The Podcast That's Not

Soo... what is it, then?

Videos, recorded podcast style.
But shorter.
(Way shorter.)

Purpose-built for LinkedIn posts and prospecting.

Hosted by marketing & design industry veterans about industry topics with a flavor that's biased toward humor and what attracted us to the industry in the first place... Fun.

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A LinkedIn post from Stephanie Bunnell Consulting on a laptop, featuring a vertical Notcast episode with a Pepperdine professor.
What to expect

Recurring Content Franchises

Entirely UnhelpfulRec
Can you make it pop, but also more minimal?Real feedback. Real client. Meant nothing.
“Make it pop.”18%
“I'll know it when I see it.”57%
“Can the logo be bigger?”25%
Which is least helpful? Comment below.
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The format

Mostly Unscripted

True to the Notcast brand, we're very not-podcast-like in that you'll never see us reading from a script. That said, we have some franchises that we include for continuity, yours and ours.

Ya know, so that you all feel grounded when you watch.

Like a fine wine.
Or the universe.
When it comes to improv versus planned-in-advance, it demands balance.
Which is exactly the vintage we deliver.

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  • Entirely Unhelpful

    The feedback creatives and marketers get that doesn't help. Real quotes from real clients. You vote on the least helpful in the comments.

  • Paradigm Shift

    Changes in the industry, in paradigms, and in how the work actually gets done. What moved, what didn't, and what we're doing about it.

  • Big Idea Den

    Where polarizing ideas go for a hell yes or a hell no. A new or novel idea that's either the best thing ever or the worst flop. You must choose.

    Like: a condiment-first restaurant, where you build the meal around the condiments of your choosing. Or ads timed to your cycle: new URLs, gym memberships and travel when you're follicular, chocolate when you're luteal.

  • Professionally Personal

    The ways our job skills show up in our lives, in ways we're proud of.

    Like: a nine-ender birthday party, complete with its own website and sizzle reel to promote it.

  • Confessions of a Cereal Entrepreneur

    Entrepreneurs confess one surprising truth about running their own thing. Then they tell us their favorite cereal.

    Like: “My favorite part is that I get to stay home and watch the redwood trees grow.”

  • New

    Origins

    We go back to the start of things. Why do we do it this way, and who decided?

    Like: why do songs rhyme? (Spoiler: it helped people remember, but Homer and Beowulf never rhymed at all.)

  • New

    Nerd Alert

    We pick apart a fresh piece of original research or survey findings and talk about what's unexpected in it.

  • In development

    More Brewing

    New franchises in the works. Got one you'd watch? Tell us in the comments.

How it shows up

Right in Your Feed

Every episode posts natively to LinkedIn as a vertical video under three minutes, with burned-in captions for the scroll-with-sound-off crowd and a hook that lands before the “see more.”
Previews below are mockups.

Mockup of a LinkedIn post on a laptop: Stephanie in a vertical Notcast video, captioned Can you make it pop, but also more minimal?

Entirely Unhelpful

“Can you make it pop, but also more minimal?”

Real feedback. Real client. Meant absolutely nothing.

On this week’s Notcast (the podcast that’s not), we read the least helpful creative feedback we’ve ever received. You pick the winner.

Which one is least helpful? Comment below. 👇

#TheNotcast #EntirelyUnhelpful #CreativeFeedback #Marketing

First comment: Every creative has one. Drop yours below and we might read it on a future episode.

Mockup of a LinkedIn post on a laptop: Stephanie in a vertical Notcast video, captioned Hell yes or hell no?

Big Idea Den

Hell yes or hell no: a restaurant where you pick the condiment first and they build the meal around it.

Welcome to the Big Idea Den, where new ideas are either the best thing ever or the worst flop. There is no middle.

Cast your vote in the comments. 🔥 or 🗑️

#TheNotcast #BigIdeaDen #Innovation #Branding

First comment: Next week: ads timed to your hormonal cycle. Brace yourselves.

Mockup of a LinkedIn post on a laptop: Stephanie in a vertical Notcast video, captioned I get to stay home and watch the redwood trees grow.

Confessions of a Cereal Entrepreneur

“My favorite part of being an entrepreneur? I get to stay home and watch the redwood trees grow.”

This week on Confessions of a Cereal Entrepreneur: one surprising truth about running your own thing. And a favorite cereal.

What’s yours? Comment below. 🥣

#TheNotcast #Entrepreneurship #FounderLife

First comment: Thanks for joining, @[Guest Name]! Now tell them what you’re really eating for breakfast.

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Example Guests

Special guests join Stephanie for one good question. Real mics, real cameras, under three minutes. Every guest gets tagged in the comments.

The University Professor

The question

What are you teaching advertising students these days?

Are we still learning Photoshop?
Like the college professor who taught Stephanie Photoshop, on what the curriculum looks like in an AI-forward world.

The Design Consultant

The question

How have client requests changed in the last few months?

“Make this with Claude without making it look like it was made with Claude.”
“Tell me what you can do for me that I can't just do myself with Claude.”

The Post-Exit Founder

The question

What are you doing now that you never could have expected before?

Former PR agency founder. Now managing a frozen banana supply chain.
Life after the exit, and the skills that carried over in ways nobody planned.

Have a good answer to a good question? We'd love to have you on.

Tell us who you are and what you'd talk about. We read every note.