Matt Stiker
Partner, Madden Media
Agency-side honesty about creative sameness and why the safest work is the most forgettable.
Matt is a partner at Madden Media and one of the more direct voices in the agency side of destination marketing. On the show, he and Katy Livingston unpacked the "destination gentrification" thesis — why every destination increasingly looks and sounds like every other destination, and how committee-friendly creative got us here.
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Every episode, we stage a conversation your industry is quietly having — and wasn't brave enough to have out loud.
Desties are the people who've decided destination marketing shouldn't sleepwalk into irrelevance. Three ways to be one. Pick whichever fits your life — or go all three.
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