The ClickZ Digital Marketing Podcast

🎧 Why AI Talent Is the #1 Growth Challenge for Businesses (and How to Solve It)

AI tools are evolving fast—but if your company can’t hire or retain the right talent, you’re already falling behind. In this episode, we speak with Chris Morrow, founder of specialist AI recruitment firm DigiTalent, about how businesses can compete globally for top AI professionals and what’s holding many back.

You’ll learn:

Why the real AI bottleneck is people, not tech

What roles companies are hiring for (AI engineers, ML ops, data architects, and more)

How to position your business to attract top-tier talent without Silicon Valley budgets

Why AI adoption is a cultural and organisational transformation, not just a tech upgrade

What the UK needs to do to become a global AI leader and how to fix the talent pipeline

Chris also shares what companies must do to build trust, stay competitive, and create inclusive, high-performing teams in today’s global AI race.

Whether you're hiring, scaling, or just starting to implement AI, this episode offers grounded, strategic advice from the front lines of AI business growth.

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I'm joined by Mark Evans, Managing Director Marketing and Digital at Direct Line Group. We talk about what it takes to be a modern marketing leader, Sprintathons, audience insights, ad effectiveness, transparency and why curious marketers love a good challenge.

This is the ClickZ digital marketing podcast and I’m joined by legendary marketer Dan Gilbert. We’ll be talking about how and why marketing has changed, bringing creativity and science together to produce highly effective marketing campaigns.

Dan Gilbert is the CEO and founder of Brain Labs, one of the most effective and successful digital marketing agencies in the UK. Dan will be giving his advice on building effective marketing campaigns and sharing some great case studies. We’ll hear what it means to apply an experimental approach to marketing and why it’s the only way to future proof your business. We’ll also be discussing transparency and how the role of agency partners and technology will develop in the future.

In this episode, I am joined by James Patterson from The Trade Desk. We discuss the future of online advertising, how programmatic has to evolve, creating greater transparency and the importance of the ad funded 'Open Web'.

Join Eric Bozinny from Pubmatic as we learn about the different types of ad fraud and what the industry is doing to combat them. You'll learn what marketers should be doing to ensure greater transparency and hear about industry wide initiatives to tackle ad fraud in display advertising.

Many brands have brought aspects of their media buying in-house. So just what is involved and how straight forward is this process? We look at the benefits and challenges of in-housing with James Briscoe, COO at PerceptAudit who has helped a number of major brands with their in-housing projects.

In this special episode, I will be giving you my perspective on the trends that I believe are going to be important for marketers to address in 2019. We'll look at the trends that have shaped digital marketing in the last couple of years and then I'll outline the 4 key trends that I think marketers need to address in 2019, and why I think the future of advertising belongs to consumers

Join Peter Milla from Cint to learn what the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is and what impact it will have on any business that has customers or staff in the EU. We discuss the long term impact and whether this will change how consumers value their privacy and data.

Join Blockchain expert Jeremy Epstein, former VP of Sprinklr, and understand what Blockchain is (hint it's not just cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin)and start to recognise it's potential to empower consumers and revolutionize marketing.

Scott Brinker is the Chiefmartec, the globally recognised authority on the intersection of marketing and technology. In this episode we cover the phenomenal growth of 'marketing technology' and then discuss how CMOs can build processes in their teams to allow them to experiment and innovate, whilst still maintaining business as usual. It's fine to feel a little overwhelmed by the pace of change, and Scott offers some practical advice on how marketers can be the catalyst for change. Along the way we discuss attribution, AI, personalisation, big-data and always putting the customer at the centre.