The AI Marketing Companion

Mark Schaefer, Sandy Carter
scarter2922@gmail.com (+1 verified host & producer email)

Booking Overview

A marketing-forward show focused on practical, future-facing guidance for digital growth—often through high-level experts. Guests explore how emerging tech (especially AI) is reshaping branding, content, and campaign performance, with a strong “what you should do next” angle for marketers.

Metrics

Episodes: 353

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 2.8k subscribers

Instagram: 2.3k followers

30s Ad: 64 - 79, 60s Ad: 76 - 91

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Host

Mark Schaefer - Marketing leader and author known for making digital marketing and future trends practical for business teams. In this show’s format, he typically co-anchors or frames the mission of delivering ent...

Sandy Carter - Marketing and technology executive who serves as a rotating host on The Marketing Companion, guiding episodes with expert guests and distilling lessons into actionable takeaways for marketing leade...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Marketing/technology executives, founders, and recognized creative or strategy leaders—often with experience shipping enterprise solutions, building new frameworks/categories, or creating high-visibility work with major brands or institutions.
Required Achievements:  
Founded/led marketing-tech or AI-related startups, Authored frameworks or categories used by industry, Produced award-winning branded or institutional experiences, Worked with major global brands or organizations (e.g., large enterprise teams, film festivals, global institutions)

Recent Guest Discussions

Diaz Nesamoney - Agentic Commerce Implications; Brand Control As A Technical Problem; AI Storefront And Conversational Commerce; Zero-party Intent Data In Conversational Journeys.

Dan Nestle - Authority Intelligence And Ai-driven Professional Ranking; Linkedin’s Role As An AI “truth Source”; Fixing Misread Authority Signals; Practical Steps For Senior Leaders.

Michaela Ternasky-Holland - Compassionate Storytelling; Ethics And Trust In Marketing; Generative AI For Creative Teams; ROI Case For Experiential Campaigns; Principles From Immersive Design.

Recent Topics

Marketing, Branding, Digital, Artificial Intelligence, Content, Personal Growth, Customer Experience, Experiential, Analytics, Technology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The AI Marketing Companion
:

The 5 Must-Know AI Lessons for Marketers

May 13, 2026

Described AI is changing marketing faster than any technology shift we've seen before. The question is no longer whether marketers should use AI. The question is who will use it well enough to win. In just 30 minutes, you'll learn the five AI First lessons every marketer needs right now to stay relevant, drive measurable business outcomes, and lead in a world where agents, automation, and intelligent systems are becoming part of every campaign and customer interaction. We'll cover why some co...

DaVinci And OpenAI Shipped Agentic Commerce

April 28, 2026

Everyone is talking about agentic commerce. DaVinci and OpenAI just shipped it. Sandy Carter sits down with Diaz Nesamoney to unpack what the news means for marketers who are still chasing clicks while the storefront moves into ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Diaz breaks down the brand control crisis, the content architecture overhaul every CMO needs this quarter, and the zero-party intent data hiding inside conversational commerce. Sandy closes with four lessons every marketing leader needs fro...

Lilypath's Dan Nestle on LinkedIn as AI Branding For You!

April 14, 2026

Dan Nestle, founder of Lilypath, joins Sandy Carter on The Marketing Companion to unpack a shift most professionals have not noticed yet. AI systems are now interpreting, ranking, and recommending people before any human ever clicks a profile. Dan calls this Authority Intelligence, a new category he built Lilypath to define. Inside the episode, Dan and Sandy cover the Gemini Deep Research moment that exposed how badly AI can misread a real expert, why LinkedIn has quietly become the number on...

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