The Loop

In this episode of The Loop, Tim and Liam reunite six months after their first ABM deep dive to share how their program at Cognism has matured into a high-performing machine. From refining their ICP and working hand-in-hand with sales to building an account prioritisation engine and embracing out-of-the-box 1:1 tactics, this conversation is packed with actionable insights for any team trying to scale ABM without overspending on tools.

In this episode of The Loop, Joe McLaughlin sits down with Liam Collins, VP of Paid Acquisition at Cognism, for an inside look at how the marketing team is driving Cognism's shift into the mid-market and enterprise space. From laying strong strategic foundations to aligning sales and marketing around a single North Star, Joe and Liam unpack the planning, data modeling, messaging evolution, and ABM initiatives behind the move. A must-listen for marketers looking to scale smart and go upmarket with impact.

Cognism's Senior Demand Generation Manager, Joe Mclaughlin speaks to Dale Harrison, brand marketing and commercial strategy expert about the slow movement of market share, the importance of brand awareness, and why companies must balance brand and performance marketing for long-term success.

In this episode of The Loop, host Joe Mclaughlin sits down with Brendan Hufford, Founder of Growth Sprints, to discuss his unique approach to content strategy, naming problems instead of categories, and why "checkbox marketing" is holding companies back. Brendan shares insights on content IP, channel-agnostic marketing, and innovative tactics like the "immortal newsletter" and AI-powered audience analysis. Tune in for actionable strategies and fresh perspectives on how to create marketing that truly resonates.

In this episode of The Loop Podcast, host Amy sits down with Estelle, Cognism's Web and Design Lead, to discuss all things website optimization. Estelle shares insights from her two and a half years at Cognism, diving into the various A/B tests, design tweaks, and SEO improvements that have driven measurable results.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew is joined by Evan Nelson, VP of Customer Experience to share their joined experience redefining Cognism's ICP during the CHASM project. Listen to find out how we implemented the CHASM project, the difference between true best-fit ICP and the mystifying ICP and how we're investing in the highest impact areas.

Cognism's Demand Gen Content Manager, Amy Collins chats to SEO and Content Manager (France), Charlotte de Beaumont about Cognism's demand generation content strategy across regions. When do you translate, localise or create net new?

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to CMO at Usergems, Trinity Nguyen about the power of authenticity in brand storytelling, how data-driven creativity is the future of marketing and how community is the new currency for brands.

Cognism's Manager, SEO Daisy Shevlin speaks to Growth Marketing Lead at Userled, Vincent Plassard about how both Cognism and Userled are implementing AI internally. And how to scale content creation using AI without losing the human element.

Cognism's Senior SEO Manager, Joe Barron speaks to Dmitry Dragilev, Founder of Topic Ranker about the inner workings of optimising content for search. How to identify weak spots in an SEO strategy, how to make the most of generative AI and most importantly, what it means to create QUALITY SEO content.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to EU expansion expert, Archita Fritz - spilling her insights on the importance of dedicated expansion plans. Playbooks from one region don't automatically work in another!

Cognism's Senior Content Manager and SEO whizz, Joe Barron speaks to Sam Dunning, Founder of Breaking B2B about the similarities in our approaches to SEO. Cognism's money keyword strategy and Sam's revenue driven SEO strategy.

Cognism's Senior DG Manager, Jamie Skeels speaks to Senior Paid Acquisition Manager, Lee Gannon about how their two teams - demand generation and paid - work together to drive business results.

Demand Generation Content Manager, Amy Collins speaks to VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew about Cognism's lessons expanding into EU countries. Specifically with regard to their experiences going sales-first, or marketing-first.

Cognism's Demand Generation Content Manager Amy Collins chats to VP of Product Marketing Josh Britton about how Cognism's product marketing function has evolved with him leading the charge. They discuss the extensive research Josh has carried out to understand the state of play and the early successes Josh has achieved in his short tenure since joining Cognism.

Cognism's CMO Alice de Courcy speaks to Maura Rivera, former Marketing Manager at Salesforce, current CMO at Qualified about how this career path shaped how she leads her marketing team.

Cognism's DG Content Manager, Amy Collins speaks to Liam Collins who has been at Cognism for five months as the newly appointed VP of Paid Acquisition on how he has evolved paid strategy and team set up in his first 160 days.

Cognism's Demand Gen Lead, Tim Hughes speaks to VP of Paid Acquisition, Liam Collins about how we have built our own ABM playbook at Cognism - specifically selecting and targeting our 1:one accounts to drive demand.

Cognism's Senior Demand Gen Manager, Jamie Skeels speaks to Demand Gen Content Manager, Amy Collins all about Cognism's approach to what they term ‘big rock' campaigns.

Cognism's CMO Alice de Courcy speaks to Kyle Coleman, CMO at Copy.ai about how marketers can effectively use AI to stay relevant and ultimately drive demand.

Cognism and Kaspr Demand Gen Team Leads, Tim Hughes and Joe Mclaughlin get together to discuss the two very different approaches they have to take. Kaspr targeting SMBs and Cognism moving up market to target enterprises. How does this impact how they apply demand generation principles?

Cognism's CMO Alice de Courcy, speaks to VP of Marketing at Chili Piper, Brandon Redlinger about how to create and implement a stand out LinkedIn strategy that helps to feed demand creation motions.

Cognism & Kaspr Manager for SEO, Daisy Shevlin speaks to SEO Content Manager, Monika Kisielewska about how we have evolved our content strategy over the years and how we have started to weave demand gen and SEO together.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Den, Fran Langham speaks to Head of Marketing in DACH, Nicole Peters about Cognism's approach to expansion. Many companies draw the line at translating copy and campaigns - but Fran and Nicole explain how they've taken this a step further. Implementing demand gen principles in new regions.

Cognism's CMO Alice de Courcy, speaks to CMO at CoLab, MJ Peters about the activities she's run at CoLab that have had the biggest impact. From tightening entry criteria, to optimising product overview pages.

If your team is struggling with lead quality, routing, funnel analysis, automation, grading models, lead qualification or just alignment between marketing and ops… then this is the episode for you. Liam and Simon explore the various optimisations and fixes they've made over the years to Cognism's funnel that has resulted in 70% year on year growth. If you want more information on how we achieved this, check out the Fix Your Funnel Resource Hub! https://www.cognism.com/fix-your-funnel

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to marketing unicorn, Bill Macaitis on how he ran ABM at enterprises such as Slack, Salesforce and Zendesk.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to Palmer Houchins, VP and Head of Marketing at G2 about how important reviews and brand reputation are in the buyer process.

Cognism's SEO Content Manager, Monika Kisielewska speaks to Lashay Lewis, Content Strategy Advisor and Founder of Authority Plug. They discuss how SEO marketers can utilise AI, how aggressively you can sell on landing pages and much more.

Ever wanted to know how Cognism runs their paid ads? We are going to reveal all! Cognism's Senior Demand Gen Manager Jamie Skeels chats to Demand Gen Team Lead, Tim Hughes about our ad philosophy, where we've seen success and much more.

Cognism's CMO, Alice de Courcy makes her return to The Loop podcast after her maternity leave to speak to Georgiana Laudi, Co-founder and author of Forget the Funnel. They discuss Gia's customer-led approach and revisit the funnel concept to find out if it's still relevant to marketers today.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to James de Feu, Sr. Director, Demand Generation & Lifecycle at Zapier. They discuss the importance of learning over any other marketing outcome, how to run data centric campaigns and much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langam, speaks to Casey Hill, Senior Growth Manager at ActiveCampaign about the long list of experiments he has run. From podcasting to social amplification - we dive into it all!

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to Mary Keough Director of Product and Content Marketing at CoLab Software. One of Mary's viral LinkedIn posts covered what she was going to do as a new marketing leader. But how did this plan go, what would she do now - and what can new marketing leaders learn from her experiences? Listen to find out.

Cognism's Senior DG Manager, Jamie Skeels speaks to John James, Founder of Hybrency about his view on brand marketing - and how lots of people are thinking about it wrong!

Global Head of Demand Gen at Cognism, Fran Langham chats to Pavel Teslenko Global Brand IMC Lead at Miro about the intricacies of brand marketing, what we can learn from B2C companies and much more. Listen now!

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to Mikkel Plæhn, Head of Demand at Growblocks. What do you market when you don't have a product? Well... the founder, of course! This episode dives into the unique approach Mikkel and Growblocks founder have taken to building an audience.

Cognism's Demand Gen Manager, Jamie Skeels talks to Tas Bober, Founder of Delphinium Solutions about the ins and outs of creating landing page experiences that actually get results!

In the final episode of our eBook mini series, Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew are talking measurements. If you're utilising eBooks under a new strategy with revised philosophy, how do you go about measuring success?

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham interviews Corrina Owens, ex Gong enterprise ABM Manager and Chief Evangelist of Purple Cork. They cover when to use ABM, what tools are Corrina's favourite and much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew are back to chat eBooks for the penultimate episode in this mini series. In this episode, they're talking all things nurtures.

Cognism's Head of Product Marketing, Verche Karafiloska interviews Anthony Pierri, product marketing whizz and Co-founder of Fletch. They cover common mistakes to avoid, how often to be doing messaging work and how to go about messaging for different sized orgs!

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew get together for a third episode in this mini series all about eBooks and long form content. In this episode, they discuss the best ways to distribute this content.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew chats to Ben Dutter, Chief Strategy Officer at Power Digital Marketing about one simple thing you can to do improve LTV, how to avoid the biggest mistakes Ben observes from agency life and much, much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew are back to chat eBooks. This time, discussing why prioritising high quality content is the only way forwards when producing long form assets.

Cognism's Global Head of Paid, Canberk Beker speaks to Benevity's Director of Marketing, Amy Woodward about how to market a social impact product to a B2B market.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham and VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew get together to discuss their changed philosophy and mindset on producing eBooks and other long form content.

Cognism's VP of Marketing, Liam Bartholomew speaks to marketing whizz, Bill Macaitis about his experiences taking Zendesk to a $1.7B IPO, how to take a business up market successfully and how to test your ABM strategy is working.

Liam Bartholomew, Cognism's VP of Marketing interviews Hubspot's Director of Marketing (Media), Kyle Denhoff. They discuss what makes marketing media memorable, how to associate yourself with category entry points and effective strategies for staying front of mind.

Cognism's Global Head of Paid chats to Director of Demand Generation at UserGems about the secrets of running ABM plays at scale, creating a media engine and much more.

Cognism's Global Head of Demand Gen, Fran Langham speaks to Demand Gen Lead at Google, Steve Armenti about what demand gen means in the context of Google, how to get gifting campaigns within ABM right and lots more!