A podcast series focusing on audience engagement through visual storytelling. A 360 view on connecting with the audience that matters to you, whether that’s consumers, clients, stakeholders, or employees. Through entertaining and practical conversations with experts from various industries and disciplines, listeners will gain valuable insights and tips on how to engage with the audiences that matter to them.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast series focusing on audience engagement through visual storytelling. A 360 view on connecting with the audience that matters to you, whether that’s consumers, clients, stakeholders, or employees. Through entertaining and practical conversations with experts from various industries and disciplines, listeners will gain valuable insights and tips on how to engage with the audiences that matter to them.
Audience Connection is hosted by Casual. The show has published 47 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Acts over Ads: Stories that are on Brand with Raelene Metlitzky" (25 August 2026, 46 minutes), "The magic word that makes you say yes with Nancy Harhut" (27 July 2026, 73 minutes), and "Taking Risks in leading with Story: Lessons from the LA Times Brand Studios with Kristen Berke" (7 July 2026, 45 minutes).
Audience Connection publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 47 episodes.
Booking probability for Audience Connection is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Audience Connection requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Audience Connection's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Audience Connection are Marketing, Advertising & PR. Audience Connection has a business audience.
Casual hosts Audience Connection, a business show with 47 episodes published.
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Episode #32
Lydia Chan sits down with Raelene Metlitzky, Head of Content and Editorial at IAG, Australia's largest insurer, to explore why brand storytelling isn't the story of your brand, but a story that's on brand. It's a...
Episode #31
What if the biggest barrier to your marketing isn't your budget or your production values, but the fact that you're speaking to the 5% of the brain that's actually paying attention? Oliver Atkinson sits down with Nancy...
Episode #30
In this episode of Audience Connection, Lydia Chan sits down with Kristen Berke, VP of Entertainment and Branded Content Partnerships at LA Times Studio, to unpack a campaign that on paper shouldn't have worked, and...
Episode #29
Lydia Chan sits down with Tori Jackson, Senior Manager of Partnerships and Commercial Strategy at Sundial Media and Technology Group — home to Essence, Refinery29 and Beauty Con — to explore how brands earn real loyalty...
Episode #12
Oliver Atkinson sits down with media pioneer Bill Harvey, creator of Resonance Media Theory (RMT), to explore why understanding human motivation beats chasing attention, and how a breakthrough audience measurement...
Episode #28
Oliver Atkinson sits down with speaker, consultant and author Jenni Field to explore why so many people inside organisations have quietly stopped believing their leaders, and what it actually takes to earn that belief...
Episode #10
What if the biggest mistake brands make isn't saying the wrong thing, but not understanding the story their audience is already living? Oliver Atkinson sits down with Kristian A. Alomá, PhD, Founder & CEO at Threadline...
Episode #9
In this episode, co-hosts Lydia Chan and Olly Atkinson recaps his talk at AdFest 2026 in Thailand titled "Making People Care: Storytelling in the Age of AI,” where he strapped biometric trackers on 50 unsuspecting...
Episode #8
In this episode of Audience Connection, Lydia Chan sits down with Jordan P. Kelley, Director of Content and Editor-in-Chief at Aivanta, to explore what it truly means to do brand storytelling right and why so many...
Episode #7
Oliver Atkinson continues his conversation with Sandra Gaudenzi to ask a tougher question: once a story moves someone, how do you turn that moment into real change without slipping into manipulation? Sandra reframes...
Episode #6
Oliver Atkinson sits down with interactive documentary pioneer Sandra Gaudenzi to explore why stories become more powerful when audiences stop being spectators and start becoming participants. From the childhood moment...
Episode #5
Lydia Chan is joined by Sabrina Talma, CEO and Co-Founder of Human Made Machine, a creative intelligence platform that helps global brands test and refine creative work before it goes to market. With clients spanning...
Episode #4
To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Oliver Atkinson sits down with Oliver Markeson, CEO and Co-Founder of Neurohaus, to explore why neuroinclusive design is not a niche fix but a smarter way to build calmer...
Episode #3
Oliver Atkinson sits down with behavioural science researcher Will Leach, founder of MindState Group and author of Marketing to MindStates, to reveal how “hot states” (MindStates) shape decisions, and how targeting the...
Episode #1
This podcast episode features Michael Sternoff, Global Creative Director at Amazon Leo (Amazon's low-Earth orbit satellite network). Michael shares his diverse background, spanning Emmy-winning filmmaking and video game...
Episode #1
Season 2 opens with hosts Lydia Chan and Oliver Atkinson looking back at the biggest lessons from Season 1 - how behavioral science and culture shaped their understanding of why certain stories connect. What began as a...
Episode #27
Lydia Chan speaks with Kristen Souders, Senior Director of Global Brand and Content Studio at Hitachi Vantara, to explore what it really takes to create standout storytelling in B2B tech. Kristen breaks down the...
Episode #26
Lydia Chan sits down with Angela Siddall, Global Lead for Culture, Employer Brand and Experience at Veeam, to explore what tech professionals really want from employers today. Drawing from over 20 years of global...
Episode #25
Oliver Atkinson sits down with Dr. Gemma Calvert, Professor of Consumer Neuroscience, Nanyang Technological University and Co-Founder of Split Second Research, to decode how always-on dopamine loops, “digital amnesia,”...
Episode #24
Oliver Atkinson sits down with behavioral-science heavy hitter Richard Shotton to unpack the simple nudges, concreteness, distinctiveness, and smart pricing frames that help your ideas get noticed, remembered, and...
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