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The AI for Scale, Volume, and Cannes Episode

Jun 27, 2026 By MPN

This week, Ian and Cathy McKnight, Chief Problem Solver at Seventh Bear discuss a recent post from her Bear Essentials series on the Seventh Bear blog - You're Not Scaling Content. You're Scaling Chaos.  They discuss:  Difference between scale and volume in content creation Impact metrics vs. production metrics Organizational governance and foundational systems The risks of scaling content without measuring impact and ROI Content quality and originality in AI-generated content Content bottlenecks and downstream effects Ian then joins Robert Rose in the virtual bar, The Rose & Rockstar, to pick his brains on a marketing topic over a classic cocktail  This week, Ian and Robert discuss how AI has crept into the Cannes Lions awards criteria, and some thoughts he shared in his Rose Colored Glasses series on the Content Marketing Institute blog - The Cannes Lions Lesson Every Creative AI Initiative Needs, and celebrate his birthday, an absolute classic of a cocktail.  Enjoy! — The Links The people: Ian Truscott on LinkedIn  Cathy McKnight on LinkedIn Robert Rose on LinkedIn Mentioned this week: You're Not Scaling Content. You're Scaling Chaos. The Cannes Lions Lesson Every Creative AI Initiative Needs Robert’s podcast: This Old Marketing  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 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.

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This week, Ian and Cathy McKnight, Chief Problem Solver at Seventh Bear discuss a recent post from her Bear Essentials series on the Seventh Bear blog – You’re Not Scaling Content. You’re Scaling Chaos.

 They discuss: 

  • Difference between scale and volume in content creation

  • Impact metrics vs. production metrics

  • Organizational governance and foundational systems

  • The risks of scaling content without measuring impact and ROI

  • Content quality and originality in AI-generated content

  • Content bottlenecks and downstream effects

Ian then joins Robert Rose in the virtual bar, The Rose & Rockstar, to pick his brains on a marketing topic over a classic cocktail 

This week, Ian and Robert discuss how AI has crept into the Cannes Lions awards criteria, and some thoughts he shared in his Rose Colored Glasses series on the Content Marketing Institute blog – The Cannes Lions Lesson Every Creative AI Initiative Needs, and celebrate his birthday, an absolute classic of a cocktail. 

Enjoy!

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