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The Crowded Market

Luke Barnett

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/43d. Total Eps: 9

The Crowded Market is the podcast built for B2B marketers who want to grow, lead and stay ahead.

Hosted by Luke Barnett, founder of LRB, the show shares real conversations with marketers and business leaders who are navigating the challenges and opportunities of B2B today.

Each episode is packed with useful advice, practical tips and honest insight from people doing the work at a high level. From content and campaigns to leadership and career growth, this is where B2B marketers come to hear what actually works.

If you're building brands, managing teams or simply looking to sharpen your thinking, this podcast is made for you.

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B2B Events in 2026: What Actually Drives Pipeline

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 37:37

Grab Your Tickets for B2B Marketing Live Here: https://www.b2bmarketingexpo.co.uk/tickets?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=TCMPod&utm_campaign=TCMPod

Eve and Franky run B2B Marketing Live, one of the busiest events in the UK marketing calendar, and they think most exhibitors are still getting the basics wrong. They join Luke to break down the real difference between showing up to an event and actually working it, whether you are walking the floor as a visitor, running a stand as an exhibitor, or taking the mic as a speaker. They cover why chasing 100 rushed leads a day beats nobody, why under staffed stands quietly kill ROI, and why the businesses winning at events treat them as a long relationship rather than a one day sales pitch. They also share exactly what is coming up at B2B Marketing Live this year, and why LinkedIn has completely changed how events get promoted, attended and followed up on.

🎥 Watch on YouTube
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🎧 Listen on Spotify
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crowded-market/id1841200124

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From Nike to Web3: What Traditional Marketing Gets Wrong

Season 1 · Episode 10

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 27:32

Most B2B marketers cannot prove their content is actually working, and this week's guest thinks that is the real problem hiding underneath the industry. Ross Plummer spent over a decade running global sports marketing for Nike and Heineken across two World Cups and three Olympic Games before moving into Web3, and he joins Luke to unpack why traditional brand storytelling struggles to prove its own return, why Web3 marketing builds fiercely loyal communities almost by accident, and why vanity metrics are quietly wasting B2B marketing budgets everywhere. Along the way they get into the genuinely surprising history behind Web3 itself, why brands like Nike and Apple can get away with a belief system that a smaller company never could, and why the most important part of a marketing campaign might be the part nobody can put a number on.

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Heather Barnett: The Queen of B2B Marketing Comedy

Season 1 · Episode 7

Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 34:06

Heather Barnett has turned B2B marketing's most awkward habits into a comedy career, and after years as a copywriter she has a folder on her laptop labelled examples of terrible copy that could fill an entire episode on its own. Heather joins Luke to explain why fear, not lack of imagination, is the real reason B2B marketing is so afraid to be different, why every website ends up sounding the same once it goes through what she calls the professionalisation machine, and why comedy has quietly become a legitimate, paid channel for B2B brands willing to be honest about themselves. It is a genuinely funny, sharp conversation about why B2B marketing takes itself far too seriously, and why the businesses brave enough to poke fun at themselves usually end up more trusted, not less.

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How to get B2B Clients from LinkedIn - B2B LinkedIn Ads Masterclass

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, July 24, 2026 • Duration 34:41

Most B2B marketing teams are pouring budget into LinkedIn and waiting for leads that never arrive. Mark Woodland says the problem isn't the platform. It's how you're using it.

Mark is the founder of Winbox, a specialist LinkedIn ads and strategy agency. In this episode, he makes the case that treating LinkedIn as a lead vending machine is the single biggest mistake in B2B marketing, and lays out a complete playbook for using both paid and organic LinkedIn to build the kind of brand presence that turns browsers into buyers.

B2B buying cycles average 220 days. The people seeing your content today are almost certainly not in-market right now. But they will be. And when they are, they'll come to the brand they already trust.

Want to launch a B2B podcast that actually drives pipeline? Visit https://lrb.media and book a call.

Subscribe for fortnightly conversations with the marketers cutting through crowded B2B markets.

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The Brutal Reality of Working in B2B Marketing

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, April 9, 2026 • Duration 25:23

Abi Markey is an experienced B2B marketer who went through two redundancies in three months and came out the other side with something most people in her position don't get: clarity.

In this episode, she talks honestly about what burnout actually looks like from the inside, why marketers so often miss the early signs, and why chasing the next title can be the thing that breaks you. She also gets into why marketing teams get cut first, the invisible pressure of being a one-person department, and what the move to freelance really involves (including the parts nobody puts on LinkedIn).

If you work in B2B marketing and you've ever felt like you're running at full capacity with nothing left to show for it, this one is worth your time.

🎥 Watch on YouTube
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🎧 Listen on Spotify
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B2B Marketing Strategy: Clarity, Budget, PR and Executive Branding

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 • Duration 28:54

In this episode of The Crowded Market, we explore why B2B marketing is struggling in 2026 and what senior marketers should be doing instead.

Ivana shares lessons from managing a €2M marketing budget across eight countries, including:

Why being “everywhere” is killing B2B performance
Why early-stage B2B companies should stop chasing PR
How to structure and outsource specialist marketing functions
Why personal brands outperform corporate brands in B2B
How executive profiling builds trust and sector authority
Why clarity beats volume in B2B lead generation

If you're a B2B marketer, CMO or founder trying to generate pipeline and position your brand for long-term growth, this episode breaks down what actually works.

🎥 Watch on YouTube
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🎧 Listen on Spotify
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crowded-market/id1841200124

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Why Your Company LinkedIn Page is Dying (And What to Do)

Season 1 · Episode 3

Friday, February 13, 2026 • Duration 28:06

In finance, pharma, and corporate B2B, the classic advice to “fail fast” can get you fired.

In this episode of The Crowded Market, Global Social Media Manager Holly Kerr breaks down why experimentation is riskier in strict sectors, how marketers can still innovate without crossing compliance lines, and what happens when things go catastrophically wrong.

Holly also shares a genuinely terrifying story about losing 2 million followers in 24 hours, and the career lesson it forced her to learn the hard way.

If you’re a B2B marketer stuck between creativity and corporate risk, this episode is your blueprint.

In this episode:

Why “fail fast” is dangerous advice in regulated industries
Why LinkedIn company page reach is dying (and what to do instead)
The 2 million follower mistake that changed everything
How to build influence internally when you can’t just “test and learn”

Follow The Crowded Market for weekly conversations with the people shaping modern B2B marketing.

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🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts

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YouTube strategist reveals 3 B2B YouTube strategies For 2026

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, December 1, 2025 • Duration 40:27

Most B2B companies still treat YouTube as an afterthought. Long webinars, poor thumbnails, inconsistent branding and no clear strategy. In this episode of The Crowded Market, YouTube strategist Lee Glynn breaks down how business channels can start generating real inbound demand instead of sitting idle with a handful of subscribers.

Lee shares the exact process he uses when auditing B2B YouTube channels, including how to fix the homepage “storefront”, how to position content around real business problems, and how to create videos that both get discovered and convert.

You’ll learn why YouTube SEO is misunderstood, how chapters can multiply search opportunities, why quality production affects trust, and how B2B brands can use YouTube to build authority and pipeline—not vanity metrics.

If you’re a B2B marketer or founder who wants YouTube to become a meaningful part of your marketing strategy, this episode is packed with practical, actionable insight.

In This Episode:

• Why most B2B YouTube channels fail to get traction
• The overnight fix that improves trust and channel performance
• How to structure thumbnails, titles and descriptions for conversions
• How YouTube SEO actually works for business channels
• Why long webinars rarely perform and how to repurpose them properly
• Why problem-led content outperforms solution-led content
• The two metrics that matter most for B2B YouTube success
• How to build series-based content without confusing your audience
• Why quality of production affects how your business is perceived
• How to optimise YouTube as a lead generation tool, not a dumping ground

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George Terry - The #1 LinkedIn Ads Mistake (And How to Fix It)

Season 1 · Episode 1

Sunday, September 21, 2025 • Duration 33:43

George Terry, LinkedIn expert and co-founder of Inbox, joins The Crowded Market to expose the #1 mistake businesses make with LinkedIn ads — and how to fix it. We cover wasted budgets, audience targeting, retargeting, and the future of LinkedIn content. Essential listening for B2B marketers in 2025.

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