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Social Media Marketing Podcast

/ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə ˈmɑɹkətɪŋ ˈpɔdˌkæst/proper noun

Every platform pivot since 2012, interviewed in real time — social marketing's longest paper trail.

Michael Stelznersocial platforms · strategy
Microphone mark — Social Media Marketing Podcast
Host
Michael Stelzner
Launched
2012
Parent
Social Media Examiner
Companion
Social Media Marketing World conference

Forms & parts of speech

platform-native · adjective (its recurring lesson)
Built for one platform's culture.
"Make it platform-native — the cross-posted version dies everywhere equally."

What it is

The Social Media Marketing Podcast is the weekly interview show Michael Stelzner launched in 2012 from Social Media Examiner, the publication he founded in 2009. Each episode pairs Stelzner with a specialist on one platform or craft — organic and paid social across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, and whatever rises next — anchored by the industry survey SME publishes annually.

Why practitioners listen

Longevity is the asset: it has documented every major platform shift — algorithmic feeds, stories, short-form video, creator monetization — as practitioners experienced them, making the archive a uniquely continuous record of how social marketing evolves. The annual Industry Report supplies the data spine; the conference (Social Media Marketing World) supplies the guest bench.

How to get the most from it

Subscribe for the platform you're betting on and cherry-pick guests — the show's specialist-per-episode format makes it modular. Pair its tactical optimism with reach realism: organic social's decline is itself a trend the archive documents, so weigh episodes about owned channels (email, SEO) accordingly.

Worked example. A B2B firm decides LinkedIn is its 2026 channel bet. The team pulls the show's last six LinkedIn-specialist episodes and builds the playbook from the overlap — native documents over links, comments as the actual distribution event, employee profiles over the company page. Three months of consistent platform-native posting later, inbound DMs replace cold outreach as the top meeting source — the archive functioned as a free channel onboarding.
Failure modes to watch. Spreading across every platform an episode made exciting; ignoring the organic-reach decline the show's own survey charts; and copying consumer-platform tactics into B2B contexts unmodified.

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonyms

Social Media Marketing Podcast

Origin & history

Stelzner — who'd written Launch and built Social Media Examiner from a 2009 blog into the niche's biggest publication — added the podcast in 2012 as the publication's audio arm; it predates most of the platforms' own marketing playbooks.

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Common questions

What is the Social Media Marketing Podcast?
Michael Stelzner's weekly interview show on social platform strategy, running since 2012 under Social Media Examiner.
Who is Michael Stelzner?
Founder of Social Media Examiner (2009) and the Social Media Marketing World conference.
Why does its archive matter?
It's the longest continuous practitioner record of social marketing's platform shifts, anchored by SME's annual industry survey.

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