Future of Marketing explores how B2B marketing teams are actually using AI at work.
Each episode features honest conversations with CMOs, growth leaders, and operators about real workflows, real decisions, and the trade-offs involved in AI adoption across GTM, content, SEO, analytics, and revenue teams.
This isn't about tools or perfect answers. It's about how marketing actually gets done when AI enters the system: what works, what breaks, and where teams are still experimenting.
Live uncertainty is allowed. Concrete examples are required.
If you're responsible for growth, pipeline, or brand and trying to turn AI into something genuinely useful, this show is for you.
AI, Alignment, And The Death Of Single-Touch Marketing with Kate Johnson
March 12, 2026 • 38 MIN
In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Ethan Smith and Mada Seghete sit down with Kate Johnson, CMO of Dscout, to dismantle one of marketing’s biggest myths: single-source attribution. Kate shares why chasing “what channel won” is the wrong question, how deal storytelling reveals the real drivers of pipeline, and why small, cross-functional teams can outperform larger ones when structured around outcomes, not silos. The future of marketing isn’t about replacing humans with AI. It’s about freeing them to think.
From Community To Revenue: Building An AI-First Marketing Engine with Sara Varni
March 5, 2026 • 48 MIN
In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Camille Ricketts and Mada Seghete sit down with Sara Varni, CMO of Datadog, to explore how marketing teams must rebuild, not just automate, in the age of AI. Sara shares how to navigate developer-first go-to-market without losing executive buyers, why PLG and enterprise should operate as one funnel, and how AI should eliminate low-value work while preserving creativity and authenticity.
Trust Is The Ultimate Differentiator In The Age Of AI with Dave Steer
February 26, 2026 • 49 MIN
In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Ethan Smith and Mada Seghete sit down with Dave Steer, CMO of Webflow, to explore why trust has become the real competitive advantage for brands navigating an AI-driven market. Drawing on leadership roles at PayPal, eBay, Cloudflare, and Webflow, Dave shares the trust equation modern CMOs need to survive, why most marketing teams fail to prove incremental ROI, and how AI is reshaping the marketer’s role into something closer to a go-to-market engineer.
Learn more about how Webflow helps marketing teams create, manage, and optimize personalized web experiences that drive real results.
Rethinking Workflows in the Age of AI with Lena Waters
February 19, 2026 • 50 MIN
In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Camille Ricketts and Mada Seghete sit down with Lena Waters, CMO of Notion, to explore how AI is reshaping not just marketing workflows, but how teams work together. They unpack how Notion integrates AI natively into its product and go-to-market, why “show, don’t tell” beats traditional enterprise selling, and how to scale brand, PLG, and enterprise motion without losing warmth or clarity.
Why the Best CMOs Think Like Operators, Not Marketers With Meagen Eisenberg
February 17, 2026 • 46 MIN
In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Mada Seghete and Ethan Smith sit down with Meagen Eisenberg, CMO of Samsara, to unpack what it actually takes to build an AI-native marketing team. Meagen shares how marketing deployed live AI agents across marketing ops, web, field marketing, growth, PR, creative and more. The conversation goes beyond tools into culture, accountability, and why creativity and human connection still matter more than ever.
Why Authenticity Beats Automation in Modern Marketing
February 17, 2026 • 33 MIN
Most marketers aren’t being replaced by AI, they’re being replaced by marketers who actually know how to use it.
In this launch episode of Future of Marketing, Camille Ricketts, Ethan Smith, and Mada Seghete cut through the AI hype to discuss what’s changing inside modern marketing teams. Drawing from real experience, they explore trends in marketing and AI adoption, where AI can create leverage, their own personal use cases for AI (including how to be funnier), and why human judgment, taste, and storytelling matter more than ever. Going over tradeoffs between authenticity, the risks of messy data, and over-personalization, this episode offers a grounded, practical look at how marketers can move faster without losing what makes their work resonate.