Welcome to Shift Happens!

December 17, 2025
Nasser Sahlool
2 minutes
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Is marketing evolving faster than your team can keep up? 

In this special introductory episode of Shift Happens, DAC’s SVP of Client Strategy, Nasser Sahlool, lays out the mission of the podcast — exploring the tectonic shifts reshaping marketing and how brands can turn disruption into advantage. He previews the experts, conversations, and real-world challenges the show will tackle across media, analytics, creative, search, and AI. 

  • Key takeaways
  • Modern marketing is shaped by constant, seismic change — and the practitioners at the intersection of data, tech, media, and creative feel it first.

    Modern marketing is shaped by constant, seismic change — and the practitioners at the intersection of data, tech, media, and creative feel it first.

    The podcast aims to help marketers navigate these shifts with clarity and confidence.

  • Shift Happens will bring DAC experts together to unpack real challenges and provide actionable, cross-disciplinary strategies for staying ahead.

    Shift Happens will bring DAC experts together to unpack real challenges and provide actionable, cross-disciplinary strategies for staying ahead.

    It’s a practical guide to thriving amid disruption, not just observing it.

Episode Transcript

Most people walk around, safe in the knowledge that the ground beneath their feet is solid and immovable, oblivious to the immense pressure and turmoil that’s taking place miles underground.  

But there are those that are aware, those that live on the edges where the pressure breaks through the surface. Slowly, slowly at first, and then occasionally with great urgency and drama. The earth moves. The ground shifts. And the landscape changes. Places we once thought were permanent have disappeared. And where before there was nothing, entirely new lands appear, ready for exploration.  

Those that work at the intersection of marketing, technology, data, media and creative understand this, because they live at the societal edges where those tectonic shifts manifest first and fastest. And that’s what this podcast is all about: how brands can find clarity amid chaos, turn disruption into advantage, and keep moving when Shift Happens. 

Hi, I’m Nasser Sahlool, I lead Strategy at DAC, and I’m thrilled to introduce our new agency podcast Shift Happens — where we explore the art, science and chaos of modern marketing.  

Every other week, I’ll sit down with one or two of our experts — from media and analytics to creative and local search — to talk about the real challenges that marketers face and how we’re solving them. 

Please follow the show wherever you get your podcasts, share it with a colleague, and don’t forget to leave us a review — it helps more marketers find the conversation. 

Contributing experts

Nasser Sahlool

Nasser Sahlool

Senior Vice President, Client Strategy

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