Steal The Strategy Behind Ryan Serhant’s ‘Owning Manhattan’ Launch

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If you watched the rollout for Season 2 of Owning Manhattan and thought, “Wow, that show is everywhere right now,” that wasn’t an accident. Ryan Serhant didn’t treat the new season like a TV premiere. He treated it like a product launch—with anticipation, distribution, and binge behavior engineered in advance. That mindset is the real lesson here, whether you’re promoting […]

PODCAST: AI, Outrage, and the Business of Getting Punched in Public

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Hollywood fired everyone. AI got a promotion. Mainstream studios are backing away from politics while parallel media ecosystems—conservative, faith-based, and MAGA-adjacent—keep building loyal audiences that actually convert. Then influencer boxing did what it always does: told the truth. Attention can sell a fight. It can’t win one. In this episode, we analyze: If you’re a […]

How One Local Baseball Team is Beating Major League Marketing

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The most effective marketing today doesn’t look or feel like traditional marketing anymore. As the minor league baseball team gone global’s CMO, Kara Heater, puts it, “Nobody wants to feel sold to. They want to feel valued.” And that belief is exactly why few modern brands illustrate this shift better than the Savannah Bananas. This […]

AI-Generated Ads Are Here, The Market Isn’t Ready, and the Law Is Catching Up Faster Than It Should

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AI-generated commercials are no longer a novelty. They’re cheaper, faster, infinitely scalable, and increasingly indistinguishable from traditional production. Brands that once needed weeks of filming, crews, talent contracts, and post-production can now generate passable ads in hours—sometimes minutes. That reality creates real opportunity. It also creates a problem no one has fully solved yet: trust. Businesses […]

DEI Is No Longer a Brand Safe Bet and Communications Teams Know It

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For most of the last decade, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs were treated as reputational insurance. Brands adopted them not because they clarified mission or improved performance, but because opting out felt risky. That era is over. The political and cultural climate of 2025 has turned DEI from a presumed moral good into a strategic […]

UFC and PFL Are Competing in the Same Sport but Only One Owns the Content Pipeline

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From the outside, the UFC and the Professional Fighters League are both MMA promotions. Inside the media economy, they’re playing very different games. The UFC has quietly turned Las Vegas into a year-round content factory. The PFL, by contrast, is still struggling to make sure fans even know when its fights are happening. The difference isn’t […]

The A’s Strip Ballpark Is a Long-Tail Sponsorship Play—Not a Stadium Deal

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Most people are looking at the Oakland A’s planned Las Vegas Strip ballpark as a sports story. That’s a mistake. From a marketing and sponsorship perspective, the A’s roughly $2 billion stadium project is shaping up to be one of the most valuable long-tail brand platforms in the country—and not because of baseball. With a projected 2028 opening, Clark County […]

What Is an “AI Marketing Agency” — And Is Any of This Legit?

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Lately, more clients are asking the same question: “We’re talking to a few AI marketing agencies.” That phrase sounds impressive. It also happens to cover a wide range of things — most of which are not agencies, not intelligent, and not especially useful. So let’s slow this down and explain what’s actually happening. Because right […]

Remso W. Martinez Recognized by Marquis Who’s Who for Leadership and Innovation in Marketing

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Remso W. Martinez, founder and chief executive officer of Marketer on the Run, has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who of Top Executives, a premier biographical registry that honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional achievement, leadership, and influence in their respective fields. Martinez was selected based on his professional accomplishments, visibility, and sustained impact […]

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