Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot’s CMO) and Kieran Flanagan (Hubspot's SVP of Marketing), lead you down the rabbit hole of marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation. On the way you’ll pick up undiscovered strategies to give you that slight edge for success. These are not your typical twitter thread regurgitated marketing tactics that everyone is doing. These are new methods, with unfiltered examination of successful fresh ideas.

Marketing Against The Grain
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Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot’s CMO) and Kieran Flanagan (Hubspot's SVP of Marketing), lead you down the rabbit hole of marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation. On the way you’ll pick up undiscovered strategies to give you that slight edge for success. These are not your typical twitter thread regurgitated marketing tactics that everyone is doing. These are new methods, with unfiltered examination of successful fresh ideas.
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Recent Episodes

September 22, 2026
Give Us 30 Minutes & We’ll Rebuild Your Marketing
Kipp Bodnar and Kieran Flanagan interview industry experts on how to win in the AI era by rebuilding marketing strategies and leveraging AI for content creation.

September 17, 2026
Zero-Click Marketing: How Founders Win When Google, Social, and LLMs Stop Sending Traffic. A/B: The Post-SEO Playbook.
Kipp Bodnar and Kieran Flanagan interview Amanda Natividad, founder of Zero Click Marketing, about thriving in the zero-click search era by evolving beyond traditional SEO.

September 15, 2026
How AI Is Empowering One-Person Companies with Dharmesh Shah
Kipp Bodnar and Kieran Flanagan interview Dharmesh Shah, Founder of HubSpot, exploring how AI empowers one-person companies and revolutionizes the entrepreneur's "second brain."
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