Mark Ritson on The Biggest Mistakes Marketers Still Make & How to Stop

What happens when one of the world’s most opinionated marketing professors looks beyond 2025 and starts thinking about the 2030s?

In this unfiltered conversation, Mark Ritson joins Conor Byrne on That’s What I Call Marketing for a fast-moving, hilarious, and deeply practical chat about what marketers are getting wrong and what still works.

From pricing and profitability to AI and the Mini MBA, Ritson lays out the truths that most brands quietly ignore:

👉 The real reason discounting destroys long-term value.

👉 Why profitability, not revenue, is the measure that matters.

👉 How brand equity lets companies charge 30% more — and why few marketers understand margins.

👉 The coming decade of synthetic data, AI-driven planning, and marketing’s Thirties where the fundamentals still decide who wins.

We also dive into Ritson’s columns on Nestlé’s new CEO, brand consolidation, the chaos of AI branding, and his viral takes on Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad. Expect blunt language, sharp analysis, and the kind of clarity only Ritson can deliver.

This is Ritson at full throttle cynical, evidence-based, and funny enough to make you forget you’re learning.

What You’ll Learn

Why pricing is the forgotten P — and marketers must reclaim it.

The psychological and financial damage of endless promotions.

What Nestlé’s portfolio clean-up reveals about focus and profit.

How the marketing profession lost the plot on creativity and strategy.

Why AI won’t kill marketing — it will expose who actually understands it.

The truth about the Mini MBA sale to Brave Bison and what’s next in the U.S.

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