Any Insights Yet? with Chris Kocek – Details, episodes & analysis

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Any Insights Yet? with Chris Kocek

Chris Kocek

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/19d. Total Eps: 32

Any Insights Yet? reveals the secrets, stories, and surprising discoveries that have led to fresh insights, resulting in the world’s most memorable campaigns and breakthrough business ideas.

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🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
07/01/2026
#60
🇫🇷 France - marketing
03/01/2026
#88
🇫🇷 France - marketing
02/01/2026
#69
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
01/01/2026
#81
🇫🇷 France - marketing
01/01/2026
#54
🇩🇪 Germany - marketing
31/12/2025
#52
🇫🇷 France - marketing
31/12/2025
#47
🇫🇷 France - marketing
30/12/2025
#37
🇫🇷 France - marketing
24/12/2025
#90
🇫🇷 France - marketing
23/12/2025
#63

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Connecting the Dots Between Marketing and Murder with Alina Burroughs, Forensic Expert from Crime Scene Confidential

Season 2 · Episode 3

Thursday, April 3, 2025 • Duration 53:23

What do forensic science and marketing have in common? More than you might think.

Both require an ability to analyze evidence, challenge assumptions, and uncover hidden truths that are often hiding in plain sight.

Alina Burroughs, a forensic expert and star of the hit show Crime Scene Confidential, has spent years piecing together clues to solve cases, and as it turns out, many of those same techniques can also be applied to marketing.

In this episode, Alina reveals how marketers and CSIs are both after the same thing - understanding motivations and finding the right guy (or gal). She also points out how forensic tools like “presumptive tests” can be used to help marketers make smarter decisions before going all in on an idea.

Throughout our conversation, Alina shares real-world crime scene stories that demonstrate the power of looking beyond the obvious and why it’s critical to challenge our own beliefs if we want to get to those breakthrough moments.

Some of my favorite aha moments from our conversation include:

How crime scene investigators fight cognitive bias and why marketers should do the same
The surprising role that gut instinct plays in forensic work and brand strategy
What a “skin glove” is (warning: it’s both fascinating and unsettling)
The importance of marketing from the outside in instead of inside out
Why saying the “stupid” thing out loud can sometimes lead to the smartest insights

Show Notes:

Below are links to inspiring ideas that came up during our conversation.

Shows

Crime Scene Confidential Trailer

Brands

Liquid Death - Andy Pearson on Any Insights Yet?

Last Crumb Bakery

Books

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

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How Honor and Vengeance Can Grow Your Brand with Brent Vartan at Bullish Inc.

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, July 11, 2024 • Duration 35:24

Most ad agencies have clients. That’s not exactly the case with Bullish Inc.

Started in 2015 by Michael Duda and Brent Vartan, the co-founders of Bullish asked a provocative “what if” question that re-envisioned what an agency could be to help maximize a new brand’s success.

Their question: “What if we invested in early stage brands by providing actual money along with world-class strategic and creative services?”

That question and their counterintuitive approach to brand-building has led to some impressive results for brands like Warby Parker, Harry’s, Casper, Peloton, Hu, Care/of, Nom Nom, and many more.

Some of my favorite aha moments talking with Brent include:

Exploring immutable human desires like family, honor, idealism as key starting points for brand-building.
The role of vengeance as a rallying cry for brands and consumers
How chasing after the lowest cost per acquisition is not always the best way to grow a brand
The evolution of ecommerce to consultative commerce
Brent’s secrets for getting consumers let down their guard during research

Show Notes:

Below are links to campaigns, books, and other inspiring ideas that came up during our conversation.

Jolly Rancher and the Jolly Rancher

Sunday Lawns - The Old Way Campaign Spot

The Psychology of Columbo

Brent’s favorite recent book - by Chris Voss

Transforming Clients and Customers Into True Believers with Seth Gaffney & Marika Wiggan at Preacher

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 54:04

Curiosity, conviction, and a desire to get out of one’s comfort zone - these are just a few of the characteristics that Seth Gaffney and Marika Wiggan look for in strategic candidates at Preacher, and it’s this non-traditional approach to finding talent and building campaigns that has led to Preacher’s continued success, winning them Small Agency of the Year for four of the last five years.

Some of my favorite aha moments from our conversation include:

Discovering the very different ways Seth and Marika broke into the world of advertising
Scrappy techniques for learning about customer pain points and mapping out the customer journey
The way Preacher is leveraging AI in their strategic work
Funny and insightful stories from their work on Tommy John, Tecovas, Favor, WeTransfer, Sport Clips, and Foot Locker
The personal advice from parents that have shaped their approach to the work they do every day

Show Notes:

Below are links to campaigns, books, and other inspiring ideas that came up during our conversation.

Clipper Confessions - Tashanee Williams and Zachary Stubblefield understand from first hand experience with focus groups that bad research environments lead to bad answers which result in bad learnings and bad representation. So they took focus groups out of the focus group facility and into the Barbershop with Rich “Smash” Payne. Questions include: “What’s the dopest thing about black culture?” and “If a CEO was sitting in the shop right now, what advice would you give them to better support black people?” The answers are nuanced, rich, and revealing.

A few campaigns from Preacher:

Tommy John Campaign - No Adjustment Needed

Vital Farms Campaign - Bullsh*t Free Eggs

Any Insights Yet? Trailer

Season 1

Thursday, May 30, 2024 • Duration 01:08

Introducing Any Insights Yet? with Chris Kocek.

Going Cowboy and Being Bluntly Honest With Gordy Sang & Brian Siedband at Quality Meats Creative

Season 2 · Episode 1

Thursday, March 6, 2025 • Duration 35:23

The best work in advertising doesn’t just stand out—it challenges the status quo.

And that’s exactly what Gordy Sang and Brian Siedband do with every client and every campaign at Quality Meats. Whether they’re working on a GoDaddy spot for the Big Game or a provocative box of chocolates for U by Kotex, Gordy and Brian (and their distributed team of strategists and creatives) always bring an unexpected twist to their creations, sparking conversations, and getting people to say, “I can’t believe they did that!”

Their “going cowboy” approach is one of the many reasons they’ve been racking up awards, including Adweek’s 2024 Small Agency of the Year award and A-List Standout and AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year, and in this conversation, you get a peek inside their process.

While they’re both quick to say they don’t have a ton of business acumen, they’re clearly doing something right, because a lot of businesses are lining up to do business with them, including Regal Cinemas, Doordash, Saxx Underwear, and Cava, just to name a few.

Some of my favorite aha moments from our conversation include:

Their approach to breaking rules and telling stories with a twist.
How being bluntly honest with German Doner Kebab led to a different campaign approach in the US.
The Huggies diaper innovation that led to a simple, yet catchy song (and several innovative campaign extensions).
Their attention-getting Valentine’s work for U by Kotex to help normalize periods
Why they believe the big idea isn’t dead.

Show Notes:

Below are links to campaigns and other inspiring ideas that came up during our conversation.

Campaigns

German Doner Kebab

Transforming Challenger Brands into Category Leaders with Mark DiMassimo & Lesley Bielby at DiGo Brands

Season 1 · Episode 11

Thursday, November 14, 2024 • Duration 56:45

How do you take a challenger brand from number two and make it number one?

And how do you do that with a relentless focus on positive behavior change?

Those are the kinds of challenges that Mark DiMassimo and Lesley Bielby love to tackle at DiGo Brands, and over the past twenty years, they have elevated and re-energized numerous better-for-you brands, including Weight Watchers, Crunch Fitness, The Partnership to End Addiction, The Bronx Zoo, and Better Help, just to name a few.

Whether they're making award-winning ads or redesigning a brand's identity from top to bottom, their work combines the latest findings from behavioral science with a unique blend of humanity, humility, and just the right amount of absurdist humor.

Our conversation takes some wonderfully unexpected twists and turns as we try to decipher the motivating emotions surrounding embarrassment and the importance of teamwork when it comes to new business pitches.

Some of my favorite aha moments talking with Mark and Lesley include:

Their “go-for-the-jugular” approach when it comes to customer research
How they turned HelloFresh from a challenger brand into the undisputed category leader
The key research findings and creative executions that allowed Better Help to connect with a wider audience
The insightful and entertaining ways they transformed Crunch Fitness into a national brand
How Mark’s experience in his grandparents’ hair salon and Lesley’s experience as a hypnotherapist have shaped their approach to strategy and creativity

Show Notes:

Below are links to campaigns and other inspiring ideas that came up during our conversation.

Campaigns

Visit Oslo

Reframing Risk & Doing Scary Stuff with Andy Pearson, VP of Creative at Liquid Death

Season 1 · Episode 10

Thursday, October 31, 2024 • Duration 36:01

What is risk?

For most people, a risky situation is one where you’re exposed to danger.

Put another way, it’s the possibility of something bad happening.

But for Andy Pearson, VP of Creative at Liquid Death, the definition of risk takes an interesting detour. For Andy, the real danger is not that something bad will happen, but that nothing will happen at all.

No reaction. No learning. No breakthroughs.

Just a boring piece of creative, dead on arrival, completely ignored.

That’s why, over the course of his career, Andy has developed a habit of pushing himself into uncomfortable situations and doing “scary stuff” so that he can explore ideas that most people won’t even consider.

But scary stuff isn’t the same as doing anything.

There is always a Liquid Death Logic underneath every idea that helps the team connect the dots between dumb ideas and smart ideas in unexpected ways.

Some of my favorite aha moments talking with Andy include:

Andy’s favorite activations at Liquid Death and why he loves them
One of the scariest things Andy did early on in his career before Liquid Death that has shaped his outlook on risks and creativity
The questions Andy likes to ask in brainstorms to push ideas even further
How Liquid Death manages controversy and consistently transforms hate into something great
The intriguing parallels between one of Andy’s hobbies (ultramarathons) and building a brand

Show Notes:

Below are links to campaigns and other inspiring ideas that came up during our conversation.

Campaigns

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