Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts. For Scott Galloway speaking inquiries, email speaking@profgmedia.com
August 3
Apple's market capitalization breached $1T this week. I'm a bit sanguine, as I’ve been predicting, with enormous confidence, that Amazon would get there first. It's not easy to be wrong dozens of times, on national media, every week for three years, but I've managed. Oh…
July 27
I've been thinking about AIDS a lot lately. How's that for an opening sentence? I hope we'll never see an epidemic this devastating again. One million people died from AIDS-related causes in 2017, and 36 million have succumbed to the disease since the beginning of…
July 20
According to Webster’s, “cloud cover” is a mass of clouds. Fair enough. But the term carries more weight in the figurative sense — shielding something from sunshine or scrutiny with something bigger or more dramatic. This week has been the mother of all cloud cover.…
July 13
From the age of 25–40, my range of emotions could generously be described as "narrow." I loved nobody, and the only real emotions I felt were satisfaction or disappointment from my ambition as I howled in the money storm. My approach to life could best…
June 29
So, the good people at Cannes asked me to evaluate where digital and creative ecosystems collide to spark innovation, and to present awards to the most innovative firms, people, and campaigns. The last sentence is a lie. Anyways, here are my Slam Cannes Awards for…
June 22
Spent the week at Cannes Lions, where everything feels strikingly unimportant relative to what has been happening at the US-Mexico border. There is little to add to the great reporting we’ve seen this week, so our team assembled some images that we believe help encapsulate…
June 15
Life isn't about what happens to you. But how you react to what happens to you. I'm increasingly aware of my mood, heartbeat, and blood pressure as I get older. Yesterday I was at the Founders Forum in London. When I arrived, I discovered I…
June 8
In Brand Strategy, we introduce the concept of laddering, an attempt to deposition a competitor by highlighting an attribute or area where they are weak. It’s the corporate equivalent of buying your wife an exceptional Mother’s Day gift because: 1) you love her; and 2)…
June 1
Our competitive advantage as a species is our brain — so big we’re expelled prematurely. Big enough to ask tough questions, but not robust enough to answer them. Into this void stepped 3,500 superbeings, all competing to sit on the iron throne of our worship.…
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