Spooky season is here, and we’re digging a grave for the content marketing habits we’re done with.

In this Halloween episode of Permission to Rant, we borrow from Samhain, the Celtic festival behind Halloween, to take stock of the year in marketing: what fed us, what we’re finally burying, and what keeps haunting us no matter how many times we try to kill it.

On the harvest list: taste, editing, restraint, talking to actual customers, and the radical act of giving a damn. Going six feet under: “we need to do something with AI,” treating content distribution and localisation as an afterthought, the myth of low-hanging fruit, the idea that more tools or headcount automatically means more capacity when your marketing workflows are broken, and, of course, bad briefs.

Plus: the ghosts that refuse to die (“make it pop,” the surprise stakeholder in your Google Doc, “can we just make a quick PDF?”), what deserves a resurrection, from research and real craft to letting ideas marinate, and the personal things we’re each burying and protecting as we head into the darker half of the year.

No filter. Eight-legged co-host included.

If you’re a marketer tired of running on a content treadmill someone else keeps speeding up, this one’s for you.

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Permission to Rant is a marketing podcast about B2B marketing, storytelling strategy, AI in marketing, and fixing broken content systems.

Hosted by Penny and Nike from Contentoo.

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80% of marketers admit they're publishing B2B content they know isn't good enough. Stefan thinks he knows why, and it's not the reason you'd guess.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, Penny talks with Stefan, Head of Marketing at Snitcher, about growing a B2B brand from $1M to $4M ARR without turning it into another beige, forgettable company. He's the guy behind the "weird mansion office" and the pink hiring posts, and he's got strong opinions about why B2B marketing plays it so safe.

They get into asking forgiveness instead of permission, why most B2B brands default to blue-and-white sameness out of fear, and what AI is actually doing to content quality now that it's easier than ever to publish something nobody will remember five minutes later.

Stefan also shares his five marketing commandments, including why you should hire weird people on purpose, and why taste doesn't scale (and shouldn't have to).

If you've ever played it safe with your marketing and wondered what you were actually protecting, this one's for you.

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Permission to Rant is a marketing podcast about B2B marketing, storytelling strategy, AI in marketing, and fixing broken content systems.

Hosted by Penny and Nike from Contentoo.

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No complaints, no caveats, just ten things we genuinely love about marketing.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, we flip the script with a positive rant: ten things we genuinely love about marketing, from the creative freedom of the day-to-day to the slow-burn pacing that spares them from sales-style doomsday dashboards.

From turning scattered customer comments and business goals into one cohesive brand story, to why marketing's community is one of the most generous out there, to the quiet joy of a DM from a real customer beating any pageview count.

Plus: why there's no fixed playbook to master, why empathy is basically the whole job, and how the freedom to test, fail, and build a personal brand along the way makes marketing feel less like a job and more like a craft.

No filter. Listener confessions included.

If you've ever needed a reminder of why you got into this in the first place, this one's for you.

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Permission to Rant is a marketing podcast about B2B marketing, storytelling strategy, AI in marketing, and fixing broken content systems.

Hosted by Penny and Nike from Contentoo.

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Almost 80% of content teams admit they're publishing stuff they know isn't good enough. This is that conversation.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, Penny sits down with Monica, Head of Demand Generation at Rentman and Penny's former manager, to unpack why briefing, not burnout, not budget, is the number one reason content quality tanks.

From treating a brief as an actual thinking exercise instead of a form to fill out, to why "brand" and "demand" were never separate jobs to begin with, to the two places Monica's team actually lets AI touch the work (and the many places it doesn't).

Plus: what happens when you go from creative to spreadsheets, why data removes ego from marketing, and the three commandments Monica lives by as a "quality obsessed marketer."

No filter.

If you've ever shipped something you weren't proud of just to hit a deadline, this one's for you.

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Permission to Rant is a marketing podcast about B2B marketing, storytelling strategy, AI in marketing, and fixing broken content systems.

Hosted by Penny and Nike from Contentoo.

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Google finally told marketers to stop overthinking it. Naturally, that raised more questions than it answered.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, we dig into Google's official AI and SEO playbook, and everything marketers are still doing wrong anyway.

From the death of AEO and GEO as their own "thing," to why chasing paid link exchanges and brand mentions is just spam in a suit, to the difference between content that's actually useful and content that's just AI-generated filler with a listicle title.

Plus: a listener confession about burning more hours fighting with Claude and ChatGPT than it would've taken to just write the thing themselves, and why some companies are getting AI right by paying people to learn it.

No filter. Listener confessions included.
If you've ever built an "AI workflow" as a side project on top of your actual job, this one's for you.

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Permission to Rant is a marketing podcast about B2B marketing, storytelling strategy, AI in marketing, and fixing broken content systems.

Hosted by Penny and Nike from Contentoo.

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B2B video isn't new anymore. The excuse of "we're just trying it" is gone.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, we get opinionated about the state of B2B video — who's raising the bar, who's not, and five commandments every brand should tattoo on their content strategy.

From Corporate Natalie to ClickUp's Hollywood actors to the brands still copy-pasting movie scenes and calling it creative — nothing is off limits.

Cool list. Ick list. Five rules. No filter.

If you've ever watched a B2B video and physically cringed, this one's for you.

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Permission to Rant is a marketing podcast about B2B marketing, storytelling strategy, AI in marketing, and fixing broken content systems.

Hosted by Penny and Nike from Contentoo.

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B2B marketers have a lot of feelings. This is that episode.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, Nike and Penny discuss ten frustrations, pet peeves, and uncomfortable truths that every content marketer recognises but rarely admits.

From being treated as the office arts and crafts department, to LinkedIn gurus making everything worse, to getting zero credit for the pipeline marketing spent months building.

No filter. Listener confessions included. If you've ever been asked to design the bathroom signage, this one's for you.

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Should content marketing own MQL targets? We assigned sides, things got heated, and then they got interesting.

In this episode of Permission to Rant, Thomas and Penny go head to head on one of B2B marketing's most loaded debates — whether marketing should be accountable for MQLs. Thomas is for it. Penny is against it. Nike referees.

We get into what an MQL actually means, why the definition matters more than the metric, and what happens when sales and marketing finally get in the same room about it.

Spoiler: they end up agreeing. Kind of.

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