The Brand Builder's Playbook // Brand vs Performance Marketing: Why the Long Game Wins // With Andrea Brimmer (Ally)
The CMO Podcast14 Nov 2025

The Brand Builder's Playbook // Brand vs Performance Marketing: Why the Long Game Wins // With Andrea Brimmer (Ally)

Every CMO faces the same question: how do you balance long-term brand equity with short-term performance marketing?

In the fifth episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Lindsey Wehking, tackle one of the most heated debates in modern marketing: brand versus performance. Is short-term activation enough, or does long-term brand building ultimately win?

This week’s guest is Andrea Brimmer, Chief Marketing and PR Officer at Ally, who has spent nearly two decades transforming Ally from a regional bank into one of America’s most admired challenger brands. Andrea shares the inside story of launching the Ally brand, driving growth through bold, customer-centric marketing, and proving that financial services can stand for transparency and trust. The conversation explores how to build brands people truly love, balance creativity with measurable results, and use brand purpose as a competitive advantage.

“We have to stop calling it brand versus performance. It’s demand generation and demand capture. And you can’t have one without the other.” — Andrea Brimmer

If you’ve ever wondered how to build a brand that punches above its weight, Andrea’s playbook is one you won’t want to miss.

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Read about upcoming episode topics and guests here: https://bera.ai/podcast/


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