About Us

Marketing Against the Grain is where marketers come to learn.

Most marketing content lives at the extremes. The AI growth hackers promising overnight success and the Fortune 500s congratulating themselves on their latest brand film. We don't play either game.

It's time for someone to talk about how marketing actually works: We're the explainers. The teachers. The smart peer. The steady hand when everyone else is chasing the next pivot.

We give you the stories, swipe files, and systems that turn chaos into something you can actually use. While everyone else peddles theories and hot takes, we tune out the noise, champion the hands-on practitioners, and give their hard-earned insights the spotlight. 

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What You'll Actually Get (Our No-Fluff Promise)

Every week, you get the marketing tactics and frameworks that actually work from people who've run the campaigns, not consultants who haven't logged into a CRM in five years.

What you get:

  • Tactical playbooks you can steal and implement this week
  • Campaign breakdowns that show you exactly how successful marketers pulled it off
  • Expert insights from operators who are doing the thing, not just talking about it
  • Inside access to HubSpot's experiments, wins, and (yes) failures
  • Data and analysis on what's working right now in SEO, social, AI, and content

Because what marketing needs right now isn't another LinkedIn thought leader telling you to "embrace the pivot." It's a little expertise. And maybe a laugh. We can do both.

One Brand. Two Ways to Level Up.

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📧 The Newsletter – Three times a week, straight to your inbox

Tactical marketing insights, campaign breakdowns, and frameworks you can swipe. Over 150,000 marketing operators and leaders read it. (They can't all be wrong. Statistically speaking.)
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🎙️ The Podcast – Three episodes a week

Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot CMO) and Kieran Flanagan (HubSpot SVP, former CMO) sit down with marketing leaders and operators who've actually built something worth talking about.
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Our Peeps

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Laura M. Browning

Lead Editor, MATG Newsletter
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Curtis del Principe

Senior Editor, MATG Newsletter
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Caroline Forsey

Lead Content Strategist, MATG Newsletter
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Kipp Bodnar

Host & Chief Marketing Officer, HubSpot
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Kieran Flanagan

Host & SVP of Marketing, HubSpot

Turn marketing chaos into strategies you can actually use.

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