Future of Consumer Marketing

Why AI Makes Your Brand Sound Like Everyone Else


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In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing: Masterclass Edition, host Andres Figueira speaks with Todd Anthony, founder of Pinwheel Agency, a senior-only creative shop built as a deliberate counterpoint to the bloated big-agency model. After decades inside holding companies and client-side roles at Yahoo and CBS, Todd built Pinwheel around a simple but contrarian thesis: strip out the juniors, kill the bait-and-switch, and let expensive talent run fast without supervision. Eleven years in, clients like Stripe and Experian have stayed for five to ten years — and the agency is deliberately staying small to keep it that way.

Topics Discussed:
  • Why the traditional agency staffing model is broken — and how to exploit that gap
  • Building a senior-only creative team and what that actually means operationally
  • How to use custom brand voice GPTs across large organizations
  • Why AI is a pattern-repeating machine, not a pattern-breaking one — and why that matters for marketing
  • Niching down into complexity: marketing SaaS and enterprise products with compliance constraints
  • How to scale a creative agency 20% annually without losing quality control
  • ...more
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    Future of Consumer MarketingBy The Global Talent Co.