The Last Advertising Podcast

Robert Castaño developed his perspective through music, hospitality, culture and his journey into advertising through the BLAC Internship Program.

The recording artist and BARKER Account Supervisor joins The Last Advertising Podcast to discuss escaping the algorithm, understanding why you like what you like and using your entire creative identity as a professional advantage.

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Joanna D’Avanzo teaches young creatives to think like mother sea turtles: produce a lot of ideas, accept that most will not survive, and return ready to make more.

The award-winning Marist University professor and former VP/creative director joins The Last Advertising Podcast to explain why great creatives know a little about a lot, why AI is one-note, and how museums, art history, subway conversations, unfamiliar films, and honest feedback make the work better.

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Advertising changes faster than universities can rewrite a syllabus, but Joe Glennon believes the fundamentals still win.

The Indiana University senior lecturer and former creative director joins The Last Advertising Podcast to explain why every idea still starts with the brand, how AI creates a race to average, and why curiosity and work ethic separate the students who break in from those who blend in.

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Advertising says it wants fresh talent, then asks that talent to arrive with agency experience already stamped on a résumé.

BLAC Executive Director Nicolet Gatewood joins The Last Advertising Podcast to explain how BLAC opens the door through a paid 12-week internship, why the support continues after interns break in, and what agencies miss when they keep recruiting from the same places.

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Nick Gallo went from graffiti and six-second Vines to helping build HQ Trivia and founding Loop, the creative studio behind work people actually send to their friends.

He joins The Last Advertising Podcast to talk about moving at New York speed, finding a brand’s discomfort zone, and why every young creative needs to make the idea smaller and ship the damn thing.

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If this were the last advertising podcast ever made, Maryah Greene thinks the industry should learn how to actually work with creators.

She would know. Before joining Droga5, Maryah was one.

Her career started as a third-grade teacher before a plant-focused Instagram account turned into a full-time creator career, brand partnerships, a design business, and eventually an entirely new career inside advertising.

Today, Maryah is Creator Partnerships Lead at Droga5, helping brands, agencies, and creators understand one another.

On what we're pretending is the final advertising podcast, Maryah and Geno Schellenberger talk about what brands still misunderstand about creators, why niche communities are becoming more valuable, what five years on the creator side taught her about advertising, and why unconventional experience can become an advantage in this business.

This is The Last Advertising Podcast.

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As AI gets better at executing ideas, what should the next generation of advertising talent actually study?

Professor Scott R. Hamula joins The Last Advertising Podcast to discuss the future of advertising education, the value of a liberal arts education, and why specialization still matters. Scott is Professor and Program Director of Advertising, Public Relations, and Marketing Communications at Ithaca College, a recipient of the American Advertising Federation’s Distinguished Advertising Educator Award and its Barton A. Cummings Gold Medal Award, the AAF’s highest honor for volunteer service.

Geno and Scott discuss how AI could change what advertising students need to learn, why curiosity and connecting ideas across disciplines are becoming increasingly valuable, the role of internships and extracurriculars, and why every student should start building a learning portfolio long before graduation.

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This is it. The last advertising podcast to ever be made.
But before we quit, we need to talk about time.
Switzerland has centuries of watchmaking history. Shinola is building an American version from a factory in downtown Detroit.
Kevin Wertz, CMO of Shinola, joins Geno Schellenberger to explain how a 13-year-old brand can create a sense of heritage, craftsmanship, and permanence in a category dominated by names that have existed for generations.
Shinola has expanded from watches into leather goods, jewelry, journals, bicycles, and hotels. That growth created a problem: people knew the name, but they did not always know what the brand stood for.
The answer was to return to the Runwell, the watch that started everything.
Kevin explains how Shinola turned that product into the anchor for the entire brand, why Detroit gives the company a story no Swiss watchmaker can copy, and how its latest campaign transformed a watch into a statement about reclaiming your time from your phone.
The conversation also explores the difference between signaling wealth and signaling values, why people choose products that reflect who they are, and what agencies misunderstand about working with a CMO.
Kevin closes the show with the final lesson advertising needed: people buy on emotion and justify it with rational thought.
Time’s up.
The advertising podcast is officially over.
Until next week.
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Adam Lynn dropped out of college to take Steve Aoki on tour. Which is either a terrible life decision or the beginning of America’s largest touring music festival.

Fortunately, it was the second one.

Today, Breakaway operates in 13 festival markets, with roughly 5,000 local ambassadors wearing its shirts, promoting its festivals and presumably making their parents ask whether this is a real job. Adam joins us to explain how Breakaway finds cities overlooked by the major festival companies, wins over the local nightclub owner and builds a national brand without pretending every community is exactly the same.

It’s a conversation about grassroots marketing, surviving COVID and the rarest achievement in branding: making merchandise people voluntarily pull out of their closets.

This is the last advertising podcast to ever interview the man who brought Kendrick Lamar to a BYOB party in an Ohio cornfield.

Until next week.

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This is it. The last advertising podcast to ever be made.

But before we quit, we should probably figure out how to break into the industry.

Jonathan Ogle founded Infinite Agency without ever working at another agency. Sixteen years later, his company works with brands including Six Flags, Southwest Airlines, Smoothie King, Supercuts, and Benihana. Jonathan still occasionally wonders whether he has officially broken into advertising.

He joins Geno Schellenberger for one final conversation about creating your own opportunities, recovering from brutal creative feedback, and becoming known for solving one specific problem.

Jonathan also explains why recent graduates should stop presenting themselves as beginners, how personal projects can become legitimate experience, and why two people can start an agency before they have a client.

The conversation later explores building Infinite Agency, identifying the business problem that actually matters, and the courage required to create a campaign in which a restaurant sued itself over its own terrible wings.

The advertising podcast is officially over.

Until next week.

The Last Advertising Podcast is hosted by Geno Schellenberger and powered by Breaking & Entering Media.

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