Category: Podcasts

Conversations with event managers, founders, and operators.

  • How Marketing Festival sold out 8 years in a row without paid ads

    How Marketing Festival sold out 8 years in a row without paid ads

    Marketing Festival has been one of the most consistently sold-out conferences in Central Europe for the better part of a decade. They have never run a paid ad to fill it.

    In this conversation, Honza Mikulka unpacks the things he wishes someone had told him before the first event — about scarcity, about trust, about the difference between filling a room and building one.

  • Sponsorship is not advertising — and that’s the whole problem

    Sponsorship is not advertising — and that’s the whole problem

    Most event sponsors are buying the wrong thing. They want logo visibility. Organizers sell logo placements. Both sides leave the deal underwhelmed.

    In this episode we sit down with three CMOs who run sponsorship programs differently — treating event partnerships as relationship building, not media buys.