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From food and banking to masculinity and entertainment, the business and cultural establishment faces an insurgency. The rebels want nothing to do with the old ways of selling, building, or doing things. It’s not just disruption. It’s a coup. But despite the flashy branding, high-tech tools, and endless press, are things really any different? Are we actually better off after the takeovers? Host and marketing expert Ron Tite brings listeners inside the industries fighting for their futures. H ...
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At the beginning of this season, we looked at the advertising industry’s coup from my perspective. To bring it full circle, today I’m looking at it from a different angle: Yours. Content — editorial, entertainment, what have you — and advertising have been unified to the point — where often — it’s hard to see the line between them. And while that b…
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If you live in Canada, it’s likely that you bank with one of the ‘Big 5’… and it’s also likely you inherited that financial relationship from your parents. And whether you liked banking with them or not… how different were the other 4, really? For decades, there weren’t any other meaningful options… but today? We may have too many. From local start…
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20 years ago, two teenagers brought the music establishment to its knees. And a decade later, a startup was launched halfway around the world that’s reinvigorated it. The recording industry has experienced a whiplash of change, and has somehow come out on the other end of it… still standing. It’s one of the few categories we can look to that’s gone…
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We’ll be back with a new episode of The Coup next Tuesday, November 12th!By Church+State / Frequency Podcast Network
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Stand up comedy’s second boom feels less driven by punchlines, and more by comedians’ introspection and vulnerability. Nearly every week, another special comes out that mines the personal narrative and struggles of another comics. While some comedians have managed to make this kind of vulnerability funny, others… have made it easy to forget you’re …
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We often think of disruption as this mythical struggle of David and Goliath — the scrappy start-ups rising out of nowhere to take down the established players, who are as powerful as they are out-of-touch. In business, as in life, people tend to root for the Davids… and I’m not always sure why. As much as we like to hate The Man — whether it’s BP, …
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At the beginning of 2019, a razor company released an ad criticizing ‘toxic masculinity’ that dominated social media and the news for over a week. Since it aired, I’ve been thinking a lot about advertising’s place in the #MeToo era… and it’s role in promoting toxic masculinity over the years. But here’s the thing: It’s men and boys who Gillette’s a…
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Five years ago, Uber launched a food delivery service that disrupted the food industry. Since then, there’s been a wave of innovations changing the way we eat and cook. Companies like UberEats aren’t just transforming restaurants… they’re building a new arm of the food industry to compete with them, too. Oh — and the new food establishment paving t…
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It’s been about a year since recreational weed was legalized here in Canada, and after loads of international coverage, celebrations, and dozens of startup announcements… what’s actually changed? This wasn’t a coup brought about by plucky upstarts — but by legislation. So, how are cannabis entrepreneurs disrupting inside of a forced disruption? And…
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More than ever, we’re buying everything — from our beds down to our shoes — sight-unseen. In every category, startups are bypassing retailers — and their markups — to sell and ship their products right to your door. And they’re giving industry heavyweights a run for their money, doing it. No middlemen — just them, and you. But how are online-only b…
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Advertising has changed a lot. From jingles and magazine spreads to…. short films and well, what isn’t an ad, today? Once the internet came along, attention started to get fractured — and so did client’s budgets. And while agencies stretched themselves thin, once-loyal clients got frustrated with fat margins, a lack of innovation, and insufficient …
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From food and banking to masculinity and entertainment, the establishment is being challenged. The rebels want nothing to do with the old ways of selling, building, or doing things. Every week, host and marketing expert Ron Tite steps inside an industry transforming before our eyes — speaking with the executives in power, the entrepreneurs challeng…
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