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Insights on marketing, media, tech, and pop culture trends—served with an extra-large helping of fun. Join award-winning creative director and bestselling author Rick Mathieson and seasoned Silicon Valley CMO Rick Wootten as they explore the latest trends, tools, and strategies in digital, social, experiential, and content marketing. Plus SEO/AISEO, multi-flavor AI (generative, agentic, neuro-symbolic, etc.), your choice of realities (virtual, augmented, mixed)—and the B2B and B2C brands out to make the most of them. Whether you’re entry-level or CxO, a marketer or a creative, the spoiler alert’s the same: This isn’t your grandfather’s marketing podcast. It’s an irreverent, fast-paced dispatch on brand innovation at the corner of awesome and WTF. Guest interviews, pop quizzes, and unfortunate bouts of singing are involved, too. Consider yourself warned.
Unknown Host hosts Rick & Rick Rule the World, a business show with 189 episodes published.
It’s the first new Star Wars movie in over seven years, which means it’s time for an official, Rick and Rick review of “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” Super fans Eric V. and Kurt Ho—the Comic Book Kids—join the conversation
A look at the outdoor campaign for the hit horror flick “Obsession” that’s so effective, it’s scary. New trends in robot boxing. McDonald’s fries do the moonwalk. Canva fosters a squirrel-based “cult.” Plus Loaded Questi
A first-ever, three-time Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year. ChatGPT hallucinations now may come with advertising. Fifty movies for the cost of one? How AI could restructure Hollywood’s cost structure. Allbirds d
Mastering the new LinkedIn algorithm for fun and profit. Mark Zuckerberg sends in the clone. How Steph Curry’s “Moonshot” won Creative Data Campaign of the Year. Plus a whole lot more. IN THIS EPISODE: 🧟♀️ Rick W. Fina
🎬 Playing it safe never won anybody an Oscar. So why set advertisers on such unsure footing during Hollywood’s biggest night? The chief strategy officer of The Nuance Collective joins the show to discuss the state of co
One Rick went to see “The Bone Temple,” the other cosplayed as part of an F1 pit crew. Both bring you their unique brand of news and views from the intersection of marketing, media, tech & pop culture. This time out: The
🎬 From “Avengers: Doomsday” to “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” and beyond, the Ricks look at the 10 most anticipated movies of 2026. Plus: Executives rank the top 5 marketing channels with the best ROI, Kellogg’s Tony
📺 A mere 10 days later, do you think you can remember some, or any, of this year’s Super Bowl spots? In a special edition of Rick and Rick Loaded Questions, we test your ad recall to see just how much mindshare $10 mill
📣 Internet Advertising Bureau’s 2026 advertising spend outlook has digital, AI on the rise. NVIDIA Googles its first CMO. Pringles, Svedka Vodka, Hellmann’s, and Instacart hope to score big at Super Bowl LX—and let’s ju
🎅🏻 Yippee-kay-yay, mirth lovers! The numbers have been crunched, and it’s time to reveal the Ricks’ list of the hottest-but-hardest-to-get tech toys of holiday 2025. Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-st
In the conclusion of our annual coverage of geekdom’s biggest gathering, guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. continue to interview the Ricks about their experience at Comic-Con International 2025. Think: panels, purchases, partie
🕶️ In their annual post-Comic-Con episode, guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. flip the script and interview the Ricks about their experience at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. It’s time to go inside Mardi Gras
It’s time for the Ricks’ official (and highly-spoilerific) review of one of the summer’s biggest movies: James Gunn’s Superman. From backstories to propaganda-posting monkey bots, and from half-baked controversies to cra
🎥 Will James Gunn’s Superman soar—or be box office Kryptonite? Does Jurassic World: Rebirth have bite? In a crowded summer movie season, what’s in store for Ballerina, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Fantastic Four: Fi
🚀 Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks for a closer look at the brand called “Star Wars”—including the marketing deliverables, games, toys, and more on display at Rancho Obi-Wan, the largest private collection of Star War
Insights on Google’s Agentic AI moves. Billie’s scratch-and-sniff deodorant billboard. “The Pineapple Pizza Wars” raging at the Chicago Sun-Times, sparked by an AI-generated summer reading list’s fake books. Oura Ring’s
Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” satisfies. Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” rebrand. Plus: loaded questions about surprising (and hilarious) brand refreshes for Mtn. Dew, PwC, and Panda Express. IN THIS EPISODE: 🫂Digital 'Halo' techno
From the vault: In this episode from 2018, the Ricks respond to a Geek.com article about eleven 1970s sci-fi movies that were … better than Star Wars? Plus: iHop’s “iHob” rebrand revisited—and advice the Ricks would give
In a wide-ranging new interview, 1Kosmos CMO Michael Cichon shares insights on the state of B2B content marketing, adoption of generative AI in modern marketing operations, the importance of digital identity, and more. I
From the vault: In a pre-pandemic time capsule from August 2019, the Ricks marvel over a freaky new Amazon Prime show called “The Boys,” an R-rated horror movie featuring “The Banana Splits,” the origin story of McDonald
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