Brands and Brews
43 episodes listed below
PRESS PLAY
An unprofessional and after hours marketing podcast for marketing professionals, emerging marketers, and business minded people interested in marketing. Marketing Directors: Jesse McFarland and Kirill Kniazev share their marketing experiences and stories while drinking beer. Topics range in all things related to marketing: including opinions, rants, and special guests. Have a drink with us and listen!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Relaxed interviews turn marketing practice into concrete decisions about advertising, positioning, client work, and business growth.
Brands and Brews Marketing Podcast uses an opening drink and relaxed conversation to bring marketing decisions down to working scale. Jesse McFarland and Kirill Kniazev pair their own experience with guests who can explain a specific practice, industry, or business path without…
A beer gets cracked, then Jesse McFarlane asks how an ad can outlast your YouTube skip reflex.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at AI-assisted SEO, with human editing and a live 30-day publishing test.
Brands and Brews frames the conversation as a practical look at AI-assisted SEO, with Tom Winter describing SEOwind as a tool that keeps a human collaborating with AI before the article is written.
A loose beer-and-coaching chat that lands on the practical work of scaling beyond yourself.
Brands and Brews starts with beer banter and a Nicaragua-made squat can before settling into a practical look at how coaches explain value and grow past being the only person carrying the business.
Affiliate mechanics, coupon codes, and publisher types get a clear walkthrough.
This episode keeps Brands and Brews centered on affiliate marketing, with Dustin Howes framed as a coaching affiliate marketer and consultant while Jesse keeps the beer banter in view.
A design conversation that grounds creative strategy in brand research.
The episode treats design as part of a working process, opening with Montucky Cold Snack's retro horse-and-mountain look and using it to show how a brand can speak to younger consumers.
A casual season opener that turns agency growth into practical lessons.
Season five opens with a beer-in-hand conversation that keeps one foot in marketing and the other in the daily grind of agency work. William Turner lands best when he stays practical: mentors matter, entrepreneurship brings flexibility and odd hours, and scaling a business…
A crowded beer market makes the basics of marketing hard to ignore.
This conversation turns the beer business into a clear look at what happens when a category gets crowded. The point keeps landing: a brand cannot lean on the product alone.
Practical AI SEO talk with useful shop-floor detail, best suited to people already living in SEO and content ops.
Brands and Brews keeps its focus on AI and SEO, and it works best when Tom Winter stays on the practical side of the topic. He talks through what has changed over the past year and how the team is trying to make AI more useful inside SEO workflows.
Design strategy rooted in market signals, with a sharp creative example in Liquid Death.
Brands and Brews spends this episode on how design strategy gets built, with Lauren Schwartz keeping the focus on the work before the visual polish.
Simon Owens interviews founders about the revenue mechanics behind their media businesses.
Colin and Samir break down creator-economy news, from OpenAI's TBPN deal to AI podcasts.
AI-era marketing tactics from operators testing what works next.
Mark DeGrasse interviews agency and marketing operators on the frameworks behind their case studies.
Cory Cotten-Potter interviews B2B sales and marketing founders on AI's reshaping of pipeline generation.
Kristina Halvorson interviews content strategists about how the work actually gets done.
Ghostwriting gets a plainspoken LinkedIn reality check.
The host opens with Melvin IPA from Melvin Brewing Company.
Jesse opens with beer talk.
The episode opens with beer banter, jokes about Iceland and Greenland, and a branding riff about what belongs on a can.
Host Jesse McFarland interviews Lauren Schwartz, CEO of Loft 325, about design strategy for e-commerce brands.
Jeremy, a beer podcast host, joins the show to discuss marketing challenges in the beer industry, using Czechvar's legal battles and brewing perfection as a case study.
In this episode, hosts Jesse and Kirill interview Marcus, a YouTube ads expert, who explains why YouTube advertising is underutilized and offers a detailed framework for creating effective ads.
Jesse opens with beer and brings Dustin on to talk affiliate marketing.
Jesse and Kirill kick off season four with a beer-gadget tangent and an easy catch-up.
The show opens season five with beer, banter, and a guest spot from William Turner.
The show opens with beer and marketing talk, then brings Marty Greif of Sight Tuners into a blunt conversation about why marketing misses the mark when it does not understand the audience.
Brands and Brews opens on a Tuesday morning with beer in hand, and this episode’s beer is a Panga Keller Pills Drops from Nicaragua in a squat can.
Jesse and Tom Winter kick things off with a relaxed beer-and-coffee vibe before shifting into AI SEO and what has changed since their earlier conversation.
The host opens with Montucky Cold Snack.