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The Rose & Rockstar: Are Corporate Websites Dead?

Mar 22, 2025 By MPN

Welcome to The Rose and Rockstar - with the Chief Troublemaker at Seventh Bear, fractional marketing leader and author, Robert Rose, behind the bar serving a wonderful weekend cocktail while our host Ian Truscott picks his brain on a marketing topic.  This week in The Rose and Rockstar, over a cachaça cocktail, Ian and Robert discuss the future (or not) of corporate websites.   They discuss: What is cachaça? How corporate websites need to evolve, not die How technology and SEO have driven the web experience A future with AI creating sites on the fly Brand control over content presentation is diminishing A nostalgic view of past web experiences like Flash Do you have a question for the bar? Or maybe an opinion on what we’ve discussed? Please get in touch - just search “rockstar cmo” on the interwebs or LinkedIn. Enjoy! — The Links The people: Ian Truscott on LinkedIn and Bluesky Robert Rose on LinkedIn and Bluesky Mentioned this week Cachaça - Wikipedia Maybe we should write an obituary for the website - Substack article by Carrie Liken This Old Marketing podcast Rockstar CMO: The Beat Newsletter that we send every Monday Rockstar CMO on the web, Twitter, and LinkedIn Previous episodes and all the show notes: Rockstar CMO FM. Track List: Piano Music is by Johnny Easton, shared under a Creative Commons license We’ll be right back by Stienski & Mass Media on YouTube You can listen to this on all good podcast platforms, like Apple, Amazon and Spotify. This podcast is part of the Marketing Podcast Network

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Welcome to The Rose and Rockstar – with the Chief Troublemaker at Seventh Bear, fractional marketing leader and author, Robert Rose, behind the bar serving a wonderful weekend cocktail while our host Ian Truscott picks his brain on a marketing topic. 

This week in The Rose and Rockstar, over a cachaça cocktail, Ian and Robert discuss the future (or not) of corporate websites.  

They discuss:

  • What is cachaça?
  • How corporate websites need to evolve, not die
  • How technology and SEO have driven the web experience
  • A future with AI creating sites on the fly
  • Brand control over content presentation is diminishing
  • A nostalgic view of past web experiences like Flash

Do you have a question for the bar? Or maybe an opinion on what we’ve discussed? Please get in touch – just search “rockstar cmo” on the interwebs or LinkedIn.

Enjoy!

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You can listen to this on all good podcast platforms, like Apple, Amazon and Spotify.

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