- 184
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 27
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Inspiring Futures
Inspiring Futures pulls back the curtain on the minds reshaping advertising and marketing today. Host Ed Cotton, former Chief Strategy Officer at Butler Shine and Stern & Partners, engages industry visionaries in raw, unfiltered conversations about their career pivots, creative breakthroughs, and strategic innovations. No canned responses. No PR filters. Just honest insights about navigating the complex world of brands, creativity, and agency life. Each episode delivers actionable wisdom from those who've mastered the craft and aren't afraid to share their failures alongside their successes.
- Publisher
- Ed Cotton
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 184 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ben Schott
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sean Akaks, Co-Founder and CEO of SonderCo, and Jessie Mash, Co-Founder and President.
31 Jul 2026
Dose of Reality - Mark Hadfield and James James Addlestone
Inside a recent episode
Ben Schott
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. But recently, I know, like many others, you've sort of noticed the blanding phenomenon. Yeah. So I wrote this piece for a couple of years. I wrote for Bloomberg Opinion on branding. Yeah. The blanding is actually during COVID while I was wandering the streets of Manhattan, just looking at all of these boxes and just this relentless overwhelm of, you know, the kind of Warby Parker, Away, Quip, these brands that all try to present themselves as sort of anti-man, you know, you know, I was, I wasn't happy with my toothpaste. So I decided to create an, and it's just, they all had exactly the same meet cute origin stories that had exactly the same look and feel exactly the same color palette, neutral color, exactly the same sans serif fonts. […]
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- Ben Schott
- Sean Akaks
- Jessie Mash
- Mark Hadfield
- James James Addlestone
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 22 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100
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- Quality
- 63
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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