Best Search Engine Journal Podcasts (2025)

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Who Owns AI Visibility? 1:18:05

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In this Kitchen Side episode of The Long Game Podcast, Alex Birkett and the team unpack a question that’s coming up more and more: who actually “owns” being found in AI search—and what AI visibility means for modern marketing teams. They explore why the “AI is killing SEO” debate misses the point, and how AI search is collapsing traditional channel…

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951: Context Engineering, Multiplayer AI and Effective Search, with Dropbox’s Josh Clemm 1:00:04

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VP of Engineering at Dropbox Josh Clemm speaks to Jon Krohn about consolidating search tools across apps with the AI-powered workspace, Dropbox Dash, the new collaborative AI systems that enhance interoperability between team members and their projects, and how to avoid “context rot”. Dropbox Dash gives users the best of Dropbox’s cloud storage and…

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SPECIAL WSJ’s Take On the Week: How This Fed Hawk Views the Economy, Inflation, AI and Jobs 39:39

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As a special bonus, we’re bringing you an episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week. Co-host Telis Demos and guest host WSJ Chief Economics Correspondent Nick Timiraos are joined by Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, to discuss the state of the U.S economy, interest rates and the central bank itself. Hammack shares her views …

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Lost No More, Demand Gen Finds Its Way With New Location Controls 56:50

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Demand Gen adds location targeting options, and Meta expands creator partnership tools for brands. Plus, Google’s December 2025 Core Update rolls out with major early impact. Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/ 👍 Like, Share, and Comment! If you found this video helpful, give us a thumbs up, share it with your…

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950: Happy Holidays from All of Us at the SuperDataScience Podcast 1:59

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In this special holiday episode, the SuperDataScience Podcast team comes together to wish you happy holidays and thank you for listening throughout the year. Team members from around the world share warm greetings in their own voices and languages as we reflect on another year of learning, curiosity, and community. From all of us at SDS, we wish yo…

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The Boldest Ideas of 2025 — And What’s in Store for 2026 24:03

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In this special episode, Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims revisit some of their favorite moments from the first year of Bold Names. We look back on conversations with guests including Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the explosive growth of AI and the complexities of the U.S.-China trade war. Then,…

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How AI is Impacting the Search Landscape: A Conversation w/ Phillip Thune CEO of Adthena 38:49

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How is AI reshaping the way marketers approach search?In this exclusive episode, we sit down with Phillip Thune, CEO of Adthena, to break down how AI and LLMs are fundamentally impacting the search landscape — from brand visibility and competitive insights to the future of paid and organic search.Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/👍 Like, Sh…

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949: Why AI Keeps Failing Society, with Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland 55:28

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Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at MIT and Fellow at Stanford, speaks to Jon Krohn about his new book, Shared Wisdom, why he attributes AI to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and why those risks to society could still be relevant today. We can only achieve better system performance, Alex says, when we build tools t…

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Shopify Opens a Shared Aisle: Your Store, Everyone’s Inventory 1:00:03

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Shopify Launches New Cross-Merchant Product Network & Interview w/ Mike Ryan | EP. 412 This week on Marketing O’Clock: Microsoft tested grouping Bing ads under one “Sponsored results” label — but confirmed the experiment is over. Shopify launched its new Product Network, integrating products across merchants. Search Console added weekly & monthly v…

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948: In Case You Missed It in November 2025 29:07

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In this November episode of “In Case You Missed It” series, Jon Krohn selects his favorite clips from the month. Hear from Shirish Gupta and Tyler Cox (Episode 939), Vikoy Pandey (Episode 941), Marc Dupuis (Episode 937), and Maya Ackerman (Episode 943) on getting back to human motivation and the importance of evaluating the tools and data we use. A…

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Inside PlayStation's Plans to Lead a $200 Billion Industry 26:05

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Gaming is a $200 billion industry that dwarfs Hollywood — and PlayStation is at the center of it all. On this week’s episode of Bold Names, Sony Interactive Entertainment SVP Eric Lempel joins WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins to discuss how the company plans to compete in a mobile-first gaming world. We talk about keeping the “soul” of game d…

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947: How to Get Hired at Top Firms like Netflix and Spotify, with Jeff Li 1:09:32

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Jeff Li tells Jon Krohn what it's like to work at scale as a data scientist and a machine learning engineer at Netflix, Spotify and DoorDash, as well as how to get a foot in the door at these companies. Jeff also discusses how to run forecasts and trends, and how to read their results. Listen to hear Jeff Li discuss how Spotify became a podcast pow…

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Shake, Don’t Stir: Google blends AI Mode with AI Overviews 56:08

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google’s latest test blends AI Overviews with AI Mode. Also, PMax reporting now reveals how Search Partner traffic performs. Nils Rooijmans - LinksFree Google Ads Scripts Library - The Ultimate List – Nils Rooijmans My Daily Newsletter with tips & tricks:https://nilsrooijmans.com/daily/ Custom GPT: Google Ads Script …

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946: How Robotaxis Are Transforming Cities 8:03

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Jon Krohn looks into the benefits of robotaxis, from safety to affordability, in this Five-Minute Friday. Hear about Waymo’s partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, the latest safety studies concerning driverless vehicles, and a case for robotaxis becoming the preferred method of transport in the US, where households spend roughly 15% of their budget o…

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McLaren CEO Zak Brown On F1 And Business Strategy At 200 Miles Per Hour 30:55

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What business lessons are forged at 200 miles per hour? On this week’s Bold Names, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown joins Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins to talk about his new book, “Seven Tenths of a Second.” A racecar driver turned executive, Brown leads a global racing organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars. We talk about the pressure a…

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945: AI is a Joke, with Joel Beasley 56:11

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Is there humor in data? Joel Beasley, host of Modern CTO, tells Jon Krohn how he used AI to turn his sights to stand-up comedy. He also shares his tips on tech leadership that he learned from his popular podcast, Modern CTO, and how he is using generative AI as a collaborative partner in his creative work. This episode is brought to you by the ⁠⁠De…

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AI Hits the Aisles: Perplexity & ChatGPT Roll Out Smarter Shopping 41:36

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google Ads is appearing inside AI Mode as testing expands, food bloggers report major Thanksgiving traffic declines due to AI-generated recipe content, and both Perplexity and ChatGPT debut new AI shopping features. Try Cookiebot - http://marketingoclock.com/cookiebot Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/ 👍 Like…

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944: Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s Back on Top 8:21

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Google is steaming ahead with launching its top-league new Gemini 3 Pro model across their product suite, from Google Search to Vertex AI cloud services. The multinational tech company is also letting eager early adopters like Wayfair and GitHub. Get all the detailed data, its performance across hard-to-game industry benchmarks, and what this all m…

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SPECIAL WSJ Tech Live: The Man Leading Trump’s AI Charge Against China (The Journal Podcast) 22:59

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This week, we’re bringing you an episode of The Journal, produced by Spotify and the Wall Street Journal. In this episode, recorded at WSJ’s Tech Live, host Jessica Mendoza sits down with Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, to discuss everything from chips to chatbots, how Kratsios thinks AI should…

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943: Creative Machines: AI in Music and Art, with Prof. Maya Ackerman 56:38

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Creative human-AI partnerships and AI-generated music: WaveAI CEO and co-founder Maya Ackerman speaks with Jon Krohn about learning to see – and accept – AI’s potential as a creative partner in a human-centric, AI-forward future. Listen to the episode to hear Maya Ackerman discuss reframing hallucination as a creative force, her work at WaveAI, and…

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Filtered to Perfection: Google Gets On-Brand 1:08:49

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google rolls out AI-assisted brand query filters in Search Console, launches Nano Banana Pro for Gemini 3 image generation in Google Ads, and confirms that “Brand Inclusions” in Shopping was a UI bug. Also, Gemini 3 now powers AI Mode, and search volatility continues. Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/ Try Co…

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942: Odds of AGI by 2040? LEAP Expert Forecasts and Workforce Implications 6:13

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What’s on the horizon for AI? Jon Krohn wades through opinions from more than experts, curated by the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP), about what we can expect from the industry. From estimates on AI-assisted workers through energy consumption to AI performance in highly skilled domains, find out just how much LEAP thinkers believe AI is permea…

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Biden’s Antitrust Architect on How Big Tech Threatens U.S. Prosperity 36:23

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Are we becoming a nation mined for our money, data, and attention? Author and legal scholar Tim Wu certainly thinks so. A key architect of President Joe Biden’s antitrust policy, Wu joins WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins on Bold Names to explain how a handful of tech platforms conquered the economy and why he fears Silicon Valley could become…

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Kitchen Side: Correlations, Chaos, and ChatGPT 53:05

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In this Kitchen Side episode of The Long Game Podcast, the Omniscient team dives into a wide-ranging discussion on trust, research quality, and marketing visibility in an AI-driven world. They start with epistemology—what makes research “good” or “bad”—and reflect on how flawed correlations can mislead marketers. The team then unpacks their recent …

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941: Multi-Agent Human Societies, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey 1:06:14

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Vijoy Pandey imagines a bold new society in which agents and humans make scientific discoveries and complete physical tasks together, and he tells Jon Krohn about his work at AGNTCY, Cisco’s open-source platform for the Internet of Agents. Listen to the episode to hear Vijoy Pandey talk about how a future society in which multi-agents and humans in…

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Brand New Ad-ditions to Google Shopping Ads 1:02:00

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Brand Inclusions Coming to Google Shopping Ads & Interview w/ PPC Greg | EP. 408 This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google adds Brand Inclusion to Shopping ads, Opal’s “optimized content at scale” pitch raises SEO questions, and Reddit launches a WooCommerce integration for syncing product catalogs directly into Reddit ads. Visit us at - https://marke…

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940: In Case You Missed It in October 2025 43:27

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Jon Krohn curates a selection of clips from the month that was. Hear from the orchestrators of an expanding AI universe in this episode of In Case You Missed It, with news, views and groundbreaking ideas from Sheamus McGovern, Jerry Yurchisin, Stephanie Hare, Larissa Schneider, and Adrian Kosowsky. We cover baby dragons, the Hippocratic Oath, and, …

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The World’s Tech Giants Are Running Out of Power. This CEO Plans to Deliver. 31:21

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Electricity demand is exploding, fueled by the rise of artificial intelligence and an unprecedented wave of data center construction. Some experts warn the U.S. grid won’t be able to handle it. But Scott Strazik, the CEO of GE Vernova, says his company can deliver. On this episode of Bold Names, Strazik joins the WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higg…

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939: Mixture-of-Experts and State-Space Models on Edge Devices, with Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta 1:06:11

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State space models (SSMs), granite models, and Mamba: Dell’s Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta discuss with Jon Krohn why state space models can process information so efficiently, and how Dell’s AI factory helps enterprises manage custom AI workloads. Hear the latest on the Dell Pro AI Studio and Dell’s partnerships with IBM and Hugging Face in this epi…

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Pmax Has Come A Long Waze: New Inventory & Placement Reporting is on the Way 49:59

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Three new Performance Max updates, including Waze inventory for store campaigns, and more channel reporting visibility — plus, Sam Altman hints at advertising on ChatGPT, and Google Merchant Center debuts a video asset management feature. Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/ Try Cookiebot http://marketingoclock…

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938: Frontier AI Agents for Data Science, with Sphinx’s Rohan Kodialam 19:14

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Jon Krohn speaks to Rohan Kodialam, Cofounder and CEO of Sphinx, the company that redefines how machine intelligence reasons data with frontier AI. In this Feature Friday, Jon and Rohan discuss the benefits of using Sphinx to assist with data analysis. Get under the hood to learn how Sphinx operates, from running commands to ensuring your data stay…

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How Uber Plans to Win the Self-Driving Car Race 31:03

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Driverless cars are no longer in the realm of science fiction. Nearly a decade after abandoning its own self-driving car unit, Uber is taking a hybrid approach, partnering with more than a dozen autonomous vehicle firms, including Alphabet’s Waymo and Chinese robotaxi company WeRide. But as the robotaxi market heats up, can Uber stay in the race? O…

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Earned Media, Brand Journalism, and AI Visibility with Noah Greenberg (CEO at Stacker) 1:05:17

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In this episode of The Long Game Podcast, Alex Birkett interviews Noah Greenberg, CEO of Stacker, a content distribution platform that helps brands turn owned content into earned media. They dive into the paradigm shift from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and how brands can optimize for visibility in AI-pow…

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937: How to Design AI-First Products, with Marc Dupuis 59:32

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AI tools won’t eliminate but elevate data scientists, says Marc Dupuis. The CEO of fabi.ai talks to Jon Krohn about the new wave of AI-driven platforms that integrate workflows within popular work tools like Slack and email, and how building AI-first products means widening access to all ability levels. This episode is brought to you by the Gurobi⁠…

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No Tricks, Just Treats. Ghoul-gle Merchant Center Rolls Out Updates for Merchants. 1:02:58

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google has introduced a new Merchant Center for Agencies, designed to let marketing teams manage multiple client accounts more efficiently from one unified dashboard. GMC is also featuring two new analytics charts: giving merchants clearer visibility into how their promotion campaigns are performing in search. Plus, …

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eCommerce Website Costs and Performance Tiers 12:30

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How much should I expect to spend on an ecommerce website that actually performs?

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Choosing the Optimal eCommerce Payment System 12:17

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Launching an eCommerce store comes with a ton of moving parts: sourcing products, optimizing product pages, managing fulfillment, and, of course, getting people to pay you.

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936: LLMs Are Delighted to Help Phishing Scams 5:07

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How much power – and risk – do we carry around with us in our pockets? A Reuters investigation about how easily LLMs can be utilized for online phishing scams is the subject of this week’s Five-Minute Friday with Jon Krohn. By asking six of the most popular LLMs (Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini) to generate phishing emails speci…

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Inside Visa’s Tech-Charged Future: From Crypto to AI 28:18

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Every second, tens of thousands of transactions cross Visa’s global network. Last year alone, the company processed more than $13 trillion in purchases – nearly triple the size of Japan’s economy. Now, one of the largest payment networks in the world wants to become even bigger. On this episode of Bold Names, Rajat Taneja, Visa’s president of techn…

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Kitchen Side: How to Move Fast 56:11

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In this Kitchen Side episode of The Long Game Podcast, the Omniscient Digital team explores the tension between moving fast and making smart decisions. Speed is often praised in startups and growth environments, but it can lead to thrashing, burnout, and wasted effort when misapplied. Through reflections on agency work, in-house roles, and working …

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935: Global Issues Accelerated by AI (with Solutions), feat. Stephanie Hare 1:17:27

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Jon Krohn speaks to researcher, broadcaster and author Stephanie Hare about how the Hippocratic Oath might apply to artificial intelligence, and a guiding ethos for pushing innovation while protecting users from harm. A code of conduct, she says, could be one approach to ensuring that people are using technology more mindfully and ethically, as wel…

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Atlas(t)... A New Browser Has Come Along. Introducing ChatGPT Atlas 40:43

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: we aren’t going to browse over ChatGPT’s new browser. Plus, Google Ads rolls out some long demanded changes for Demand Gen campaigns with new customer value rules and video generation tools. Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/Adzviser - https://adzviser.com/ 👍 Like, Share, and Comment! If you found this video …

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934: Is AI Replacing Junior Workers? 6:55

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With the number of jobs dramatically slowing in the last year, many question if this decline is down to companies turning to AI for completing entry-level tasks in particular. Research published earlier this month by Yale University shows no major difference in the types of roles and tasks in so-called `white-collar jobs` since late 2022, an auspic…

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This Tech Founder's $1.3 Billion Company Is Taking On Apple and Samsung 29:42

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Can a startup beat Apple and Samsung on their own turf? Carl Pei, the founder and CEO of Nothing, is betting on it. Growing up in Sweden, Pei was captivated by American gadgets like Apple’s first iPod. But over time, he says, those products lost their edge. On the latest episode of Bold Names, Pei joins WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins to exp…

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933: Future-Proofing Your Career in the AI Era, feat. Sheamus McGovern 1:15:10

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Sheamus McGovern, CEO of Open Data Science, takes Jon Krohn and his listeners on a journey to launching his popular data science and AI conference, now in its tenth year, as well as the great shifts to the fields that he has seen on the way. For Seamus, the growth of his Open Data Science Conference has shown him that an AI engineer is just the beg…

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Hide or Seek: The ‘Sponsored Results’ Update is Here 55:08

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google rolls out “Sponsored results” label in Search — now with a hide button for when you’ve had enough ads. Also, Shopping ads welcome subscriptions, helping sellers turn one-time buyers into repeat customers. Adzviser - https://adzviser.com /Visit us at - https://marketingoclock.com/ 👍 Like, Share, and Comment!If …

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932: Should You Build or Buy Your AI Solution? With Larissa Schneider 29:10

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Larissa Schneider speaks to Jon Krohn in this Feature Friday about finding the right time to invest in AI solutions, and when it’s better to build them yourself. She discusses her work leading global strategy and operations at Unframe, and how they raised $50 million in venture capital since the company’s launch in March 2025. Additional materials:…

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Why This Investor Says the AI Boom Isn’t the Next Dot-Com Crash 31:06

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The artificial intelligence boom has sparked one of the costliest building sprees in history. By 2028, investment in chips, servers and data centers could hit nearly $3 trillion, according to Morgan Stanley. To help fund the build-out, tech companies are taking on huge amounts of debt, raising concerns of a possible bubble. On the latest episode of…

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931: Boost Your Profits with Mathematical Optimization, feat. Jerry Yurchisin 1:13:12

2M ago1:13:12

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AI predictions, and how to act on them: Data Science Strategist at Gurobi, Jerry Yurchisin, speaks to Jon Krohn about how mathematical optimization helps enterprises automate decisions for business success and where to find the resources to make it happen. This episode is brought to you by the ⁠ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference, by Fabi, by ⁠D…

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YouTube Finds Its Pulse — and It’s Beating for Brands 55:20

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: YouTube launches an AI-powered Brand Pulse report connecting paid and organic video performance. Also, Google Ads rolls out a new “View-through Conversion Optimization” Beta for Demand Gen campaigns. Plus, a new “Missed Growth Opportunities” tab appears in Google Ads. Check out Adzviser https://adzviser.com/ Visit us…