Hello, fellow marketing enthusiast,
If you want to build brilliant marketing campaigns, you have to intentionally feed your brain interesting insights.
One of the easiest ways to prime the inspiration pump is to look at what other top marketing minds have curated.
Here are 10 exceptional newsletters that will provide endless marketing inspiration and industry insight:
1. Marketing Examples by Harry Dry
What is it? - The gold standard for real-world examples of marketing brilliance
Why read it? - Harry breaks down a brand that did something wildly creative and explains why it worked. Every issue contains three short examples, two copywriting tips, and one favourite tweet.Β
2. Marketing Brew
What is it? - A daily serving of the latest news, trends, and case studies across the marketing landscape.
Why read it? - One of the most read marketing newsletters, it delivers high-value content in a witty and highly digestible format, bringing you up to speed on the key issues in a matter of minutes.Β
3. Marketing Week - Morning and Weekend BriefingΒ
What is it? - A sharp, editorially curated briefing from one of the UKβs most respected marketing titles, covering the latest news, insight, opinion, trends and analysis.
Why read it? - Marketing Week is especially useful if you want to think more strategically about brand, effectiveness, leadership and the wider commercial role of marketing.Β
4. WARC
What is it? - A heavyweight source of marketing effectiveness insight, evidence, case studies, benchmarks and strategic guidance.
Why read it? - If you want fewer opinions and more evidence, WARC is hard to beat.
5. Stacked Marketer
What is it? - A daily, inbox-first briefing tailored for performance, growth, and paid media marketers.
Why read it? - It supplies you with actionable paid advertising tactics, privacy changes, and breaking digital marketing news without requiring hours of your time.
6. The Drum - This Week in Marketing
What is it? - A weekly marketing industry wrap-up from The Drum, covering the stories, campaigns, trends and debates worth your attention.
Why read it? - Itβs a useful blend of industry news, creative inspiration and no-nonsense analysis.Β
7. The Daily Carnage by Carney
What is it? - A daily, agency-curated mix of handpicked marketing content, industry trends, and inspiring creative examples.
Why read it? - It combines fresh marketing psychology lessons with actionable tool recommendations to cure creative stagnation.
8. Contagious
What is it? - A creative and strategic intelligence newsletter focused on the worldβs most interesting, effective and talked-about marketing.
Why read it? - Contagious is brilliant for understanding not just what great campaigns look like, but why they work. Itβs especially useful if you want inspiration from the best creative campaigns around the world, with analysis of the ideas, behaviours and cultural shifts behind them
9. Science Says by Thomas McKinlayΒ
What is it? - A weekly newsletter delivering 3-minute, evidence-based marketing recommendations.
Why read it? - Thomas combs through academic research and peer-reviewed studies to give you science-backed tactics that actually drive conversions, eliminating the guesswork from your strategy.
10. Geekout by Matt Navarra
What is it? - The definitive weekly digest tracking social platform updates, new features, and algorithmic shifts.
Why read it? - Essential for social media and brand marketers, Matt alerts you to every hidden beta test, policy update, and platform pivot across TikTok, Meta, and LinkedIn before anyone else.
Big love, Β
Chris & the 42courses team x Β
P.S. What are some other great newsletters you can recommend? Weβd love to hear about them.
