In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Melissa Menta, Peanuts Worldwide exec and lifelong Peanuts fan who serves as the brand's Senior VP, Global Brand and Communications talks to us about Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the Gang.

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An amazing path from East Asian Studies to Marketing Broadway to Jim Henson

Internet Bubble Superstart Pets.com and then to Peanuts

Michael Ian Black was the Pets.com mascot!

7:28 - 9:00 Incubeta: the "old way" of marketing - with creative, media, and data stuck in silos - just doesn't work anymore. Incubeta is a global marketing and AI-outcomes agency and a premier Global Google Partner. They help brands Outperform Marketing, delivering an average of 35% revenue growth in just the first year.

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Arriving during a brand transition

All the faces of the brand: print, video, fashion

4M+ Followers @snoopygrams

The brand's historical connection to fashion

Take Care With Peanuts

16:38 - 18:05 Rella for social media monitoring

Over 22M followers over all social - why it resonates

Snoopy and NASA

Traveling for business and pleasure - hitting all 7 continents in 365 days

Japan and the power of accurate translation

Learn more on the podcast: You Don't Know Peanuts

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about ClaudeCode updating hardware, Apple's M5 Max, SaaS Moats, and more!

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Dealing with wonky hardware updates

Using Claude Code to update software to support devices

OpenAI releases GPT 5.4

Models are now writing their own software

The Macbook Neo - new entry level

and the M5 Max for AI

Incubeta: the "old way" of marketing - with creative, media, and data stuck in silos - just doesn't work anymore. Incubeta is a global marketing and AI-outcomes agency and a premier Global Google Partner. They help brands Outperform Marketing, delivering an average of 35% revenue growth in just the first year.

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iPhone 17e and Air, and can we get a fat battery?

Running Linux on 10 year old Macs

Will open source show up when the bubble pops?

The SaaS moats of data, and support

Stages of AI adoption

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Microsoft CoPilot CoWork

SXSW

Tom Webster stats on podcasts about to overtake radio

SAG AFTRA doing more with podcasting

Audible streaming option at $8.99 a month

Software Defined Radio

Dungeon Crawler Carl

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Frank Kabatas tells the story of New York City's East Village Pizza!

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Coming to America and Discovering Pizza

Learning English first, and then over to the West Side

Doing time at Domino's

Creating his own recipe

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Talking his brother into becoming an owner/operator

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Where did Cheesy Garlic Knots and Double Stacked Pizza come from?

On Instagram... 1.7 million followers later

The Walk in Cooler is the Brain of the Store

Dubai on the horizon!

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