A CMO Confidential Interview with Rishad Tobaccowala, former Publicis Groupe Strategy & Growth Officer, speaker, podcast host of "What's Next," and author.

Rishad discusses why marketing will thrive in an AI world, the reason all companies should systematically re-evaluate their business starting with a blank sheet of paper, and why the future will be determined by those over 65.

Key topics include:

- Why AI will obliterate marketing silos

- The concept of managing humans, aliens and replicants

- Why he's an optimist

- The case for investigating if you are building a brand or executing optimization math.

Tune in to hear about the concept of unbossing and a fabulous shipping container analogy.

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⏱️ Chapters

01:22 Meet Rishad Tobaccowala

02:27 The Marketing Industry Is Being Rewritten by AI

03:00 Why Silos (Ads, CRM, Sales) Are Breaking Down

06:26 What Marketing Really Means Today

08:00 Humans, AI, and Agents in the Workforce

13:31 Efficiency Isn’t the Disruption—Business Models Are

18:00 AI as a New Brain, Not a Tool

27:00 Why People Over 65 Will Shape the Future

31:00 Five Hard Truths Every Leader Must Face

35:29 A Bold Prediction for Agencies by 2026

38:00 Final Advice: Lead with Optimism, Not Fear

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"The Unit Economics of AI - Can Large Language Models (LLMs) Actually Make Money?"

A CMO Confidential Interview with Dr. Dan McCarthy, Professor at Maryland and leading practitioner of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).

Dan shares how the CLV lens can shed light on the LLM drive to acquire customers, spend billions to improve the models, ultimately pay back investors and the potential implications on both marketers and consumers.

Key topics include:

- Why Gemini has a built in pricing advantage which forces all freemium offerings to be very good

- Why all companies should have a “diversity of providers”

- The rationale for constantly evaluating each model

- Why “AI foundational knowledge” is key to generating success from both employees and students.

Tune in to hear about the "customer barbell" and why you should “talk to your phone.”

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A CMO Confidential Interview with Shiv Singh, CEO of Savvy Matters, Co-Founder of AI Trailblazers, former CMO of Lending Tree, and author of Marketing with AI for Dummies.

Shiv discusses how to operate in an environment where "We have no idea about what is coming," how managing humans and AI agents impacts leadership, and why he believes marketers will need to make fewer, harder decisions. Key topics include: why losing isn't fatal, but forgetting is; the risk of thinking human beings are special; and the concept of "invisible failure." Tune in to hear why you should rewrite your job description and become a "wartime" leader.

Topics Covered:

- Where Is AI Taking Marketing?

- Leadership in a Human + AI Workforce

- Fewer, Harder Strategic Bets for CMOs

- AI’s Impact on Creativity and Marketing Processes

- Context Graphs, Memory, and the Future of Marketing Operations

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⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – Welcome to CMO Confidential

01:38 – Meet Shiv Singh

02:35 – Where is AI Taking Marketing? The "Jagged Frontier" of AI

06:10 – What Does Leadership Look Like Managing Humans + AI Agents

09:35 – Making Fewer, Harder Strategic Bets

10:50 – Budget Pressure, Boards, and AI Expectations

14:43 – Invisible Failure in AI Adoption

17:26 – AI and the Future of Creativity

21:26 – Governance, Consumer Acceptance, and AI Bias

26:05 – The End of the Marketing Brief

27:40 – Who Remembers Wins: Context Graphs Explained

31:47 – Building a Marketing Context Layer

35:30 – What Marketers Should Be Doing Now

37:38 – Anthropic vs. Government: AI Ethics & Risk

42:38 – Predictions Through 2026

45:04 – The Changing Definition of a Marketer

45:50 – Funniest Story and Practical Advice

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