Dirty Chats

Marisa Twentyman I Dirty Copy

Pop culture meets marketing and business growth. Dirty Chats is the marketing podcast that turns celebrity gossip, trending scandals and viral moments into brand strategy, marketing psychology and entrepreneurial tips...so you can gossip AND grow your business. Hit follow to join founders, marketers, and creatives who want marketing advice with a side of juicy pop culture.

  1. 16 timer siden

    44: TAYLOR SWIFT'S WEDDING to Travis Kelce...the full debrief + the magic of world building for your brand

    Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden, and everyone (except me) is reading it wrong Taylor Alison Swift is married, and the internet is losing its mind over a peach curtain. In Dirty Dish, I'm unpacking the royal wedding of the year: the thousand guests, the raffle, the "T and T married" billboard in the world's most boring font, the Adam Sandler of it all.  I've got a theory that reframes this whole thing the second you stop looking at it as a wedding...😏 I also get into the Blake Lively snub (a thousand people invited and she still didn't make the list), and the Karlie Kloss feud that may have quietly healed itself.  Then in Dirty Business, we stay right on Taylor, because she is the single greatest living example of the one marketing skill every commentator is obsessed with in 2026: world-building. Why do we all feel personally betrayed by a venue choice? Because Taylor has spent years making millions of strangers feel like they know her, and she did it on purpose. I break down exactly how, plus two brands pulling off the same trick with zero celebrity attached. → Why world-building is the marketing skill everyone's talking about in 2026, and how Taylor Swift quietly mastered it years ago  → How giving your audience a job inside your brand (instead of just talking at them) turns casual followers into people who defend you  → What Duolingo's fake owl funeral and Liquid Death's billion-dollar "canned water" empire teach you about building a brand world  → Why effort is the glue that makes people loyal, and how small rituals get your audience marketing for you for free  → The one thing AI genuinely cannot copy in 2026, and why it's your biggest competitive advantage

    34 min.
  2. 29. jun.

    43: Evan Spiegel lost billions launching Snapchat's AI glasses...here's what he should've done

    Evan Spiegel launched Snapchat's new Specs AR glasses, and within 48 hours Snap had lost 2 billion dollars. Yes, with a B.  This week I get into the Snap Specs launch... the keynote, the $2,195 price tag, and why everyone online blaming the "ugly" glasses has it completely wrong. I break down the actual reason Evan Spiegel's launch tanked (it isn't the design, and it isn't the cost), then I rebuild the entire campaign the way I'd have run it. (Miranda Kerr, you're so welcome.) Then in Dirty Business, I get personal about my "bad audio." A friend literally gasped when I admitted my podcast audio wasn't perfect. So I'm unpacking why I hit publish anyway, and the one thing that's quietly grown this show to number one in multiple countries while I spent 10 months getting around to the curtains, the carpet and the sound. → Why Evan Spiegel's Specs keynote led with features instead of feelings... and the buyer psychology mistake that sank the launch  → How Apple beat Microsoft in the early 2000s with identity-first marketing, and why people buy who they become, not what a product does  → The celebrity-seeding FOMO tactic that turned an unknown bikini brand into a sell-out, and how to borrow it with zero ad budget  → Why a $2,195 price tag isn't the problem (people queue for $2,000 sneakers... it's never about cost)  → How "start before you're ready" took an imperfect podcast to #1 in multiple countries in 10 months  → The perfectionism trap that quietly handicaps your launch, your email list and your content Check out my website HERE Podcast host: Marisa Twentyman, website copywriter for brands that don't do boring, founder of Dirty Chats, and wannabe PR specialist to the stars.

    26 min.
  3. 11. jun.

    41: Blocked, Threatened, Deplatformed: The Huffer AI Scandal With Elijah Timmins-Scanlon

    This week I sit down with Elijah Timmins-Scanlon, the Auckland model (signed to Red Eleven) who called out New Zealand streetwear brand Huffer of using AI to generate campaign images that looked suspiciously like him. Or like him and his brother, also a model, blended into one person. He tells me how he found it, what he did next, and how aggressively the brand moved once he said something out loud. (Getting blocked by a brand's own Instagram is not the move that makes you look innocent.) We get into Huffer's official line that "computer-assisted design has been used in the industry for 30 years," the other model who clocked AI figures wearing his exact garments from a past shoot, and the quietly terrifying fact that New Zealand has almost no rights... the legal right to control how your own face and identity get used to sell things. Then Elijah shares where he thinks all of this is heading, for models, photographers, and every creative whose work just became very easy to fake. → Why blocking Elijah Timmins-Scanlon did more damage to Huffer than the original AI ad ever could  → The scary reason NZ law can't protect a face that's been AI-cloned  → How the same garments turning up on "new" models turns a hunch into receipts  → Why "computer-assisted design" became the corporate non-answer of the year  → What AI really means for working creatives right now, from someone living through it  Follow Elijah on IG HERE, Tiktok HERE I'm Marisa Twentyman, podcast host of Dirty Chats, and founder of Dirty Copy. Find me on Instagram HERE

    49 min.
  4. 19. maj

    38: Will Spencer Pratt Be LA's Next Mayor? Alex Cooper is pregnant + the weird Ozempic economy

    Spencer Pratt is running for Mayor of LA and I have become genuinely, unironically invested. This week on Dirty Chats, I'm covering the marketing masterclass nobody saw coming, plus the unhinged economic ripple effects of one in eight Americans being on Ozempic. In Dirty Dish I'm covering: Alex Cooper's pregnancy announcement and why my PR prediction from three weeks ago has officially COME TRUE. Amanda Frances, her Abundance Timeline challenge, and the viral post that made me $4.5K USD in three days (please check out my friend Dr Sienna Olson if you want GLP-1 support https://www.instagram.com/dr.siennaolson/)The financial winners and losers of the Ozempic and GLP-1 boom...Shocking news about AquaThen in Dirty Business I'm breaking down Spencer Pratt's mayoral campaign and why it's a positioning and messaging masterclass for 2026. From the Palisades fires to Karen Bass's Ghana trip, to Heidi Montag's Superficial finally hitting number one, to the AI billboards, the dog interviews with Amanda Bekant, the Hollywood endorsements...this campaign is doing what every great marketer does. I also explain why Karen Bass's attack ad on Spencer accidentally became his best marketing asset. → How Spencer Pratt positioned himself as the "anti-politician" and why that frame is the entire campaign  → The two specific pain points he zeroed in on (and why specificity always beats broad messaging)  → Why authenticity plus a sad story is the most powerful combo in marketing right now  → How Karen Bass's attack ad accidentally became Spencer's best marketing asset → The exact 2026 marketing playbook: AI, influencers, raw content, and refusing to be polished  → Why listening to your audience changes your messaging (and why the opposition isn't doing it) Check out my website HERE

    39 min.
  5. 11. maj

    37: Blake Lively Settles With Wayfarer Studios + Whitney Leavitt Quits Mom Tok + Why I Postponed My Launch

    In a move no one saw coming, Blake Lively has settled with Wayfarer Studios... and I am in mourning. That courtroom trial was the only way I was emotionally getting through May 2026. (We're devastated. We're inconsolable. We're rewatching the Met Gala interview for forensic evidence.) This week on Dirty Dish, I'm breaking down the settlement no one wanted: what Blake Lively actually agreed to, what Justin Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman is saying about it, and why I think the real war isn't over...it's just moved to the box office. I also unpack Whitney Leavitt leaving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and why this is a full Geri Halliwell-leaving-the-Spice-Girls moment for Mom Tok. Plus...I have a brand new PR plan for Blake. It involves a baking blog, and that's all I'm giving you.  Then yes, I talk about marketing as well. In Dirty Business, I'm getting honest about why I postponed a launch by a month. We're talking about the self-imposed deadlines that quietly wreck your business, the moment I caught myself comparing my business to other women's, and the very specific thing my husband had to bully me into admitting. It's not a tidy lesson. It's the actual conversation. → Why Blake Lively's Met Gala 2026 appearance hours after settling with Wayfarer Studios was a calculated PR move, not a coincidence  → What Justin Baldoni's strategic silence tells you about owning the narrative when the internet wants a statement  → The Whitney Leavitt and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives lesson on when to detach your brand from a group identity  → The exact moment a self-imposed deadline stops serving your business and starts costing you  → Why I started getting jealous of other woman Dirty Chats is hosted by Marisa Twentyman, website copywriter and founder of Dirty Copy. New episodes drop weekly. Check out my website HERE

    38 min.

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Pop culture meets marketing and business growth. Dirty Chats is the marketing podcast that turns celebrity gossip, trending scandals and viral moments into brand strategy, marketing psychology and entrepreneurial tips...so you can gossip AND grow your business. Hit follow to join founders, marketers, and creatives who want marketing advice with a side of juicy pop culture.

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