Digital Cheesecake: Marketing and Growth Podcast
by Jack Johnson | Blu Digital & Ellie Farrugia | Kinsman and Co
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About this podcast
Most marketing podcasts tell you what sounds good.
We tell you what's ACTUALLY working
Hosted by Jack & Sarah Johnson (UK leading recruitment experts placing top talent) and Ellie Farrugia (Award Winning Marketing Agency Founder).
Digital Cheesecake is unfiltered conversations served straight to the people driving the industry forward.
From hiring decisions and career growth to strategy, performance, and industry shifts, nothing’s watered down.
Expect:
Honest conversations with CMOs & Founders
What’s really happening in marketing
Challenges No One Talks About
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 103 episodes
- AI Agents for Marketing: What to Build and Where to Start | Marketing Podcast · 6 minWhich AI agent should you build first and which platform should you use? In this quick Digital Cheesecake episode, Ellie breaks down a practical way to start with AI agents…
- From Fashion Model Agent to Founder: The Marketing Behind The Steam Bar | Marketing Podcast · 49 minJudy Koloko, founder of The Steam Bar, shares how she turned deep knowledge of coily, textured and Afro hair into a premium beauty business stocked in Selfridges and Sephora. She…
- 100+ Marketing Job Applicants: How to Stand Out | Marketing Podcast · 29 min · Season 1When a marketing role attracts more than 100 applicants, qualifications alone will not make you memorable. In this episode of The Hiring Room, Sarah and Jack share practical…
- AI & SEO Marketing Tools: How to Track Your Brand in AI Search | Marketing Podcast · 4 minIs your brand visible in ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI search platforms? In this quick-win episode of The Growth Department, Ellie explains why GA4 alone cannot give marketers…
- Marketing Career Changes: Do This Before You Make the Leap | Marketing Podcast · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 81A career change doesn’t always mean abandoning everything you’ve built... It could mean moving from a permanent role into consulting, becoming a fractional leader or even…
- From Makeup Artist to Founder: The Marketing Behind Hair Loving · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 80Nadia Hussain is the Founder and CEO of Hair Loving, a hair care brand designed for postpartum and menopausal hair. In this episode of Digital Cheesecake, Nadia walks the team…
- Marketing Tools & Courses: To Learn Fast in 2026 | Marketing Podcast · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 75Want to upskill in marketing but not sure where to start? In this quick 5-minute episode of Digital Cheesecake's, The Growth Department, Ellie shares the marketing tools…
- LLM Marketing: How to Grow Your SEO in 2026 | Marketing Podcast · 7 minSEO is changing. In 2026, your customers are not just searching on Google. They are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and other AI tools who to trust, what…
- You've Got the Skills...Why Weren't You Hired? | The Hiring Room Ep#2 | Marketing Podcast · 45 minYou've got the skills for the role...So,why weren't you hired? In this episode of The Hiring Room Jack and Sarah break down the real reasons candidates lose out, even when…
- Marketing Tech Stacks You NEED To Use Today: The Growth Department #2 | Marketing Podcast · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 2In this new episode of The Growth Department: Ellie and Jane sit down to talk marketing tech stacks for this quarter. From Claude and ChatGPT to Monday.com, Notion, Trello…
- Career Breaks in Marketing: The Hiring Room #1 | Marketing Podcast · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 2Nobody tells you what a recruiter actually thinks when they see a gap on your CV. In this first episode of The Hiring Room, Jack and Sarah get into the conversations they're…
- Beauty Marketing Secrets with Nadine Killoran | Marketing Podcast · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 91The future of beauty marketing isn't about repeating what worked before. Nadine Killoran, former Digital Director of Absolute Collagen, joins Digital Cheesecake to talk hiring…
- BrainGain's Story From 0 to 100K Customers | Marketing Podcast · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 78Co-Founder Kareem Raslan built BrainGain from a parents' garage to 100,000 customers. On this episode of Digital Cheesecake, he unpacks the unit economics and supply chain…
- Key to Event Marketing in 2026 | Marketing Podcast · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 78In this weeks episode of Digital Cheesecake: The Growth Department, Ellie and Jane bring together digital marketing and luxury events expertise for a no-nonsense breakdown of…
- Running A Marketing Agency with Baby and Two Toddlers | Marketing Podcast · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 79This week on Digital Cheesecake, Ellie and Jane get into the unglamorous reality of running a business while raising small children. From going back to work one week after giving…
- The Marketing Behind 7 Global Brands: Jamie Irving | Marketing Podcast · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 79Jamie Irving is SVP of Digital at Pentland Brands, home to Speedo, Canterbury, Kickers, Endura, Mitre and more. Previously Digital Director at Boden. This episode gets into the…
- Building the Rightmove for Office Space: Marketing a Startup From Scratch | Marketing Podcast · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 79Peter Dudley joins Digital Cheesecake to discuss the launch of Seek, a platform designed to simplify how businesses find office space by connecting them directly with landlords…
- How Wickes Drive Growth Through Loyalty, Fulfilment and Checkout | Marketing Podcast · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 78Paul Canavan joins the Digital Cheesecake hosts at our Live Podcast Event to unpack the biggest challenges facing ecommerce brands today. From rising acquisition costs and…
- 15 Years of Recruitment & Marketing in 20 minutes | Marketing Podcast · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 78Jack and Sarah break down the biggest recruitment lessons they’ve learned from 15 years working across marketing and digital hiring. In this episode they discuss: • What…
- Marketing the Viral Tiktok Shop Lash Serum: ByBabes with Megan Jones | Marketing Podcast · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 78Megan Jones is the co-founder of ByBabes, the beauty brand behind the viral lash serum that’s sold over 100k units on TikTok Shop. In this episode, we unpack how ByBabes scaled…
