James McKinven
Founder of PodPanda.co
Appears in 44 Episodes
The myths of marketing live with Tom Goodwin
Tom Goodwin is back for our first ever live event in London. As uncensored as ever, we cover all things digital transformation to the biggest myths in marketing, this ...
TikTok sensation Rob Mayhew on turning his passion into a business
For a very special edition of the podcast (episode 100!) I'm joined by a very special guest, Rob Mayhew, TikTok sensation and Creative Director at Gravity Road. Rob's ...
The business of creativity - Sir John Hegarty
Advertising legend Sir John Hegarty returns to the podcast to discuss why he created a course focused on the business of creativity. If you've listened to the podcast ...
The extraordinary cost of being dull - Peter Field and Adam Morgan
Marketing waste is one of the biggest issues facing our industry. So when marketing legends Peter Field and Adam Morgan reached out to me to talk about their new work ...
How Lucky Saint created the non-alcoholic beer category - Luke Boase, Founder
How do you create a brand in a sub-category where only a handful of major brands operate a product line, from scratch, having never worked in the industry before? Well...
Orlando Wood on Advertising
Long time returning guest Orlando Wood is back in the hot seat, talking all things advertising. We look back on his two IPA bestselling books, Lemon and Look Out, to d...
"Who Gives a Crap" on DTC vs retail, small budgets and their first TV campaign - Emily Kraftman, Managing Director UK
Emily Kraftman is the Managing Director for UK & Europe for a brand who are disrupting a category no one else thought to, toilet paper. That brand is, of course, Who G...
What the marketing industry is truly terrified of - Tom Goodwin
The return of Uncensored CMO podcast legend Tom Goodwin. In this final flourishing episode recorded from Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, in what has become our an...
Selling Uncommon, the death of advertising and a British original - Nils Leonard
Nils Leonard is returning to the Uncensored CMO podcast after selling his agency, Uncommon to Havas. We discuss what's next, why he feels it's an investment not an acq...
Sir Martin Sorrell on the 5 biggest ways AI will change marketing
In this episode, I am talking to one of the titans of our industry, someone who I think has had a bigger impact on our industry than perhaps anybody else. He is Sir Ma...
MAD//Fest LIVE - how to ride the storm with Britain’s leading retail CMO’s
In a special live from MAD//Fest edition of Uncensored CMO, I'm joined by some of the country's top CMO's on a panel about riding the storm in retail. Very’s Jessica M...
From selling Tea to the British to Latin America's largest e-commerce business - Sean Summers, Mercado Libre
In a career that's spanned selling Tea to the British as Marketing Director at Twinings, to now CMO at the largest e-commerce business in Latin America, Sean Summers k...
Marketing Britain’s largest supermarket in a cost of living crisis - Alessandra Bellini, Tesco
Allessandra Bellini is the Chief Customer Officer at Tesco, the largest supermarket in the UK. Previously she's held roles at agencies, before 21 years at Unilever ris...
MAD//Fest - From contemporary dance to craft beer revolution? - Tom Rainsford, Beavertown Brewery
Tom Rainsford has been named as one of the Top 50 creative minds in the country. After a surprising start to his career (that still stands him in great creative stead...
Rory Sutherland, the Master of Madfest, on why behavioural science should get awards
Live from Cannes, third time returning guest Rory Sutherland gives us his views on just how good this year’s Festival of Creativity is, what should be awarded, AI vs A...
Cannes Lions - The Triple Opportunity of Attention with Karen Nelson-Field, Orlando Wood, Rob Brittain
In this episode I'm joined by three more effectiveness titans in my Cannes special coverage. Karen Nelson-Field, Rob Brittain and fan favourite Orlando Wood join me to...
Cannes Lions - The 3rd Age of Effectiveness with Les Binet, Grace Kite & Tom Roach
Following on from the IPA EffWorks and WARC session on the Terrace Stage in Cannes, I speak to effectiveness legends, Les Binet, Grace Kite and Tom roach to outline th...
Managing the biggest beauty brand in the world - Lex Bradshaw-Zanger, L'Oreal CMO
Lex Bradshaw-Zanger is the Chief Marketing & Digital Officer for L’Oréal South Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa Region. Prior to this role, Lex was the CMO for...
A marketers guide to a squiggly career - Helen Tupper, Amazing If
Work is fundamentally important to the quality of our lives and we are surrounded by more change and choice than ever before. Our careers have become far less predicta...
Managing the worlds largest drinks brands (Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff & more) - Ed Pilkington, CMO Diageo NA
Edward Pilkington is the Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer at Diageo North America, managing a portfolio of the biggest brands in the world, including Guinness, Joh...
How Google put humanity into technology - Nishma Robb, Google UK
Nishma is responsible for leading brand and reputation marketing for Google in the UK. She has led many of Google’s acclaimed projects and campaigns including Digital ...
Mastering the client-agency relationship - Richard Warren, prev. Lloyds Banking Group & Lowe
Richard Warren has spent his career working in and growing agencies, but most recently has worked in house at one of the UK's largest banking group, Lloyds. In 2000 Ri...
From start up to £10 billion; building the ultimate challenger brand - Rebecca Dibb-Simkin
Rebecca Dibb-Simkin is the Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Octopus Energy Group. Previously at British Gas, Rebecca has helped scale Octopus into an impressive ...
Humour, purpose & beating imposter syndrome - Jo Arden, Ogilvy UK
Jo Arden is the Chief Strategy Officer of Ogilvy UK, and she joins me on the podcast to talk all things strategy. What's involved, why it's important and how to make a...
Eyebrow raising McDonald's advertising - Chaka Sobhani, Leo Burnett
Chaka Sobhani is Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett London. With 20 years of experience as an award winning director, writer and creative director, she has worked f...
Better Brand Health - Jenni Romaniuk, Ehrenberg-Bass
Professor Jenni Romaniuk is the International Director of the world-famous Ehrenberg-Bass Institute and author of Building Distinctive Brand Assets and How Brands Grow...
Feel free to ignore this podcast episode - Richard Shotton
A return for podcast guest number 1, Richard Shotton, following the launch of his brand new book "The Illusion of Choice: 16½ psychological biases that influence what ...
How not to plan - Les Binet & Sarah Carter
Les Binet and Sarah Carter are planning royalty. Starting out at the iconic BMP, the agency which evolved over time to become adam&eve today, they are the planners beh...
Why every marketer should be more pirate - Sam Conniff
In this episode I'm joined by Sam Conniff, the author of Be More Pirate, creator of Uncertainty Experts and stand-up comedian. I speak to Sam about what marketers can ...
How to build habit-forming products - Nir Eyal, Part 2
Nir Eyal is back for the second part of this 2-part Uncensored CMO series. This episode, we talk about the book that made him famous - Hooked - and how you can apply h...