Marketing Against The Grain is a HubSpot Media podcast hosted by Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot's CMO) and Kieran Flanagan (HubSpot's SVP of Marketing) on marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation. It publishes weekly by median gap, with about 24 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 31 minutes.
The show description promises new methods and unfiltered examination of fresh marketing ideas, rather than recycled social media threads. Episodes are tactical and often tied to a free HubSpot guide or playbook.
The October 2026 titles are heavily about AI in marketing: making money with tiny apps, how marketing teams of 2027 will look, building a content team out of AI agents, automating Instagram, and a test of what AI personal assistants can do. Most recent episodes run 16 to 36 minutes. The feed holds 469 episodes going back to March 2022.
Our take: marketers, growth leads and founders who want short, practical episodes on using AI in marketing work. Because episodes are brief, it fits between meetings.
Ranked by YouTube views among the channel's latest 400 uploads, as of October 2026.
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Kipp Bodnar, HubSpot's CMO, and Kieran Flanagan, HubSpot's SVP of Marketing, host Marketing Against The Grain.
Weekly by median gap (about 5 days between episodes), with about 24 episodes in the last 90 days, as of October 2026.
Episodes usually run about 31 minutes, based on the median in the show's feed.
By YouTube views, the leaders are How I Run A 0-Employee Marketing Agency With AI Tools (164K views), HubSpot co-founder on the future of AI agents (150K) and We Used AI to Build the World's Best Landing Page (90K).
Similar shows in our directory include Marketing School, The Marketing Millennials, Exit Five, Starter Story and My First Million.
