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60-Minute B2B Blitz: 9 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

#369 | It's hard to know what works and what doesn't, what's real and what's not right now. So we tapped 9 B2B marketing pros, all specialists in their area, to share one thing that's produced real results so far this year. Here's how it works: 9 speakers, one play each, two minutes on the clock. W…

60-Minute B2B Blitz Part 2: 8 Marketers Share Their Best Plays from 2026 (So Far)

#380 | Eight B2B marketers get two minutes each to pitch the single best marketing play they ran this year - and the crowd votes on who moves forward. Dave Gerhardt and Dasha Shakov hosts the second round of the Exit Five B2B Marketing Blitz, and this episode covers a lot of ground: updating old bl…

Everything Works in Marketing. That's the Problem. | Dave Gerhardt | Send & Grow 2.0 Ep. 2

In this episode of Send & Grow 2.0, Hunter Kallay sits down with Dave Gerhardt, founder of Exit Five and former CMO at Drift, to talk about building a modern media and community business around B2B marketing.  About Send & Grow: Send & Grow is a podcast about the people, strategies, and businesses …

AI Became Public Enemy Number One in B2B Social (with Meryoli Arias, ex-Apollo and Chili Piper) | Ep. 22

AI Made Content Cheap. It Made Trust Expensive. ㅤ Every B2B company now has the ability to publish more than it ever has, and buyers are reading less of it than they ever have. LinkedIn shipped a button that lets people flag posts as AI slop, which tells you where the feed ended up. The companies s…

RSS 69: B2B Marketing Growth Strategies: What Dave Gerhardt Gets Right About Content, Distribution and Brand

In this episode of The Ross Simmonds Show, I sit down with Dave Gerhardt to unpack what it really takes to win in B2B marketing today, from building brand through content and community to creating distribution that compounds over time. We also dive into AI, events, audience trust, hiring, and the m…

Jess wants to sponsor a bunch of communities

Pre-Series A Jess once slid a six-figure community sponsorship proposal across the table. Josh fell out of his seat. She had one argument: these are the people we need to be talking to. He signed. Exit Five was the obvious play, the community every B2B marketer already had open in a tab. Demand Col…

We Spent Three Years Hiding From Dave Gerhardt at His Own Event

Eric Holland and Gab Bujold recorded this one on a deck in Stowe, Vermont, in the middle of Drive, with a cardboard cutout of Zach standing in for the third host. It is the first We're Not Marketers episode made in person, and it is mostly about why the three of them keep showing up to the same con…

Dave Gerhardt on Almost Shutting Down Exit 5 and the 3-Line Email That Saved It (Ep. 32)

Dave Gerhardt thought he was burnt out on B2B marketing. He was actually just burnt out on being alone. He had close to $1M a year, a community, a newsletter, a podcast, and nobody to complain to when something went wrong. This episode, live at the Exit 5 event in Stormont, is the most candid versi…

What B2B Marketers Should Measure Instead of MQLs with James Toepfer

James Toepfer, former Head of Campaign Strategy and Demand Marketing for Digital Media APAC at Adobe, joins the show to explain why his team there ditched the Marketing Qualified Lead for the Marketing Qualified Account. He unpacks the disconnect that forced the change, an MQL dashboard glowing gre…

Canva Gets Heckled, Gemini’s 3-Company Hack & LinkedIn’s Interest Algorithm (Ep. 78)

A Canva event interruption turned into AI backlash discourse, but that was only the start of this week’s B2B weirdness.   This week on Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim get into Dave Gerhardt’s viral quit-your-job post, why LinkedIn’s interest algorithm might be reading posts too literally, BattlBox say…