Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing with Bob Pittman

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How do the smartest marketers and business entrepreneurs cut through the noise? And how do they manage to do it again and again? It's a combination of math—the strategy and analytics—and magic, the creative spark. Join iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman as he analyzes the Math and Magic of marketing—sitting down with today's most gifted disruptors and compelling storytellers.

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Recent Reviews
  • No, please!
    This is Awful
    You’d think someone whose job it is to get people to be interested in stuff would be able to make something that isn’t next level boring.
  • Osimoto
    As a marketer and student of advertising, this podcast inspires.
    Bob knows how to talk to people and equally important are the people he brings in to interview. I have one solid takeaway from 90% of the Math and Magic episodes. Marketing at it’s best.
  • Mercury Forward
    More magic than math
    Update: If you only listen to one episode, try the one with Bobbi Brown. Her career is a testament to magic! Having worked at MTV Networks along with Pittman and several of his guests, I can attest to the importance and focus on math (data), but the real stars always involve more than a little magic.✨ So a podcast that includes and informs on both? Makes sense to me! There can be a lot to learn from pioneers, even if nobody has said “I want my MTV” for a couple decades. These folks are pioneers, like the Mercury astronauts were pioneers. 🚀 Would we even be in space without them?
  • 185829
    Needs more women featured
    It’s not that hard.
  • andymckim
    I have absolutely no interest in listening to a CEO
    Who cares about some oligarch trying to normalize how they are “disrupting” our culture by mining big data. Hard. Pass.
  • Ankit Israni
    Love the topics but...
    Came here expecting applied math...why is there so much talk about their personal lives...keep banter for end
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    The BEST in the game!
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  • Media Curmudgeon
    Too of My List
    Best marketing podcast available. If you’re a marketer, run, don’t walk to get in line to have iHeart’s CEO Bob Pittman do a live read for your message. Like Carly Simon dings, “Nobody Does It Better.”
  • Tamisha Francois
    Great - please remove ticking clock
    Great content thus far. The ticking of the clock distracts from the words and weakens the message. Counterproductive.
  • MediaJunkieGirl
    For on-the-rise marketers
    This is a great podcast to get you in the headspace of some of the best minds in marketing. Super interesting.
  • jaym1414
    Can’t wait!
    I saw Bob speak a few weeks ago, he’s a really cool guy!! Looking forward to listening to this podcast!!
  • MattPRiddle
    Looking forward to this!
    Premise is very cool! Very much looking forward to hearing marketing insight from people with the highest level access and experience! I appreciate this level of access from people who have actually succeeded in the industry
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