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Just Add Social

Just Add Social

By: Clive Roach
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Summary

Just Add Social, the podcast that unlocks the power of social media to fuel your business growth! Whether you are looking to boost brand visibility, connect with your audience, or drive measurable results, social media is the game-changer—and we are here to show you how.

Hosted by Clive Roach, a seasoned social media expert with over 15 years of experience at the helm of social strategies for global brands like Philips, this podcast dives deep into proven tactics, real-time analytics, and insights that align with your key business goals.

Each episode is tailored to your level of social media expertise, with a quick rating up front (social savvy scale 1-10) so you can easily choose the right episode for your skills and interests. Whether you are a social media newbie or a savvy strategist, Just Add Social is here to help you level up.

Tune in and learn how to maximize your social media potential—one episode at a time!

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Episodes
  • Protect your Brand DNA with Gimmefy
    Jul 21 2026

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    It’s 8:00 AM and your regional team just went live with an off-voice, off-brand campaign with the wrong logo. Sound familiar?

    Enterprise brand managers are exhausted by playing whack-a-mole with rogue sub-brands. Whether you are navigating a massive CPG portfolio or strict regulations in Healthcare and Finance, you are facing the exact same mandate from the C-suite: increase content output, prove cost reductions, and bring more work in-house, all without increasing headcount.

    In this episode of the "Just Add Social" podcast, expect practical frameworks, examples, and quick wins to fix the biggest bottleneck in marketing today. I break down the strategy and tactics required to digitize your brand identity so you can stop fixing basic errors and start shaping the bigger story.

    Listen in to learn:

    - How to digitize your brand DNA: Build a "brand vault" that embeds tone rules, values, and key messages directly into the content creation stage.

    - Strategies for taming sub-brand chaos: Set strict boundaries that keep global offices and distinct product lines from drifting off-message.

    - The path to faster, on-brand product launches: Use approved building blocks and campaign lines to speed up time-to-market while protecting your reputation.

    - How to elevate your daily role: Stop proofreading for basic tone issues and step back into driving pipeline impact and overarching brand strategy.

    I also explore how adopting Gimmefy as your Brand Operating System allows you to unite your strategy, AI models, workflows, and human governance inside one secure, automated environment.

    Grab your notepad for this week's listener task, where I walk you through creating a highly effective 7-point guardrail framework for your most challenging market to drive immediate ROI.

    Think smarter → Create faster → Stay in control.

    Hit play to get your brand architecture working for you.

    Gimmefy sign up LINK:
    https://platform.gimmefylabs.com/auth
    (Enter the code as CLIVE and it adds 500 credits to your account)

    Every episode is labelled with our signature Social Savvy Scale (1-10), allowing you to bypass the noise and jump straight to the exact tactical depth your business needs today. This podcast episode has a Social Savvy Scale 8: "Advanced" which is an expert-level knowledge of social media marketing, capable of innovation and optimization of campaign strategy and tactics.

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    26 mins
  • The Ultimate Marketing Orchestra: Why Friction is Your Campaign’s Secret Weapon
    Jul 9 2026

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    Why do most digital marketing campaigns crawl to a messy death?

    It isn’t a budget problem, and it isn't a strategy problem, it’s a personality problem.

    In this episode of The Marketing Alignment Podcast, Clive Roach strips back the corporate jargon to expose the hilarious, chaotic, and costly clash of the eight archetypes running your marketing machine. From the brand designer crying over Helvetica to the compliance officer redacting your best ideas, the IT manager guarding the server room, and the social media specialist chasing 15-second viral trends, we are all playing entirely different tunes.

    But here is the million-dollar plot twist: this friction is actually your biggest competitive advantage.

    Backed by behavioural science and hard growth metrics from McKinsey and Gartner, Clive reveals the exact conductor framework you need to align these clashing soloists into a high-ROI orchestra.

    If you are tired of departmental turf wars and ready to drive up to 19% faster revenue growth, hit play. It’s time to stop making noise and start making music.

    Listen now and find out:

    - The psychological DNA of your campaign team (using DISC and the Big Five).
    - Why "siloed protection" is secretly destroying your speed-to-market.
    - The exact leadership playbook to turn natural friction into flawless execution.

    Every episode is labelled with our signature Social Savvy Scale (1-10), allowing you to bypass the noise and jump straight to the exact tactical depth your business needs today. No fluff, no guru secrets, just high-performing social strategies that drive real revenue growth. This podcast episode has a Social Savvy Scale 5 "Skilled", which is classed as Intermediate, thus being able to tackle moderately complex social media marketing challenges.


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    16 mins
  • Social Media Engagement – Which Platforms Perform Best?
    Jul 1 2026

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    Stop shouting into the wrong room.

    In 2026, chasing follower counts is a vanity trap that’s quietly draining your marketing budget. Hosted by ROI-driven strategist Clive Roach and produced in the Just Add Social studio, Just Add Social is the podcast that strips away the algorithm hype to hand you the exact, data-backed frameworks that turn social activity into measurable pipeline impact.

    Every episode is labelled with our signature Social Savvy Scale (1-10), allowing you to bypass the noise and jump straight to the exact tactical depth your business needs today. No fluff, no guru secrets, just high-performing social strategies that drive real revenue growth. This podcast episode has a Social Savvy Scale 8 - Advanced - Expert-level knowledge of social media marketing, capable of innovation and optimization of campaign strategy and tactics.

    The Quick Win: Stop trying to be everywhere.

    We dissect the fresh Emplifi 2026 Benchmark Report alongside Clive’s latest platform analysis to show you exactly which two platforms are worth your creative energy this quarter, and how to build a high-converting vertical video system without a Hollywood budget.

    Here is the Emplifi link referred to in this podcast:
    https://emplifi.io/resources/social-media-benchmarks/

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    39 mins
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