore: why foresight isn’t futurism, how backcasting reshapes brand planning…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 247: SBP Interview - Foresight Doesn’t Get a Free Pass, with Jo Lepore.
Send us Fan Mail Marketing science says buyer behaviour barely moves. Futurists sell the opposite: change, disruption, the thing nobody saw coming. Can both be…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 246: The Sharp Cut: Who Actually Buys on Sale?
Send us Fan Mail Marketing runs on comfort blankets. The Sharp Cut cuts them up to see what’s inside. This week, with Black Friday five weeks out and someone…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 245: The Barber's Brief - Apple Built a Kill Switch for Ad Tech
Send us Fan Mail Marc and V are back with the Barber’s Brief: the good, the bad, and the overhyped from the last couple of weeks, with data, a few opinions…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 244: SBP Interview - If You’re Not Selling Hours, What Are You Selling?
Send us Fan Mail Everybody in this industry is arguing about what AI does to an agency. Almost all of it is agencies talking to themselves about their own cost…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 243: The Sharp Cut - Let's talk about brand love
Send us Fan Mail Marketing runs on comfort blankets. The Sharp Cut cuts them up to see what's inside. This week: brand love. Start with motorcycles. In 2015…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 242: The Barber's Brief - Sydney Sweeney Is Famous. Novig Isn't.
Send us Fan Mail Marc and V are back with the Barber's Brief: the good, the bad, and the overhyped, with data, a few opinions, and Great Creative getting the…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 241: The PostPod - Lessons from Omar Roubi, The Rise and Fall of a Promise
Send us Fan Mail Fresh off the Omar Roubi interview, Marc and Vassilis sit down for the PostPod to work through what stuck. The uncomfortable one: when the…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 240: SBP Interview - Target Canada: The Rise and Fall of a Promise, with Omar Roubi
Send us Fan Mail Target is a company people love. More than 1,700 stores, a brand with real pull. Then it came to Canada, lost billions, and walked away inside…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 239: The Sharp Cut - Who Killed the Click?
Send us Fan Mail Marketing runs on comfort blankets. The Sharp Cut cuts them up to see what's inside. This week, we did it as a murder mystery. The victim: the…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 238: The Barber's Brief - Playing on rented land, again.
Send us Fan Mail Marc and V are back with the Barber's Brief: the good, the bad, and the overhyped from the last couple of weeks, with data, a few strong…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 237: The PostPod - Lessons from Ian Whittaker, Data is not the problem.
Send us Fan Mail Fresh off the Ian Whittaker interview, Marc and Vassilis sit down for the PostPod to unpack what actually stuck. The through line: marketing…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 236: SBP Interview - Data is not the problem. With Ian Whittaker.
Send us Fan Mail Marketers have spent years trying to prove marketing works. Better attribution. Better dashboards. Better measurement. More data. And yet…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 235: The Sharp Cut - AI Won't Save You. Leadership Will.
Send us Fan Mail AI Won’t Save You. Leadership Will. Companies have spent the last few years buying AI tools, running pilots and training employees. Yet much…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 234: The Barber's Brief - More Data. More Tech. More Specialists. Better Marketing?
Send us Fan Mail Marketing has more data, technology and specialist expertise than ever. But is all that sophistication actually making marketing better? In…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 233: The PostPod - Lessons From Fiona Stevenson. Why Innovation Fails.
Send us Fan Mail Everyone wants innovation. But what exactly are we asking for? In this Post-Pod, Marc and Vassilis unpack their conversation with Fiona…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 232: SBP Interview - Why Innovation Fails Before the Idea Ever Gets a Chance. With Fiona Stevenson.
Send us Fan Mail Why do organizations say innovation is mission-critical, then create conditions that make innovation almost impossible? Fiona Stevenson has…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 231: The Sharp Cut - Marketing has more data than ever. So why does nobody believe it?
Send us Fan Mail Marketing has never been more measurable. It may also have never been more short-term. If measurement was supposed to solve marketing's…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 230: The Barber's Brief - Are We Measuring Marketing Value — or Just What’s Easy to Measure?
Send us Fan Mail Are marketers getting better at measuring activity while getting worse at understanding value? In this edition of The Barber’s Brief, Vassilis…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 229: The PostPod - Lessons from Pats McDonald. AI Won't Decide the Future of Marketing. We Will.
Send us Fan Mail AI is going to take our jobs. AI will commoditize creativity. AI will make strategy worse. But AI isn't making those decisions. We are. In…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 228: Interview - AI Won't Decide the Future of Marketing. We Will. With Pats McDonald.
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest mistake we're making with AI is the way we talk about it? Pats McDonald, Chief Strategy Officer at Dentsu Creative, joins…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 227: The Sharp Cut - Brand Does Not Belong to Marketing
Send us Fan Mail Ask ten marketers to define brand and you get ten answers. Ask them who owns it and you get one: marketing. Marc and V think that second…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 226: The Barber's Brief - The AI Efficiency Trap: When Doing More With Less Backfires
Send us Fan Mail What happens when AI makes marketing more efficient, but every dollar saved gets taken out of the marketing budget? Welcome back to the…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 225: The PostPod - Lessons from Traci Alfford. Good Work Is a Habit Not a Score
Send us Fan Mail What actually makes marketing effective? It's tempting to point to great creative. Or strong media. Or impressive results. But after our…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 224: Interview - Good Work is a Habit, Not a Score. With Traci Alford
Send us Fan Mail Most companies treat effectiveness like a scoreboard. Traci Alford, Global CEO of Effies Worldwide, sees the entries from 130 countries, and…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 223: The Sharp Cut - Brand Awareness Is The Wrong Metric
Send us Fan Mail Brand awareness is one of the most reported metrics in marketing. It's in almost every board deck. Almost every brand tracker. Almost every…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 222: SBP Interview - Feels vs. Deals: The Real Battle for Q4. With Andrew Tindall and Vanessa Chin.
Send us Fan Mail What actually mattered at Cannes? More importantly... What should marketers do differently because of it? In this special collaboration…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 221: The PostPod - Lessons from Ty Heath. B2B Marketing is Playing the Game on Hard Mode.
Send us Fan Mail Ty Heath has a way of making complex marketing ideas feel deceptively simple. After our latest conversation with the former LinkedIn B2B…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 220: Interview - B2B Marketing is Playing the Game on Hard Mode. With Tyrona Heath.
Send us Fan Mail B2B marketing isn't playing a different game. It's playing the same game on hard mode. In this episode, we're joined by Ty Heath, Global…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 219: The Sharp Cut - How Advertising Really Works
Send us Fan Mail What if almost everything we've been taught about advertising is built on a sales model from 1904? In this Sharp Cut, we unpack six of…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 218: The Barber's Brief - The Shelf Life of Competitive Advantage
Send us Fan Mail What do Netflix, Reddit, AI, M&M's and Lyft have in common? More than you might think. In this episode of The Barber's Brief, Marc Binkley and…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 217: The PostPod - Lessons from James Hurman. Ads Don't Persuade People to Buy.
Send us Fan Mail What if marketing's biggest challenge isn't proving its value—but explaining it? Following our conversation with James Hurman, we reflect on…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 216: Interview - Ads Don’t Persuade People to Buy. With James Hurman.
Send us Fan Mail Advertising doesn't work by persuading people to buy. It works by creating future demand. James Hurman returns to unpack his new book: why the…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 215: What Marketers Still Get Wrong. With Prof. Byron Sharp.
Send us Fan Mail Byron Sharp — Professor of Marketing Science, Director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute at the University of Adelaide, and author of How Brands…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 214: The Cannes Cut - The Gap Between Knowing and Doing: Day 5 Reflections. Featuring David Tiltman.
Send us Fan Mail After five days, dozens of interviews, countless presentations, and conversations with some of marketing's brightest minds, one thing became…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 213: The Cannes Cut - Dull Ads Are A System, Not A Symptom. With Orlando Wood.
Send us Fan Mail Day 4 on the Croisette, and the Cannes Festival of Creativity is in full swing. The Cannes Cut series is proudly presented by System1. Vanessa…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 212: The Cannes Cut - Brand Fit Beats Follower Count: Day 3 Reflections
Send us Fan Mail Day three at Cannes Lions revealed something unexpected. Coming into the festival, many predicted AI would dominate every conversation…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 211: The Cannes Cut - Creators, Commerce, and Amazon's Canvas: Day 2 Reflections
Send us Fan Mail This episode has been presented by System1. Everyone talks about the full funnel. Amazon has actually built it. Day 2 of the Sleeping Barber's…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 210: The Cannes Cut - Creativity That Works: Cannes Day 1 Reflections
Send us Fan Mail This episode has been presented by System1. What happens when Byron Sharp, Mark Ritson, System1, creators, AI, and Cannes Lions all collide on…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 209: The Sharp Cut - Buyers Don't Move in Straight Lines
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest problem in marketing isn't your message, your targeting, or your budget? What if it's the map you're using? For more than…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 208: The Barber's Brief - The Rosé Can Wait. Our Questions Cant + Special Announcement
Send us Fan Mail For years, Cannes Lions has been the home of creativity. This year, it feels like effectiveness is taking center stage. In this special Cannes…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 207: The PostPod - Lessons from Karen Pearce: Great Creative shouldn’t feel scary
Send us Fan Mail Most marketers think great creative comes from better talent. Karen Pearce made a different case. In this Post Pod discussion, Marc and…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 206: Great Creative Shouldn't Feel Scary. Karen Pearce, Rethink.
Send us Fan Mail Most people assume award-winning creative work is a high-wire act: brilliant, risky, and impossible to repeat. Karen Pearce of Rethink makes…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 205: The Sharp Cut - Busy Is Where Strategy Goes to Die
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest threat to your strategy isn't a competitor, a budget cut, or AI? What if it's busyness? In this Sharp Cut, Marc Binkley…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 204: The Barber's Brief - AI Won’t Save Bad Marketing
Send us Fan Mail Everyone is talking about AI replacing marketers. But what if the bigger problem isn't AI at all? In this episode of The Barber's Brief, Marc…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 203: The PostPod - Lessons from David Lui: Retail Isn't Dying. The Operating Model Is.
Send us Fan Mail Most marketers talk about growth through media, performance, and digital channels. But what happens when growth comes from stores, people, and…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 202: Retail Isn't Dying. The Operating Model Is. With David Lui
Send us Fan Mail The Bay closed. Frank and Oak shuttered. Insolvencies have been climbing for years and the narrative everyone's repeating is that retail is in…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 201: The Sharp Cut - A Tale of Two Frequencies
Send us Fan Mail For decades, marketers have debated one question: How much frequency is enough? But what if the industry has been arguing about two completely…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 200: The Barber's Brief - This is Two Hundred!
Send us Fan Mail Most podcasts never make it past three episodes. This is episode 200. In this special 200th episode of The Barber’s Brief, Marc Binkley and…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 199: The PostPod - Lessons From Terry O'Reilly: The Ads That Shouldn't Have Worked.
Send us Fan Mail What if modern marketing’s biggest problem isn’t bad targeting… but safe creativity? In this PostPod episode of The Sleeping Barber Podcast…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 198: The Ads That Shouldn't Have Worked. With Terry O'Reilly
Send us Fan Mail There is a commercial in this episode that the president of Fibreglass tried to kill on a Thursday. By Sunday he had changed his mind, when…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 197: The Sharp Cut - Purpose is a promise most brands can't keep
Send us Fan Mail Most marketers believe brand purpose drives growth. The data says otherwise. In this episode of The Sharp Cut, we take on one of marketing’s…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 196: The Barber's Brief - The Missing Layer In Performance Marketing?
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we cover everything from the growing trust gap in performance marketing to the evolving role of attribution, AI, and search…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 195: The PostPod - Lessons from Dr. Nicole Hartnett: Loyalty is everywhere. Growth isn’t.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Marc and Vassilis revisit their conversation with Dr. Nicole Hartnett, reflecting on the enduring principles of marketing…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 194: Loyalty Is Everywhere, Growth Isn't. With Dr. Nicole Hartnett.
Send us Fan Mail Description Picture a marketing world flipped upside down: Where heavy buyers aren't your golden goose, where loyalty programs might be…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 193: The Sharp Cut - Reach Don’t Teach: The Truth About Reach and Frequency
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our latest 'Sharp Cut.' A segment where Marc and Vassilis challenge marketing's comfort blankets. In this episode, Marc and…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 192: The Barber's Brief - Is a sandwich without bread still a sandwich?
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Sleeping Barber Podcast, Marc and Vassilis discuss the news that caught their attention over the past couple of weeks…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 191: The PostPod - Lessons from Andrew Tindall: The Confidence Crisis in Marketing
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Sleeping Barber Podcast, Marc and Vassilis reflect on their conversation with Andrew Tindall about the complexities of…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 190: Your Marketing Dashboard is Lying to You. With Andrew Tindall
Send us Fan Mail Description Your media dashboard looks confident. Clicks up. Conversions tracked. Reach reported. But according to three years of evidence…
Sleeping Barber - A Marketing PodcastSBP 189: The Sharp Cut - The Invisible Hands: How Dead Ideas Run Your Marketing Strategy
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Marc and Vassilis explore the invisible mental models that shape marketing decisions, questioning long-held beliefs such as…