Under the Influence gives listeners a rare backstage pass into the hallways, boardrooms and recording studios of the ad industry.Join host and adman Terry O’Reilly for fascinating (and humorous) stories that connect the dots between pop culture, marketing and human nature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
362 episodes transcribedThis time, we explore the little known and surprising world of Industrial Musicals. In an unexpected collision of Madison Avenue and Broadway, compani...
The research team at Under The Influence does a lot of reading over the year, and finds a lot of great stories - many of which don’t fit into our regu...
This time, we explore the world of loyalty programs. In this day and age, marketers do everything possible to encourage loyal customers, and loyalty p...
This week, we take a trip to five different countries to listen to some astonishing radio advertising. From a theatre company in Switzerland that spon...
It’s part two of our Strange Bedfellows episode. It’s not just smaller brands that are beginning to advertise on porn sites, Hollywood has come knocki...
In this show, we explore the increasingly blurry line between advertising and porn. There has always been a line advertisers wouldn’t cross to promote...
This is our annual episode where Terry tells some interesting stories about the brands he admires. This year, it includes the very first toy ever adve...
In this show, we explore the world of business-to-business advertising. It used to be the most boring advertising in the world - where green copywrite...
This week, we search for some of the world’s oldest brands. 80% of companies fold after 18 months, the ones that survive average a 50 year lifespan -...
This week, we look at how marketing companies bounce back from blunders and epic missteps. Yes, most apologize, but what happens after the apology? We...
While there are many strange products in the world, there are even stranger service companies. This week, we talk about a company that rents wedding g...
The most interesting cultural differences aren’t country to country, they are province to province, state to state, and even city to city. This week,...
This week, we explore when a smaller advertiser attacks the weak spot in a bigger advertiser’s marketing. It’s a strategy of brinksmanship, because it...
In this episode, we explore the marketing of movie merchandise. From the earliest days of merchandising book characters, to the true beginning of movi...
This week, we explore words invented by marketers. Many of those words found their way into the dictionary and have become part of our daily language,...
This episode explores how small moves can result in huge business gains. While much of the business world spends its time looking for the big idea, ma...
This week, we look at the consequences when marketing companies lie. From the Volkswagen scandal, to a promotion that brought Hoover to its knees...
This week, the topic is Zombie Brands - products and companies that had a long run of success, then ran into difficulties, and were either shut down o...
Most products offer customers as many features and benefits as possible in order to lure shoppers toward a purchase. But then there are some companies...
In our first episode of 2016, we look at how the marketing industry created many of our everyday rituals. We don't think twice about having bacon &...
