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Growth Vertical

Hosted by Neil Patel

Welcome to Growth Vertical the place where people leading their careers, entrepreneurial goals or running businesses can come to learn strategies and tactics in digital marketing, advertising and personal development.

91 episodes · publishes monthly · latest 2026-06-12 · ~26 min/episode

Rank

#5918

Substance

34.0

/ 100

Breakdown

Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly

Marketing rank

#949 of 991

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Across the index

#5918 of 6183

Substance

Top 96%

outscores 4% of the index

Why it scores where it does

Growth Vertical ranks #5918 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 34.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on insight density and originality. The episode contains exactly one actionable tip (navigating to account-level automated assets > three dots > advanced settings to disable them), which is genuinely useful but buried under several minutes of repetitive filler and generic AI commentary. The ratio of insight to filler is very poor for even a 5-minute format.

The five-dimension breakdown

Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.

Insight Density

8.0 / 20

The episode contains exactly one actionable tip (navigating to account-level automated assets > three dots > advanced settings to disable them), which is genuinely useful but buried under several minutes of repetitive filler and generic AI commentary. The ratio of insight to filler is very poor for even a 5-minute format.

“i'm waffling so what you want to do is switch that off that's it”

“there's way too many variables to keep up with sometimes we can go through every checklist over and over again which is perfectly fine because we have sops for that anyway”

Originality

7.0 / 20

The core tip - disabling Google's automated extensions for budget control - is a known best practice circulated widely in PPC communities. The surrounding AI commentary is entirely generic and adds no original thinking whatsoever.

“you should be passing on the work to a machine that the machine can do”

“the things that require a human to be more involved in, right? The reviews, the strategic thinking, the decision making, and that sort of thing”

Guest Caliber

6.0 / 20

This is a solo-host episode with no guest; the host presents as a generalist PPC practitioner and provides no credentials, scale of accounts managed, or evidence of deep platform expertise beyond surface-level navigation.

“this is a test account, and I kind of want to show you something where we focus on optimizations”

“I didn't even remember this after a while, right? So it's part of the checklist”

Specificity & Evidence

7.0 / 20

There are zero named companies, zero dollar figures, zero performance metrics, and zero timelines. The only evidence offered is a vague anecdote about 'one of the campaigns we were auditing a while ago' with no quantified outcome.

“with one of the campaigns that we were auditing, right, a while ago, we found that more and more of the AI generated assets were being created”

“it was able to point out that some of the site links and things like that, excuse me, had actually been spending a lot of money”

Conversational Craft

6.0 / 20

This is an unstructured solo screen-share monologue with no interviewer, no questions, and repeated self-corrections; the host explicitly acknowledges rambling and never builds a coherent argument around the single tactic being demonstrated.

“So anyway I going to stop there But that's really one of the most important things”

“I had to switch over as another account because you'll need the live assets live”

Standout episodes

  • Google Ads Automated Extensions: How to Turn Them Off (Before They Burn Your Budget)

    2026-06-12

    34

Rank over time

First period on the Index - history builds from here.

Episodes

1 scored on substance · 60 tracked in total.

  • Google Ads Automated Extensions: How to Turn Them Off (Before They Burn Your Budget)

    2026-06-12 · 5 min

    34 / 100

Frequently asked

What is Growth Vertical's substance score?
Growth Vertical scores 34.0 out of 100 for substance and ranks #5918 on The B2B Podcast Index. That puts it ahead of 4% of the B2B podcasts we rank and #949 of 991 in Marketing. The score reflects insight density, originality, guest caliber, specificity and conversational craft across recent episodes - not downloads.
Is Growth Vertical worth listening to?
Growth Vertical is ranked on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 34.0/100. See the five-dimension breakdown above to judge whether it fits what you're after.
Who hosts Growth Vertical?
Growth Vertical is hosted by Neil Patel.
How often does Growth Vertical publish?
Growth Vertical publishes monthly, has 91 episodes, released its most recent episode on 2026-06-12.
Which Growth Vertical episode should I start with?
Our highest-scoring recent episode is "Google Ads Automated Extensions: How to Turn Them Off (Before They Burn Your Budget)" (34/100) - a good place to start.

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Google Adscampaign optimizationPPC search adsautomated extensionssite linksaccount-level automated assetsAI in marketing workflowbudget management

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