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How do the smartest marketers and business entrepreneurs cut through the noise? And how do they manage to do it again and again? It's a combination of math—the strategy and analytics—and magic, the creative spark. Join iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman as he analyzes the Math and Magic of marketing—sitting down with today's most gifted disruptors and compelling storytellers.
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Celebrating MTV’s Anniversary with the Real Story of MTV
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Aug 01, 2024 |
Pitbull: “Anything you love you have to fight for.”
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Ryan Seacrest: “I celebrate people, but I’m not the star.”
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Andrew Jarecki: “People really do want to tell you their story.”
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Rob Reilly: “Be a fountain of ideas.”
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Mar 28, 2024 |
Scott Borchetta: “This is the future – we better figure this out.”
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Kenneth Feld: “People make an organization.”
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Kellyn Smith Kenny: “The working world is a team sport.”
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Feb 29, 2024 |
Math & Magic Returns Thursday, February 29th
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Ted Leonsis: “People want purpose.”
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Jun 08, 2023 |
Howard Makler: “Your brand is a fingerprint of your behavior.”
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Jacki Kelley: “Don’t be afraid to zig and zag.”
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May 25, 2023 |
Jon Bon Jovi: “It comes down to truth.”
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May 11, 2023 |
Angela Yee: “Every time I learn something, I want to bring it to people.”
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May 04, 2023 |
Paris Hilton: “I love to be someone who is underestimated.”
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Apr 27, 2023 |
Gwyneth Paltrow: “Transaction can actually be a service”
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Apr 13, 2023 |
Allen Grubman: “I’m a businessman first and a lawyer second.”
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Apr 06, 2023 |
Blake Scholl: “It doesn’t matter what you’ve already done. It’s what you can learn to do.”
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Mar 30, 2023 |
Math & Magic Returns March 30th
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Mar 23, 2023 |
Colin Cowherd: “I’m more interested in ‘the why’ than ‘the what.’”
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Dec 08, 2022 |
Christian Juhl: "I have to predict the future just slightly better than everybody else."
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Dec 01, 2022 |
Mike Meldman: "If the product is bad, no matter who is behind it, it won’t work.”
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Nov 17, 2022 |
Byron Sharp: “Highly restrictive targets are a fantastic way to shrink brands.”
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Nov 10, 2022 |
Stephanie Ruhle: “I want the world to get better and smarter.”
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Tony Coles: “We are sourcing stories that mainstream newsrooms would never tell.”
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Jeff Bewkes: “We didn’t care about the ratings.”
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Oct 13, 2022 |
Steve Cooper: “You should never get too comfortable.”
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Oct 06, 2022 |
Dr. David Eagleman: “The conscious mind is like a broom closet in the mansion of the brain.”
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Sep 29, 2022 |
Suzy Deering: “We are at the moment where everything changes. And a big reason we’re at that moment, is the F-150 Lightning.”
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Math & Magic Returns September 22nd
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Sep 15, 2022 |
Bob Pittman on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Ben Horowitz: “Let’s go make something. Let’s change the world.”
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Aug 12, 2021 |
Celebrate MTV’s 40th Birthday with the Real Story of MTV
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Jul 31, 2021 |
Remi Kent: “A small act can make a difference.”
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Jun 10, 2021 |
Christian Navarro: “I've been at the bottom; and if I can use that energy to help people stay on top, then I win.”
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May 13, 2021 |
Brad Gerstner: “If something's not a fast yes, then it's a quick no.”
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Mar 18, 2021 |
Alec Baldwin: “You have to find a way to make it work.”
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Gary Vaynerchuk: “Accountability's an incredible gateway to happiness.”
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Jan 28, 2021 |
Sir Martin Sorrell: “Good people are by nature difficult”
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Oct 15, 2020 |
Elizabeth Rutledge: “We call our employees colleagues.”
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Sep 24, 2020 |
Jan Brandt: “We had to break a lot of glass”
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Aug 13, 2020 |
Brad Hiranaga: “I’ve been in love with brands since I was 5 years old.”
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Jul 02, 2020 |
The Real Story of MTV: Founder’s Edition
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Jun 25, 2020 |
Marisa Thalberg: “Connect the dots that aren’t obvious”
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Jun 11, 2020 |
Dave Cote: “I benefited from second chances. I always kept that in mind”
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May 28, 2020 |
“Believe in your own greatness”: Advice from Tim Cook, David Chang, Abby Wambach and more
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May 21, 2020 |
Hans Vestberg: “This country relies on connectivity. My job is to empower and energize my company in these times.”
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Apr 16, 2020 |
Special Covid-19 Episode: "Market with humanity"
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Mar 26, 2020 |
Philippe Krakowsky: “If you say you’re going to do something, do something.”
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Mar 19, 2020 |
Shazi Visram “Finding solutions— that’s just a part of my DNA.”
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Mar 12, 2020 |
Rich Lennox: “I came from a culture where I saw big ideas transform businesses.”
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Mar 05, 2020 |
Fan Favorite: Judy McGrath: “I didn’t know anything about TV; I didn’t even like it!” (rebroadcast)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
Bonus Episode—How They Made It
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Feb 20, 2020 |
Ken Auletta: “My task is to understand them”
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Feb 13, 2020 |
Raja Rajamannar: “Even the brightest ideas get killed if they're not emotionally embraced by your team.”
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Feb 06, 2020 |
Bobbi Brown: “I started doing it my way... and it caught on!”
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Jan 30, 2020 |
Marian Goodell: “In this day and age, we need more bridges.”
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Jan 23, 2020 |
Paul Tudor Jones: “All I had was a checkbook and a big heart.”
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Jan 16, 2020 |
Charlamagne tha God: “You fail by trying to be the next anything. You should just be yourself.”
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Jan 09, 2020 |
Marc Pritchard: “We serve all humanity. We need to reflect that.”
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Jan 02, 2020 |
Gerry Laybourne: "Have you ever been slimed? It is wonderful!"
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Dec 26, 2019 |
Norm de Greve: "You have to be facile; you have to teach creativity back into yourself"
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Dec 19, 2019 |
Bill Koenigsberg: "I built a culture where business is personal"
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Dec 12, 2019 |
Bonus: Our favorite Audio Stories
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Dec 10, 2019 |
Bonus: Our favorite Marketing Stories!
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Nov 26, 2019 |
Season 2 of Math & Magic Coming Soon!
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Oct 25, 2019 |
Bertha González Nieves: "I've always been an entrepreneur."
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Oct 17, 2019 |
Walter Isaacson: "People want to hear ideas. There's a hunger for that."
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Oct 10, 2019 |
David Zaslav: “We’re betting for the long term.”
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Oct 03, 2019 |
Michael Kassan: “If you can find chaos, there’s going to be opportunity.”
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Sep 26, 2019 |
Scott Hagedorn: “I like agencies to have some funk.”
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Sep 19, 2019 |
Jeremy Zimmer: "I grew up loving stories."
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Sep 12, 2019 |
David Solomon: “I think the culture starts with leadership. And the leadership has to live it.”
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Sep 05, 2019 |
Tom Freston: “I never wanted to be a mainstream businessman. I still don’t.”
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Aug 29, 2019 |
Steve Stoute: “Music Moves Culture”
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Aug 22, 2019 |
John Sykes: “I love to see if I can defy conventional wisdom.”
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Aug 15, 2019 |
Tom Brokaw: “I’m not one who says we ought to go back to the old days.”
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Aug 08, 2019 |
Wendy Clark: “Creativity is the biggest, most important lever you can pull.”
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Aug 01, 2019 |
Fred Seibert: “When in doubt, count!”
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Jul 25, 2019 |
Daniel Glass: “A-minuses don’t sell. They don’t make it anymore.”
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Jul 18, 2019 |
Gayle Troberman: “There’s an endless number of stories brands have the right to tell”
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Jul 11, 2019 |
Olivier Francois: "You need to recognize the brand without seeing the product"
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Jul 03, 2019 |
Shaggy: "I'm a direct representative of Brand Jamaica"
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Jun 27, 2019 |
Jarl Mohn: "The best ideas come from desperation"
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Jun 20, 2019 |
Ben Lerer: “The Place We Win is Empathy”
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Jun 13, 2019 |
Judy McGrath: “I didn’t know anything about TV; I didn’t even like it!”
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Jun 06, 2019 |
Julie Rieger: "Storytellers run the World"
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May 30, 2019 |
Tim Castree: “I’m trying to be 80% Australian”
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May 23, 2019 |
Maurice Lévy: “No Silos, No Solos, No Bozos”
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May 16, 2019 |
Scooter Braun: “Burn the Ships”
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May 16, 2019 |
Introducing: Math and Magic
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May 14, 2019 |