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The Rose & Rockstar: Personalization is Still Creepy

Oct 18, 2025 By MPN

Welcome to The Rose and Rockstar - with the Chief Troublemaker at Seventh Bear, Robert Rose, behind the bar serving one of his splendid cocktails while our host Ian Truscott, a CMO but not a rockstar, picks his brain on a marketing topic.  Chris Ross, a VP and Analyst at Gartner for CMOs, recently published on LinkedIn that their research found that 45% of consumers find personalization creepy, inspiring Ian and Robert to take a trip down memory lane and discuss the two-decade challenge that personalization has faced and if anything has really changed, even with the rise of AI.  If you have a question for the bar or an opinion on this week's discussion, please get in touch - just search “rockstar cmo” on the interwebs or LinkedIn. Enjoy! — The Links The people: Ian Truscott on LinkedIn Robert Rose on LinkedIn Mentioned this week Chris Ross at Gartner  Is failing to freak out 52% of our audience the best we can do? - Chris Ross Ian’s firm - Velocity B Robert’s newsletter: Lens, his websites, robertrose.net and seventhbear.com 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: We’ll be right back by Stienski & Mass Media on YouTube Piano Music is by Johnny Easton, shared under a Creative Commons license 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, Robert Rose, behind the bar serving one of his splendid cocktails while our host Ian Truscott, a CMO but not a rockstar, picks his brain on a marketing topic. 

Chris Ross, a VP and Analyst at Gartner for CMOs, recently published on LinkedIn that their research found that 45% of consumers find personalization creepy, inspiring Ian and Robert to take a trip down memory lane and discuss the two-decade challenge that personalization has faced and if anything has really changed, even with the rise of AI. 

If you have a question for the bar or an opinion on this week’s discussion, please get in touch – just search “rockstar cmo” on the interwebs or LinkedIn.

Enjoy!

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