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Cognism's Demand Generation Content Manager Amy Collins chats to VP of Product Marketing Josh Britton about how Cognism's product marketing function has evolved with him leading the charge. They discuss the extensive research Josh has carried out to understand the state of play and the early successes Josh has achieved in his short tenure since joining Cognism.

Cognism’s CMO Alice de Courcy speaks to Maura Rivera, former Marketing Manager at Salesforce, current CMO at Qualified about how this career path shaped how she leads her marketing team.

Cognism’s CMO Alice de Courcy, speaks to CMO at CoLab, MJ Peters about the activities she's run at CoLab that have had the biggest impact. From tightening entry criteria, to optimising product overview pages.

If your team is struggling with lead quality, routing, funnel analysis, automation, grading models, lead qualification or just alignment between marketing and ops… then this is the episode for you. Liam and Simon explore the various optimisations and fixes they've made over the years to Cognism's funnel that has resulted in 70% year on year growth. If you want more information on how we achieved this, check out the Fix Your Funnel Resource Hub! https://www.cognism.com/fix-your-funnel

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to marketing unicorn, Bill Macaitis on how he ran ABM at enterprises such as Slack, Salesforce and Zendesk.

Cognism’s VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to Palmer Houchins, VP and Head of Marketing at G2 about how important reviews and brand reputation are in the buyer process.

Cognism’s SEO Content Manager, Monika Kisielewska speaks to Lashay Lewis, Content Strategy Advisor and Founder of Authority Plug. They discuss how SEO marketers can utilise AI, how aggressively you can sell on landing pages and much more.

Ever wanted to know how Cognism runs their paid ads? We are going to reveal all! Cognism’s Senior Demand Gen Manager Jamie Skeels chats to Demand Gen Team Lead, Tim Hughes about our ad philosophy, where we've seen success and much more.

Cognism's CMO, Alice de Courcy makes her return to The Loop podcast after her maternity leave to speak to Georgiana Laudi, Co-founder and author of Forget the Funnel. They discuss Gia's customer-led approach and revisit the funnel concept to find out if it's still relevant to marketers today.

Cognism’s Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to James de Feu, Sr. Director, Demand Generation & Lifecycle at Zapier. They discuss the importance of learning over any other marketing outcome, how to run data centric campaigns and much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langam, speaks to Casey Hill, Senior Growth Manager at ActiveCampaign about the long list of experiments he has run. From podcasting to social amplification - we dive into it all!

Cognism’s VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to Mary Keough Director of Product and Content Marketing at CoLab Software. One of Mary's viral LinkedIn posts covered what she was going to do as a new marketing leader. But how did this plan go, what would she do now - and what can new marketing leaders learn from her experiences? Listen to find out.

Cognism’s DG Content Manager, Amy Collins  speaks to Liam Collins who has been at Cognism for five months as the newly appointed VP of Paid Acquisition on how he has evolved paid strategy and team set up in his first 160 days.

Cognism’s Senior DG Manager, Jamie Skeels speaks to John James, Founder of Hybrency about his view on brand marketing - and how lots of people are thinking about it wrong!

Global Head of Demand Gen at Cognism, Fran Langham chats to Pavel Teslenko Global Brand IMC Lead at Miro about the intricacies of brand marketing, what we can learn from B2C companies and much more. Listen now!

Cognism’s Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to Mikkel Plæhn, Head of Demand at Growblocks. What do you market when you don't have a product? Well... the founder, of course! This episode dives into the unique approach Mikkel and Growblocks founder have taken to building an audience.

Cognism’s Demand Gen Manager, Jamie Skeels talks to Tas Bober, Founder of Delphinium Solutions about the ins and outs of creating landing page experiences that actually get results!

In the final episode of our eBook mini series, Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew are talking measurements. If you're utilising eBooks under a new strategy with revised philosophy, how do you go about measuring success?

Cognism’s Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham interviews Corrina Owens, ex Gong enterprise ABM Manager and Chief Evangelist of Purple Cork. They cover when to use ABM, what tools are Corrina's favourite and much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew are back to chat eBooks for the penultimate episode in this mini series. In this episode, they're talking all things nurtures.

Cognism’s Head of Product Marketing, Verche Karafiloska interviews Anthony Pierri, product marketing whizz and Co-founder of Fletch. They cover common mistakes to avoid, how often to be doing messaging work and how to go about messaging for different sized orgs!

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew get together for a third episode in this mini series all about eBooks and long form content. In this episode, they discuss the best ways to distribute this content.

Cognism’s VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew chats to Ben Dutter, Chief Strategy Officer at Power Digital Marketing about one simple thing you can to do improve LTV, how to avoid the biggest mistakes Ben observes from agency life and much, much more.

Cognism's Demand Gen Lead, Tim Hughes speaks to VP of Paid Acquisition, Liam Collins about how we have built our own ABM playbook at Cognism - specifically selecting and targeting our 1:one accounts to drive demand.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew are back to chat eBooks. This time, discussing why prioritising high quality content is the only way forwards when producing long form assets.

Cognism's Global Head of Paid, Canberk Beker speaks to Benevity's Director of Marketing, Amy Woodward about how to market a social impact product to a B2B market.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew get together to discuss their changed philosophy and mindset on producing eBooks and other long form content.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to marketing whizz, Bill Macaitis about his experiences taking Zendesk to a $1.7B IPO, how to take a business up market successfully and how to test your ABM strategy is working.

Liam Bartholomew, Cognism’s VP of Marketing interviews Hubspot’s Director of Marketing (Media), Kyle Denhoff. They discuss what makes marketing media memorable, how to associate yourself with category entry points and effective strategies for staying front of mind.

Cognism's Global Head of Paid chats to Director of Demand Generation at UserGems about the secrets of running ABM plays at scale, creating a media engine and much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to Demand Gen Lead at Google, Steve Armenti about what demand gen means in the context of Google, how to get gifting campaigns within ABM right and lots more!

Cognism's Global Head of Paid, Canberk Beker interviews Edward Ford, Demand Gen Director at Supermetrics about measuring brand impact, running brand tests and using data to make the right marketing decisions.

Cognism’s growth advisor Gaetano DiNardi interviews growth hacker and software engineer, Joshua Giardino about first party vs third party data, the cool things you can do with highly accurate contact data - and what the future of marketing and sales might look like with AI

Getting remembered in buying situations is the key to success with modern B2B buyers. Drew Leahy, Head of Product Marketing at HockeyStack, joins Cognism's Senior DG Campaign Manager to discuss exactly this. How do marketers become more memorable? And what part does emotion play in this process?

Cognism’s Senior Demand Gen Manager, Jamie Skeels speaks to Demand Gen Content Manager, Amy Collins all about Cognism’s approach to what they term ‘big rock’ campaigns.

Cognism’s growth advisor Gaetano Di Nardi interviews Peep Laja, CEO at Wynter about the importance of a CEO who understands marketing, running online communities, and how to craft messaging that makes an impact.

Cognism's Global Head of Paid, Canberk Beker speaks to Kieron Mayers, Head of Marketing at Paiger about his wealth of experience marketing in the recruitment industry. How does it differ to marketing to marketing and sales personas? And what are the common mistakes made? Listen to today's episode to find out.

Cognism’s Senior DG Manager, Jamie Skeels interviews Kristina Papilion, Calm’s Senior Global Campaigns Marketing Manager at Calm Business. They talk about how to set up a DG campaign and what it means to truly do ABM.

Cognism’s Growth Advisor, Gaetano DiNardi speaks to Andrei Zinkevich, co-founder of Fullfunnel.io about how he is thinking about demand creation and capture. Plus how to drive alignment between departments for maximum impact.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew and Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham sit down to chat metrics. What are we measuring, how do we get a clear picture of our activity and how are we deciding what to do next? Find out in this episode.

Growth advisor, Gaetano DiNardi speaks to Sam Kuehnle, Vice President of Marketing at Loxo about his experiences growing in a new category. How do you create demand and educate a market that hasn’t experienced a product like this before?

Growth advisor, Gaetano DiNardi interviews Sr Director Global Growth Marketing at Reachdesk, Amber Bogie about how we should be responding to buyer behaviour. Meeting buyer where they are, not where it’s convenient for marketers.And yes please, whenever we are combining footage/briefing snippets it will be the episode too - then just give me a shout when you need a title and description and I can provide.

Driving change is always hard, but especially hard in large enterprises. Helen Gillbe, EMEA Demand Generation Director at Proofpoint explains how she has led the charge towards a demand generation model despite the challenges that come with being in a large org.

eBooks are alive and well - with many B2B marketers still using them. But how can we bring the eBook into 2024? Tom Bangay, Senior Director of Content and Community at Juro explains how they're using eBooks. Hint - it's not the traditional approach!

ABM is fast growing in popularity, especially when targeting enterprise or large value accounts. Laura Lister, Head of ABM at Advanced shares her insights and experience in today's episode!

Cognism’s CMO Alice de Courcy speaks to Kyle Coleman, CMO at Copy.ai about how marketers can effectively use AI to stay relevant and ultimately drive demand.

How do you maintain coherent brand identity when you are a large org with multiple products, departments or regions? That’s what this podcast seeks to uncover! Interviewing Ashley Faus, Director of Integrated Product Marketing at Atlassian.

Liam Bartholomew, VP of Marketing at Cognism speaks to Jenna Quigley, Head of Marketing Strategy at Netskope to unpack the ‘how’ behind driving new or different ideas forward in an organisation where things traditionally might be harder, slower or have more resistance due to company size.

Cognism’s Global Head of Paid, Canberk Beker talks to Head of Paid Media at Synthesia, Borys Khodan about how Synthesia became a unicorn in 2023, and the differences between marketing in enterprise orgs versus start ups.

Cognism’s Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to Director of Marketing at PandaDoc, Andrei Faji about maximising customer interviews. How can you make sure you get the most out of these interactions, and how do you apply it to give a more reflective customer experience?