In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira interviews Jake Kurtz, CEO and Founder of Brick Media Group. Brick Media has evolved from a general digital marketing agency into a specialized social media powerhouse that helps established brands modernize their online presence through comprehensive social media management. Starting as a side hustle in 2018, Jake built Brick Media by recognizing a critical shift in the marketing landscape: the emergence of short-form video and the algorithmic revolution sparked by TikTok. By 2020, he made the bold decision to cut all services except social media, positioning Brick Media as Tampa Bay's go-to social media agency. Today, the company operates with 21 full-time W2 employees, managing everything from strategy to content creation to analytics for established businesses that need to add "gasoline to an existing flame" rather than starting from scratch.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira interviews Peter Malick, Founder and CEO of InboundAV. Peter's journey from professional musician and audio producer to marketing agency founder offers a unique lens on how creative expertise translates into marketing innovation. InboundAV has evolved from a marketing automation shop into a forward-thinking agency that's leveraging AI to build micro-SaaS products and fundamentally reimagine what marketing agencies can deliver. After nine years of working with clients ranging from solopreneurs to companies with 170 locations and 2-million-person databases, Peter is now navigating the seismic shift AI is bringing to marketing services—where the competitive advantage is no longer execution capability but strategic thinking and creative direction.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira interviews Scott Leff, Founder of Leff Communications, a content marketing agency that has scaled from a solo freelancer operation to a 30-person team serving global B2B clients. While Leff Communications primarily operates in the B2B space, Scott shares universal lessons about building authority through content, cutting through algorithmic noise on platforms like LinkedIn, and adapting to the AI-driven content landscape that applies across both consumer and enterprise marketing contexts.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira interviews Dimitra Papastathi, Head of Creative Design at Typeform. Typeform has transformed the mundane task of data collection into an engaging experience for over 150,000 businesses worldwide. Leading a lean team of four designers plus an extended creative agency, Dimitra shares how she's evolved Typeform's visual identity while maintaining brand consistency, navigated the rapidly changing AI landscape in creative work, and balanced the tension between systematic design and creative experimentation. From her background in fashion and culture to shaping tech brand narratives, Dimitra reveals the strategic thinking behind building trust through design while keeping audiences surprised.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira interviews Brett Curry, CEO of OMG Commerce, a performance marketing agency specializing in YouTube advertising and omnichannel growth for consumer brands. Since 2010, OMG Commerce has evolved from a general search marketing agency into a specialized growth partner for seven, eight, and nine-figure retail brands. Brett shares how his team creates measurable, incremental growth across YouTube, Meta, Amazon, and Google by combining rigorous testing frameworks, creative strategy, and multi-touch attribution. Through detailed case studies and tactical insights, Brett reveals how brands can unlock YouTube as a performance channel and build sustainable, profitable growth in the post-COVID e-commerce landscape.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira interviews Markus Hetzenegger, Founder & CEO of NYBA Media. NYBA is transforming how the live entertainment industry approaches ticket sales by bringing performance marketing precision to an industry that traditionally relies on unmeasurable old-school advertising. Starting from promoting small university events in Germany, Markus has scaled NYBA to sell over 75 million tickets for artists ranging from Coldplay and The Weeknd to Cirque du Soleil and BBC Earth Experience. By leveraging proprietary AI trained on years of campaign data, NYBA delivers measurable ROI in a market where promoters often invest millions without knowing which marketing efforts actually drove ticket sales.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Brett Stapper interviews Roxy Young, Former Chief Marketing & Consumer Experience Officer at Reddit. Roxy brings a unique perspective to consumer marketing - she's a self-described "pragmatic brand marketer" who started her career in finance and built her expertise through the most quantitative side of marketing before evolving into brand leadership. Over eight years at Reddit, she helped transform the platform from a niche community for gamers and programmers into a mainstream product used by hundreds of millions globally. Her career spans iconic consumer brands including Netflix, Gap, and Sephora, where she learned that great brands aren't built on creative instinct alone—they're built on deep consumer understanding, conviction, and the discipline to evolve thoughtfully.

In this episode of The Future of Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Varun Mathure, Vice President of Marketing, Customer Experience and Art at Product Madness, the world's largest social slots gaming company and part of the Aristocrat Group. With 5 million daily active users across seven distinct apps, Product Madness has established itself as the market leader in free-to-play social casino gaming. Operating primarily in the US, Australia, and Europe, the company has pioneered a model that separates the entertainment value of slots from real money gambling, creating a completely free-to-play experience that generates revenue through in-app purchases and advertising while maintaining over 50% of its user base as non-paying players.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Jana Kleemeier, Senior Director of Creative & Brand Marketing at True Botanicals. True Botanicals is challenging the false dichotomy between clean beauty and high-performance skincare in a market where premium brands typically sacrifice ingredient transparency for efficacy. Operating in a space where consumer skepticism around "clean" claims runs high due to rampant greenwashing, Jana shares how True Botanicals leverages clinical science, sensorial product design, and authentic creative execution to build a luxury brand that refuses to compromise on either performance or sustainability—all while navigating the cultural shift away from digital-first marketing toward experiential, analog brand building.

In this episode of The Future of Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Erika White, Chief Marketing Officer at Navan, the leading all-in-one business travel and expense management platform. Navan is disrupting the antiquated corporate travel industry by bringing consumer-grade personalization to business travel—enabling employees to book trips as seamlessly as their personal travel while maintaining compliance and giving finance teams real-time visibility. After going public in October, Navan is scaling its marketing organization globally while maintaining an in-person culture that mirrors the in-person connections their product facilitates. Erika shares how she's building a unified global marketing function, leveraging AI for brand consistency at scale, and creating demand in a $185 billion addressable market dominated by legacy solutions.